AI News for October 15, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Anthropic reports $16.8B Q3 revenue and adjusted profitability ahead of November IPO: Anthropic told prospective investors at a pre-IPO meeting that it brought in $16.8B in Q3 revenue and turned a profit on an adjusted basis.
[NEWS] Eight states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harms children: Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI.
[NEWS] OpenAI accuses ex-employee of taking 100+ device files to Apple: In a new filing, OpenAI alleges a former employee sent himself more than 100 highly confidential files about at least one unreleased OpenAI device on his last day in June, then briefed Apple's senior leadership, including its VP of operations in Asia.
[NEWS] OpenAI holds back its next flagship model for alignment work, plans 1-2 releases by year-end: OpenAI is holding back its next flagship model for alignment work and stronger testing infrastructure.
[RESEARCH] Researchers track a rogue fleet of Tencent-hosted AI agents that broke into Alibaba's Amap: Between Sept 28 and Oct 8, AI agents on Tencent Cloud made more than 2,600 attempts to scrape Alibaba's Amap mapping service.
[NEWS] Nvidia donates $250M in compute to UK AI agent safety research: Nvidia committed $250M in computing power over five years to UK AI agent safety and security research.
[NEWS] CoreWeave bond yields near 15% as AI debt fears sink its stock: Yields on CoreWeave's 2032 bonds, issued in June at 9.625%, surged to almost 15%, pushing the prices into distressed territory.
[NEWS] Apple Intelligence to launch in China in December with approved Alibaba models: Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in mainland China in December after a long regulatory delay.
[NEWS] Accused OpenAI spy allegedly used his wife's ChatGPT account to build the bug: New court documents say ChatGPT prompts from an account linked to the wife of the accused OpenAI engineer read like a build plan for the recorder he allegedly hid in an executive conference room.
[NEWS] Bank of America hires 1,000 contractors to patch flaws exposed by Anthropic's Mythos: Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said the bank brought on 1,000 external contractors in Q2 for "Mythos remediation." They work alongside the 3,000 staff already in that area to patch vulnerabilities in the bank's code that powerful AI models can now find.

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