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Anthropic posts $16.8B ahead of its IPO, Meta opens Muse Spark, the FTC subpoenas AI labs, and Tesla's Roadster finally appears

The money and the scrutiny around AI both grew this week: Anthropic told investors its quarterly revenue hit $16.8 billion, while the FTC and eight states moved against the biggest labs. Beyond that, Meta released an 816-billion-parameter open model, Microsoft fixed a record 1,400-plus flaws, Character.AI filed for bankruptcy and Tesla showed a Roadster you can reserve but not yet price.

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  1. Anthropic Q3 revenue hits $16.8B ahead of its IPO

    Revenue was about 45% above the second quarter, with an adjusted profit, as Anthropic prepares a listing at a valuation of up to $2 trillion.

  2. Meta Muse Spark Open ships 816B open weights

    The model has 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context window, and it is on Hugging Face and three cloud platforms.

  3. FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic as 8 states sue OpenAI

    On October 14 the FTC sent both labs demands of more than 50 pages on AI safety incidents. The same day, eight states sued OpenAI over ChatGPT and children.

  4. Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday fixes a record 1,400+ flaws

    One Windows Shell bug is already exploited, and two more were public before the fix.

  5. Torvalds uses Claude Code to rework the Linux page cache

    Linus Torvalds posted eight kernel patches made with Claude Code. On his laptop, small 8-thread reads used about 4x fewer CPU cycles each.

  6. Character.AI files for bankruptcy, Disney bids $20 million

    The chatbot company filed for Chapter 11 on October 12 and plans to sell its assets by early December.

  7. Tesla Roadster unveiled with thrusters, due in 2028

    Three versions, 0-60 mph claims under 1.6 seconds and a $50,000 reservation, but no price yet.

  8. Gemini 4 Argon is now generally available at $2/$10

    Google's model costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 output, a price that doubles on December 1.

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