Google’s AI Satellite Sends Its First Response to Earth
Google’s AI chip-equipped satellite, which launched earlier this month, just generated its first response from space.
- Google says it successfully booted up the satellite’s TPUs, allowing its onboard Gemma 4 model to respond to a prompt to write a haiku about being in space.
- Google also tested other space-themed limericks and prompts asking the satellite to report telemetry data.
- The test is part of Project Suncatcher, an experimental initiative exploring the possibility of building AI data centers in space.
- Google will continue testing how the TPUs perform under thermal stress and radiation exposure, both of which can affect hardware in orbit.
The next milestone is planned for 2027, when Google aims to launch twin interconnected satellites.
OpenAI Is Merging ChatGPT’s Chat and Work Tabs
OpenAI is preparing to combine Chat and Work into a single experience in the ChatGPT desktop app.
- OpenAI is initially making the redesigned experience available to select users for feedback before a wider rollout.
- The change was announced in an email to users, saying it will “enable you to move from exploring an idea to having ChatGPT carry it through, all in one place.”
- Codex will remain a separate experience in the ChatGPT desktop app.
- OpenAI also said ChatGPT and Codex will now share the same token allowance, and while most users won’t notice, some may need to wait for resets more often depending on usage and model.
The move follows a similar change from Anthropic, which merged Claude’s chat and Cowork features into one interface in September.
DataCamp offers free access to more than 700 AI and data courses for one week
The platform is offering free access to more than 700 courses, career tracks and certifications in Python, data analytics and AI engineering from November 2 to 8, with no credit card required.
The program includes hands-on lessons using real datasets, covering topics such as Python programming, SQL and AI engineering, though AI tutor and Microsoft Fabric courses are excluded.
Grok will add invisible watermarks to AI generated text through its API
SpaceX’s xAI says it will begin invisibly watermarking text generated by Grok through its developer API on November 7, citing requirements under the EU AI Act.
AI may be driving a surge in indie game submissions
Daily game submissions to Itch.io have reportedly doubled in just two months, raising questions about the growing use of AI in indie game development. The platform’s data does not identify which games were made with AI, so the exact role of the technology remains unclear.
OpenAI considers renaming data centers as “AI compute campuses”
The company is reportedly planning a public relations campaign after the US midterm elections to shape the debate around AI, including proposals for AI development speed limits, global standards and ways to highlight the technology’s benefits. Chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane also suggested calling data centers “AI compute campuses” as the company faces growing public opposition to new infrastructure projects.
OpenAI Is Changing How You Use ChatGPT
ChatGPT’s desktop app got so crowded that OpenAI is tearing down a wall inside it.
- OpenAI emailed users that the Chat and Work tabs inside ChatGPT are becoming one space. The pitch: start with a loose idea, pull in your files and plugins, then let ChatGPT carry the task to the finish while you steer. Codex keeps its own separate home in the app.
- The bigger change is about usage. ChatGPT and Codex will now draw from a single shared token allowance. OpenAI says most people won’t feel it, but heavy users on pricier models may hit resets more often. A long Codex session could now cut into your chat time.
- A small group of users gets the merged version first for feedback before a wide rollout. Anthropic already folded Claude’s chat and Cowork into a single screen back in September, so OpenAI is catching up here.
If your coding agent and your chatbot drink from the same tank, which one do you let run dry?
This week, check how much of your plan goes to Codex versus chat, and move routine coding jobs to a cheaper model before the shared pool starts cutting into your daytime work.
Claude’s Business Is Growing Insanely Fast
Anthropic just opened its books to Wall Street, and the numbers are huge in both directions.
- An amended filing on Monday showed quarterly revenue up more than 1,100 percent ahead of a listing later this month. Third-quarter revenue hit $17 billion versus $1.4 billion a year earlier. Net loss for the quarter came to $23.3 billion, mostly from non-cash charges tied to its rising valuation.
- The real number to stare at is the spending. Anthropic has committed roughly $895 billion, mostly on compute, much of it over the next five years. It slipped back to an operating loss of $567 million one quarter after posting its first operating profit. Growth has to outrun that bill, every quarter.
- The company plans to list on Nasdaq as “ANT,” likely during Thanksgiving week, ahead of rival OpenAI. It hopes to raise $100 billion, which would top SpaceX’s June debut. Public buyers get shares without much power. The co-founders keep 50.1 percent of voting control through one special share.
Revenue so far this year sits near $33 billion. The compute commitments are about 27 times that.
If Claude sits at the core of your product, build a fallback to a second model provider this week, because a company answering to quarterly earnings will eventually reprice what you depend on.
