Skip to content

Search stories, models, companies…Subscribe

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Shajanthan Yogeswaran

Founder and editor-in-chief of 9to5AI, the AI & tech publication. Writes about AI models, agents, developer platforms, research and the companies shaping the AI industry, with a focus on making complex developments clear, useful and accessible.

Secure tips How we report

Stories319

Explainers & guides81

Writing since2026

Corrections0Listed publicly

By Shajanthan Yogeswaran

Policy · NewsWhite House 'Super Intelligence Force' adopts charter: a 120-day AI risk review and breach-reporting rules for labsThe White House superintelligence task force held its first meeting on October 15, 2026, and formally adopted its charter, Semafor reported. According to Semafor, the adoption started a 120-day window, and the force agreed to commission a frontier-AI risk report from PCAST and put a Pentagon official in charge of breach-reporting protocols for AI labs.Oct 16·5 min read

Policy · NewsApple v. OpenAI trade secrets lawsuit: judge orders early discovery, OpenAI agrees not to use disputed informationIn the Apple v. OpenAI trade secrets lawsuit, Judge Edward Davila partly granted Apple's request for expedited discovery on October 13, 2026. A day later, OpenAI agreed not to use the information Apple says was taken while the case continues. OpenAI, meanwhile, says an employee who went back to Apple took more than 100 of its own files.Oct 16·6 min read

Industry · AnalysisAI stocks and credit sell-off, October 2026: what happened with CoreWeave's bonds, the chip rout and inflationBetween October 13 and 15, 2026, CoreWeave bond yields rose to about 15%, a hot inflation report briefly pushed the 10-year Treasury yield above 5.3%, Barclays downgraded Dell and the chip sell-off spread to South Korea. What happened in the AI stocks and credit sell-off, day by day, and what the signals do and don't show.Oct 16·7 min read

Industry · NewsDeepSeek funding: reported 100 billion yuan round at a $75 billion pre-money valuation, with a STAR Market IPO in viewDeepSeek is reportedly close to completing a second funding round of about 100 billion yuan (roughly $15 billion) at a pre-money valuation of about 500 billion yuan ($75 billion), led by Tencent and CATL. What's reported about the DeepSeek funding round, its investors and its Shanghai IPO plans, and what isn't confirmed.Oct 16·6 min read

Industry · AnalysisAI security acquisitions: Proofpoint buys Varonis for $6.3 billion and Cohere moves on AISLE. What the deals sayOn October 15, 2026, Proofpoint agreed to buy Varonis for about $6.3 billion in cash, and Cohere signed a letter of intent to acquire the AI bug-hunting startup AISLE. Together with OpenAI's reported Trail of Bits talks, the AI security acquisitions point to two different bets: securing the data AI agents touch, and owning AI that finds and fixes bugs.Oct 16·7 min read

Industry · NewsBank of America added 1,000 contractors to patch flaws found by Claude Mythos, Moynihan says, and expects $700 million in AI benefits in 2027Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said on October 14, 2026, that the bank brought in 1,000 contractors in the second quarter to patch software flaws found with Anthropic's Claude Mythos, and that AI project benefits should grow from $250–300 million in 2026 to $700 million in 2027.Oct 16·5 min read

Industry · NewsAccenture caps central Claude funding at $29 a month per employee, 404 Media reports. Why agentic AI blows up per-seat budgetsAccenture now centrally funds only $29 a month of Claude usage per employee, according to an internal announcement seen by 404 Media on October 15, 2026. Some staff said they spend $500 to $1,000 a month. The Accenture Claude spending cap shows why agentic coding breaks per-seat AI budgets.Oct 16·5 min read

Developers · NewsGitHub Agentic Autofix and AI Scan are generally available: what they do, who gets them and how they use AI CreditsOn October 15, 2026, GitHub made agentic autofix for code scanning alerts and AI Scan for pull requests generally available. Here's what each does, which plans and repositories qualify, how they draw Code Security AI Credits, and how to turn them on.Oct 16·5 min read

Products · NewsGPT-Live-1.1 and Grok Voice 3.0: what's new in ChatGPT Voice and xAI's voice APIOpenAI began rolling out GPT-Live-1.1 and a smaller GPT-Live-1.1 Quip in ChatGPT Voice on October 15, 2026, with 13 new voices and better accents. A day earlier, xAI released Grok Voice 3.0 in its Voice Agent API at an unchanged $0.08 a minute.Oct 16·5 min read

