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22 October 2

  1. Flirtella.com Neural Network Claims Lack Verification in AI Companion Sector

    Extensive checks find no verifiable evidence of Flirtella.com as an operational 18+ AI service with the described voice and photo capabilities.

    2 min
  2. Visa Tokenized Assets Advance in Singapore Through BLOOM Pilot With Nium

    Visa joined the MAS BLOOM initiative in August 2026 and began testing stablecoin settlement with Nium for cross-border flows.

    2 min

21 October 1

  1. MiniMax M3.1 Flash Launches with 70% Lower Agentic AI Costs

    MiniMax released its M3.1 Flash model on October 19, 2026, claiming major gains in speed and efficiency for agentic AI applications at flat API rates of $0.15 input and $0.60 output per million tokens.

    3 min

20 October 1

  1. Tenstorrent Funding Reaches $1.5 Billion in Series E at $6.2 Billion Valuation

    Tenstorrent closed a $1.5 billion Series E on October 19, 2026, at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation to expand manufacturing of its RISC-V based Galaxy servers.

    3 min

19 October 1

  1. No Evidence Supports Consensys Acquisition of WalletConnect

    No credible reports confirm a $450 million Consensys acquisition of WalletConnect as of October 19, 2026.

    2 min

17 October 3

  1. Reflection AI Beam 501B Open-Weight Model Targets Coding and Agentic Tasks

    Reflection AI released its first open-weight model Beam on October 5, 2026. The 501.3B-parameter sparse MoE model focuses on coding and long-horizon agent workloads.

    3 min
  2. Ant Group Ling Model Open Weights Enable 560B MoE Deployment on Four GPUs

    Ant Group’s inclusionAI published open weights for Ling-3.1-Flash, a 560 billion parameter MoE model under MIT license, on Hugging Face in mid-October 2026.

    3 min
  3. Vitalik Buterin AI privacy stack adds Tor, zkAPI and local prompt rewriting

    Vitalik Buterin released an open-source privacy wrapper for his personal AI agent on October 16, 2026. The package routes traffic through Tor, uses zero-knowledge payments and rewrites prompts locally before external model calls.

    3 min

16 October 1

  1. Ramp $60 Billion Valuation Follows $1.85 Billion Round as Revenue Hits $2 Billion

    Ramp announced a $1.85 billion funding round on October 15, 2026, reaching a $60 billion valuation as annualized revenue surpassed $2 billion and customer spend volume grew sharply.

    3 min