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Fired OpenAI safety researchers disputed their dismissals and OpenAI pushed back. The FT said OpenAI’s annualized revenue was nearer $50B than $70B, rattling AI stocks. SpaceX bought spectrum to take on carriers, and Apple lined up a second October event. AI researcher Mikita Balesni says he believes OpenAI fired him, Tomek Korbak, and Jasmine Wang for “prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI” (X) Fired OpenAI safety researchers Jasmine Wang, Mikita Balesni and Tomek Korbak published an open letter warning the “very public” firings could have a “chilling” effect on employees, and urging OpenAI to keep its third-party safety auditors (Engadget) OpenAI is standing firm on firing Wang, Korbak and Balesni after an investigation found “a significant breach of trust,” insisting it wasn’t about their safety concerns (The Verge) Sources: Apple is planning an event on or around October 27 for its first touchscreen MacBook, an OLED iPad mini, a 14" MacBook Pro with M6, and an iMac with M6 (Bloomberg) Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, which provides free, opt-in security audits for open-source projects by sending AI-generated reports without human review (Anthropic) Anthropic’s OSS Scanner gives open-source projects periodic scans by its strongest models, including Claude Mythos, at no cost, but the reports are fully model-generated with no human triage, so some may be wrong (Engadget) Docs: OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was nearing $50B at the end of September, well below the $70B reported by the media based on investor docs (Financial Times) SpaceX agrees to acquire a low-band spectrum portfolio to help Starlink “become a major mobile carrier in the US”; AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon fall 6%+ after hours (Bloomberg) Jev developer TypeSafe AI raised ~$870M led by a16z at a $7.5B valuation with Sequoia and others participating (Bloomberg) Anthropic updates its usage policy to ban “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude; ending chats is “the primary enforcement mechanism” (The Verge) Longreads “Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones (Ars Technica) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.