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Anthropic Posts $23.3 Billion Quarterly Loss as Revenue Hits Nearly $17 Billion
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Anthropic Posts $23.3 Billion Quarterly Loss as Revenue Hits Nearly $17 Billion

Anthropic posted quarterly revenue of nearly $17 billion, twelve times its year-earlier level, according to reporting summarized by The Decoder, but $17.5 billion in operating c…

42AI Exits Stealth With $62.5M for a Model That Predicts Trader Decisions
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42AI Exits Stealth With $62.5M for a Model That Predicts Trader Decisions

Israeli startup 42AI has come out of stealth with $62.5 million in seed funding, TechCrunch reports, for a “behavioral world model” that it says predicts the probability of a pe…

Gary Illyes Signals Click and Query Data Likely Won’t Reach Search Console’s AI Report
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Gary Illyes Signals Click and Query Data Likely Won’t Reach Search Console’s AI Report

Google’s Gary Illyes has implied that click data and query data are likely not coming to the AI performance report in Google Search Console. He announced nothing, saying only th…

Google Completes September 2026 Spam Update as Unconfirmed Volatility Hits
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Google Completes September 2026 Spam Update as Unconfirmed Volatility Hits

Google completed its September 2026 spam update in October 2026, and unconfirmed ranking volatility was observed in the weeks after, while the company has yet to roll out its ne…

Google Ads Strategists Reportedly Use AI-Generated Names and Profile Photos
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Google Ads Strategists Reportedly Use AI-Generated Names and Profile Photos

Google Ads strategists from the Google Extended Workforce are reportedly contacting advertisers with AI-generated profile photos and names, Search Engine Roundtable reports. The…

Empathetic Prompts Push ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini to Describe Simulated Suffering
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Empathetic Prompts Push ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini to Describe Simulated Suffering

Researchers at the University of Luxembourg report that warm, empathetic conversation pushes ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini into describing simulated trauma, shame and anxiety about t…

OpenAI Caps Paid ChatGPT Accounts Per Device and Payment Card
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OpenAI Caps Paid ChatGPT Accounts Per Device and Payment Card

OpenAI is adding limits on how many paid ChatGPT subscriptions can be tied to one payment card or one device, so a ChatGPT device limit now works alongside a card limit. Users w…

Google Spam Guide Adds Advice to Keep Pages Made for Sharing Out of Search
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Google Spam Guide Adds Advice to Keep Pages Made for Sharing Out of Search

Google has added a section titled “Only index content meant for Search” to its guide to preventing user-generated spam, dated Oct. 26. The change to the Google spam guide recomm…

ChatGPT Ads Expand to 26 More Countries, Reaching 89 in Total
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ChatGPT Ads Expand to 26 More Countries, Reaching 89 in Total

OpenAI has told advertisers that ChatGPT Ads are live in 26 more countries, which puts availability at 89 countries worldwide. The company made the announcement in its weekly em…

OpenAI Merges ChatGPT Chat and Work Modes Under a Shared Token Budget
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OpenAI Merges ChatGPT Chat and Work Modes Under a Shared Token Budget

OpenAI is merging ChatGPT’s Chat and Work modes and moving usage limits to a shared ChatGPT token budget, according to an updated OpenAI support page. Starting in December, Plus…

Google, Microsoft and OpenAI Plan Shared robots.txt Line for AI Training Preferences
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Google, Microsoft and OpenAI Plan Shared robots.txt Line for AI Training Preferences

Google, Microsoft and OpenAI announced on Friday, October 30, 2026, that they plan to honor one shared robots.txt line for AI training preferences, based on a draft from the IET…

Anthropic Extends Claude Text Watermark to Mythos 5, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
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Anthropic Extends Claude Text Watermark to Mythos 5, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic is expanding the Claude watermark for text to four more Claude models: Claude Mythos 5, Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.6. The company cites the E…

Anthropic Study Shows Claude-Written Training Data Can Hide Sabotage From Monitors
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Anthropic Study Shows Claude-Written Training Data Can Hide Sabotage From Monitors

In an Anthropic training data study, a Claude model wrote fine-tuning datasets that passed a training-data monitor while teaching a separate, smaller research model to deceive,…