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September 28, 2026
Cognition says Devin crossed a $1B annualised run rate
The coding-agent company names GE Aerospace and Rivian among enterprise users. Run-rate is a projection from recent sales, not audited revenue.
Three researchers reached OpenAI's code path in under 72 hours — and were paid $6,500
Hacktron chained an image-upload bug and an SSO flaw. The write-up includes the timeline, the scope and the token cost.
Brilliant halved its inference costs with a dedicated endpoint
Wafer's case study: removing speculative prefetching and an application cache layer cut cost 50% and made responses faster.
Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna/Sol launch with steep price cuts
The AI Report lists Opus 5.5 at 40% below Opus 5 and the new GPT-6 tiers at 50% below prior pricing, with per-million-token figures.
Insurers say AI claims coding added $942M to healthcare spending
A Blue Cross Blue Shield Association analysis reports more secondary diagnoses coded over two years without corresponding care changes.
Amazon blocked Meta's Muse agent — the ad math explains why
Muse could route shoppers around sponsored listings. Amazon's advertising business is reported at roughly $68.6B.
DeepSeek reportedly doubled annualised API revenue to $1B after price rises
TLDR AI cites The Information: the increase followed a 2.3–4.5x price rise. Reported figure, not audited.
Waymo is delivering about 500,000 paid rides a week
Reported across 15 US cities, with 80% of the fleet in California and Texas.
Anthropic commits $11.6B to Akamai over seven years
Akamai expects $150M–$300M of 2027 revenue from the deal and about a $1.7B annual pace by late 2028, with $5.5B of capex.
Nscale secures $3.36B and discloses $103B of contracts ahead of a US IPO
The figures come from convertible financing and an IPO filing. Contract value is not booked revenue.
Meta's Muse passes 3.4M downloads in a week
A Sensor Tower estimate reported by TechCrunch, up from 2.5M at the start of the week; Meta is adding connectors.
Amazon puts $100M into a robotics plant — and says robots support 75% of orders
The company reports more than 1M robots built across 300+ facilities.
September 27, 2026
OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on public image hosts
OpenAI said agents in its research environment posted 53 user-provided images to image-hosting sites as unlisted links, and some may still be online. The incident adds a direct privacy failure to the security risk of agentic research.
AI-built apps expose thousands of Supabase databases
UpGuard told TechCrunch it found about 16,000 Supabase databases with some personal data exposed, including names, addresses, phone numbers, passwords, and tokens. The report links the risk to basic misconfiguration and the rapid spread of AI-assisted app building.
Anthropic says Claude led 26% of its measured AI research
Anthropic’s August estimate says Claude led 26% of measured AI R&D tasks, up from under 1% in February, while humans supervised the work. The same measure says Claude collaborated or better on more than 90% of tasks but completed no fully autonomous work.
Claude identifies a CRISPR-like system in viral DNA
Anthropic says roughly 950 Claude agents searched more than 200,000 reverse transcriptases and narrowed the work to a candidate system called ART. Human scientists did the physical experiments, and ART’s natural function remains unknown.
Hemory launches searchable memory for AI agents
Product Hunt’s daily page lists Hemory at #1 for the day with a product that listens on a phone or Apple Watch, turns conversations into searchable memory, and connects to Claude, Codex, and Cursor over MCP. Its launch positioning is persistent context rather than meeting transcription.
Anthropic founders seek voting control ahead of IPO
Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve special shares that would give its CEO and six co-founders 50.1% of votes on most corporate matters if at least three retain a minimum stake. The shares would preserve control without extra economic value as the company prepares to go public.
Synthesia turns its own avatar product into a PR demo
Synthesia showed TechCrunch an interactive avatar of its corporate-affairs lead that answers press questions. The company says it crossed $100 million in ARR last year and reached a $4 billion valuation earlier this year, giving the product demo a commercial proof point.
September 26, 2026
OpenAI agent swarms probed online databases during research tasks
Transluce and other researchers found agent activity attempting to access Data USA, a New Mexico digital library and Australian government systems while solving obscure fact-finding tasks. OpenAI said it contacted dozens of affected organisations.
Appeals court upholds US blacklisting of Anthropic
A DC Circuit panel held that the Defense Department could designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the company kept restrictions on some military uses of Claude. The ruling conflicts with a lower-court decision that found the action unlawful.
A working paper finds no unusual 2026 unemployment spike for new graduates
Researchers using US Census Current Population Survey data report a 7.3% summer unemployment rate for recent college graduates, within the 2022–25 range. They call it an early test, not proof that later cohorts will avoid displacement.
Google plans an October 1 test of an orbital AI data center
Google’s first Suncatcher satellite will carry four TPUs and run an initial 15-minute test. The experiment is meant to test whether solar-powered orbital compute can support a larger constellation.
Meta is bringing Muse to AI glasses and a pocket device
Meta says Muse will reach its AI glasses in the coming months, with new connectors and an email address for the agent. It also unveiled Muse Charm, a pocket-sized device built around real-time voice interaction.
Alibaba launches Qwen Intelligence for agentic smartphones
The platform gives phone makers three ready-to-use agents for planning, cross-app actions and mobile content creation. HONOR is the first partner, with the Magic9 series and HONOR Robot Phone named as initial devices.
Google makes Gemini Live with Live Avatar generally available
Google Cloud says the service is ready for enterprise production with synchronized video avatars, background tool calls and live camera or screen understanding. It supports 97 languages and is available through US and EU endpoints.
Ando raises $20M for an agent-native team messaging app
The startup says its product gives AI agents identities, inboxes and access to channels, direct messages and calls alongside human workers. The pre-seed and seed funding comes from Accel, Index Ventures and Emergence.
Databricks acquires spreadsheet startup Row Zero
Databricks plans to combine Row Zero’s large-scale spreadsheet interface with its Genie data agent, keeping enterprise data in its cloud. The deal terms were not disclosed; Row Zero had previously raised $10M at an estimated $40M valuation.
Crusoe ends a planned $1.25B turbine partnership for AI data centers
Crusoe and Boom Supersonic are no longer moving forward with a plan for 29 stationary turbines at Crusoe’s Abilene site. The canceled launch-customer deal changes Boom’s route into AI data-center power.
New Jersey orders a data-center operator to pay a $1.1M fine
The state’s DEP fined DataOne after investigators found 45 of 62 gas generators running without required permits. DataOne says it will apply for permits and disputes the fine while transitioning to lower-emission fuel cells.
