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OpenAI's LifeVal benchmark tests AI systems on 169 practical tasks, but its selected scores and survey methodology have unresolved limits.

AMD reported record third-quarter revenue of $13.4 billion, including $8.5 billion from Data Center, and forecast about $17 billion for the fourth quarter.

Meta has filed for five series of dollar-denominated senior notes, but the preliminary prospectus leaves the deal’s size and final terms open.

MIT CSAIL researchers report that GPT-6 Astra directly changed a small share of Qwen3.5-0.8B's parameters and sharply reduced a looping failure. The benchmark gains mainly came from helping the model finish answers, not from adding new mathematical ability.

Salesforce agreed to acquire Cresta, a deal that would bring voice agents, real-time guidance for contact-center representatives and conversation intelligence to Service Cloud. The transaction is expected to close in Salesforce's fiscal 2028 first quarter, subject to conditions.

OpenAI has appointed former US Army secretary Dan Driscoll to a newly created role advising its leaders and outside partners on national-security modernization.

Anthropic has named eight intermediaries expected to take part in a proposed Australian retail share offer. The prospectus has not been lodged and applications are not open.

Oracle filed a preliminary prospectus for a $10 billion common-stock offering and disclosed a concurrent $10 billion senior-notes offering, putting its October 28 financing plan into motion. Neither proposed offering had been shown to have closed.