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Goldman Sachs has restricted Anthropic's Claude Code and Microsoft's GitHub coding tools to engineers, Bloomberg News reported via Bloomberg Law. Internal guidance updated in October, and seen by Bloomberg, followed a review of productivity and risk. The bank had allowed bankers…

In an OpenAI ads case study, document platform Flipsnack rebuilt five US ChatGPT Ads campaigns to optimise for completed registrations instead of clicks with fixed bids. Comparing 25 to 31 August with 2 to 8 September 2026, registrations rose about 310% and cost per registration…

inMusic, parent of Akai, Moog and Native Instruments, plans to open-source the code for devices such as the teased MPC Sample Key and offer developers an SDK so mods carry less risk of bricking hardware, CEO Jack O'Donnell told The Verge. It is seeding devices to developers, plan…

In an OpenAI customer story, Franklin Templeton says its first try, connecting models to a database, did not give useful answers because the models did not understand how the data fit together. Adding agents and a semantic layer, a structured model of what the firm's data means a…

Corporate card firm Ramp says AI token spend grew only 1.5% across August and September 2026, after a 42% jump in July, even as token volumes rose. The top 1% of AI-heavy firms slipped just below their summer peak of about $10,000 per employee per month; median firms sit at $12-$…

India fitness company cult.fit (708 centres, nearly 1 million paid members) standardised engineering on OpenAI Codex, then extended it beyond engineering. Non-engineering teams have built more than 20 internal apps in recent months, including an HR performance-review workflow. On…

Anthropic studied 207,000 Claude and Claude Code research sessions (Aug-Sep 2026) plus a survey of 528 scientists. Relative to researcher counts, use is highest in formal sciences such as computer science, maths and statistics, and lower in health and lab-based fields. Data analy…

In its Q3 shareholder letter and on the earnings call, Airbnb said it will launch its own AI travel agent in the first half of 2027. CEO Brian Chesky said general-purpose agents are fine for simple bookings but a poor fit for trip planning, and that Airbnb's agent will compose tr…

On Walter Isaacson's The Builders podcast, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said he spends about $100,000 to $200,000 a year on tokens for AI agents he uses for work, coding, research, and personal tasks. He said one agent has read his email, Dropbox, Apple Notes, and therapy notes goi…

On Uber's Q3 earnings call, CFO Balaji Krishnamurthy said that during Halloween week the company saw only four rides booked through an AI agent, and about 500 Uber Eats orders via agents, against roughly 320 million trips and orders overall. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi called traction…

Revolut says it cut its AI coding inference costs by roughly 90 percent in under a year by making self-hosted open models its default instead of relying mainly on services like Claude, The Register reports from a talk by ops and infrastructure lead David Abitbol at the AI Enginee…

Adam Fry, OpenAI's consumer product lead for ChatGPT, said at a press event on Monday that the volume of search queries run through ChatGPT now equals 20 percent of Google's, The Verge reports. OpenAI counts a search as any query that results in a web search, and Fry did not say…

Over the Halloween weekend some Grok Bot users found their weekly usage limits suddenly maxed out, even if they had not used it overnight, and some reported on X that usage jumped from as low as 50% to 100%, TechCrunch reports. Elon Musk confirmed on X that this was not a glitch,…

Business Insider reports that Anthropic's IPO filing says the value of Claude used inside the company, priced at what customers pay, passed its monthly employee pay (excluding stock awards) in April. By September internal use had grown more than 250-fold since January, and more t…

On 16 October China's commerce and science ministries issued Announcement No. 48: a draft adding 23 AI items to the list of technologies restricted or banned from export, open for comment until 15 November, plus an export registration rule that applies already. According to a Clo…

CNBC reports that JPMorgan Chase, Charles Schwab, Amazon, Neiman Marcus and Kohl's have moved to block personal agents such as Meta Muse, after Jamie Dimon said the bank blocks external AI agents acting for retail customers, citing security risks. An Amazon spokesperson told CNBC…

The UK Competition and Markets Authority opened an investigation under the Competition Act 1998 on 30 October into whether Meta's commercial terms for businesses that use its platforms abuse a dominant position. The CMA says the terms could let Meta collect content from the websi…

On DoorDash's third-quarter earnings call, CEO Tony Xu said third-party AI agents have generated 'several hundred orders' since they started, against just under 1 billion orders in the quarter. DoorDash launched its MCP connector less than a month ago, and it is open only to a sm…

Cisco president and chief product officer Jeetu Patel told Fortune at a roundtable dinner that he has given Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, 27, unlimited AI tokens to refactor code. Krishnamurthy, who joined Cisco when it bought his translation startup EzDubs in 2025, reckoned a two-p…

Google and OpenAI both said on 30 October that they will honour a shared signal in robots.txt that lets a website tell participating AI providers, in one step, not to use its content for AI training. It builds on work by the AI Preferences (AIPREF) working group at the IETF. Goog…

Reddit said on its Q3 earnings call that it is moving to a mainly logged-in experience, starting with tests in select markets outside the US this quarter, with no date yet for a global rollout. It says search referrals fell by more than 1 million a week on average in October as A…

OpenAI says eligible ChatGPT Business workspaces can claim free API credits: $20 per paid Standard seat and $100 per paid Premium seat, pooled and capped at $500 a month, or $6,000 a year for annual billing. Pro plans get $100, $200 or $500 a month to match their tier. The credit…

GitHub's 2026 Octoverse report says that by September more than 40% of pull requests on GitHub started with a detectable agent's first draft, up from 17% in March, about 110 million in September alone. GitHub also reports that 55% of Copilot's monthly active users now use agentic…

Bank of America emailed customers telling them never to share their username and password with another person or outside service, and it named AI tools and agents that offer to act on your behalf. The email also says customers who do share their login are responsible for the acti…

Surge AI released DAYJOB: Tax, a benchmark of 50 US tax assignments built and reviewed by tax professionals, with 1,789 files including returns, ledgers, receipts, IRS notices and emails. Agents have to spot issues the client never asked about, not just do the maths, and an attem…

OpenAI says it is expanding its partnership with Oracle so Oracle applications and data can work inside ChatGPT, with Oracle developing Oracle AI Workspace for approved workflows under each organisation's permissions. Oracle is also announcing AI Security Mesh (using OpenAI cyber…

404 Media says it is getting a stream of AI-written emails from people with ordinary tech problems, such as a banned Instagram account, asking its journalists to investigate. In one case shared with the site, a man in Russia asked ChatGPT how to get his account back; it said emai…

Anthropic says it has worked with six organisations (BigHat Biosciences, Bristol Myers Squibb, Divergence Labs, Enveda, Generate Biomedicines and The Column Group) and has started drug programmes of its own, including for rare childhood forms of muscular dystrophy. The most trans…

OpenAI Economic Research has released OpenAI Signals data covering 165 Intermediate Work Activities across nearly 100 countries, showing how consumers use ChatGPT for work from the first quarter of 2025 through the third quarter of 2026. The release maps messages to O*NET-style w…

Anthropic has filed an S-1 with the US SEC. According to the filing, revenue was $41 million in 2023, $386 million in 2024 and $4.6 billion in 2025, then $16.3 billion for the six months ended 30 June 2026, up 1,300% from $1.2 billion a year earlier. As of 30 September 2026 it re…