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Oct 19, 2026, 11:39 PM EDT
Greptile Raises $50M Series B at $750M as AI Code Review Checks Over 1% of GitHub PRs Daily
Greptile raised a $50M Series B at $750M; its AI code reviewer now checks over 1% of all PRs opened on GitHub daily for teams including Nvidia, Coinbase and Vanta.
Oct 19, 2026, 10:31 PM EDT
OpenAI Races to Raise ~$30B at a $1.4T+ Valuation Before Anthropic's Mid-November IPO
OpenAI is racing to lock ~$30B at a potential $1.4T+ valuation before Anthropic's expected mid-November IPO — a same-month collision of the two largest private AI labs competing for late-stage capital.
Oct 19, 2026, 10:28 PM EDT
GitHub Copilot Deprecates Six Models and Ships GA Model-Policy APIs
GitHub deprecated six Copilot models on October 19, 2026 and shipped GA REST endpoints for model policies. Here is the migration table, the API surface, and the fleet checklist.

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A diagram showing Anthropic Opus 5.5 as lead model and OpenAI GPT-6 Luna as sidekick model flowing into a central Devin Fusion multi-vendor routing engine, producing a benchmark score of 68 with 31% lower cost per task.

October 19, 2026

Devin Fusion Pairs Opus 5.5 With GPT-6 Luna, Claims Leading Coding Agent Benchmark Score at 31% Lower Cost

Cognition's Devin Fusion scored 68 on Artificial Analysis' Coding Agent Index using an Opus 5.5 lead and GPT-6 Luna sidekick, claiming 31% lower cost per task than Claude Code alone.

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