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Newest story built on forkast.news reporting: FTC's civil investigative demands ask OpenAI and Anthropic about safety incidents and internal safeguards (October 15, 2026). forkast.news reporting informs the Science, Invest, Product, Build, Leadership, and Security desks, most often on AI Agent Security, Agentic Commerce, and AI Agent Safety. 55 of our current stories draw on it, the earliest from September 5, 2026.
Proofpoint has agreed to acquire Varonis in an all-cash deal valued at about $6.3 billion, or $49.75 a share. Varonis expects the deal to close in the first half of 2027, and until then the two companies stay independent.
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Apple will ship its $299 HomeView hub on Nov. 13, with Siri AI as the selling point. The Wearables, Home and Accessories line it joins reported $7.88 billion in the June quarter, about 7% of revenue, so the hub is a small bet beside the iPhone.
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Microsoft unveiled Maia 300 on October 12 and plans multi-gigawatt Azure Maia deployments from 2027, according to theneuron.ai. Its 40% tokens-per-megawatt target comes without a stated baseline, so teams cannot yet size agent workloads against it.
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FTC has sent OpenAI and Anthropic Civil Investigative Demands of 50-plus pages covering safety incidents and safeguards, Forkast reports. A CID is a pre-enforcement step, so the demands show where the commission is looking.
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Google is rolling out Gemini 4 Argon to AI Pro subscribers in the Gemini app, where it was Ultra-only. Antigravity's own desktop app and CLI still require Ultra, 9to5Google reported.
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Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Oct. 12, with the Full version limited to paying subscribers. CNBC reported monthly plans between $20 and $200, so Meta's rebuilt AI team now has to earn subscriptions as well as benchmark scores.
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Ramp raised about $1.85 billion at a $60 billion pre-money valuation, Bloomberg reported, up from $44 billion in June. Forkast frames it as spend software turning into an agent platform. The price is under 40 times the annualized revenue Ramp reported in June.
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xAI is folding SuperGrok, X Premium and Cursor into one subscription priced from about $8 to $200 a month, two outlets report. Cryptopolitan describes a Monday announcement; Crypto Briefing says the prices are leaks X had not confirmed by Oct. 11-12.
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Apple's HomeView pre-order pages, for a 7-inch device with an A18 chip, list no purchase, cart or payment function for Siri AI, Forkast reported. With no agent transaction defined, the merchant-of-record default stays in place.
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OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was about $50 billion at the end of September, short of the $68 billion to $70 billion reported last month. Oracle and OpenAI's chip suppliers fell 3% to 6% on Thursday on the strength of a private company's investor deck.
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Rein Security raised a $25 million Series A to monitor and block what enterprise AI agents do in production. Its stated $35 million total sits $2 million above the two rounds it has disclosed, so its other figures need checking before buyers rely on them.
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VS Trust's 3x bitcoin and ether funds won SEC approval of their exchange-listing rules on Oct. 2, moving daily-reset leverage closer to trading. Because the triple exposure resets every session, a holder can be right about bitcoin for months and still lose money.
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Artificial Analysis measured the score itself, and the weights are on Hugging Face under MIT, but MiMo-V2.6-Pro holds 1.02 trillion parameters, so most teams will reach it through an API at $0.43 per million input tokens.
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Google Cloud's Gemini agent, launched on October 8, gives each AI coworker its own company email address, calendar and directory entry. For now, customers are left to set the policies for licensing those accounts and answering for their work.
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Meta, Walmart, Stripe and Sierra are publishing an open protocol to identify AI shopping agents as Stripe Link's agentic purchases rose 38-fold in a month. Stripe and Walmart also back rival protocols, so merchants setting rules for bots face several standards at once.
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Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million input tokens, 75% below Haiku 4.5, ahead of a planned IPO. Yahoo Finance reported the rate matches OpenAI's smallest model, giving buyers a matched quote before anyone can see what the cut costs Anthropic in margin.
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None of the four AI labs at New York City Council's Oct. 5 hearing raised a hand when Speaker Julie Menin asked who insured against catastrophic risk. A show of hands says little about what cover the labs actually hold, but Menin took it to mean the public would carry the cost of any AI catastrophe.
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FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson said on September 25 that he will resist treating AI agents as independent actors that carry their own blame. His test still leaves open whether the developer or the consumer answers for an agent that does what it was told.
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Nous Research raised $90 million at a $1.5 billion valuation to sell its open-source Hermes agent to corporate IT departments. The money pays for single sign-on and audit controls, so the price depends on companies paying for features around code anyone may copy.
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Apple said on Oct 2 it will add macOS controls for Full Disk Access after an Inc columnist said Meta's Muse agent read his private messages. The new step governs how users consent, and a user who completes it still gives an agent the whole disk.
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