With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifl
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifl
Preparing CAD assets for robotics simulation requires more than converting geometry to OpenUSD: developers must configure and validate materials, collision...
Bloomberg: USV raised $900M, including a $500M early-stage fund, up from $275M in 2024, cuts general partnership to four investors, and aims to lead more AI rounds New York City-based venture firm U
Manus, the creator of the eponymous artificial intelligence agent, has raised more than $500 million in funding. The Chinese startup announced the round today. It stated that private equity firm Boyu
Anthropic: Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, a free opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects; its AI-generated reports are sent without human review We're launching OSS Scanner,
Changes since langchain-core==1.6.8 release(core): 1.6.9 ( #41160 ) feat(core): accept a callable in with_retry ( #41158 )
The full-stack AI cloud market is about more than access to graphics processing units: it also encompasses the tools needed to improve models and agents in production. Providers are seeking to disting
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safet
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Filing: the FTC is probing Block over inadequate customer service for frozen or deactivated Square accounts amid staffing cuts, following 1,500+ complaints The Federal Trade
Sam Sabin / Axios: Anthropic launches the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program to provide AI models, threat research, and on-site support, starting with CrowdStrike and others Anthropic is launch
Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people. But she didn’t anticipate just how angry they would get.
CNBC: Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave, and other AI stocks fell after a report that OpenAI's annualized revenue at September's end was $20B less than previously reported Shares of Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeav
Anthropic launched two new beta features for Claude. Dashboards turns data sources like BigQuery and Snowflake into live dashboards from text prompts. Motion generates animated explainer videos from t
Anthropic's updated usage policy bans sustained abuse of Claude and tightens restrictions on propaganda, drone weaponization, and surveillance. The abuse rule builds on an approach that already lets m
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments gives AI agents a managed way to pay for services on demand, with spending limits enforced by the infrastructure. See how Incarna's agents pay BlockRun for model infe
Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. The actor, who sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix earlier this year, is proving h
The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.
It had previously been reported that the AI lab's annualized revenue was some $70 billion, but a new report claims it's a whole lot less than that.
It had previously been reported that the AI lab's annualized revenue was some $70 billion, but a new report claims it's a whole lot less than that.
Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its o
The Association for Human Mathematics is calling for an OpenAI boycott after the company released more than 700 AI-generated math manuscripts at once. OpenAI had to retract three papers the next day o
Anthropic's updated usage policy explicitly prohibits users from repeatedly abusing Claude in extreme cases, though ordinary frustration and criticism are still allowed. The new rules also address ele
OpenAI's flood of proofs deviated from the guidelines set by a group of mathematical researchers consulted by the frontier lab.
OpenAI's flood of proofs deviated from the guidelines set by a group of mathematical researchers consulted by the frontier lab.
Automation Anywhere Inc., an enterprise agentic automation and orchestration firm, announced Wednesday an agreement to acquire Boost.ai Inc., a conversational voice artificial intelligence company, fr
Bloomberg: Sources: Firmus is set to postpone its IPO and is weighing a private funding round instead, as some investors raised concerns over its pricing strategy Australian data center company Firm
On-device personal AI requires models and agent software that can operate within fixed hardware limits. Developers also need ways to keep those systems improving after deployment. Model builders are r
Financial Times: Docs: OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was nearing $50B at the end of September, well below the $70B reported by the media based on investor docs AI giant recently told
Financial Times: Docs: OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was nearing $50B at the end of September, well below the $70B reported by media based on investor docs AI giant recently told inve
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: AI hardware startup Natura unveils Interface, a $99 smart ring that connects to AI agents and apps, including Claude, ChatGPT, Muse, Grok Bot, and Instinct Meet Interface,
A reference architecture for securely sharing one Amazon SageMaker HyperPod EKS cluster across multiple teams, using AWS IAM Identity Center for authentication, per-team SageMaker Domains and Kubernet
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Arena, which develops the popular AI model leaderboard, raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation, up from $1.7B in January, and launches an Alignment Index Arena Intelligence Inc.,
JetBrains released Mellum2.1, an Apache 2.0, 12B mixture-of-experts thinking model with 2.5B active parameters. RL in real repositories lifted its SWE-bench Verified score from 2.0 to 47.0. The post J
Changes since langchain-openai==1.6.7 release(openai): 1.7.0 ( #41154 ) feat(openai): support decisions api ( #41125 ) chore(deps): bump langgraph-sdk from 0.4.4 to 0.4.6 in /libs/partners/openai ( #4
Bloomberg: Hone, founded by former OpenAI and Cognition staffers to create AI agents that can help run a business, raised a $60M seed at a $285M valuation A group of former employees from some of th
Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.
