AI News Today: DeepSeek's $15B Raise Shakes Up the AI Race

China's DeepSeek just reportedly raised about fifteen billion dollars, one of the biggest rounds any AI lab has ever closed. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, October 22, 2026 DeepSeek reportedly raises about 15 billion dollars backed by Tencent and CATL, while Meta posts 64.6 billion dollars in third quarter revenue and lays out plans to make money from its Muse models. OpenAI brings its frontier models and Codex to Google Cloud, and Anthropic previews Claude Duet, a proactive personal a...