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YouTube Music starts labelling AI-generated songs
YouTube Music is introducing three labels: Fully Gen AI, Partly Gen AI and No Gen AI. Labels come from distributor disclosures and YouTube's own detection, and AI tracks remain eligible for monetisation.
Read Data · AI search 5 min readWe measured the BIST 100: 15 company sites are closed or empty for AI crawlers
None of Borsa Istanbul's 100 largest companies blocks the search crawlers of ChatGPT or Claude in robots.txt. Yet 15 of their sites are effectively closed to AI because of firewalls, bot blocks or empty pages.
Read News · Models 3 min readGemini 4 Argon goes generally available, tops the Vals Index
Google opened Gemini 4 Argon, first released only to cyber defenders on 30 September, to developers and Pro and Ultra subscribers on 13 October, at an introductory $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
Read News · Finance 3 min readIMF warns an AI market correction could have global consequences
The IMF's Global Financial Stability Report lists a correction in AI-linked stocks and credit among three major risks. The rest of the world's exposure to US assets, especially AI, is at its highest ever.
Read News · Science 3 min readCoding agents raised code output, not finished work
A Harvard working paper on 700+ software firms finds AI coding agents raised code output about 30% but did not significantly increase completed work, as the bottleneck moved to code review.
Read News · Models 3 min readMeta opens its first frontier model, Muse Wonder, via API
Meta released Muse Wonder with a 1M-token context at $4 per million input and $20 per million output tokens. The stronger Muse Wonder Full is subscription-only.
Read News · Models 3 min readMicrosoft on track to pay Anthropic $2B a year for Copilot
The Information reports Microsoft is on track to pay Anthropic more than $2 billion a year to power Copilot in Office, up from about $500 million earlier this year.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readMicrosoft's Maia 300 chip will run its AI services from 2027
Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its third-generation AI chip with 288 GB of HBM4. It will be deployed at multi-gigawatt scale from 2027 as the main inference hardware for Microsoft's services.
Read News · Funding 3 min readAmazon in talks to buy AI startup Decart for about $7 billion
The Wall Street Journal reports Amazon is in talks to buy Decart, whose software runs AI efficiently across different chips, for about $7 billion. Anthropic earlier walked away from a $6 billion deal.
Read News · Funding 3 min readSpend management startup Ramp valued at $60 billion
Ramp, which makes corporate cards and expense software, raised about $1.85 billion at a roughly $60 billion valuation, up from $44 billion in June.
Read News · Funding 3 min readTypeSafe valued at $7.5 billion three weeks after leaving stealth
TypeSafe, an AI lab whose model returns structured output for software, raised an $870 million Series A led by a16z at a $7.5 billion valuation, three weeks after a seed round priced near $200 million.
Read News · Policy 3 min readWhite House unveils $6 billion science and AI package
The US administration announced more than $6 billion in science initiatives on October 8. The largest piece is $2.4 billion in computing pledges from 11 companies, including Nvidia, AMD, OpenAI and Anthropic, for the Genesis Mission.
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