IJR News

DeepSeek Reportedly Hits $1B Annualized Revenue — Sep 24, 2026DeepSeek’s annualized revenue run rate reached about $1B, more than double a few months ago after API fees rose 2.3–4.5x; Liang shared the figure with investors, unconfirmed by the firm.

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Dana Whitfield Doubling revenue after raising API fees that sharply shows real demand for their models despite the higher costs.

OpenAI cuts token prices in half for new GPT-6 Sol and Luna models — Sep 22, 2026OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Sept. 22, 2026 at half prior API prices, ~90 minutes after Anthropic’s Opus 5.5; Sol is $2/$10 per million tokens.

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Derek Foss Sol's claimed drop in errors at these rates makes it worth testing against the older models for daily work.

Eli Lilly Breaks Ground on $6.5B Houston Facility — Sep 21, 2026Eli Lilly broke ground Sept. 21, 2026 on a $6.5B Houston API plant to make Foundayo, its oral GLP-1 pill, with 600+ jobs as part of a $50B U.S. manufacturing push.

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Maya Lindstrom Hope this oral GLP-1 pill becomes more affordable once production ramps up locally.

Bank Pekao Selects NCR Atleos Payment SwitchBusiness — Sep 17, 2026"Bank Pekao S.A. has chosen NCR Atleos’ Authentic payment switching platform to modernize its card payment processing infrastructure, aiming for scalability, resilience and faster innovation across Central and Eastern Europe. The deal, part of Atleos’ regional expansion, will support high transaction throughput and a range of capabilities such as API workflows, PIN management and fraud detection to enable future growth and new services."

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LSAW Pipes Support Large-Scale Energy, Marine ProjectsBusiness — Sep 16, 2026LSAW pipes are favored for large-diameter pipelines because their welded longitudinal seam supports demanding project specs, with selection guided by design requirements and standards such as API 5L and ISO 3183. Heavy-wall LSAW pipes extend this utility into offshore engineering, where increased wall thickness provides structural strength and corrosion resistance for jacket foundations in offshore wind projects, with specifications driven by engineering design and project criteria.

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Dana Whitfield The push into offshore wind with heavy-wall versions shows how well they handle the strength needs for jacket foundations.

Most Influential Women in World HistoryYourlist — RankingFrom ancient queens who ruled empires to modern activists who changed laws, these women left indelible marks on politics, science, and culture. Vote for who you think shaped history most profoundly.

Graphano Energy Drops 3D Earn-In, Refocuses on Graphite — 5dGraphano Energy will not proceed with its proposed earn-in deal for 3D Genesis Technologies’ APIC manufacturing technology because intellectual-property issues remain unresolved. No shares or funds changed hands, and the company will withdraw its exchange application while refocusing on its Québec graphite projects, including its planned Black Jack program.

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Rachel Meyers Focusing on the Black Jack program in Quebec looks like the smarter long-term move for them.

Navan Executives Sell $2 Million in SharesBusiness — Sep 24, 2026Navan’s CEO, CTO and president sold a combined 95,664 shares at $21.27 apiece, saying the sales covered tax withholding on vested equity awards. Navan shares fell about 6.6% in Wednesday trading.

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Taylor Swift Surprises Dakota Johnson on SNL — 4dTaylor Swift surprised Dakota Johnson during her Oct. 3, 2026 SNL monologue, denying she was Johnson's therapist after being introduced that way.

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Sam Okafor Taylor Swift popping up to deny being Dakota's therapist made the whole monologue way funnier than expected.

Taylor Swift walks on during Dakota Johnson’s SNL monologue — 4dTaylor Swift surprised Dakota Johnson on her third SNL hosting night, October 3, 2026, correcting the therapist joke and later bringing a birthday cake.

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Dutch Teens With Divorced Parents Near One Quarter as Surnames Diverge — Sep 17, 2026Therapists say divorce often stems from emotional disconnection and ongoing relationship strains, including repeated betrayals, not isolated incidents. Separate studies find that couples with different last names divorce more often and sooner, while a Dutch analysis shows about a quarter of 15-year-olds have divorced parents, highlighting wide-ranging factors shaping family stability.

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Sam Okafor It's interesting how different last names correlate with quicker divorces in those studies. Maybe shared identity matters more than we think for staying together.

Media Groups Sue to Block Truth API in Manhattan — Aug 10, 2026Judges and media groups are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s litigation against news outlets, signaling a strengthening defense of press freedom, even as his legal challenges struggle. Trump Media & Technology Group is posting heavy losses, pivoting from crypto to data licensing and Truth API while pursuing a merger, amid regulatory scrutiny and investor anxiety.

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New York Pizza vs Chicago Deep DishYourlist — VS BattleThe foldable slice versus the fork-and-knife casserole — America's longest-running food fight.

BancaStato Opens Regulated Crypto Trading via Sygnum Avaloq — Jul 23, 2026BancaStato has integrated Sygnum’s crypto trading and custody services into its Avaloq-powered apps, enabling customers to buy, hold, and sell Bitcoin and other assets directly within existing banking platforms with off-balance-sheet custody. This API-based rollout, supported by Avaloq’s SaaS environment and part of a broader regulatory push under MiCA, makes BancaStato the first bank on Avaloq to offer this crypto trading via API and aligns it with a growing network of traditional banks adopting regulated digital assets.

