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Copilot daily users grew nearly 50% last quarter and five times in a year, Nadella says. Microsoft gave no new count of paying users.

OpenAI will point its robotics programme at data centres, Sam Altman told Cheeky Pint, setting out his idea of self-replicating data centres.

Anthropic is the unnamed "Customer B" behind 34.5% of SpaceX's Q3 revenue, Bloomberg reports, overtaking the US government, but it can exit from 2027.

Intel forecast Q4 sales of $15B to $16B, short of the $17B analysts expected, as a memory shortage hits PC demand. Its shares fell more than 20% late on.

Eight states join the Toast FTC lawsuit over hidden fees, a $0.99 charge on diners and cancellation hurdles. Toast says it will fight in court.

Serval Series C: Jake Stauch calls Serval ‘a true alternative replacement for platforms like ServiceNow’ as Sequoia leads $150m at $3bn.

Amii will help 25 more small firms in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba build AI tools, backed by C$2.5M more from PrairiesCan, for a C$5.6M total.

The Deepgram Daily acquisition keeps Pipecat open source under an independent foundation whose steering committee includes Deepgram’s rivals.

Aircall CEO Olivier Pailhès returns to the company he co-founded, now at $250m in recurring revenue and selling AI voice agents to 24,000 customers.

OpenAI's updated Model Spec builds its AI's behaviour around five values, drops most style rules and calls the model GPT, not "the assistant".

CEO June Paik says ‘we see strong demand and opportunities’ as $620m values the Nvidia challenger at $2.9bn.

Marvell Lumentum deal ‘makes strategic sense given the highly complementary product portfolios,’ RBC says, as talks near a deal.

The Toronto AI company targets C$7bn at a C$35.7bn valuation, with Canada, Nvidia and Schwarz Group among its backers.

Baseten's open-weights joey-1 is a 2B model that picks answers instead of writing text, costing $0.01 per million tokens with 20ms response times.

OpenAI revenue hit $10bn for Microsoft. Nadella says relying on a few big buyers is ‘not a business as far as I’m concerned’.