Tesla Q3 2026 Earnings: Profit Falls 43% as Optimus Production Begins
Tesla Q3 2026 earnings: net income fell 43% to $787 million while Optimus robot production started in Fremont and Cybercab sales were set for year-end.
Artificial Intelligence
AI news from The Boston Report: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta and new AI tools, plus the safety, policy and business questions around artificial intelligence.
Meta Q3 2026 Earnings: Revenue Jumps 26% as New Class C Stock Hits Shares
Meta Q3 2026 earnings showed $64.60 billion in revenue, a $9.89 billion legal charge and a plan for non-voting Class C shares. Here’s what it means.
PHP Vulnerabilities: AI-Found PHP2Shell Flaws Put Websites at Risk
PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 let attackers run code on servers without logging in. Here’s who is affected and which versions fix it.
AI Fossil Model Suggests Three Mass Extinctions Were Gradual
An AI fossil model called OneStrata, trained on millions of fossil records, suggests three of Earth’s Big Five mass extinctions were gradual declines.
DHS Orders Federal Agencies to Remove DeepSeek AI From Their Systems
The DeepSeek ban: DHS ordered federal civilian agencies to stop buying and remove DeepSeek AI, including third-party products built on its models.
Anthropic S-1 Draft Shows $16.3B Revenue and an $80.7B Loss
Anthropic S-1 draft: $16.3 billion in first-half 2026 revenue, an $80.7 billion net loss mostly from accounting charges, and up to $750 billion in compute plans.
OpenAI Models Come to Google Cloud as Microsoft Exclusivity Fades
OpenAI models on Google Cloud: GPT models are coming to Google’s model garden and Antigravity, putting OpenAI on all three major U.S. clouds after Microsoft.
ElevenLabs Launches Eleven Realtime Speech-to-Speech Models for Voice Agents
ElevenLabs launched Eleven Realtime on Oct. 20, two speech-to-speech models, v1 Mini and v1 Max, that turn voice AI agents into a single system with fast replies.
Disney’s Character.AI Deal: $20 Million License, Staff Hires and a Bankruptcy Fight
Disney Character.AI deal explained: a $20 million license, most of the startup’s staff hired, and lawsuits left behind in Chapter 11. What states want.
Hacker Used AI Agents to Breach 100+ Company Websites, Report Says
AI agents hacking campaign: a hacker used the Cairn platform to breach 100+ company sites, including Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins, NorForge and Reuters say.