Developers · NewsOpenCode 2.0: one background service for terminal, web and desktop, plus background subagents. What it changes for securityOpenCode 2.0 runs the open-source coding agent as a single shared background service that its terminal, web and desktop clients all connect to, and adds background subagents and async shell commands. Hacker News commenters say the new model broke their sandboxes; OpenCode's docs say shell commands run with your full user authority.Oct 16·6 min read

Open source · NewsNvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt: open weights under OpenMDW, and what the Opus 5 comparison really showsNvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B-parameter (12B active) hybrid Mamba-Transformer model with a 1M-token context, and Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B on October 15, 2026, with a 4 GB Bolt E4B due October 23. The license is permissive; the headline wins over Claude Opus 5 and GPT-6.1 Sol come from customized versions on narrow tasks.Oct 16·6 min read

Open source · NewsFLUX 3 Image Klein: Black Forest Labs' 5.6B open-weight image model, and what 'free under $5M' really coversBlack Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Image Klein on October 15, 2026: a 5.6B-parameter open-weight model for image generation and editing with native 4K output. Its FLUX Kommunity License lets companies under $5 million in revenue use it commercially, but only to generate images, not to distribute or host the model.Oct 16·5 min read

Policy · AnalysisAnthropic and OpenAI sought control over what independent AI evaluators publish, Reuters reports. Why evaluator independence mattersReuters reported on October 13, 2026, that as recently as October 5, Anthropic and OpenAI were seeking strict editorial control over what outside safety evaluators could publish, weeks after both CEOs pledged evaluators would publish without it. What was reported, what the companies say, and why it matters for every safety claim you read.Oct 14·7 min read

Policy · NewsBrad Smith calls for global AI safety rules: independent evaluations, mandatory incident reports and an emergency brakeIn a BBC interview released October 12, 2026, and in remarks in Dublin a day later, Microsoft President Brad Smith called for global AI safety rules, including outside evaluation before release, mandatory incident reporting, notification of people harmed by AI agents and an emergency brake. He said the UK is best placed to lead.Oct 14·5 min read

Models · ExplainerAnthropic's distillation defenses explained: preserved thinking, extraction classifiers and account bansOn October 12, 2026, Anthropic said new defenses against distillation have cut the data harvested from Claude by around 90 to 99%. What distillation is, why reasoning transcripts are the prize, how preserved thinking and the new classifiers work, and what they change for developers.Oct 14·7 min read

Developers · NewsAnthropic Scion: the in-house source control system that replaced Git for its monorepo (and why it isn't open source)On October 13, 2026, Anthropic described Scion, a version control system it built to replace Git for its monorepo after daily merges grew from about 2,500 in May to more than 30,000 in September. Despite some reports, Scion isn't open source: Anthropic says it isn't a general replacement for Git and is sharing the ideas instead.Oct 14·6 min read

Open source · NewsLiquid AI LFM2.5-24B-A2B: a 24B open-weight MoE with 2B active parameters, its license and what it needs to runLiquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B on October 13, 2026: a 24-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts reasoning model with about 2.45B active parameters and a 131K context. The weights are free to download, but Liquid's license excludes commercial use by companies with $10 million or more in annual revenue.Oct 14·5 min read

Products · NewsApple HomeView and HomePod mini 2: price, release dates, Siri AI and why HomeView skips the EUApple announced the $299 HomeView smart display and the $149 HomePod mini 2 on October 13, 2026. HomeView ships November 13 with Siri AI in beta; HomePod mini 2 arrives October 30 but gets Siri AI only in a later update. HomeView won't be sold in the EU.Oct 14·5 min read

Hardware · NewsIntel GPU D270: Intel's inference GPU trades HBM for up to 480 GB of LPDDR5XAt the OCP Global Summit on October 12, 2026, Intel named its Crescent Island accelerator the GPU D270: an air-cooled 350 W PCIe card with 1.3 petaflops of FP8, 160 GB of LPDDR5X on Intel's own card and up to 480 GB on partner cards. Customer sampling has started; Intel hasn't given a launch date.Oct 14·4 min read

Industry · NewsOpenAI in early talks to acquire Trail of Bits, The Information reports: what's known about the deal and Patch the PlanetThe Information reported on October 13, 2026, that OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, the security firm it already works with on Patch the Planet, an open-source bug-fixing initiative. Deal size is unknown and neither company has commented publicly.Oct 14·4 min read

Nothing in this format on this page — try another filter or the next page.