The Information reports IPO documents show Anthropic employees donated $540 million in 2025, helped by a share top-up program. The next biggest Fortune 500 donors gave about $115 million.
Researchers say many parallel AI agents, apparently on Tencent servers, query Alibaba's Amap for routes to a park, a zoo and a hospital. They see no sign the agents talk.
TechCrunch, citing sources, says the inference-chip start-up is in early talks at $40 billion to $50 billion, up from $21 billion last month. Etched says it has $1 billion in customer orders.
Reka says its 19-billion-parameter Rho-1 draws images, edits video and outputs robot joint trajectories from one network, trained on 320 H100 GPUs. It is a research preview, and Reka lists its own limits.
Reka AI has announced Rho-1, a 19-billion-parameter model that Reka says "understands and generates text, images, and video, reasons over them, and takes actions" inside a single neural network. The Decoder reported the launch on 5 October. Reka calls it a research preview, and the announcement gives a contact address for partnership inquiries rather than a download or a price.
HackerRank says its Chakra AI interviewer ran more than 500,000 interviews in a six-month beta. The company claims suspicious-activity flags ran 70 to 80 percent below its traditional tests.
Theo's T3 Code now lets agents build dynamic visualizations inside a thread, styled with the user's own theme. The maker's clip drew 969 likes in about an hour.