Goodfire just launched what it says is a cheaper way to keep AI agents in check: instead of paying a second AI to read everything an agent does, its monitors peek inside the model while it works and o
Your models can be both cutting-edge and compliant if you stop treating governance as the final hurdle and start building it into every stage of the ML pipeline.
Natura’s $99 Interface smart ring lets you summon AI agents with the press of a finger to complete tasks, capture thoughts, and control devices while doubling as a health tracker.
AI model training can leave startups managing infrastructure alongside the products they are trying to build. Willow Care Inc., the company behind AI dictation app Willow Voice, chose CoreWeave Inc. f
Changes since langchain-core==1.6.7 release(core): 1.6.8 ( #41153 ) fix(core): harden scoped and compatible IPv6 SSRF checks ( #41151 )
Three moves to decode the hype The post Everyone Is Selling AI at You Here’s How to Keep Your Judgement appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Ask an artificial intelligence model whether a face looks gay or straight and it will refuse to answer. But ask it to alter a person's photo to make them look gay or straight—or criminal—and it often
Bloomberg: Sources: the IPO of Nvidia-backed data center provider Firmus is uncertain after failing to attract adequate support, underscoring concerns over AI funding The sudden plunge in demand for
Most of us now carry in our pockets devices capable of running small AI chatbots. These chatbots have little safety oversight to ensure they don't provide information and answers with the potential to
Ambrosia Energy CEO Ben Longmier and Bloom Energy SVP Bill Thayer join the Smart Systems Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Register now to save up to $100. Grab a second of the same pass to save 50%.
Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff / Reuters: The US suspends Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, and others from a program that lets skilled foreign workers gain permanent residency, citing alleged fraud US Vic
Colin Demarest / Axios: Gallatin AI, which uses AI to digitize and streamline military logistics data, raised a $50M Series A, bringing its total funding to $70M Gallatin AI raised a $50 million Ser
Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of popular Cal AI calorie tracking app, has launched a new personal AI agent startup that competes with Instinct, Muse and Bee.
Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of popular Cal AI calorie tracking app, has launched a new personal AI agent startup that competes with Instinct, Muse and Bee.
AI agents can now write CUDA kernels that outperform PyTorch—but proving those speedups are real is the harder problem. I put them to the test on an NVIDIA DGX Spark and found that benchmark design ma
Docker Agent is an open-source, Apache 2.0-licensed CLI plugin built by Docker Engineering, installed and run as docker agent. Its own tagline states the goal plainly: run AI agents like containers.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google debuts Google AI Edge Foresight, a macOS note-taking app for capturing meetings with Google's local 740M-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 and Gemma 4 assistant Earlier in A
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google debuts Google AI Edge Foresight, a local macOS note-taking app for meetings that uses its 740M-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 model and Gemma 4 assistant Earlier in April
Kevin Collier / NBC News: OpenAI disrupts a Russian influence campaign tied to the Politology network that targeted schools, media, and foreign officials, and gives it a 5/6 impact score OpenAI says
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Google Cloud unveils the Gemini agent, which can handle multiday enterprise workflows in Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack using Gemini and other AI models Google is un
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Google Cloud unveils a universal Gemini agent to handle multi-day enterprise workflows in Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack that supports several AI models Google is un
The capacity of rogue AI agents to destroy our species within the next decade has recently been a hot topic of debate. Fears have been voiced within the industry about the rapidly increasing capabilit
Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the funding round, and existing shareholders Tencent, HSG (formerly known as Sequoia China), ZhenFund, and others also participated.
Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the funding round, and existing shareholders Tencent, HSG (formerly known as Sequoia China), ZhenFund, and others also participated.
Zenity Labs researchers say a single publicly accessible AI agent on Amazon's Bedrock AgentCore was enough to take over every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region. The attack exploited a
At the White House science summit on October 8, eleven companies pledged $2.4 billion in tools and compute credits to the Genesis Mission. Anthropic's share is $150 million over three years.
OpenAI banned two influence operations that hid behind fronts: a Latin American think tank run from Russia and seven fake journalists from Iran. What it found, scored.
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: AI retail trading agent startup Catalyst raised a $30M seed led by Sequoia and says a pilot generated hundreds of millions in trading volume over two weeks Justin Zheng is
Google LLC’s Cloud division today introduced Gemini agent, a unified artificial intelligence assistant that can act autonomously, generate code and complete work across any device, including web, mobi
The next step for AI agents? Self-improvement. Here are 7 resources to get started.
