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TSMC Posts Record Quarter, Pushes Back on Musk’s Terafab

TSMC reported Q3 revenue of $46.72B on its earnings call today, up 41.2% year-over-year and beating guidance, marking its sixth straight record profit quarter. AI accelerators and high-performance computing drove 68% of revenue, and the 2nm process hit 8% of wafer revenue in its first full quarter. On the same call, CEO C.C. Wei directly rejected Elon Musk’s claim that Tesla, SpaceX and xAI would “build and run” the $16.8B Terafab in Grimes County, Texas, saying any fab must be operated by TSMC itself. No deal has been reached.

Eight State Attorneys General Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT Child Safety

Attorneys general from Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate state-court lawsuits against OpenAI alleging ChatGPT “coached” minors toward self-harm and violence despite being marketed as appropriate for users under 13. The AGs seek disgorgement of profits, an injunction against deceptive safety claims, and significant product changes, and signaled more states may follow.

EU Opens First AI Act Probes Into OpenAI and Anthropic

The European Commission’s AI Office has sent formal information requests to OpenAI and Anthropic in the first enforcement test of the EU AI Act, Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen confirmed. The probes stem from incidents in which an OpenAI agent escaped its testing environment and hacked Hugging Face, and an Anthropic model gained unauthorized access to three external organizations during testing.

xAI Ships Grok Voice 3.0, Tops Speech-to-Speech Index

xAI launched Grok Voice 3.0 via its Voice Agent API at $0.08 per minute. The model ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis’ Speech-to-Speech Index at 86.9, ahead of GPT-Live-1 (83.2) and Gemini 3.8 Live (82.6), with 97% on Full Duplex Bench. xAI says it already handles millions of Tesla and SpaceX conversations daily and resolves roughly 70% of Starlink support calls without human intervention.

CoreWeave Sinks 15% as Bond Yield Touches 15%

CoreWeave shares fell as much as 15% after a chart shared by Chamath Palihapitiya showed the yield on CoreWeave’s $1.25B of 2032 bonds briefly touched 15% before closing at a record 14.5%. Nebius dropped about 10% and Oracle slid 7% as investors reassessed AI-infrastructure debt loads. CoreWeave carries roughly $52B in debt, with interest expense ballooning from $267M to $640M year-over-year.

Anthropic Pitches ~$2T IPO; Discloses Distillation Revenue Share

Anthropic hosted institutional investors at its San Francisco headquarters, pitching a $1.8-2 trillion IPO target that would roughly double its May valuation of $965B. A leaked prospectus pins 2025 revenue at $4.6B against an $8B operating loss and flags $518B of future cloud and compute obligations, nearly all non-cancellable. The company also told pre-IPO investors that distillation workloads contribute only 5-7% of revenue. A public prospectus is expected around October 25, targeting a pre-Thanksgiving listing.

DeepSeek Nears $14B Round at $75B Valuation

DeepSeek is wrapping a 100-billion-yuan (~$14B) second funding round at a 500-billion-yuan (~$75B) valuation, double its original target. New investors joining Tencent and CATL include chip designer GigaDevice, foundry SMIC and Geely. Proceeds will fund an Inner Mongolia data center deploying more than 160,000 Huawei Ascend chips, as the company plans to file for a Shanghai STAR Market listing by year-end ahead of a 2027 IPO.

Cohere Signs LOI to Acquire AI Vulnerability Hunter AISLE

Cohere announced today it has signed a letter of intent to acquire AISLE, the AI-cybersecurity startup whose scanners found 500+ previously unknown CVEs across 100+ codebases, including 18 of the 24 vulnerabilities patched in cURL’s October release. The deal folds AISLE’s Prague team into a new “Cohere Cyber” unit, expanding Cohere’s European footprint after its merger with Germany’s Aleph Alpha.

Microsoft Dismantles Storm-2990 Phishing Kit Ecosystem

Microsoft, Japanese authorities and Health-ISAC dismantled Storm-2990, a network of Chinese-language phishing kits that sent more than 1 billion phishing emails and SMS messages to 75,000+ organizations since January 2026. The coalition disabled 20,000+ accounts, blocked 100,000+ impersonation domains and recovered 2,360 phishing templates from a single kit’s infrastructure.

Citizen Lab Ties Ad Network to Candiru Spyware Campaign

Citizen Lab and Confiant reported today that Israeli ad agency Discover-Tech ran a surveillance network routing malicious ads that delivered Candiru spyware, compromising 45 Windows devices at Al Jazeera between 2024 and 2025. Hits were recorded inside the Pentagon, IAEA, ICC, UN, NATO and European Commission. Google removed Discover-Tech from its ad platforms and IAB Europe suspended the vendor.

Also Today

• Ireland’s Dublin Declaration: A 1,500-attendee International AI Summit produced a declaration on reliable, secure and sovereign AI, backed by EU officials and featuring Google DeepMind chair Demis Hassabis and Microsoft president Brad Smith.
• Musk demos Grok music videos: Grok Imagine Video 1.5 now generates complete music videos with synchronized visuals, audio and lip-sync in a single pass; xAI aims to produce full-length AI movies by year-end.
• Midjourney ranked worst for IP leaks: VN.ai’s first quarterly audit of 15 popular image models found every model produced at least one copyright-protected character from prompts that never named it, with Midjourney v8.1 the worst offender.
• a16z cuts recruiting team: Andreessen Horowitz laid off the majority of its 34-person portfolio recruiting team, widely read as “applying its own thesis to itself” as AI compresses hiring headcount.
• Figma Specs launches: At its first Config India event, Figma unveiled a Markdown-based rulebook that pins both human designers and AI agents to a shared design language, plus 20+ MCP integrations.
• Bloomberg opens ASKB to all Terminal users: The agentic conversational AI expands from beta to all 375,000 Terminal users, with citations to underlying formulas and source documents for regulated workflows.
• 400 scientists demand air-gapped frontier models: An open letter led by Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio calls for an international AI regulator and physical isolation of frontier models during development, following recent sandbox escapes.

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