UPDATED 11:35 EDT / OCTOBER 03 2025

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OpenAI battles Anthropic for model supremacy, AI chips stay hot, and California passes landmark AI safety bill

It’s funny how many tech leaders want government to get out of their way, until, oh right, they need government services to keep things running smoothly. The government shutdown could have big impacts throughout tech, from cybersecurity to artificial intelligence.

Anthropic and OpenAI continue to battle tooth and nail with new AI models. Ain’t competition great! Anthropic claims Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the fastest coding model, but OpenAI’s Sora 2 video model has some issues: NSFW and copyrighted images. Do they really think it’s OK just to rip off copyright holders? Move fast and break things went out a decade ago, guys, and AI’s hotness seems unlikely to save you from successful lawsuits.

Meantime, Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines debuted its first product, a model fine-tuning service called Tinker.

UiPath is betting big on agents, hoping to provide a stable path for its enterprise customer base to move quickly into agentic AI.

Google introduced a raft of new devices featuring a Gemini chatbot that is getting good reviews, as Amazon also debuted new Echo and other devices with Alexa+.

Microsoft is pitching “vibe working,” which hopefully won’t mean more workslop, but if I can make spreadsheets and PowerPoints more easily, I’m game.

Infrastructure remains a hot investment area, as Cerebras raised $1.1 billion, Meta spent $14.2 billion on CoreWeave infra and reportedly is buying chipmaker Rivos, and AI cloud provider Nscale raised an additional $433 million on top of the $1.1 billion it raised the previous week.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shuffled executive row so he can focus more on AI, but he’s not going anywhere — move along, no succession plan to see here, the company says.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a potentially influential AI safety law.

Venture capital fundraising remains in a slump, though a little less so thanks to massive AI investments. But elsewhere on the finance front, get a load of that Electronics Arts deal, at $55 billion the largest private-equity buyout ever. And more IPOs are coming, such as German AI translation software provider DeepL.

Event season will shift into overdrive in mid-October with conferences by Oracle, Salesforce and the Open Compute Project.

Here’s all the news and analysis in enterprise and emerging tech news this week from SiliconANGLE and beyond:

AI and data: OpenAI vs. Anthropic

Food for thought

Anthropic, surveillance and the next frontier of AI privacy

The risks of random acts of automation in today’s workplace and the dangers of removing humans from it

Why your agentic AI strategy is backwards (and how to fix it)

AI skeptic Ed Zitron has another opus worth reading, even if you’re not an AI doomer: The case against generative AI

The numbers may not add up either, and then? This is how the AI bubble will pop Even Amazon’s Jeff Bezos says AI, for all its real promise, could be a bubble.

Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs: TL;DR: Not much yet.

Policy

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs landmark AI safety bill into law

Money matters

AI delivers record share of venture deal value in third quarter as fundraising slump continues

OpenAI insiders reportedly sold $6.6B worth of shares at a $500B valuation

AI translation startup DeepL reportedly weighing $5B IPO

Harness acquires Qwiet AI to bring vulnerability detection into DevOps workflows

Report: Fivetran in talks with dbt Labs over multibillion-dollar big-data merger

Periodic Labs raises $300M to accelerate scientific research with AI

Vercel grabs $300M in late-stage funding to fuel its AI pivot

Marissa Mayer is dissolving her Sunshine Startup Lab, selling assets to Dazzle, a new AI firm she founded (per Wired)

Eve raises $103M to make law firms more efficient with AI

PostgreSQL database specialist Supabase snags $100M in funding

AI startup DualEntry aims to rip out legacy ERP software after raising $90M in funding

Vibe-coding startup Anything nabs a $100M valuation after hitting $2M ARR in its first two weeks (per TechCrunch)

Databricks acquires Mooncake, an early-stage startup focused on bridging PostgreSQL with lakehouse formats, for an undisclosed sum

Assort Health raises $76M to deliver AI agents for healthcare

AI startup Axiom gets $64M to develop new knowledge with advanced mathematics

Mondoo raises $17.5M to fix software vulnerabilities with AI agents

AI communications compliance startup Umony lands $15M in early funding

Datawizz raises $12.5M to cut AI costs by routing smaller, smarter models

Lunos AI launches with $5M to automate accounts receivable using AI agents

New models and services

Anthropic sets AI coding record with new flagship Claude Sonnet 4.5 model

OpenAI introduces new Sora 2 video generator and Sora social app

OpenAI adds Instant Checkout shopping feature to ChatGPT

Coverage from UiPath Forward:

UiPath expands agentic platform with orchestration, development and governance tools

AI orchestration is where pilots meet production, says UiPath CEO

AI inference boom sparks wave of global data center expansion

Analysis of the UiPath Forward keynote from theCUBE Research: Automation foundation is key to turning AI pilots into ROI: UiPath Fusion insights from theCUBE

IBM releases Granite 4 series of Mamba-Transformer language models

Thinking Machines launches Tinker language model fine-tuning service

Meta will start mining AI chatbot conversations to target users with ads and content