Ashley Campion / CrowdStrike: Analysis: the hacker who targeted South Korean banks is likely Chinese-speaking, financially motivated, and used LLMs and open-source Chinese agentic tool ARTEX CrowdSt
An exploration of the new data science roles emerging after the Large Language Model explosion. The post AI Engineers, Applied Scientists, Forward Deployed Engineers: Let's Unpack. appeared first on T
CNBC: Huawei says it aims to increase its overseas smartphone market share and expand HarmonyOS globally within one to three years, as Huawei-powered EV sales slow BEIJING Faced with a slowdown in
Steve Thompson / Washington Post: The US Federal Reserve's September meeting shows officials are increasingly citing surging AI investments, not tariffs, as the driver of rising goods inflation At t
A 16-year-old planned his hiking route on Crown Mountain near Vancouver using Anthropic's Claude and had to be airlifted off a steep rock face. The chatbot had sent him down a route that requires clim
David Pierce / The Verge: ICANN receives 1,615 TLD applications from 481 applicants; Meta, OpenAI, and eight others applied for .agent, seven companies applied for .agi, and six for .asi ICANN's lat
According to CrowdStrike, a suspected Chinese-speaking attacker hacked multiple South Korean financial institutions. At Shinhan Bank alone, more than 25,000 customer records were stolen. The attacker
AI startup Manus, whose acquisition by Meta was blocked by the Chinese government, said Thursday it had completed a funding round that raised more than $500 million.
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: UK-based quantum computing startup Universal Quantum raised a $100M+ Series A led by DCVC and Firgun Ventures to expand research hubs in Germany and Singapore A British star
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PLUS: Give Claude’s routine work to Haiku 5.5
Architect Financial Technologies has launched Liquid Inference, an LLM router that runs a live auction for every request. Liquid Inference is an LLM inference marketplace from Architect where provider
NVIDIA researchers introduced PivotOPD, an on-policy distillation method that trains multi-turn LLM agents to avoid early pivotal mistakes and recover from them, posting the best average against 13 ba
Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI are making it possible to au
Anniek Bao / CNBC: Manus' parent Butterfly Effect raised $500M+, led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, in its first funding since Beijing forced Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition AI agent startup Ma
Anniek Bao / CNBC: Manus' parent Butterfly Effect says it raised $500M+, led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, in its first funding since Meta was forced to unwind its Manus buyout AI agent startup M
AHM: The Association for Human Mathematics says OpenAI's new math documents show power, not scholarship, and urges mathematicians to stop working with the company Yesterday, on October 6th, 2026, Op
Perplexity's pplx-embed-v2-late comes in 2 sizes: a 0.6B model built to run on edge devices, and a 9B model for building high-quality indexes. Its best score is 92.4% on MADQA, and its weakest is 61.2
Scott Aaronson / Shtetl-Optimized: A theoretical computer scientist, citing sources, says AI labs have quietly started probing whether their models can break important cryptographic protocols -frien
Bloomberg: Filing: Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~$515M in a new share sale; Biren's Hong Kong-listed stock is down 50%+ from a June peak but up ~70% YTD Shanghai Biren Technology Co. aim
Bloomberg: Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $40B Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug di
Giant artificial intelligence rounds have pushed U.S. venture capital deal value about 44% past its previous annual record with a quarter still to go, according to the quarterly PitchBook-NVCA Venture
arXiv:2610.08983v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative inpainting of brain MRI volumes is essential for synthesizing healthy tissue in pathological regions, improving the accuracy and reliability
arXiv:2610.08830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities across vision and language tasks. However, their massive co
arXiv:2610.08813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: X-ray image-based Radiology Report Generation (RRG) constitutes a critical research direction within medical artificial intelligence, with great potenti
arXiv:2610.08842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identifying suicide risk from social networking services (SNS) posts is important for detecting suicide-related signals in online environments. However,
arXiv:2610.08840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often abandon a correct answer, or endorse a user's position, once the user pushes back. This behavior, called sycophancy,
arXiv:2610.08835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The spread of fake news may cause severe social consequences. Existing fake news detection methods mainly focus on stylistic variations or incorporate e
arXiv:2610.08833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Masked diffusion language models (MDLMs) decode by repeatedly committing tokens to masked positions, but these commitments are usually irreversible. A t
arXiv:2610.08818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatio-temporal forecasting is a cornerstone of logistics, urban planning, and intelligent transportation systems. However, constrained by deployment co
arXiv:2610.08815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI-enabled automation cannot be safely deployed in high-stakes environments on probabilistic reasoning alone. A recurring risk is epistemic drif