OpenAI Just Signed 4 Major UAE Deals
Sam Altman flew to Abu Dhabi with a fundraise to close and left with four signed contracts.
- With the crown prince watching, OpenAI signed four agreements with Abu Dhabi entities on Monday. ADNOC becomes the first energy company to deploy OpenAI’s frontier tech, running GPT models on inference hardware inside the UAE. Mubadala will use OpenAI’s models for investment analysis. A separate five-year pact with G42’s Inception42 covers wider adoption across the country.
- Follow the money. OpenAI is chasing a $20 billion round, and UAE investors are expected to co-lead it. Inception42 sits in three of the four deals, which makes G42 the local gatekeeper for nearly everything OpenAI does in the emirate.
- The weirdest piece is the government one. Abu Dhabi is converting policies and regulations into a format AI can read, so routine permit and certificate checks can run through models. The first pilot targets food imports. The stated goal is the world’s first AI-native government.
Sovereign AI now means renting the model and keeping the servers at home.
If you sell AI tools to governments or large enterprises outside the US, add an in-country hosting option to your roadmap this week, because buyers in the Gulf now expect it by default.
OpenAI cut its round by $10 billion, and the whole trade wobbled
The Financial Times reported Friday, picked up by Reuters, that OpenAI has cut the target for its current funding round from about $30 billion to $20 billion, and the valuation it is raising at from $1.4 trillion to $1.25 trillion. OpenAI hasn’t confirmed the figures, so neither number is official. Sort of surprising that OpenAI is finding $30 billion harder to assemble than it expected a month ago in my opinion.
Last week was tough for all tech stocks. TechCrunch tallied the earnings damage: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft have now guided to more than $740 billion of capex this year, and three of the four are burning cash to do it. Alphabet posted negative $9.1 billion of free cash flow in Q3, its second negative quarter running, on $51.4 billion of quarterly capex. Amazon is negative $42.4 billion over twelve months, against positive $14.8 billion a year earlier. Meta is negative $2.1 billion. Microsoft was the exception at positive $18.6 billion, and it got there partly by spending $45.2 billion instead of the $50 billion it had projected, which it blamed on third-party capacity delays. The Alphabet drop we flagged Friday is now being counted as its worst day on record, roughly $500 billion of market value. The Nasdaq fell 2.9% on Friday, with Nvidia down 4%, Broadcom more than 5% and Qualcomm 11%.
Per S&P Global Market Intelligence, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle raised a combined $326 billion of debt in 2026, triple last year, and Bloomberg puts standing AI spending commitments across Big Tech at about $3 trillion. Meanwhile the FT reports that Blackstone, anchor investor in the $63 billion facility financing Anthropic’s chips, has told investors to expect Anthropic to clear only a double-B rating after its IPO, the top rung of speculative grade. Blackstone had previously told them to expect investment grade before 2027.
Obviously the overall demand for AI isn’t weak. Azure grew 48%, AWS grew 39%. OpenAI shaving $10 billion off an ask is the first time that repricing has reached the private frontier labs directly.
We’ll watch whether the round closes at $20 billion or quietly at less.
DeepSeek open-sourced a coding agent that reads your team chat
DeepSeek published dsh-superagent-prototype under an MIT license over the weekend, and it crossed 3,300 stars inside a couple of days. It’s a proactive coding agent scoped to a single GitHub repository. It listens to GitHub and, optionally, Feishu. When someone on the allowlist asks for work, it opens a work item, does the job in its own session and working directory, and answers in the thread the request came from, often with a pull request. A web panel collects the items that need a human.
The host enforces the allowlists and rules, so a message, comment or quoted document cannot widen what the agent may do, which is a direct answer to prompt injection through the chat surface. By default, implicit requests such as unaddressed messages, bot messages and follow-ups from people not on the list are logged as requests the agent would have accepted, and then not accepted. Auto-merge is off under the agent’s own account, on the reasoning that GitHub credits a merge to whoever enabled it.
DeepSeek is sort of being careful about what this is: The README calls it a “Research prototype for reference only, not an official DeepSeek product,” says to “treat it as research code, not production-ready software,” and notes it is not identical to DeepSeek’s internal version or to the system described in its paper Exploring Super-agent Design: Towards a More Autonomous Agent System. No benchmarks are published and the README does not name the model it runs on. Bloomberg and the South China Morning Post both framed it as aimed at Claude Code and Codex.
The release is just a prototype, not quite an official product launch. Read it as a spec being given away. DeepSeek is publishing the orchestration layer, the permission model and the trigger semantics for an agent that starts work on its own, which is the part Anthropic and OpenAI charge for and do not document.