What happened in AI today

1. Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund

   Anthropic · Business

   Anthropic says it will commit 5% of its shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, subject to stockholder approval. The fund's stake can grow by an extra 2% at the board's discretion for every 50% rise in company value above a set baseline. Anthropic says the fund will be a wholly-owned LLC, and none of its equity will be used for lobbying or political giving. The company says that, with its co-founders' pledge and an employee equity donation match, roughly 20% of its shares will be dedicated to the public good.

   • Investing in the public benefit

1. Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA extend partnership on automated driving

   NVIDIA · Business

   Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA announced they will extend their partnership to develop the next generation of driver assistance and automated driving systems. The work combines Mercedes-Benz's MB.OS operating system with NVIDIA's Hyperion compute and sensor architecture, Alpamayo Stack driving software and Halos safety system. NVIDIA says the technology supports point-to-point urban assistance, active safety and automated parking, and the development of future SAE Level 4 applications, including robolimousines. Mercedes-Benz also uses NVIDIA technology for vehicle engineering simulation and in MO360, its digital production ecosystem.

   • Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA Expand Strategic Partnership to Advance Safe Highly Automated Driving in the Next Decade

1. Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with Singapore's digital ministry

   Anthropic · Business

   Anthropic opened its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore and signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information. The MOU sets out cooperation on AI safety, security and model evaluation, research on AI adoption, and responsible adoption across the public and private sectors. Anthropic says Singapore ranks second of 121 countries in Claude.ai usage relative to population, and that more than 1,500 GovTech Singapore engineers and technical staff have adopted Claude Code. The company says the office is open and hiring.

   • Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with the Government of Singapore

2. Google says 400 publications now take part in its News AI pilot

   Google · Business

   Google says more than 400 publications worldwide now take part in its News AI pilot program, which it launched last year. New partners include Axios, CNN, The Financial Times, Forbes, Post and Courier, and Texas Tribune. Google pays participating publishers for the delivery and use of enhanced content to develop AI features. These include article overviews on Google News publisher pages and customizable audio briefings.

   • 400 publications are now partnering with us on our News AI pilot program.

3. Volvo Cars expands partnership with NVIDIA on automated driving

   NVIDIA · Business

   Volvo Cars says it is expanding its partnership with NVIDIA to build automated driving technology for future Volvo cars. The system will use NVIDIA's Hyperion sensor and compute architecture, Halos OS and Alpamayo Stack driving software. Volvo says it will debut in a next-generation Volvo car as part of its recently announced largest-ever product push, with a gradual introduction of eyes-off and mind-off driving. The companies have worked together since 2017.

   • Volvo Cars and NVIDIA Expand Partnership to Advance Safe Automated Driving

4. Adobe and NVIDIA expand partnership to speed up Photoshop, Premiere and other tools

   NVIDIA · Business

   Adobe and NVIDIA announced a wider collaboration to optimize Photoshop, Premiere, Substance 3D, Frame.io and Brand Concierge. Adobe says Photoshop, Premiere and Substance 3D are optimized for the NVIDIA RTX Spark superchip, which launches Oct. 16, and deliver up to 2x faster AI processing, editing, color and effects. Early results from selected Frame.io workloads show about 5x faster embedding generation, 4-5x better P95 processing latency and an approximately 80% smaller search proxy. Brand Concierge is now optimized with NVIDIA Nemotron open models and will reach enterprise customers later this year, and NVIDIA has picked it for customer interactions on NVIDIA.com.

   • Adobe and NVIDIA Expand Collaboration to Speed Agentic Creation

5. NVIDIA joins European Commission initiative to widen scientists' access to AI tools and compute

   NVIDIA · Business

   At the AI in Science Summit in Dublin, the European Commission launched the AI in Science Enablers Initiative, linked to RAISE, and NVIDIA joined it. NVIDIA says it will offer open models and software, a free open source courseware hub from its Deep Learning Institute, and compute access for startups and small businesses through European AI factories in France, Spain and Sweden. NVIDIA says it has released more than 250 open models, 250 open datasets and over 1,400 open source software projects. The company also says 35 supercomputers are in development across Europe, which it says will serve over 3 million researchers.

   • NVIDIA Expands Advanced Technology Access for Europe's Scientific Community Through Open Learning Resources, Collaborations and Compute

6. Cohere signs letter of intent to acquire security startup AISLE

   Cohere · Business

   Cohere announced a proposed agreement to acquire AISLE, a company that builds autonomous systems to find and fix unknown vulnerabilities in critical software. Cohere says the deal would add security capabilities to its sovereign AI platform and follows its acquisitions of Reliant AI and Aleph Alpha. AISLE was founded in 2024. The company says it found more than 500 previously unknown vulnerabilities with CVEs across more than 100 codebases in its first year, including all 12 in OpenSSL's January security release and 18 of the 24 CVEs in curl's latest release. The deal is a proposal, and the article gives no price or closing date.

