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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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Diagram of Beam's mixture-of-experts design: a 16 by 16 grid of 256 expert squares with eight highlighted in indigo, beside notes that every expert stays in memory while each token computes with only eight, plus four deployment chips for Ollama Cloud, SageMaker JumpStart, vLLM and SGLang, and Inference Providers.

October 16, 2026

Reflection AI Ships Beam 1.0: A 501B-Parameter Open-Weight Model for Coding Agents

Reflection AI's first model is a 501B-parameter, 23B-active Apache 2.0 MoE with a 1M-token context, built for coding agents. What shipped, what it takes to host, and the four fastest ways to run it today.

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