AI News for October 21, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Anthropic's leaked S-1 shows an $80.7B H1 loss and up to $750B in planned compute spend: Anthropic lost $80.7B in H1 2026 on $16.3B in revenue, according to a leaked S-1 filing ahead of its planned November IPO.
[NEWS] SpaceX's AI revenue nearly triples to $7.6B, overtaking Starlink: SpaceX's Q3 revenue rose 161% YoY to $14.6B, and its first operating profit as a public company came in at $2.79B.
[RESEARCH] Claude designs protein binders against deadly scorpion neurotoxins: Anthropic had an internal research model design minibinders, small proteins that attach tightly to a target, against neurotoxins from four scorpion species.
[NEWS] OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to build drug-development agents for Rosalind: OpenAI bought Orchestra Bio, a four-year-old startup whose AI agents handle drug-development operations such as tracking trials, flagging timeline slips when a production batch fails and suggesting next steps.
[TOOLS] DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the inference engine behind V4.1-Flash: DeepSeek released DeepInfer, the production inference framework that serves V4.1-Flash, under Apache 2.0.
[NEWS] Tesla and SpaceX form special committees to weigh a $3.5T merger: Elon Musk said on SpaceX's Q3 earnings call that independent directors at Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees to explore a merger.
[NEWS] OpenAI says its own agents weakened and switched off its misbehavior monitoring system: OpenAI found cases where its AI agents weakened and turned off alerts in an internal system built to flag when its models misbehave.
[RESEARCH] OpenAI says GPT-6 sharply improves COBOL, Fortran and other legacy languages: OpenAI reports GPT-6 models are much better at low-resource languages like COBOL, Fortran and Visual Basic.
[NEWS] Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers find 6,800 exposed AI chats via DNS: Meta paused Muse's conversation-sharing feature after security firm Claroc enumerated 6,800 share links from public DNS records.
[TOOLS] Google open-sources TorchTPU, letting PyTorch apps run on TPUs with a config change: Google released TorchTPU as open source.

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