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GPT-6.1 Terra halves OpenAI API prices; SpaceX locks in a $40B GPU lease — 2026-10-27 00:00

OpenAI's half-price GPT-6.1 Terra, SpaceX's $40B Apollo GPU lease, Meta's $95bn raise, Microsoft's 60,000 buyouts, and Toyota's humanoid robot bet.

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1. OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra halves API prices and closes on its bigger models — Terra is priced at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.05 per million; for comparison the article lists GPT-5.6 Terra at $2 and $12. Artificial Analysis reports a 6-point gain on its Intelligence Index at maximum reasoning effort while costing $0.40 per task versus $1.40, a guessing rate of 38% when the model lacks an answer (down from 88%), and 50.3% solved on Terminal-Bench 4.0 versus 21.5% for its predecessor. The Decoder · Oct 26
2. SpaceX locks in ~$40B GPU financing deal with Apollo — A regulatory filing discloses a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion of AI chips and related data center equipment: an Apollo-managed entity buys the hardware and leases it to SpaceX for about five to five-and-a-quarter years per tranche, with closing expected by year-end and leases starting in the first half of 2027. Apollo said the deal delivers Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips for SpaceX's "terrestrial compute buildout"; SpaceX's AI segment brought in $7.6 billion of its $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue. TechCrunch · Oct 26
3. Meta plans $95bn fundraising to cover its AI expansion — The raise comes in two parts: $35bn through underwritten public offerings, with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom named as interested cornerstone investors who could buy up to $5bn, plus a $60bn at-the-market offering of new non-voting class C stock that leaves Zuckerberg's control intact. Meta said the money supports "continued investment in AI infrastructure and personal superintelligence". The Guardian · Oct 26
4. Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees — Xbox, Windows and Copilot are among the divisions participating, while cybersecurity, data centers and marketing are not eligible, according to Bloomberg. Microsoft's global workforce is about 223,000 and it offered voluntary retirement to roughly 7% of a ~125,000-strong US workforce in April. Chief people officer Amy Coleman framed the offer as "a new choice" for employees considering a future outside the company. The Guardian · Oct 26
5. Toyota bets $6.4 billion a year on humanoid robots — The world's largest automaker plans to deploy 400,000 robots under the annual investment plan, the Financial Times reports, starting in its own factories because the environment is easier to control. Its AI robotics spinout Walden Robotics went public in July at a $1.1 billion valuation with $300 million in funding, and Goldman Sachs analysts estimate Toyota could take three to eight percent of the humanoid robot market by 2035 against Tesla, Xpeng and Hyundai. The Decoder · Oct 26
6. Bedrock Robotics raises $600M for self-driving excavators at a $4.1B valuation — The Series C, co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital, lands two years after founding and two months after the company moved its retrofittable autonomous-driving kits from pilots onto active job sites, including a Nevada water treatment facility, a Texas earthwork site and a 1.2-million-cubic-yard project with Zachry. Bedrock has raised nearly $1 billion since 2024, and cites a labour gap: it says excavator mastery takes five years or more, and the Associated Builders and Contractors estimates over 40% of construction workers will retire within five years. TechCrunch · Oct 26
7. Apple brings Siri AI to five more languages with the 27.2 updates — The rebuilt Siri, built on Apple Intelligence, now supports French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish, with Chinese (traditional), Norwegian, Turkish and Vietnamese promised by the end of the year. Apple says the assistant uses personal context across messages, emails and photos, onscreen awareness, and systemwide app actions. Apple Newsroom · Oct 26
8. Instagram tests 90-minute horizontal "features" videos — Only creators with individual deals can publish in the new format, with comedians and podcasters the current target. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri said his concern was cannibalising shortform engagement but that he hoped the formats would prove "symbiotic", and the push comes with a new Apple TV app joining existing Fire TV, Samsung and Google TV apps. It is the company's second run at longform: IGTV launched in 2018 and shut down in 2022. Engadget · Oct 26
9. Dutch government to cut 16 percent of its workforce in an AI efficiency push — The cabinet wants to eliminate 25,000 full-time jobs by 2035 while cutting €900 million (about $1 billion) in costs by 2027 and €3.5 billion (about $3.9 billion) by 2035; police and defense are excluded. Concrete goals and savings plans for deploying AI are due in the first quarter of 2027, and state secretary Eric van der Burg framed the effort as making government "simpler, smart and smaller". Engadget · Oct 26
10. The RealReal hardens bot defenses after AI agents camped on its listings — After reporting showed Meta's Muse could re-add an item to a cart the moment the site's 20-minute hold expired, keeping it unbuyable for hours, chief technology officer Luke Friang said the company had changed its bot configuration so it is much harder for all agents to log in, add items and check out. Agents can still surface listings and link to product pages. Meta said shopping is Muse's most common use case, with purchases averaging over $200. The Verge · Oct 26

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• 🔧 Run GPT-6.1 Terra on one real workflow and measure cost per completed task, not per token — Artificial Analysis puts it at $0.40 against $1.40 for its predecessor.
• 🎥 Watch how Instagram frames its 90-minute format for podcasters. The format decision is the story, not the app.
• 📝 Note which of your agents touch retail sites, and whether the storefront can tell them from a scalper.

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