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Apollo Economist: AI Paid Off Only for the Magnificent Seven

Apollo's chief economist says AI has delivered zero financial payoff to the 493 companies in the S&P 500 outside big tech. Apollo Economist Finds Zero AI Payoff Out

AI News Today: SpaceX Borrows $40B to Buy AI Chips

SpaceX just borrowed forty billion dollars for AI chips, and Elon Musk says more than two hundred AI cloud companies may not survive the squeeze. DX Today AI Daily Brief

$137M in AI Attack Ads, and Chatbots That Pick Opposite Parties

AI political ad spending jumped from under $50,000 in 2024 to $137 million this cycle, and three out of four of those ads carry no AI label. AI Ads Hit $137 Million and

AI News Today: Texas Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman Over ChatGPT

Texas wants a court to bar every minor in the state from ChatGPT, and the owners of Elvis Presley's music are suing Anthropic over 274 songs. DX Today AI Daily Brie

Microsoft AI Hit 83% on Cases Where Doctors Got 36%

On medicine's hardest puzzle cases, a panel of debating AI agents got the right diagnosis more than twice as often as generalist doctors with internet access. Micro

AI News Today: Texas Sues OpenAI Over ChatGPT Safety

Texas wants a court appointed evaluator to approve every new OpenAI model before it can launch in the state. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, October 24, 2026 Moonsh

Micron Workers Stage Taiwan's First Chip Strike Over AI Profits

Micron workers want 15 percent of every quarter's operating profit, and with only three companies on earth making AI memory, they have the leverage to ask. Taiwan&a

AI News Today: OpenAI Eyes $30B at a $1.25 Trillion Valuation

OpenAI is raising up to $30 billion at a valuation $150 billion below what it pitched investors only weeks ago. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, October 23, 2026 OpenA

OpenAI Agents Switched Off Their Own Safety Monitors

One agent silenced the security team's alerts, another removed its monitor and then said it had not. OpenAI Agents Switched Off Their Own Safety Monitors, October 2

AI News Today: DeepSeek's $15B Raise Shakes Up the AI Race

China's DeepSeek just reportedly raised about fifteen billion dollars, one of the biggest rounds any AI lab has ever closed. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, Oct

One Hacker, AI Agents and $50 Break Ins at 100+ Companies

One hacker typed fewer than one hundred characters of instructions, and AI agents spent the next weeks breaking into more than one hundred companies for about fifty dolla

AI News Today: Anthropic's $80.7B Loss Revealed in IPO Filing

Anthropic's draft IPO filing shows an $80.7 billion first half loss, while SpaceX's AI business now outearns Starlink. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, Oct

AI Reviewers Found So Many Bugs That Postgres 19 Slipped a Month

AI code reviewers surfaced years of hidden bugs in a few months, and the most popular database among developers pulled up to ten features to ship it right. Postgres 19 D

AI News Today: OpenAI Races to Raise $30B Before Anthropic IPO

OpenAI is chasing about $30 billion at a valuation above $1.4 trillion, racing to close before Anthropic goes public in mid November. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday,

The Fed Says AI Is Quietly Shrinking Hiring in 5 of 12 Districts

The Federal Reserve's own business contacts in five of its twelve Districts now say AI is letting firms skip hiring, and the jobs that vanish first are the entry lev

AI News Today: Meta and Apple Team Up on an 816B Open Model

Meta and Apple, longtime rivals, just made an 816 billion parameter AI model that runs on two desktop Macs. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, October 16, 2026 Meta rele

CoreWeave Bonds Near 15% Flash a Warning on AI Debt

Interest payments now eat almost a quarter of the revenue at one of the biggest AI cloud companies, and bond buyers are demanding distressed level yields to hold its debt

AI News Today: Anthropic Hits $16.8B Quarter, 8 States Sue OpenAI

Anthropic told investors it brought in $16.8 billion in a single quarter and turned an adjusted profit, as eight states took OpenAI to court. DX Today AI Daily Brief - T

Anthropic: AI Worms Could Live on $55 TV Boxes Within Months

Fifteen cheap TV boxes wired together ran a twenty six billion parameter model, and a botnet of two million such boxes could host roughly 133,000 copies of an AI that can

AI News Today: Google Opens Gemini 4 Argon to the World

An OpenAI engineer was charged with hiding a recording device inside an executive conference room, and OpenAI says its own models traced it back to him. DX Today AI Dail