OpenAI Refunds API Credits to OpenCode Attack Victims; Nscale in Talks for $45B Anthropic Deal
APPSO · wechat · 2026-10-20
APPSO tech daily, AI highlights:
- OpenAI's Tibo Sottiaux said the team worked with OpenCode to restore service and refund API credits consumed during a large-scale model-distillation attack affecting 1.4% of Console users.
- Nscale is negotiating a roughly $45B compute deal with Anthropic, to be served by a second facility at its West Virginia Monarch campus using Nvidia Vera Rubin chips and 460MW; Anthropic also holds a right of first refusal on a third facility.
- Tenstorrent raised a $1.5B Series E at a $6.2B valuation, to deploy Galaxy servers and license IP.
- Modal will use Nvidia Vera CPUs for long-running agent workloads for the first time, doubling work done in early tests, while keeping a mixed Intel/AMD fleet.
- Musk said he will give every American child one of his SpaceX shares next year; LeCun questioned his flying-car demo, Musk replied with a fart joke, and LeCun kept calculating compressed-air thrust.
- Unitree holds its Physical AI conference on Oct 22; Tencent launched a free education edition of WorkBuddy with 2,000 monthly credits for teachers.
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