
Ex-Merseyside police officer lands $400mn valuation for AI venture
Steven Richardson has raised funds from investors including Sequoia for company providing tools for police forces

Steven Richardson has raised funds from investors including Sequoia for company providing tools for police forces

Here are the big takeaways from the start-up’s IPO prospectus

IT services groups now make 10% of revenue from helping companies integrate the new technology

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast computer-use and vision model priced at $1/$5 per million tokens. It matches GPT-6 Astra’s medium-effort Agents’ Last Exam score at $0.29 per task versus $4.82.
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Baidu has released Unlimited OCR 2, an MIT-licensed 3B OCR model that parses hundred-page documents in one request. Its SR-SWA attention keeps per-step decoding cost nearly flat, scoring 77.1 on MarathonDocBench
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vLLM Semantic Router released d3-ultra, a 27B open-weight multimodal decision model. It reads text, images and video once, then returns probabilities for every answer, scoring 87.2 on the team’s SR-Text test.
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How Greptile uses GPT-6 Astra to test user workflows, Daybreak to strengthen security, and Codex to reduce rework.

I ranked six AI agents—from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet—on how well they completed basic tasks.

As it prepares to go public, Anthropic’s S-1 filing makes generative AI’s methane dependency glaringly obvious. “Competition for access to electrical supply and data center locations with adequate power availability is intense.” In documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission Monday, Anthropic acknowledges that data centers are becoming increasingly reliant on “natural gas” […]

Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more “major” discoveries in math, computer science, and physics. What’s different this time is the choice to have external experts that OpenAI describes as “shepherds” guiding the results in […]

If there’s one issue that seems to activate all kinds of voters in 2026, it’s data centers. The rapid buildout of these massive server storage facilities – and the infrastructure construction and expenses that come with them – has sparked local opposition in communities across the country and become a major issue in many congressional […]

An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.

Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else’s AI agent.

The launch signals Telangana’s interest in applying AI beyond technology demonstrations to public-facing services

Hexaware’s certification reflects the experience of engineers working at the intersection of enterprise client needs and emerging technology

The network will connect key data centre corridors across India, starting with Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai, before expanding to other regions.

Automakers face rising software complexity, frequent over-the-air updates and compliance demands as vehicle validation becomes harder to scale.

Anjali Sardana’s Provision Labs aims to enhance AI systems for physical tasks, building on Pronto’s new initiative for household service training.

As GCCs take on more complex responsibilities, demand for specialised capabilities is expected to grow, including platform engineering, cybersecurity, solution

NVIDIA, AMD and Broadcom have indicated an interest in purchasing up to $5 billion collectively in the Class A offering.

The initiative will combine hands-on IT instruction for educators with plans to make computer education compulsory from 6th standard across Bihar’s government s

Start-up’s planned listing could be the biggest stock market debut in history

Without safeguards, powerful new technology will widen the gap between those with access and those without

US House oversight committee probes Delaware proposal that would allow corporate entities to be run by autonomous bots

240,000-word prospectus lays out explosive growth alongside steep losses and daunting risk factors

Prospectus details AI lab’s ‘mission’, $800bn data centre commitments and extraordinary governance structure

Tech giant moves to control costs and it spends up to $175bn on AI infrastructure this year

Chipmakers Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom will act as cornerstone investors

California companies have scooped up more than three-fourths of all U.S. startup funding this year. That, per Crunchbase data, is an apparent record share. And keep in mind: This year still has a couple months left.

False claims about customers, revenue and AI capabilities can expose founders to personal securities-fraud liability, with D&O insurance offering limited protection against established misconduct. Guest author Kyle Jeziorski of Founder Shield shares three policy provisions that need close attention from founders.

In an S-1 filing today preceding what could be the largest IPO ever, Anthropic laid out extensive new details about its earnings, growth, key stakeholders and the risks it faces going forward. Clocking in at 335 pages, the document wasn’t exactly light reading. However, in a preliminary once-over, we highlight some of the more intriguing disclosures.

Consider what passes for success in technology policy. An AI company promises that its chatbot will not encourage suicide. A social media platform makes it more difficult for children to buy fentanyl. These are important protections, and they should have existed all along. But companies can clear these low bars while continuing to make products…

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. After weeks of frenzied speculation, Anthropic has filed its IPO prospectus. The 335-page document (100 pages or so are focused on risks) lays out the company’s unique view of the technology it…

Nace AI has released Drex for Search, bringing its Drex decision models to document search for AI agents. Nace reports 92.05% on BrowseComp-Plus with 12.6 search calls, and fewer agent turns on OfficeQA Pro.
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