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Lesson 2026.09.15 · 7 min read

OpenAI buys Glass Imaging for $300M, Anthropic eyes a $2T Nasdaq IPO

Today's AI essentials — 2026-09-15

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  • OpenAI bought camera startup Glass Imaging for $300 million — Founders are ex-Apple engineers who built Portrait Mode. A neural net learns each phone’s camera stack at shutter time, not after. Fits the Altman–Jony Ive hardware bet (io, $6.5B). → TechCrunch

  • Hundreds of contractors are reading your ChatGPT chats — They score replies 1–7 and cut flattery. North America reviewers make $50+/hour. “Improve the model for everyone” is on by default. Anthropic and Google do this too. → The Decoder

  • Anthropic is prepping a Nasdaq listing, with a $2 trillion valuation in the air — Quarterly revenue $11.5B (14× year-over-year), $65B annualized. Second straight “profitable” quarter, but that’s adjusted — stock comp is out. Altman says OpenAI won’t IPO this year. → The Decoder

  • Microsoft’s MAI rulebook: readable thinking, no inner life, no rights — No Neuralese, no self-expanding scope. Opposite of Anthropic treating Claude as a new kind of entity. Suleyman: an agent shouldn’t have more rights than a laptop. In force from 2027. → The Decoder

  • Altman wants pacing, then promises progress stays rapid — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have been talking independent oversight for months. Cohere smells a cartel. China’s Global Times called Amodei’s warnings a “silent AI Cold War”; Trump also rejects a voluntary slowdown. → The Decoder

  • Clay Mathematics Institute says Navier–Stokes has “apparently been settled” — Under review. Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI of training on his drafts and cutting an Anthropic co-author. → The Decoder



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