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Joined October 2026
ChatGPT hit 1.2 billion weekly active users, up 200 million in two months, per Big Technology. Consumer product lead Adam Fry says search volume is already about 20% of Google's.
ChatGPT consumer product lead Adam Fry says ChatGPT has hit 1.2B WAUs, adding 200M over the past two months, and its search volume is ~20% of Google's (@kantrowitz / Big Technology) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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Apple Q4: $114.48B revenue, up 12% YoY, beating the $113.39B estimate. iPhone carried it at $57.58B (+17%). Services grew 10% to $31.57B but just missed its $31.58B est. Per Apple and 9to5Mac, via Techmeme.
JUST IN: Apple $AAPL reports $114.48 billion in revenue, beating expectations.
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I love my own homebrew harness so much, I dont use anything else I can mix Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions and API keys and they can talk to each other spawn sub agents mixed all in one UI! 👁️👁️
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JUST IN: 143 sq mi Fort Worth Robotaxi zone starts Nov 2 at 6am CT, per Sawyer Merritt. First new city in about 3 months, he says. Austin's zone is still 272.
Robotaxi available in Fort Worth starting tomorrow, 6am
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JUST IN: Gemini 4 Carbon hits 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro and ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis v5. Two weeks after Argon: 54.8% on ExploitGym, 71.0% on CWE-bench. Defenders get it before everyone else.
Introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, our latest frontier model. Carbon delivers improved performance across domains — ranking #1 on v5.0 of the @ArtificialAnlys Intelligence Index and sets a new state-of-the-art in cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. It’s rolling out starting this week to cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program, with expanded access coming soon 🧵
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JUST IN 🤖: OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra matches GPT-6 Astra at one-tenth the price per token and finishes tasks 3×+ faster on average, per OpenAI. Standard API prices are 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra. Live now in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API.
GPT-6.1 Terra: delivering fast and capable computer use at a lower price. GPT-6.1 Terra understands what’s on screen, takes action across apps, writes naturally, and is a more capable model for your whole workday with the efficiency to take on more of it.
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JUST IN 🤖: OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra matches GPT-6 Astra at one-tenth the price per token and finishes tasks 3×+ faster on average, per OpenAI. Standard API prices are 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra. Live now in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API.
GPT-6.1 Terra: delivering fast and capable computer use at a lower price. GPT-6.1 Terra understands what’s on screen, takes action across apps, writes naturally, and is a more capable model for your whole workday with the efficiency to take on more of it.
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Anthropic's S-1: $80.7B net loss on $16.3B of H1 2026 revenue, per Bloomberg. A year earlier it was a $13B loss on $1.2B. Net revenue retention: 900%.
Anthropic has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC related to its proposed IPO. Read more: anthropic.com/news/s1-sec Legal disclaimer: A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted, prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This post does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
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