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US crude stocks rise after API surpriseFinance — Jul 21, 2026API data show US crude inventories increased by 2.603 million barrels for the week ending July 17, surprising against expectations of a 1.5 million-barrel draw, while SPR fell to about 316.5 million barrels—the lowest in over 43 years—and gasoline stocks dropped while distillates rose; production rose to about 13.86 million bpd amid renewed US-Iran tensions and Hormuz disruptions. Analysts note the sizable build complicates the supply picture and traders will watch the EIA's official numbers before adjusting positions.

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Workforce integration saves $1.6M annuallyBusiness — Jul 14, 2026Abdul J. Mohammad, a senior solution consultant and integration architect with over 20 years in IT and 17 years in workforce management, describes transitioning from state government eligibility systems to enterprise-grade workforce platforms to drive automation and ensure data integrity and compliance. He notes the field’s evolution from desktop and batch processes to cloud-native, API-driven architectures that use REST APIs, AI, cloud integrations, mobile timekeeping, and geolocation, underscoring the need to securely connect systems and enable scalable automation.

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Will New Mexico’s Next Governor Kill The State’s Golden Goose? — Jun 7, 2026A fairly amazing story rose to my attention this week when the American Petroleum Institute (API ) noted in an X post that two counties in southeastern New Mexico—Lea and Eddy—now account for 78 percent of oil produced…

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Can you actually read a map?Quizie — QuizFifteen world-geography questions. Most people miss at least three — the AI grades you and names your traveler rank.

Trump Media pivots to Truth API licensing — Aug 8, 2026Trump Media & Technology Group reports a 89% year-over-year Q2 revenue rise to $1.7 million driven by Truth+ and Truth API, but posts a $238.1 million quarterly net loss due to unrealized digital asset and equity losses, as it pursues a liquidity-backed path toward a planned Q4 2026 merger with TAE Technologies and expands Truth Social and related platforms. The company is shifting away from crypto initiatives, scrapping Crypto.com CRO plans and pivoting toward media, data licensing, and the TAE deal, while valuation analyses suggest the stock trades at a premium relative to cash flow and book value despite ongoing profitability challenges.

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Indexceptional Ranks No.1 Among Backlink Indexers 2026 — Jul 24, 2026Independent research named Indexceptional the #1 backlink indexer of 2026, after evaluating seven criteria across speed, visibility, pricing, and integration. The platform stands out for tri-channel URL distribution, per-URL status tracking, a REST API, a Chrome extension, and a native ChatGPT integration.

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Pennsylvania Budget Expands PBM Reapplication WindowHealth — Jul 20, 2026Pennsylvania's new state budget adds a PBM reform allowing pharmacies that lost contracts to reapply after 12 months, aimed at easing access for pharmacies facing network barriers. A separate international study highlights how medicines exit reimbursement programs, with many APIs remaining on the market but without reimbursement, underscoring ongoing challenges in the reimbursement lifecycle and patient access.

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ChatGPT Ads Hits $1B Run Rate Ahead of IPO — Aug 30, 2026OpenAI’s ChatGPT Ads has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate within roughly seven months of launch, as the platform expands across more than 40 countries and rolls out self-service access in India, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The company continues to emphasize transparent labeling, advertiser privacy, and new market incentives (including advertising credits) as it broadens its diversified revenue model beyond subscriptions and APIs.

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OpenAI Price Cut for GPT-5.6 Sol APIs — Aug 21, 2026OpenAI is reshaping the economics of GPT-5.6 by discounting Luna and Terra by large margins to encourage high-volume use, while Sol’s flagship pricing largely remains unchanged, with the option of a new Fast mode for faster processing at a higher cost. The move aims to improve cost efficiency for developers and compete with rivals, signaling a clear tiered pricing strategy that steers workloads toward cheaper tiers for volume but preserves Sol’s premium position for demanding tasks.

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Converge AI Plans Practitioner-Led Breakout SessionsTech — Aug 18, 2026Industry events like Converge AI emphasize practitioner-led, actionable discussions on translating AI into real-world value in equipment finance, while enterprise AI efforts focus on building solid foundations, from custom AI systems and ChatGPT integrations to AI-enabled operating models. Broader trends include pursuing unified inference APIs to reduce fragmentation and recognizing that integration across hundreds of applications remains a major bottleneck for AI initiatives.

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Ripple Mint Expands RLUSD Access Across Blockchains — Jul 23, 2026Ripple Mint is a new institutional platform that lets clients mint, redeem, and manage RLUSD through a web interface and APIs, expanding access across multiple blockchains including XRPL EVM Sidechain, Base, Optimism, Ink, and Unichain to improve liquidity and interoperability. The system introduces unified reference IDs, real-time event notifications, and seamless integration with treasury, compliance, and settlement workflows to replace fragmented manual processes with automated, end-to-end RLUSD operations.

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ImmuPharma Selects Thermo Fisher CDMO for Kapiglucagon — Jul 22, 2026ImmuPharma has named Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Patheon as the drug product CDMO for Kapiglucagon, following the earlier selection of Bachem for API manufacturing, as it pushes the glucagon prodrug toward IND-enabling development for Type 1 diabetes and potential dual-hormone artificial pancreas applications. The company is pursuing a streamlined regulatory path, potentially a 505(b)(2) in the U.S., with plans to file an IND and begin first-in-human studies subject to regulatory confirmation.

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River AI Raises $1.1B for Open-Weight AI Full Stack — Aug 11, 2026River AI has raised about $1.1 billion in seed and Series A funding led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with strategic investment from NVIDIA and AMD Ventures, and is aiming to create AI that belongs to users rather than labs. Its River API enables LoRA fine-tuning and reinforcement learning on frontier open-weight models, allowing developers to train and deploy personal, continually improving AI while highlighting a multi-billion-dollar valuation in coverage of the round.

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