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TREE NEWS update: OpenAI Developers said GPT-6.1 Sol’s Ultrafast mode is rolling out from today across the API, Codex and ChatGPT Work, with intelligence close to GPT-6 Astra and speeds up to 8x that of Sol’s standard mode. API pricing is $12 per million input tokens and $60 per million output tokens, 1.2x Astra’s. In Codex and ChatGPT Work it is limited to Pro 500, eligible usage-based Enterprise and credit-based Education users.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic launched the Anthropic Cyber Mission, a long-term commitment to use its tools and research to help defenders protect critical infrastructure and open-source software. The effort includes the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program, giving frontier models, embedded engineers and threat research to defenders of operational technology behind power grids, water systems, transport networks and government systems, plus OSS Scanner, a free periodic security scan of open-source projects. CIDP founding partners include Accenture, Booz Allen, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, Dragos, Hitachi, Insane Cyber, Nozomi Networks, Palo Alto Networks, PwC and Rockwell Automation.

TREE NEWS update: The head of US President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence task force is scheduled to meet on Thursday. No further details of the meeting, including its location or agenda, were disclosed. The gathering comes as the administration continues to shape its AI policy agenda.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic updated its 2026 usage policy, explicitly banning the use of Claude to develop weapons and tightening rules on surveillance and tracking. The revised terms prohibit weapons-related development outright and narrow how the AI system may be used for monitoring and tracking.

TREE NEWS update: Intel said it is expanding the deployment scale of sandboxed agentic AI workloads powered by its Xeon CPUs. The chipmaker is positioning the Xeon processor line as the compute base for running AI agents in isolated sandbox environments. No specific customer names, shipment figures or timelines were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: CoreWeave’s stock decline deepened to 8.8% on the session, extending an earlier slide in the shares. The AI cloud computing provider saw the drop widen as selling pressure persisted. No company statement or specific catalyst was given in the material.

TREE NEWS update: Arena, the AI model evaluation platform known for its public large-model leaderboard, raised $200 million in a new funding round at a $3.1 billion valuation, nearly double its $17 million valuation in January. Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures led the round, with Salesforce Ventures and Dell Technologies Capital participating. The company, which originated from UC Berkeley’s Chatbot Arena research project, reached $100 million in annualized revenue in June.

TREE NEWS reports: OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue reached close to $50 billion as of the end of September, roughly $20 billion below the figure that had circulated widely. Axios had previously reported, citing sources, that OpenAI’s annualized recurring revenue was approaching $70 billion. The company disclosed the lower number directly to investors.

TREE NEWS reports: OpenAI has told investors its annualized revenue reached close to $50 billion at the end of September, roughly $20 billion below what the company had previously implied. The figure was communicated to investors in recent weeks. No further breakdown of the revenue was provided.

TREE NEWS reports: Oracle is trucking natural gas directly to server farms to keep several US data centers on schedule while gas pipelines are built and connected to its equipment. People familiar with the matter said the approach kept a data center in a Salt Lake City suburb running for more than a year, and Oracle is using the same method at a Shackelford County, Texas campus it is building for OpenAI.

TREE NEWS update: The Trump administration announced a science initiative totaling more than $6 billion, funded by federal agencies, companies, academia and philanthropies. Under the Genesis Mission consortium, Nvidia, AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, AWS and Micron will provide a combined $2.4 billion in superintelligence tools and compute credits, with Nvidia committing $1 billion, AMD $500 million and OpenAI $200 million. The plan also includes $1.8 billion for NIH, DOE and Biohub virtual biology projects, a $215 million quantum competition, and a NASA-DOE nuclear reactor mission to Mars targeted for 2028.

TREE NEWS update: US President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that the White House will regard anyone who uses the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ instead of the ‘highly accepted and more accurate’ new term ‘Super Intelligence’ as an enemy. Trump had previously proposed renaming AI to ‘Super Intelligence’.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic has opened access to its Claude model to three US federal agencies: NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. The arrangement gives the agencies use of Claude for their work, extending Anthropic’s reach into US government and public-sector research. No financial terms or contract value were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: The US Department of Defense has committed $200 million for cloud laboratories in fiscal year 2028 and announced $350 million in quantum computing incentives. Separately, the Pentagon signed a conditional $150 million loan agreement with quantum computing firm PsiQuantum.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia has committed $1 billion over the next five years to support US scientific development. The company is also joining the second phase of the Genesis Mission awards, covering quantum, fusion and microelectronics. The effort aims to expand US superintelligence research capacity in fields deemed critical to its leadership.

TREE NEWS update: Chinese precision-component maker Changying Precision said it has formed close partnerships with several leading humanoid robot brands at home and abroad, delivering more than 1.1 million precision components for humanoid robots between January and August 2026. Order growth in the third and fourth quarters is faster than in the first half, and the company is expanding capacity in line with customer demand.

TREE NEWS reports: WTO Deputy Director-General Johanna Hill said the world is in an AI development boom that centers on building AI economic systems and related infrastructure, including data centers, as well as practical AI applications expected to spread globally. She said WTO forecasts show AI adoption will drive global trade volumes up nearly 40% by 2040, helped by lower trade costs and higher productivity.

TREE NEWS reports: Broadcom is planning to raise $30 billion in debt financing for OpenAI, accelerating the AI compute buildout toward leveraged funding. Separately, Alphabet’s AI drug-discovery unit Isomorphic Labs is in talks for a round valuing it at at least $40 billion. TSMC posted 51% year-on-year revenue growth in its third quarter on sustained AI infrastructure demand.

TREE NEWS update: Joyoung Co. said in a stock-trading anomaly announcement that it holds a 7.92% stake in DeepThink AI Robot Technology (Beijing), a developer of brain-inspired AI and multimodal semantic understanding, and that no strategic partnership with Huawei exists as market rumors claimed. The company said its only link to Huawei is that both hold equity in DeepThink, with a Huawei investment entity holding part of the company.

TREE NEWS update: GlobalFoundries said on October 8 it has signed a multi-year manufacturing agreement with TSMC worth about $2 billion to supply silicon interposers in the United States for TSMC’s CoWoS advanced packaging ecosystem. GlobalFoundries will expand capacity at its Malta, New York fab, becoming the first US supplier of silicon interposers for advanced packaging, including embedded deep-trench capacitor technology. Volume ramp is expected in the first half of 2028, with an initial five-year term.