Google debuts Gemini for Home and new smart home devices

Snowflake’s first industry-specific AI suite targets financial services

Microsoft wants everyone to start ‘vibe working’ with AI agents in Excel and Word

Cisco positions itself for the next era of AI at WebexOne

Salesforce launches new AI data governance features, Agentforce Vibes coding tool

Neo4j Launches agent builder, MCP server and startup program backed by $100M investment

EigenCloud launches platform for ‘verifiable’ AI infrastructure

NBA and AWS partner to enhance fan experiences with AI

Slack expands AI developer tools to support context-aware apps and agents

ServiceNow’s new AI Experience puts agentic automation at the fingertips of every office worker

IndagoAI launches tools that measure the reliability of AI-generated research

Dataminr expands Intel Agents to bring agentic AI into the physical world

HPE tees up the technology for the first AI-enabled Ryder Cup

Shortcut debuts Korey, bringing AI orchestration to product management

Stravito gets conversational with AI Personas that surface richer insights from market research

Alation launches Agent Builder to bring enterprise-grade AI agents to structured data

OutSystems brings Agent Workbench to general availability for intelligent agent development

Walmart bets on AI agents to rewire developer workflows

Bonterra Que brings agentic AI to nonprofits for smarter fundraising and grant management

There’s even more AI and big data news on SiliconANGLE

Around the enterprise: Hot chips

Money matters

Meta strikes expanded $14.2B AI infrastructure deal with CoreWeave

Cerebras secures $1.1B at $8.1B valuation to fuel US AI infrastructure leadership … so…

Wafer-scale chip startup Cerebras withdraws IPO filing after $1.1B round

AI cloud provider Nscale raises $433M more less than week after $1.1M round

Meta reportedly acquires startup Rivos to accelerate work on its in-house AI chips

Report: Intel holds talks with AMD about manufacturing its chips

Marigold sells enterprise business to Zeta Global in deal worth up to $325M

South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions raises $250M from Arm and Samsung Ventures

Modal Labs raises $80M to simplify cloud AI infrastructure with programmable building blocks

Alvys gets $40M in funding to reinvent transportation management with AI automation

Progress Software earnings beat by 20 cents, revenue topped estimates

Advice

How infrastructure and IT operations leaders can develop a strategy for success in 2026

We have lots more news on cloud, infrastructure and apps

Cyber beat: Botnets get smarter

Attack & response

Botnets are getting smarter and more dangerous

‘Gemini Trifecta’ vulnerabilities in Google AI highlight risks of indirect prompt injection

Clop-linked hackers claim Oracle E-Business Suite data theft in high-stakes extortion push

New services

Databricks launches Data Intelligence for Cybersecurity to unify security data and fight AI-driven threats

Microsoft expands Sentinel and Copilot to secure AI-driven enterprises

SailPoint rolls out broad platform and cloud enhancements at Navigate 2025

Andesite aims to counter AI-driven threats with human-centered security

Permiso expands identity security platform to cover AI users, builders and agents

Fortanix and BigID team up to automate discovery and protection of sensitive data

Cato Browser Extension brings enterprise-grade security to personal endpoints

Exabeam Nova update lets SOC teams measure security maturity against industry peers

Corsha advances machine identity security with new automation and visibility capabilities

Permiso launches open-source P0LR Espresso to normalize cloud logs for faster threat response

Money matters

Feedzai raises $75M at $2B valuation, secures key role in digital euro fraud prevention

Dash0 lands $35M to expand AI-native observability platform in US and Europe

Oneleet raises $33 million to deliver compliance through security

More cybersecurity news here

Elsewhere in tech: Electronic Arts’ record buyout

Video game maker Electronic Arts to go private in record $55B deal

Nothing like a little extortion to pay for your White House ballroom: YouTube to pay $24.5M to settle lawsuit brought by Trump

Commcrete gets $29M to miniaturize satellite communications for military and emergency response teams

And check out more news on emerging tech, blockchain and crypto and policy

Comings and goings

Satya Nadella reshuffles Microsoft‘s executive team so he has more time to focus on AI

Anthropic has a new chief technical officer, former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil, succeeding co-founder Sam McCandlish, who will move to a new role as chief architect (per TechCrunch).

Anthropic also hired Chris Ciauri, former CEO of Unily and former Google Cloud president of EMEA, its new managing director of international (per CRN).

Perplexity acquired the team behind Sequioa-backed AI design startup Visual Electric (per TechCrunch)

AI-powered sales enablement company Seismic hired former Oracle and Adobe exec Rob Tarkoff as CEO, succeeding co-founder Doug Winter.

Network digital twin firm Forward Networks appointed former Cisco, ThousandEyes and Splunk exec Sanjay Mehta CMO

What’s next

Events… looking ahead

Oct. 13-16: Oracle AI World, Las Vegas. SiliconANGLE will have all the news.

Oct. 13-16: OCP Global Summit, San Jose, California. SiliconANGLE will be there with the news.

Oct. 14-16: Salesforce Dreamforce, San Francisco: SiliconANGLE and theCUBE will both be onsite with news, analysis and interviews.

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