AI and Tech News, 15 Oct 2026: Anthropic, OpenAI, Chip Stocks

Here are the twenty-two biggest technology and AI stories of the day, from Anthropic's $16.8B quarter and eight state lawsuits against OpenAI to a chip stock selloff after hot inflation data.

1. Anthropic Tells Investors Its Third-Quarter Revenue Reached $16.8B, the FT Reports

Anthropic told investors its third-quarter revenue rose to $16.8B and that it was profitable on an adjusted basis, according to the Financial Times, as the company prepares for its planned IPO.

2. Eight US States Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT's Safety for Children

Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate lawsuits alleging OpenAI misrepresented ChatGPT as safe; OpenAI says it has built industry-leading age-specific protections.

3. Hot September Inflation Sends the Nasdaq Down 1.9% and Chip Stocks Down 4.3%

US consumer prices rose 3.7% from a year earlier, above the 3.6% forecast, pushing the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index down 4.3% and Nvidia down about 3% as rate-hike worries grew.

4. CoreWeave Shares Fall About 15% as One of Its Bond Yields Touches 15%

CoreWeave's $1.25B bond due 2032 touched a 15% yield intraday, raising concerns about its roughly $52B debt load and dragging Nebius and other AI cloud stocks lower.

5. South Korea's Kospi Drops More Than 7% in Early Trading as Samsung and SK Hynix Slide

Samsung Electronics fell about 9% and SK Hynix about 11% early on Thursday, triggering trading curbs on the Kospi and Kosdaq after the overnight US chip selloff.

6. ASML Posts Record Quarterly Sales of 11.7B Euros and Says Demand Will Outrun Its Capacity

The chip equipment maker earned about 5B euros, narrowed its 2026 sales forecast to 44B to 45B euros and said planned capacity will fall short of demand in 2027 and 2028.

7. Japan Will Fund Up to $21B for Two GlobalFoundries Chip Fabs in New York

Under the US-Japan trade deal, GlobalFoundries will run two new fabs in Malta, New York, the first due online in 2029, and the Commerce Department will take about a 4% stake.

8. DeepSeek Is Reportedly Close to Raising About 100B Yuan at a 500B Yuan Valuation

Caijing reports the Chinese AI lab's second funding round has doubled from its original 50B yuan target while its pre-money valuation stays at about 500B yuan; DeepSeek did not comment.

9. Bank of America Hired 1,000 Contractors to Patch Flaws Exposed by Anthropic's Mythos

CEO Brian Moynihan told CNBC the bank added the contractors in the second quarter, on top of about 3,000 staff in that area, to fix flaws in its own and vendors' software.

10. Jensen Huang Says Nvidia Would Cut Off Customers Who Build Unsafe AI

In a Bloomberg interview in London, the Nvidia CEO called it a hypothetical but said yes, adding that he would first talk to the customer before halting chip sales.

11. OpenAI Infrastructure Lead Sachin Katti Is Leaving and Will Stay On as an Adviser

Katti, who joined from Intel in November 2025, leaves his role on November 15, and Uday Ruddarraju, OpenAI's CTO of compute, will lead the company's compute organization.

12. Bitcoin Falls Below $82,000 After the Hotter Inflation Report

The largest cryptocurrency slipped from around $83,800 as the September inflation data revived concerns that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates rather than hold them steady.

13. Microsoft and Health-ISAC Seize Infrastructure Behind Three Chinese-Language Phishing Services

Acting on a Florida federal court order, they took down domains used by YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, which Microsoft says sent over 750 million messages at its customers this year.

14. Senate Democrats Question Meta's $6.6B in Research Tax Credits Tied to AI Data Centers

Seven Democrats led by Ron Wyden asked Mark Zuckerberg whether Meta described its AI data centers to the IRS as experimental to qualify for the credit, requesting answers by October 31.

15. xAI Releases Grok Voice 3.0 for Voice Agents at $0.08 per Minute

The speech-to-speech model scored 86.9 to rank first on Artificial Analysis's speech-to-speech index, ahead of OpenAI and Google models, at the same price as its predecessor.

16. OpenAI Will Remove GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 From Its API on January 14, 2027

OpenAI told developers that GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini, including fine-tuned versions, will be shut down in the API, recommending gpt-6-luna as the replacement.

17. Honeywell Launches Forge Cognition, an AI Platform for Buildings Built With Nvidia and Dell

The platform pairs AI agents with digital twins to manage facilities, and Honeywell says a pilot at Nvidia's Santa Clara campus cut unnecessary alerts by up to 90%.

18. Google DeepMind and Singapore's GovTech Build an On-Device Scam Detector on Gemma

Announced at Singapore International Cyber Week, the model checks conversations for scam patterns on the phone itself, without sending them to Google or the government, with a phased rollout planned.

19. Hesai Launches Kosmo, a Lidar Camera and Platform for Robot Training Data

The Chinese lidar maker's Kosmo One camera scans real spaces and its Kosmo World cloud platform turns them into 3D environments for training robots and world models.

20. Zenzap Emerges From Stealth With $44M for an AI Workplace Messenger

The Israeli startup, backed by Bessemer and Lightspeed, wants to replace WhatsApp at work with a chat app where companies can run AI agents under central security controls.

21. Fragment Raises a $12M Series A to Keep AI Agents From Mishandling Company Money

Co-led by FirstMark and BoxGroup, the New York startup uses double-entry accounting checks so agents can handle billing safely; customers include Ramp, BILL and Whop.

22. Indian Investing App Groww Reports a 54% Jump in Quarterly Profit

Groww's parent posted a September-quarter net profit of about 725 crore rupees, up 54% from a year earlier, while operating revenue rose 47% to about 1,501 crore rupees.