2 October 2026

Ryan Roslansky, the former head of LinkedIn, will leave Microsoft at the end of 2026

Ryan Roslansky, who ran LinkedIn for six years, will leave Microsoft at the end of 2026, CEO Satya Nadella told employees on Thursday. Dan Shapero took over the service this year, and Roslansky has since been responsible for Microsoft 365 apps and the Copilot platform together with two other executives. He explains his departure by saying the next phase of the job would require a permanent presence at the company's headquarters in Redmond, while he and his family live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Anthropic launches Claude Frontier Academy - $100 million to train 10,000 AI deployment engineers

Anthropic launched Claude Frontier Academy and committed $100 million to training 10,000 engineers who deploy Claude in companies by the end of 2027. The program starts with a several-day in-person course that ends with a practical exam. Then, for 12 weeks, the participant leads a Claude deployment in their own organization. Participants must be nominated by their employer, and the first cohorts include engineers from Accenture, Deloitte, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley and Novo Nordisk, among others.

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OpenAI's annualized revenue is about $50 billion, not $68 billion - AI stocks fell

OpenAI told investors that its annualized revenue at the end of September was about $50 billion, not $68 billion as widely reported at the end of September, CNBC confirmed; the Financial Times reported it first. According to a person familiar with the matter, the higher figure also included gross revenue of OpenAI's partners, a presentation that makes it easier for investors to compare with Anthropic; in the third quarter, the metric rose 77 percent. After the news, Nvidia shares fell 3 percent, Oracle almost 6 percent and CoreWeave almost 8 percent, and the Nasdaq Composite lost more than 1 percent, its worst day since mid-August. OpenAI, valued at $852 billion, is aiming for an IPO in 2027.

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OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Pro for $500 a month and resumes sales of the $200 plan

OpenAI added a $500-a-month ChatGPT Pro plan with the highest usage limits and access to Ultrafast mode, which speeds up GPT-6 Astra responses in ChatGPT Work and Codex, The Verge reports. At the same time, the company resumed sales of its $200 plan, which it had paused when demand for GPT-6 Astra overloaded its systems, and changed its usage limits. This confirms the September 24 leak reported by TestingCatalog.

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