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OpenAI merges ChatGPT Chat and Work tabs, unifies token limits for paid users
OpenAI is testing a merged Chat and Work interface in ChatGPT’s desktop app, with shared token allowances for paid subscribers starting December.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 3, 2026
Africa’s first AI fund: Enza Capital closes $58M
Enza Capital raises $58M for Africa’s first AI-focused venture fund, targeting startups that adapt AI for local languages, patchy connectivity, and proprietary…
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 3, 2026
Agentic AI insights fail to improve businesses half the time, MIT research finds
MIT Technology Review research reveals fewer than 48% of agent-generated insights lead to business improvements.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 3, 2026
Engineer argues AI elites may hoard intelligence like mercantilists
Engineer Venkatesh Rao compares AI intelligence hoarding to mercantilist wealth control, suggesting AI could boost demand for ideas and redefine labor.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 3, 2026
Elon Musk’s Grok Imagine fails to outdo Christopher Nolan in The Odyssey adaptation
Elon Musk’s AI-generated adaptation of The Odyssey, created using Grok Imagine, was criticized for lacking emotional depth and artistic value, underscoring…
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 3, 2026
Anthropic’s quarterly revenue jumps to $17B, losses grow ahead of IPO
Anthropic’s quarterly revenue jumps to $17B, losses grow ahead of IPO - SiliconANGLE
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 2, 2026
America’s AI Backlash Is Coming to the Ballot Box
Some proposals would make it easier for developers to build facilities powering the AI boom. Others would make it impossible.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 2, 2026
Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI
RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 2, 2026
Palantir’s US commercial sales top government revenue for the first time
Palantir’s revenue nearly doubled to $2.31bn, and it raised its full-year forecast to $8.53bn. Chief executive Alex Karp told CNBC that no one in software AI has had such consistent results.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 2, 2026
Larridin raises $30M to show companies what their AI spending buys
Larridin went from one enterprise customer to 50 in under a year. Its new report finds AI-assisted pull requests rose from 35% to 62% as code review waits grew 50%.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 2, 2026
Software Is Dead—Unless Anthropic Says Otherwise
If you ask very nicely, Anthropic might tell Claude to stop cloning your software.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 2, 2026
Tutor Intelligence raises $75M from a16z to put robots to work by the hour
Tutor Intelligence’s robots, Sonny and Cassie, work in US factories and warehouses with help from remote human ‘tutors’. Customers pay by the hour or by the pick.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 2, 2026
New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping
The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 2, 2026
John Deere's new AI assistant helps farmers analyze data, manage crops
John Deere built an AI assistant to stop farmers from drowning in decades of field data
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 2, 2026
OpenAI will merge ChatGPT’s chat and work tabs – here’s when, and what to expect
On the heels of Anthropic's similar move, the change will be tested among select users before being rolled out.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 2, 2026
New York Times and three other US papers sue Brave over AI scraping
Separate complaints in Manhattan say Brave sells scraped articles to AI firms and helps readers bypass paywalls.
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Nov 2, 2026
OpenAI launches Grid Protectors to ease AI’s strain on power grids
The company says families should not pay for AI's power needs, and plans to copy its Georgia deal nationwide.
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Nov 2, 2026
On theCUBE Pod: Stock market gets the jitters and Anthropic files IPO
On the latest episode of theCUBE Pod, John Furrier and Dave Vellante discuss the AI infrastructure bubble and changes to the NYSE.
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Nov 2, 2026
2 days till TechCrunch Founder Summit: Boston founders don’t need a Silicon Valley address to build something big
TechCrunch Founder Summit happens on November 4 in Boston for a founder-focused agenda and impactful connections. Save up to $100 now.
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Nov 2, 2026
OpenAI’s Lehane likens backing a data centre ban to the 2002 Iraq vote
The Chris Lehane memo lands a day before the midterms, as OpenAI readies a push for AI ‘speed limits’. It also wants data centres renamed ‘compute campuses’.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 2, 2026
Elon Musk says Grok Bot was throttled because costs were ‘unsustainably high’ — as users call the move a ‘rug pull’
The increasing costs of AI
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Nov 2, 2026
Stop counting tokens, start counting what ships
Why rationing agentic coding backfires, and what to measure instead.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 2, 2026
Saudi Aramco takes 49 percent stake in AI firm Humain with $2.6 billion deal
Saudi Aramco is buying into Humain, the company meant to turn Saudi Arabia into a global AI hub.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 2, 2026
OpenAI prepares lobbying blitz for a post-midterm Washington
OpenAI is gearing up for a political lobbying and PR push after the US midterms.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 2, 2026