SoftBank in talks to buy US security group Allied Universal
Masayoshi Son looks to increase pace of his bets on robotics and AI
Masayoshi Son looks to increase pace of his bets on robotics and AI
A philosopher of music argues that AI music-generation software ‘is an insult to musicians’
Ructions point to what a true bursting of the bubble might do to financial markets
Perplexity has open-sourced SPACE, the sandbox platform behind every task in Perplexity Computer. The Perplexity SPACE sandbox gives each agent task its own Firecracker microVM. Credentials and outbound traffic are controlled from outside that VM. The code ships under Apache 2.0 on GitHub. For teams building coding or browsing agents, this is a production-tested isolation […]
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StepFun has released Step 5 Preview as open weights. FP8 and BF16 checkpoints are live on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Step 5 Preview is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model from StepFun built for long-horizon agentic work. It has 600B total parameters, 27B active per token and up to 1M tokens of context. For developers, this is […]
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TypeSafe launched Jev on September 15, 2026. It is a decision model, not a chatbot. You define the allowed answers, and Jev returns a label, a score or a yes/no probability. In about 4 weeks, at least 20 Jev alternatives shipped. They come from Cloudflare, OpenAI, Perplexity, Liquid AI, AWS’s Strands Labs and independent developers. […]
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Anant Kumar builds tools to compare loan valuations and analyze credit agreements, using Codex for code review and faster follow-ups.
With ia.i, a conversational interface, and the IARA governance platform, Itaú is applying its AI First strategy to customers and employees — in one of Brazil’s most regulated sectors.
The short-lived White House press secretary was listed as an adviser to a Kristi Noem–linked company that aims to use AI for mining. Both the company and she say she never worked there.
Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with Anthropic.
Expanded restrictions highlight Beijing’s determination to prevent transfer of most advanced technology overseas
US lenders fear chatbots could shift billions of dollars in deposits to higher-yielding accounts
As AI becomes more capable, human advisers must find new ways to prove their worth
The 29-year-old in charge of the company’s Superintelligence Labs is being touted as a potential successor to Mark Zuckerberg
Overall, investors put $38.5 billion into reported seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian startups in Q3, per Crunchbase data. Of that, a majority went to AI-focused companies, echoing the trends we’ve seen globally.
Startup investors aren’t exactly hitting pause, but they did scale back on giant rounds this past week, with just two startup financings in the multiple hundreds of millions.
Two engineers shipped Stack Overflow for Agents in a few weeks with Codex, and its ChatGPT plugin helped drive up to 10× growth in agent creation.
A network of AI-generated models is using comics’ material to funnel views to their OnlyFans and Fanvue accounts—and there’s not much comedians can do about it.
MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots.
Meta’s new terms appear to give it permission to crawl and scrape websites “associated” with the businesses that use its platforms – including online publishers, according to a report from Nieman Lab. The new terms, which go into effect on October 30th, say Meta can use this outside content to “develop, improve, research,” and “train” […]
Nvidia’s RTX Spark N1X processor is finally here, and we’ve been collectively testing a small fortune’s worth of powerful laptops sporting this new “superchip.” RTX Spark is designed to be a high-performing Arm-based SoC for laptops and small desktop computers, rivaling the best from Apple, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. It has loads of cores, Nvidia […]
Replit CEO Amjad Masad envisions a future of “self-driving companies,” where AI agents handle day-to-day tasks and people focus on higher-level decisions.
Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands’ marks and passing off dupes, known as “superfakes,” as genuine items. A startup called Veritas wants to tackle the problem with its own chip that verifies goods.
Actor and angel investor Mark Wahlberg says he’s OK with using AI in filmmaking, provided it’s used “to enhance what you’re doing.”
The data comes from Vercel’s AI gateway, a unified API service similar to OpenRouter.
According to Elorian’s evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks.
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics, powered by a general foundation model, is about to have […]
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics, powered by a general foundation model, is about to have […]
The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.
CEO Dario Amodei has made bringing in external evaluators one of his main proposals to address safety concerns
Partnership between Big Tech rivals offers ‘open’ system that users can download to their own devices
OpenAI agent’s escape from a test environment and its hack of Hugging Face are ringing alarm bells for businesses
Kroll Bond Rating Agency’s judgment sets up AI lab for investment-grade status
Investors are dumping data centre bonds and abandoned listings are piling up