OpenAI is improving ChatGPT’s code generation performance for low-resource programming languages, adding three evaluation dimensions: software engineering, SQLite, and COBOL migration. These capability improvements are centered on code generation scenarios for low-resource programming languages.
Read originalItaú is implementing its AI First strategy in customer and employee services through the conversational interface ia.i and the IARA governance platform. This application scenario operates in one of Brazil's most heavily regulated industries.
Read originalBenefit Street Partners speeds up question answering with OpenAI's Codex tool. The firm's Anant Kumar uses Codex to conduct code reviews, improve follow-up efficiency, and build tools to compare loan valuations and analyze credit agreements.
Read originalSullivan & Cromwell has partnered with OpenAI to develop Agreement Analyzer, an AI tool designed to identify issues in draft agreements. The tool integrates legal expertise into the agreement review process.
Read originalAmp leverages OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, Ultrafast, and GPT-Live-1 models, along with Sign in with ChatGPT, to expand AI agent use cases beyond coding into other domains. This practice aims to explore the capability boundaries of AI agents.
Read originalGoogle DeepMind officially released the frontier large model Gemini 4 Argon on October 13, 2026, available globally to developers, enterprises, researchers, and consumers. The model ranks first on the Vals Index benchmark, with input token pricing at $2 per million and output tokens at $10 per million, with a 95% discount for cached input tokens. It has already been deployed in multiple practical applications across engineering optimization, quantum chemistry, cybersecurity, and other fields.
Read originalNew York University Professor Aswath Damodaran reviewed the performance of US stocks in September 2026: the 10-year US Treasury yield rose from 4.75% to 5.29% during the month, an increase of 54 basis points, placing it in the top 10% of 770 monthly changes since 1962. Despite this, the total market capitalization of US stocks still increased by $2.5 trillion during the month, with nearly $1.5 trillion of that increase coming from the technology sector.
Read originalDeribit has launched the largest perpetual contract product expansion in its history, initially rolling out over 90 new USDC-settled contracts covering five major market categories: cryptocurrencies, listed stocks and ETFs, commodities, the COIN50 index, and Anthropic and OpenAI pre-IPO markets.
Read originalNYU valuation professor Aswath Damodaran published a lengthy article proposing a four-stage framework for revolutionary change, arguing that AI is currently entering its coming-of-age phase, shifting from investment and infrastructure building to commercial implementation. The article notes that since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the Mag Seven contributed 45% of the total increase in U.S. stock market capitalization from 2022 to 2025. Six leading AI companies have cumulatively spent $1.7 trillion in capital expenditures, while the current upper bound of total revenue from AI products and services is only about $250 billion.
Read originalAswath Damodaran, a valuation professor at New York University, uses the complete journey of Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund—from explosive growth to liquidation following a blowup—as a case study to systematically break down the definition, sources, and real-world impact of investment conviction.
Read originalBridgewater has published an AI policy commentary arguing that AI is the most impactful technological change of our time, and that policy must be enacted immediately to balance its productivity benefits against risks of social disruption and safety incidents. Bridgewater proposes that US AI policy must prioritize societal resilience to technological shocks and establish a robust AI safety regulatory framework; otherwise, AI development will be forced to stall due to political unsustainability or major incidents.
Read originalNYU Professor Aswath Damodaran analyzes whether SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic should be included in the S&P 500 after their IPOs. He breaks down index construction, including constituent selection, weighting methods, and index unit conversion mechanisms. He notes that the S&P 500 uses free-float market capitalization weighting, and that the June 15, 2026 closing level of 7554.29 corresponds to an index unit of 0.1190.
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