   • Cohere and AISLE sign letter of intent to advance cyber-resilient sovereign AI

1. Google.org picks 17 groups for $36 million AI for Science funding

   Google · Business

   Google.org has named 17 recipients of its Impact Challenge: AI for Science, which will share a total of $36 million. The open call drew applications from 30 countries in fields such as climate, health and foundational science. Recipients can join a six-month Google.org Accelerator, which Google says offers engineering support, technical mentorship and Google infrastructure. Projects include AfriClimate AI's work to extend flash-flood warning times in Africa from under three hours to over six, and MIT's training of AI agents to read microscope images for materials discovery.

   • 17 organizations using AI to accelerate scientific breakthroughs

2. Google offers 200 European researchers access to its AI models and $3 million in compute credits

   Google · Business

   Google DeepMind and Google Cloud say they will give up to 200 European scientific researchers direct access to their frontier models, along with $3 million in compute credits. The tools include AlphaFold 3, WeatherNext, AlphaGenome, AlphaEvolve and AlphaEarth Foundations. Google says the pledge supports the European Union's AI for Science work through the RAISE initiative, which seeks to help close the compute gap European scientists sometimes face.

   • We’re powering European scientific discovery with advanced AI compute and frontier models.

1. Anthropic commits $150 million to US Genesis Mission science initiative

   Anthropic · Business

   Anthropic says it will commit $150 million over three years to the Genesis Mission, a federal initiative to speed up scientific discovery with AI. The money will go toward making Claude available to more than 15 participating agencies, including NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Anthropic says it will provide Claude, Claude Code and API credits to several hundred research projects, partner on priorities such as fusion energy and quantum computing, and offer training and technical support. The company announced the commitment at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's Science: A New Golden Age Summit.

   • Building on our commitment to American scientific discovery

2. NVIDIA commits $1 billion over five years to US science research

   NVIDIA · Business

   NVIDIA announced commitments valued at $1 billion at the Science: A New Golden Age event in Washington, D.C. Over the next five years, the money will go to super intelligence and quantum computing work through support for US higher-education research institutions, investments in American quantum computing, and support for cloud providers serving US government needs. CEO Jensen Huang tied the pledge to the Genesis Mission, a US government science effort in which NVIDIA is an industry partner. NVIDIA also says it collaborates on several phase 2 Genesis Mission awards announced at the event, covering quantum computing, fusion, accelerator design and microelectronics.

   • NVIDIA Commits $1 Billion to Advance US Science Over the Next Five Years

1. Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership to put GPT-6 models across Atlassian's platform

   OpenAI · Business

   Atlassian and OpenAI have signed a new agreement under which OpenAI frontier models in the GPT-6 family will power agents across Atlassian's platform and its Rovo assistant. The agreement gives Atlassian expanded access to models including GPT-6 Astra and the GPT-5.6 series. The partnership builds on a collaboration that began in 2023. OpenAI says more than 3,000 Atlassian developers use Codex, and that OpenAI will keep using Jira to manage workflows. The companies are also exploring deeper Jira integrations that would let teams assign work to AI agents.

   • Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership to turn enterprise knowledge into action

2. Google signs nuclear uprate deal with Constellation, adds Gemini Enterprise

   Google · Business

   Google announced a power purchase agreement with Constellation Energy to add 890 megawatts of nuclear capacity to the PJM grid. The financing covers physical and digital upgrades at six operating plants in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and uprates at 11 reactors. Google says it is the anchor customer and that other grid customers bear none of the costs. Google says the projects will add the power before the end of 2032, and Constellation will use Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise agentic workflows to speed up uprate planning, construction and plant output. Google says it has now enabled over 1.5 GW of new nuclear capacity from uprates and restarts, and expects its agreements to enable nearly 25% of the Department of Energy's 5 GW goal for 2030.

   • Why we're backing America's existing nuclear plants

1. Amazon publishes data center commitment and adds $1 billion community program

   Amazon · Business

   Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman published a post that rebuts what he calls myths about data centers, including claims about water use, electricity rates and backup generator pollution. Amazon says it has codified its practices into an "Amazon Data Center Commitment" that covers community protection, jobs, open engagement and responsible operation. It says it no longer uses nondisclosure agreements with government agencies on its projects, and that new sites will use backup generators that meet the EPA's Tier 4 emissions standard. Amazon also announced "Built Together," a framework that adds more than $1 billion over five years for education, job training, energy affordability and local priorities in data center communities.

