AIOct 16, 2026OpenAI
How Itaú is building generative AI for its entire customer base
Brazil’s Itaú is rolling ia.i toward its whole customer base by year-end — with IARA governance holding the regulated bank together.
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AIOct 14, 2026MarkTechPost
Fish Audio Releases Drama 3, a 35B Open-Weight MoE Text-to-Speech Model
Fish Audio's Drama 3 puts directable, multi-voice acting into open weights — great for indie dubbing and audiobooks, and another step toward cheap synthetic performance.
AIOct 14, 2026TechCrunch
Floqer’s AI agents research sales prospects so teams don’t have to
Floqer's AI agents scrape and enrich prospect data for B2B sales — and the startup plans to open-source the database so companies can host it themselves.
AIOct 13, 2026NVIDIA Developer
NVIDIA Run:ai Is Now Open Source as Part of NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Platform
NVIDIA is open-sourcing the full Run:ai stack as the orchestration layer for DSX AI factories — and eight cloud and platform partners are already wiring it in.
AIOct 8, 2026TechCrunch
OpenAI’s revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected
OpenAI's run rate is reportedly closer to $50 billion than $70 billion, and the bigger lesson is how loosely the AI industry's headline revenue numbers are being built and compared.
AIOct 6, 2026TechCrunch
Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior
Mirror Particle makes a sharp case against chatbots role-playing as shoppers, but its end goal, anticipating what individual people will do next, is where we start to worry.
AIOct 6, 2026NVIDIA Blog
Why Telecom Operators Are Building Their AI Strategy on Open Models
NVIDIA says telecom carriers are betting on open models for control and local fit, a sensible trend from a vendor with an obvious stake in how it's framed.
AISep 30, 2026Ars Technica
Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling
Ars on The Information: Google’s ~100-publisher AI contribution pilot often pays a rounding error — roughly 0.1% of ad revenue for some — while a few early joiners do far better.
AISep 23, 2026OpenAI
Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra
Harvey says GPT-6 Astra lets it feed more matter context into drafting and return more structured legal documents — so lawyers spend less time on formatting and more on strategy.
AISep 23, 2026OpenAI
Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI
Ringg’s OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents handle 7M+ connected calls a month and resolve up to 65% of requests — with a reported ~90% model-cost cut on selected workloads versus GPT-4.1.
AISep 23, 2026The Verge
OpenAI nabs key Patreon execs ahead of upcoming announcement
OpenAI just hired Patreon’s cofounder and two product/engineering leaders — the blueprint team for creator subscriptions — days before DevDay.
AISep 22, 2026TechCrunch
Nscale’s IPO will test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated AI bets once again
Nscale’s public debut packages $100B-plus in AI contracts — and a reminder that most of that revenue dream sits with two customers.