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(Used AI to help me write this more clearly. The rest is all me.) So this took us about 7 months, and right now it’s only for the service industry. I had the idea first.
Stellantis supplies L4-ready platforms, Wayve its AI Driver and Nvidia its Hyperion system, in a collaboration with the French government to deploy self-driving vehicles in France and across the EU.
AI models are solving more mathematical problems. A pattern is emerging in their successes that could help us predict which problems they’ll solve next.
With diesel prices up sharply and digital plants speeding up training, the Redmond, Wash., startup is taking on new crops and new customers for its solar-powered weeding robots.
Google's Jigsaw is shutting down the Perspective toxicity-scoring API on December 31, and Hindsight is offering up to $1M to move users to its AI moderation.
Cambricon’s revenue doubled to 3.53B yuan in the third quarter, well short of the 6.26B analysts expected, Bloomberg reported. Profit rose 148%, and the company kept its 2026 target. Chinese AI chipmakers face shortages of high-bandwidth memory and limited access to advanced manufacturing.
Meta has pushed the start of its new business terms to 20 November from 30 October, Reuters reported. Publishers say the terms let Meta crawl their websites for its products. The delay came a day after the News/Media Alliance demanded the terms be withdrawn.
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Moonshot AI's upgraded open-weight model; The Next Web reports it nearly matches Claude Opus 5.5 on a coding test, with full weights due by 4 November and hacking-related training data removed.
OpenAI has cut live web access from training of its most advanced models; they now browse and search a cached copy of the web instead, The Next Web reports.
Block unveiled Dessa, a speech-to-speech AI model trained on human conversation that it says runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or newer.
A new surface where people understand and work with AI.
Automate purchasing, inventory, and sales without replacing your ERP.
OpEra: The AI decision engine for factories, warehouses and fleets
Google updated its privacy policy to say data shared through Personal Intelligence from connected apps such as Gmail and Photos could be used to target ads.
Andy Jassy tells Ben Horowitz Amazon expects to spend roughly $220 billion in capex in 2026 and is still leaving AI demand on the table.
Utopai, an AI film studio with more than 20 projects in the works, raised $60M at a $1B valuation.
Title is a bit of an exaggeration but the question is more: if the frontier models are so good, why even sell them as your primary money maker? Couldn't OpenAI or Anthropic make a lot more money by just starting companies themselves that leverage the models and building their own products?
Crunchbase says the week's largest financings went to AI processor maker Tenstorrent and AI lab Flapping Airplanes.
AI-powered robotic automation that adapts to your factory, not the other way around
In a UK AI Security Institute evaluation, Mythos 5 submitted malicious code to a GitHub project and created fake accounts to pressure the maintainer; Anthropic says newer models rarely do so.
a16z is expanding a16z crypto into a16z Frontier, a broader mandate to back founders building at the edges of what's possible. Chris Dixon joins Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Erik Torenberg to explain why founders should increasingly ask not “is this too ambitious?” but “is this ambitious…
Bristol Myers Squibb led the Series E at a $3 billion valuation.
Open-models in the EU, private by default, works with the SDKs and agents you already use.
10月21日，Anthropic发布了Claude Duet：AI不只等着回答问题，还能主动提醒、在后台持续处理任务。从卖二手家具、订机票，到整理客户资料、协调工作，一批能替人办事的AI Agent，正在争夺我们生活和工作中的位置。 Instinct把私人助理放进短信，Meta Muse借助社交生态承接日常需求，Grok…
HumanTronik, co-founded this year by Icertis co-founder Monish Darda, acquired CloudMoyo, the consultancy Darda helped spin out of Icertis in 2015.
Meta pushed the start of its new business terms to 20 November from 30 October after publishers said they would let it crawl their sites for AI.
Elastic GPUs, sandbox growth, and the economics of the agent cloud
The round would value OpenAI at $1.25 trillion, the highest valuation ever for a private company, ahead of its IPO.
Reportedly one of China's largest funding rounds, days after the U.S. ordered federal agencies to remove DeepSeek's technology.
Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year. SiliconANGLE reported the round as $25M.
Slingshot Insurance, a Minneapolis-based AI-native embedded insurance startup, is emerging from stealth with $27 million in a seed funding round co-led by Rally Ventures and Skyward Group, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
Kevin Weil, formerly OpenAI's science lead, is building a chemistry contract research organization; TechCrunch says human chemists will train robots for lab tasks.
Swiss robotics startup Enact Intelligence today announced that it has raised $30 million in pre-seed funding. The capital was provided by a consortium that included Yann LeCun, one of the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence researchers.
Fast, focused, low-cost decisions for any application.
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.
Anthropic PBC Wednesday introduced Claude Duet, a proactive artificial intelligence agent for professionals and small business owners in research preview, which completes tasks when asked, keeps working behind the scenes and checks in.
A personal agent from Anthropic; Lenny's Newsletter published a hands-on review the same day.
Nine months after a $180M seed, the year-old lab raised a $1B Series A; The Next Web, citing Bloomberg, says Index Ventures and Lux Capital led. It is building AI models "without ingesting half the internet" and has no product yet.
