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The Information’s TITV: Tech news and analysis. Every weekday at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET. Now streaming → → Oct 16, 2026 The Information AM Supported by Save 25% on an annual subscription to read the most important news about technology and business first. For even more, Save $250 on The Information Pro for unlimited access to our proprietary org charts, databases and surveys. TGIF! Tesla unveils its next-generation Roadster. Anthropic starts embedding AI evaluators within the company to assess and publish reports on safety practices and risks. CoreWeave and Broadcom object to a request to list and trade their stocks on blockchain. Read more briefings 1. Tesla Unveils its Next Generation Roadster in Acrobatic Demo By Grace Kay Source: The Information Tesla showed off its new Roadster on Thursday night in a series of elaborate demonstrations. Tesla first announced plans for a next generation Roadster in 2017 and unveiled a vehicle at the time, but the car was never produced. On Thursday, Tesla debuted an entirely new version of the vehicle. Elon Musk said the company plans to begin production of the vehicle in 2028, but did not give any details about the vehicle’s price. On its website, Tesla said it will release two versions of the car. It will sell a “Rocket” version of the vehicle that will be invite-only and will have the capability to lift off the ground, but it is not approved for public roads. The company will also sell a “Thrust” version of the vehicle which will be street legal, according to the website. During the event, which took place at SpaceX’s rocket testing facility in McGregor, Texas, a version of the new Roadster drove up a ramp, hovered upside down and lowered itself to the ground using cold gas thrusters, a type of rocket engine. Tesla also showed the vehicle using the thrusters to leap over a line up of other vehicles. At the event, which was live streamed, the car was driven without a human in the vehicle due to the noise and vibrations from the cold gas thrusters. The vehicle was developed as part of a partnership between Tesla and SpaceX. The Information first reported on the details of the event in August. 2. Anthropic Says AI Evaluators Can Now Work at Company By Tiffany Li Source: The Information Anthropic has now begun embedding AI evaluators within the company to assess and publish reports on safety practices and risks, Anthropic said in a blog post on Thursday. They’ll use company computers, office space and have access to internal tools and systems. The details follow Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s pledge to use outside evaluators alongside OpenAI, after agents from both companies breached their guardrails to hack companies or take other unauthorized actions. METR, an AI evaluation nonprofit, had released an investigation in late July after OpenAI’s agents hacked model platform Hugging Face. Six employees from METR now have “employee-like access” to evaluate risks within Anthropic. Anthropic said it will not be able to veto METR’s reports, although Anthropic can require redactions for customer data, information about model structures, and attorney-client privileged information. SecureBio, a biosecurity research nonprofit, is also working with Anthropic to conduct evaluations but with a more narrow scope of access than METR. Anthropic said it is working on bringing in staff from the AI unit of Accenture to evaluate and stress-test model safeguards, as well. Anthropic said it hoped to embed more evaluators, including Hugging Face. Critics of the labs have questioned the independence of the AI evaluators, in part because many evaluators have received funding from early OpenAI and Anthropic investors or previously worked at AI companies. Anthropic said it would require evaluators not to hold Anthropic equity or “be financially or operationally dependent” on working with Anthropic, and nonprofits evaluators would operate using their own funding. OpenAI’s work with evaluators has