As Rivals Retreat, Oscar Health Plans To Expand Obamacare For 2027

Oscar Health plans to expand its individual health insurance coverage offerings into one new state and 140 new counties next year even as rivals exit the market.

OpenAI reportedly races to close $30bn round before Anthropic’s IPO
OpenAI reportedly races to close $30bn round before Anthropic’s IPO

OpenAI is trying to speed up a funding round of about $30bn to secure investor commitments before Anthropic lists its shares in mid-November. The round could value the ChatGPT maker at more than $ 1.4 trillion. Reuters reported the plan on Monday, citi…

Micron workers in Taiwan to strike as bonus talks with chipmaker fail
Micron workers in Taiwan to strike as bonus talks with chipmaker fail

Micron workers in Taoyuan, Taiwan, are set to go on strike on Thursday, 22 October, after months of failed negotiations over how the US chipmaker shares its profits with employees. The union announced the planned walkout on Monday, Reuters reported. It…

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about 1% of Anthropic ahead of its IPO
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about 1% of Anthropic ahead of its IPO

Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO, owns about 1% of Anthropic, according to Bloomberg. If the AI company goes public at the valuations now being discussed, the stake could be worth billions of dollars. Schmidt invested tens of millions of dollars in An…

NYT Pips Answers And Walkthrough For Tuesday, October 20

Looking for help with today’s New York Times Pips? We’ll walk you through today’s puzzle and help you match dominoes to tiles.

Disney Hired Bankrupt Character.ai Engineers, Not Its Characters

Disney is bidding $20 million for Character.ai technology after hiring its engineers. The bankruptcy leaves 12 million users and the platform behind.

CoreWeave’s debt is becoming the whole AI industry’s problem
CoreWeave’s debt is becoming the whole AI industry’s problem

CoreWeave had a bad week last week. Its bonds slipped into distressed territory by a common definition – when investors demand 1,000 basis points more in yield than they’d get from government bonds. Last Tuesady Chamath “SPAC King” Palihapitiya noticed the distressed debt, and also asked whether the AI buildout was a private credit bubble. […]

OpenAI Engineer Accused of Spying on Executives Ordered to Remain in Custody

A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”

Robot Brains For 75 Cents/Hour? Former Nvidia Researchers Raise $90 Million

Want to make your dumb robot smart? $3 an hour is all it costs. Or 75 cents, if you’re okay with a slightly less capable physical AI model.

Cognizant puts 18,000 staff behind Google’s Gemini in AI agent push
Cognizant puts 18,000 staff behind Google’s Gemini in AI agent push

Cognizant and Google Cloud have formed a Gemini Frontier Capability Group, with more than 18,000 Cognizant staff dedicated to building AI agents for clients on Google’s Gemini. It will focus on updating old systems, developer tools, business process au…