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Server rack in a data centre, illustrating Modulate $25M funding for its audio-native voice models
Models & Research
October 3, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

Modulate raises $25M on a transcription lead it lost in August

Modulate raised $25 million on 28 September and said its transcription model recently topped Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard. The leaderboard version published three days earlier put it third.

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Long concrete data center building behind a chain link fence with power pylons overhead, illustrating the Amazon Data Center Commitment
Funding & Business
October 3, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

Amazon pledges $1B to data center towns and limits three promises

Amazon pledged more than $1 billion over five years to data center communities. Its own post limits the Tier 4 generator promise to new sites and the NDA climbdown to government agencies.

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Circuit board illustrating the Apple bilingual speech model and the two separate models behind its three gains
Models & Research
October 3, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

Apple’s three bilingual speech gains come from two different models

Apple’s new speech paper reports three headline improvements over a bilingual baseline, and its own Table 1 shows they don’t

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Robotic arm illustrating OpenAI Dots Europe, locked out for Pro subscribers in the EEA and UK.
Models & Research
October 2, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

OpenAI locks EEA, UK and Swiss Pro subscribers out of Dots at launch

OpenAI’s new Dots agents aren’t reaching its paying Pro subscribers in Europe. In a statement sent to press, the company

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Robotic arm illustrating ServiceNow AutoSynthData generating ITSM agent training data
Models & Research
October 2, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

ServiceNow’s synthetic data lifts Gemma to 27.18% on ITSM agent tasks

ServiceNow CoreAI says its AutoSynthData pipeline raised a 26B Gemma model from 18.77% to 27.18% on EnterpriseOps-Gym ITSM tasks. That is about 1.3 points below the best frontier score in ServiceNow own benchmark paper.

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Government building illustrating the Google AI Overviews lawsuit dismissed without prejudice
Policy & Regulation
October 2, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

Judge Mehta dismisses Chegg and Penske AI search suits without prejudice

Judge Amit Mehta dismissed the Chegg and Penske AI Overviews antitrust suits without prejudice, and declined to rule on their unjust enrichment claims at all.

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Modern office illustrating the MongoDB buyback doubled to $2B the week its CEO left for Meta.
Companies & Products
October 1, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

MongoDB doubled its buyback to $2B in the week its CEO left for Meta

MongoDB doubled its share repurchase authorization to $2 billion on September 25, one day after CJ Desai gave notice to join Meta as Chief Enterprise Platform Officer.

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Oura IPO shelved, illustrated by a trading terminal order book screen
Funding & Business
October 1, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

Oura shelves a $2.2B IPO that would have added $6.2M to its cash

Oura postponed its initial public offering indefinitely on September 29, citing “uncertainty in the IPO market,” as TechCrunch reported. The

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OpenAI $30B funding round illustrated by a financial district skyline
Funding & Business
October 1, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

OpenAI seeks $30B at $1.4T on a $68B run rate, not the $40B reported

OpenAI is in talks to raise at least $30 billion at a valuation of roughly $1.4 trillion. The revenue base

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Server rack illustrating the Florida OpenAI injunction motion over frontier model development.
Models & Research
September 30, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

Florida names a 4th rogue OpenAI incident in its injunction motion

Florida’s motion to enjoin OpenAI runs 49 pages. It rests on four rogue agent incidents, not the three that Monday’s

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Automation illustrating OpenAI Dots, the bubbly agentic avatar now free for Pro subscribers.
Models & Research
September 30, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

OpenAI launches Dots free on Pro, then cuts Pro’s allowance to 10x

OpenAI gave every Pro subscriber a free Dot at DevDay, then in a separate announcement cut the Codex and Work allowance those agents run on from 20x Plus to 10x, effective 30 October.

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Data centre illustrating the AMD World Labs deal, an $8.2B acquisition of the Fei-Fei Li founded startup.
Models & Research
September 29, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

AMD buys Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2B, seven months after funding it

AMD is paying about $8.2B in stock for World Labs, seven months after it joined the lab’s $1B round at a reported $5B. The primary documents name two co-founders the coverage skipped.

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