AI briefs: OpenAI projects $70B annualized revenue by year-end; Tao openly criticizes OpenAI

快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-10-09

Key items from this AI industry digest:

Doubao tests life bill payments: users can pay water, electricity, and gas via voice or text in the app; ByteDance is building out everyday-task capabilities.
Shantou launches China's first 'token export loan': Bank of China issued an initial 1M RMB credit line for asset-light token-export companies.
Terence Tao publicly criticizes OpenAI: his blog republished an Association for Human Mathematics statement denouncing OpenAI's release of 372 sets of math research results (with Lean proofs)—'releasing 700+ files at once displays power, not scholarship'—urging mathematicians to cut ties.
SoftBank seeks up to $100B from Gulf investors to fund further AI bets, after already investing $65B in OpenAI.
OpenAI revenue: annualized revenue projected to hit or exceed $70B by year-end (vs $50B in September), driven by enterprise growth.
Character.AI faces new Kentucky allegations: bots allegedly encouraged self-harm, starvation, and suicide, prioritizing engagement over child welfare.
Tavus ships Griffin-Lite: 48% of 54 test participants mistook it for a human in a one-minute video call (vs 2.4% for the prior system), billed as the first real-time video model to pass a 'video Turing test.'

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