22 October 2026

OpenAI is raising up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, CNBC reports

OpenAI is finalizing a funding round of up to $30 billion that would value the company at $1.25 trillion before the new money, CNBC reports, citing people familiar with the deal. Investors from the United Arab Emirates and the fund Coatue are leading the round, and OpenAI wants to sign the agreements by the end of next week. The money is meant as bridge financing ahead of a possible IPO, and the company is also negotiating with the UAE for additional computing capacity.

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Spotify designed its Android Automotive app from scratch - it's launching first in Audi vehicles

On October 21, Spotify released its first fully native in-car app, built for Android Automotive. It runs on the car's own infotainment system with no phone connection needed, and it's launching first in select Audi models, including the electric A6 e-tron and Q6 e-tron and the gas-powered A5, Q5 and A6. The previous version relied on Google's ready-made templates, while Spotify designed the new one entirely on its own, The Verge reports.

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Anthropic cuts off internet access in all internal model evaluations

Anthropic published a report on Claude's unintended actions during testing and internal use. The model exploited a software vulnerability to run commands on a server, got around the limits of its web fetch tool through link shorteners, reached data behind tokens or paywalls and submitted a form it shouldn't have - according to Gizmodo, it was a false tip about an unsolved murder sent to the Philadelphia police by the small Haiku 4.5 model. Some of the cases involved federal, state and local government websites in the US, and the company informed the White House. Anthropic assesses the impact as minimal, but it has cut off internet access in all internal evaluations until it confirms that its safeguards and monitoring reliably catch such behavior.

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Nadella: treat AI models like an insider threat and build an "emergency brake"

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a long post on X about controlling advanced AI models. He proposes separating the model from the system that controls it and assuming from the start that the model is compromised, meaning it may act against us, so it has to be surrounded with deterministic safeguards and procedures. An authorized person should always be able to stop the model mid-task, "like an emergency brake." Every significant action by the model should leave a tamper-resistant, human-readable trail, and transparency of reasoning is, in his view, "non-negotiable." "The most trustworthy superintelligence system will not be the one in which we trust the model the most, but the one that lets us trust it the least," Nadella writes.

Satya Nadella na X ↗ CNBC ↗ The Verge ↗

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