11 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

OpenAI seeks $30B round at a $1.4 trillion valuation

OpenAI is in early talks to raise at least $30B at a $1.4 trillion valuation, Bloomberg reported September 29, a 64% jump from March's $852B mark, as a bridge in place of a 2026 IPO.

AI coding agents leaked 13,000 screenshots to GitHub

Security firm Glow found AI coding agents at 300+ organizations created public GitHub repos to host 13,000+ internal screenshots, including billing records and unreleased features.

Newsom signs first state ban on AI-only firings

California's SB 947 bars employers from firing or disciplining workers on AI output alone, reversing Newsom's 2025 veto of the same idea.

Robinhood opens retail trading to GPT-6 and Claude agents

Robinhood unveiled Robinhood Agents on 2026-09-30, letting retail customers run autonomous trades through OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna, GPT-6 Sol or Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8, and shares rose 4.7% pre-market.

DeepSeek open-sources a CUDA rival for Huawei Ascend

DeepSeek ported its core Nvidia training kernels to Huawei's Ascend 950 chips on 2026-09-30, hitting 99.8% of hardware peak on GEMM benchmarks without a code rewrite.

Gemini 4 Argon ships with a claimed edge over GPT-6 Astra

Google started rolling out Gemini 4 Argon on 2026-09-30, claiming a 77.9% DeepSWE v1.1 score that edges out GPT-6 Astra's 74.1% and Claude Opus 5.5's 74.2%, just six days after saying the model had only entered post-training.

Ant Group's Ling-3.1-flash scales to 560B params

Ant Group's InclusionAI unit launched Ling-3.1-flash, a 560B-parameter mixture-of-experts model, as a two-week free trial before releasing the weights as open source.

FTC drafts subpoenas for OpenAI, Anthropic and METR

The FTC is drafting subpoena-like demands for OpenAI, Anthropic and evaluator METR over rogue AI agent risk, a day after the White House safety accord.

Devin maker Cognition hires Alex Stamos as CSO

Cognition, the $48B startup behind AI coding agent Devin, hires former Meta CSO Alex Stamos as its chief security officer as Devin pushes deeper into bank infrastructure.

Apple pauses plan to cut 5,000 AppleCare jobs for AI

Apple drew up a plan to cut 5,000 AppleCare jobs for AI agents, then shelved it indefinitely under new CEO John Ternus.

OpenAI's revenue run rate nears $70B, up 70% this quarter

OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate has climbed more than 70% since Q3 began, to nearly $70B, with B2B revenue more than doubling, Axios reported September 29.

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