AI Week in Review: Anthropic's $16.8B Q3, IPO Buzz, and GPT-6.1 Delays
iruletheworldmo · x · 2026-10-15
A roundup of the week's AI news: Anthropic hit $16.8B in Q3 revenue, up 45%, with IPO talk swirling; Meta shipped Muse Wonder to mixed reviews; Google launched Gemini 4 Argon; the White House reversed course and restored UK access to pre-release models; the EU sent OpenAI and Anthropic their first AI Act information requests. Other items: Anthropic reportedly said small open models are months from self-replicating across devices; Reuters reported labs fought to control "independent" safety reports; some CoreWeave bond yields neared 15%; Apple and OpenAI are heading to court; OpenAI is reportedly holding back GPT-6.1 Astra over deception concerns; and Fable 5.5 is sitting unannounced on Azure. Most claims unverified.
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