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Plus: Musk Buys the Neighbors, Human Review Lost to a Coin
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JPMorgan starts Palantir at overweight with a $262 target, which values it at 55 times the bank's 2028 free cash flow estimate.
Opentrons raised a $40 million Series E led by Avego, betting that AI has turned slow manual lab work into science's bottleneck.
Amazon's AWS grew 39%, but $77.3 billion of quarterly capex kept free cash flow negative, and Jassy plans to spend more in 2027.
Microsoft will pull Copilot from Samsung and LG TVs on December 1, a year after LG owners complained they could not delete it.
Nord Quantique, valued at $1.4 billion in May, won $10 million more from DARPA's benchmarking program, but its multi-qubit processor is still the harder step.
Altman says OpenAI will point its robotics program at building data centers, but asked how fixes for high memory prices were going, he said "Bad."
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Plus: Google's TPUs Finally Get a Second Landlord, Grok Ruins Musk's Odyssey,
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Plus: Anthropic's IPO Is an $800 Billion Lease, Meta Can't Wait for Its Own Stock
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Plus: OpenAI Is Raiding Anthropic's Customers, Open Source Can't Ban AI
Deep Dive Oct 23, 2026 · 8 min read · Members
The ten smartest AI models carry only 6% of the traffic on an open platform.
Daily Rundown Oct 22, 2026 · 8 min read · Members
Plus: Humans Were the Bug, Giants Wants Free Chatters to Pay
Daily Rundown Oct 21, 2026 · 7 min read · Members
Plus: Musk's Superintelligence Is a Landlord, DeepSeek Fought Washington's Ban
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Plus: Electricity Now Picks AI's Tenants, Grok Testified Against SpaceXAI
Daily Rundown Oct 19, 2026 · 7 min read · Members
Plus: Anthropic Pulled Up the Ladder, OpenAI Copied Meta's Ad Machine
Deep Dive Oct 16, 2026 · 7 min read · Members
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