AI daily: OpenAI in talks for new round at over $1.2T valuation, Microsoft publishes humanist AI charter
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-09-16
Key items from this industry daily: OpenAI is reportedly in early talks for a new funding round that would value it above $1.2 trillion pre-IPO, surpassing Anthropic's $965B. WeChat debunked privacy claims about its AI assistant Xiaowei, saying chat logs are read locally on demand and never stored. Nvidia, Palantir and Booz Allen are demanding stronger safeguards and curbing use of the most advanced OpenAI/Anthropic models, with Palantir securing irrevocable zero-data-retention commitments. Microsoft published a draft 'humanist AI' charter prioritizing human control and rejecting unchecked superintelligence, while ByteDance's CEO called AI the biggest IT wave in 50 years; iFlytek launched its AStudio desktop AI platform, Apple rolled out the Siri AI beta in English, and Anthropic released Claude for Financial Advisors.
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