1. OpenAI models come to Google Cloud
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now in private preview in Google Cloud’s Model Garden, sold through Google Cloud Marketplace so customers can draw down existing GCP commitments. Codex CLI and Desktop can also run inference through Google’s platform, with Antigravity and Gemini Agent support coming. Google now offers all three leading closed models, while OpenAI says Microsoft remains its primary cloud partner.
Source: OpenAI
2. Anthropic draft S-1 shows $80.7B first-half loss
A draft IPO prospectus seen by The Wall Street Journal shows Anthropic’s first-half 2026 revenue rose to $16.3 billion from $1.1 billion a year earlier, against an $80.7 billion net loss, $72 billion of it non-cash charges tied to convertible notes. Infrastructure spending nearly quadrupled to about $9 billion, and Reuters reports some investors now discuss a $1.5 trillion valuation instead of the expected $2 trillion.
Source: Al Jazeera
3. Mistral launches Voxtral 3 voice stack
Mistral released Voxtral 3, a set of speech-to-text and text-to-speech models plus a voice agent SDK built on LiveKit that streams listening, reasoning, tool calls and speech in one pipeline. Transcription covers 50+ languages with diarization from $0.0035 per minute, TTS costs $13 per million characters, and the stack runs on Mistral’s API or self-hosted, a pitch aimed at contact centers with data residency requirements.
Source: Mistral AI
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