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October 7, 2026

Today's sample — 2026-10-07

13 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

Anthropic folds Project Glasswing into three cyber tiers

Anthropic merged Project Glasswing into a three-tier Cyber Verification Program on Oct 6, 2026, giving vetted security pros reduced-restriction access to Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Mythos 5.1.

OpenAI releases 722 math results, withholds the prompts

OpenAI published 722 math manuscripts on Oct 6, 2026, pricing each in ChatGPT Pro compute hours, but skipped the model, prompts and per-result compute times its own advisory board asked for.

Etched draws funding offers up to $50 billion

TechCrunch reported on October 5, 2026 that AI chip startup Etched is fielding funding offers between $40 billion and $50 billion, up from a $21 billion round closed just weeks earlier.

Moonshot closes last private round at $50 billion

Bloomberg reported on October 6, 2026 that Moonshot AI closed its last private round at about $50 billion and is lining up a Hong Kong IPO as early as Q1 2027.

Mistral opens a public preview of 1.05T Large 4

Mistral put Mistral Large 4 on a public preview API on October 6, 2026. The 1.05T model stays download-locked until October 27.

Signals: in-language reasoning, wiki bots, OCR

Cohere's 3.35B Tiny Aya stays in the user's language 93% of the time, Wikimedia logs agents it attributes to OpenAI, and a 270M Arabic OCR model trails only Gemini 3.5 Flash.

OpenAI backs mandatory AI breach disclosure

Jason Kwon told Sydney lawmakers on October 6 that OpenAI would support a law forcing labs to disclose AI-agent breaches. Anthropic said it would too.

Korea opens a 28-investigator probe into AI bank hacks

Police assigned 28 investigators on Oct. 6 after Lee said signs of AI use had emerged in hacks across seven Korean financial firms.

DeepSeek nears at least $12 billion from Tencent and CATL

Bloomberg reported on October 6, 2026 that DeepSeek is close to raising at least 80 billion yuan ($12 billion), with CATL and Tencent among the largest checks.

Seagate and Toshiba bid for TDK's HDD heads

Bloomberg reported on October 6, 2026 that Seagate and Toshiba are bidding as much as several billion dollars for TDK's magnetic-heads unit, the only independent HDD head supplier.

Pentagon says it has stopped using Anthropic's Claude

A Pentagon official told the BBC on October 5, 2026 that Anthropic use has stopped, after sources said Claude was still in Iran operations last week.

TeraWulf doubles Muskie's contracted power to 1 GW

TeraWulf lifted Muskie's contracted power from 500 MW to 1 GW on October 5, 2026, and moved the second phase from 2030 to 2029, still short of a PSC order.

Meta halved Claude Code users to about 30,000

The Information said on October 5, 2026 that Meta cut Claude Code users from about 60,000 to 30,000, and that Microsoft cut a $1 billion-plus internal Anthropic plan by more than a third.


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