   • Amazon's approach to data centers: community-focused, sustainable and efficient

1. ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22 billion on demand for voice agents

   ElevenLabs · Business

   ElevenLabs says it closed a $300 million employee tender offer valuing the company at $22 billion, double its Series D valuation in February. The company says the round was led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price, with enterprise customers now accounting for 55 percent of revenue. ElevenLabs says its ElevenAgents platform now handles more than 15 million conversations per week, up threefold since February.

   • ElevenLabs reaches $22bn valuation after employee tender

1. Google says Gemini will help power new federal services portal America.gov

   Google · Business

   Google says it is a technology partner for the White House America.gov site, described as a streamlined front door for federal services online. Google says the effort uses Gemini to help more than 100 million people access critical public resources with greater speed and ease. Google frames it as support for digital modernization to make everyday public services more seamless and accessible.

   • Google is a technology partner for the launch of America.gov.

2. ElevenLabs puts voice agents on OpenAI Marketplace and adds expressive v4 Turbo voices

   ElevenLabs · Business

   ElevenLabs says its ElevenAgents platform is listed as a launch partner in OpenAI new Marketplace, letting eligible enterprise customers apply OpenAI commitments to purchases, with buying coming soon. The company says ElevenAgents pairs OpenAI frontier models with its voice stack for human-sounding agents in more than 90 languages. Separately, ElevenLabs says Eleven v4 Turbo, a low-latency version of its most emotive text-to-speech model, is now available in ElevenAgents with about 100ms median latency.

   • ElevenAgents, now on the OpenAI Marketplace
   • Eleven v4 Turbo is now available in ElevenAgents

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1. Meta launches Enterprise Platform to sell its AI stack to businesses

   Meta · Business

   Meta on Sept. 28 said it is starting Meta Enterprise Platform as its next major business pillar to help companies use AI to grow. Meta says the platform will bring its full stack including the Muse agent, Meta Business Agent, Muse API and Muse Code to businesses and developers, with security and privacy built in. To lead it, Chirantan CJ Desai will join as Chief Enterprise Platform Officer reporting to Mark Zuckerberg after serving as CEO of MongoDB and holding leadership roles at Cloudflare and ServiceNow.

   • Launching Meta Enterprise Platform

2. Mistral opens Munich hub for Physics AI and industrial work

   Mistral AI · Business

   Mistral on Sept. 28 said it opened a Munich hub with research teams for Physics AI and Industrial AI plus applied engineers for enterprise partners. Mistral says the work builds on its May acquisition of Emmi AI and includes crash simulation work with BMW, industrial applications with Siemens Energy, and a wind-tunnel digital-twin partnership with Technical University Munich. The company says its open-weight models can run on customer infrastructure under European law as part of its plan to build one gigawatt of European compute by 2030.

   • Hallo, Deutschland!

1. Devin maker Cognition says it passed $1B in annualized revenue

   Cognition · Business

   Cognition says it crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate on Sept. 25, 2026. The company says it started in January 2024 because the world needs more software than it can build. Cognition says that less than two years after Devin became generally available, Devin now works alongside engineering teams at companies including GE Aerospace, Rivian, Rohlik and Exa.

   • Cognition Crosses $1B in Annualized Revenue Run Rate

1. OpenAI brings ChatGPT Ads to Southeast Asia and Taiwan

   OpenAI · Business

   OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads are starting to roll out across Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Taiwan, and are now available in more than 60 countries. Ads are shown only to users on Free and Go plans, while Plus, Pro and Enterprise subscriptions remain ad-free. OpenAI says the ads business reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate in less than 200 days, with tens of thousands of advertisers running ads.

   • ChatGPT Ads expands to Southeast Asia and Taiwan

2. Microsoft pledges more than $10 billion for AI and cloud buildout in Middle East

   Microsoft · Business

   Microsoft says it will invest more than $10 billion in capital and operating costs through 2030 focused initially on Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The plan covers expanded cloud and AI infrastructure, sovereign cloud options, more than $400 million for subsea and terrestrial connectivity, and deeper work with national AI partners including HUMAIN, G42 and QAI. Microsoft also says it will expand cybersecurity cooperation, digital resilience planning and programs to skill more than 4.2 million people by 2030.

   • Microsoft expands investment in the Middle East with focus on AI, digital resilience and people

1. Google and Gates Foundation put $100 million into AI for smallholder farmers

   Google · Business

   Google and the Gates Foundation will direct $100 million to scale AI-powered climate and crop insights from 50 million to 200 million smallholder farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Google says the effort will deploy real-time climate, agricultural and language AI tools with technical support from Google researchers. Smallholder farmers produce nearly 35 percent of the world's food but often lack access to satellite data and support for unpredictable weather.

   • Google and the Gates Foundation to bring AI resources to 200 million farmers across the Global South.