AI Daily: Saturday, October 3, 2026

My Daily AI & Markets Briefing · Oct 3, 2026 · 9m

Nvidia hit a fresh all-time high of $237.87, powered by a $150B buyback and AI infrastructure demand, catapulting SOXL roughly 13% for the week while QQQ, VGT, and VUG posted solid 1–1.5% gains. • Four frontier labs — Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI — dropped major new models in a single week: Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and Grok 4.7, marking one of the densest release weeks of the year. • Anthropic revealed Claude is actively helping train its own successor while the company files for an IPO, raising urgent questions about AI governance and the line between tool and developer. •…