AI and Tech News, 9 Oct 2026: OpenAI Revenue, Gemini Agent, Apple

Here are the nine biggest technology and AI stories of the day, from a lower-than-expected OpenAI revenue figure that hit AI stocks and Google's new Gemini agent to Apple's October 13 event.

1. AI Stocks Fall After OpenAI Reports About $50B in Annualized Revenue

OpenAI told investors its run rate was about $50B at the end of September, below the roughly $68B figure widely reported, and Oracle, CoreWeave and Nvidia shares fell.

2. Google Cloud Unveils Gemini Agent, a Universal Agent for Work

Announced at Gemini at Work 2026, the agent plans and completes multi-step jobs across Workspace and business systems, can route tasks to Claude models, and is in private preview.

3. Apple Announces a 'Welcome Home' Product Event for October 13

Marketing chief Greg Joswiak teased the date on X, and reports expect a new smart home hub alongside updated HomePod mini and Apple TV 4K models.

4. Amazon Replaces Fire Tablets With Android-Based Alexa Tablets

The new Alexa Tablet 8, 11 and 12 Pro start at $229.99, run standard Android with the Google Play Store, include Alexa+, and end production of new Fire tablets.

5. Anthropic Launches a Cyber Mission With 11 Founding Partners

The effort gives partners such as CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and Accenture access to Claude models and engineers to protect critical infrastructure, plus free vulnerability scans for open-source projects.

6. Manus Parent Raises Over $500M in Its First Round Since the Meta Deal Unwound

Butterfly Effect's round was led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital with Tencent, HSG and ZhenFund joining; the final valuation was not disclosed after earlier reports of a $4B target.

7. AI Leaderboard Arena Raises $200M at a $3.1B Valuation

Bloomberg and TechCrunch reported the round, which the company behind the popular model rankings will use to expand into measuring AI safety and alignment.

8. Mecka Raises a $60M Series B Led by Sequoia for Robot Training Data

Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung and Microsoft's M12 also joined the round for the startup, which pays people to wear body sensors to record motion data for humanoid robots.

9. Unpatched Critical Flaw in LMCache Puts AI Inference Servers at Risk

JFrog researchers disclosed a 9.8-severity remote code execution bug in the KV-cache layer often paired with vLLM, and no fixed release was available as of October 8.