https://aisignal.studio/ A magazine and a live model of estimated global AI activity. en-us Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://aisignal.studio/desk https://aisignal.studio/desk#2026-10-09 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Eleven firms pledged $2.4 billion in Genesis Mission compute credits. Nvidia’s share is $1 billion over five years. OpenAI’s September annualized revenue was near $50 billion, not the $70 billion figure previously signaled. Labor halted Microsoft’s green-card filings. Huang, Musk, Brin, and Su received science medals. No new model order. Opus 5.5 still leads the board at 58. Modeled census unchanged. https://aisignal.studio/desk https://aisignal.studio/desk#2026-10-08 Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Anthropic shipped Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.50 per million output tokens on short prompts. GPT-6 Sol is in paid Chat; Free and Go start on Luna. Microsoft made agent execution containers generally available, with Nvidia on stage. Energy and NIH joined Biohub’s $1.8 billion open biology-data push. No new White House order. Opus 5.5 still leads the board at 58. Modeled census unchanged. https://aisignal.studio/desk https://aisignal.studio/desk#2026-10-07 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT OpenAI published 722 math manuscripts from an unreleased internal model. Mistral Large 4 is in public preview; weights are not out. SpaceX says Grok Bot will call other labs’ models, including Claude Opus 5.5. Common Sense Media rated ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk. No new White House order. Nvidia closed at $239.17. Opus 5.5 still leads the board at 58. Modeled census unchanged. https://aisignal.studio/desk https://aisignal.studio/desk#2026-10-06 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta testified under oath at the New York City Council. The shut-down draft is not law. OpenAI will watermark eligible EU text. Nvidia closed at a record $238.90, short of $6 trillion. No new White House order. Frontier indexes held; printed speeds moved. Modeled census unchanged. https://aisignal.studio/desk https://aisignal.studio/desk#2026-10-05 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Trump names a Super Intelligence Force on Truth Social. Altman says AI benefits justify accepting some bad outcomes. Foxconn’s third-quarter revenue rose 47% on AI demand. Goldman’s data-center note moves 2026 year-end to 64 gigawatts. Meloni files to trademark her voice. Frontier indexes held; printed speeds moved. Modeled census unchanged. https://aisignal.studio/desk https://aisignal.studio/desk#2026-10-04 Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT David Robinson says he quit OpenAI and that trial-and-error deployment is over. The Tuesday lab accord still has no penalty. PwC projects data-center spending could top $30 trillion by 2050. NVIDIA’s 64GB DGX Spark is still a 23 October date. Modeled census unchanged. https://aisignal.studio/desk https://aisignal.studio/desk#2026-10-03 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT NVIDIA sets a 64GB DGX Spark for 23 October from $4,999. Anthropic’s IPO prospectus, as seen by Reuters, warns government attitudes can hit customers. The 8th Circuit pauses Minnesota’s AI fake-nude ban while xAI appeals. Apple says Mac will flag full-disk AI requests. A Clayton AI-adviser appointment is reported, not announced. Modeled census unchanged. https://aisignal.studio/desk https://aisignal.studio/desk#2026-10-02 Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT DOJ discloses an arrest over $300 million in export-controlled GPU servers. NVIDIA says Astra Ultrafast on Blackwell can be up to 8x faster. Reuters reports Amazon is seeking to park about $8 billion of Nvidia chips in an investor vehicle. California AG served an investigative subpoena on OpenAI. Modeled census unchanged. https://aisignal.studio/desk https://aisignal.studio/desk#2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Google discloses Gemini 4 Argon for trusted testers. OpenAI and Synopsys disclose GPT-Synopsys. OpenAI says it disrupted a reasoning-extraction campaign and ties a core cluster to Moonshot. FTC probe of OpenAI and Anthropic reported. White House Super Intelligence order stands. Modeled census unchanged. https://aisignal.studio/desk https://aisignal.studio/desk#2026-09-30 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT OpenAI ships Dots on GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth Astra prices; ChatGPT 1.2B weekly users and Pro 500 Ultrafast; Astra 6.1 still cancelled; NVIDIA safety platform and $150B buyback current; modeled census unchanged. https://aisignal.studio/magazine/the-token-flood https://aisignal.studio/magazine/the-token-flood Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Modeled at three hundred and eighty trillion tokens a day. 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