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The Alphabet-owned AI drug discovery company would raise roughly $5B at about a $50B valuation, after a $2.1B round in May.
OpenAI details a pipeline that used an upcoming cyber model to validate and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux for $1.2M in API costs — Security research that once required a separate, sustained investigation for each finding can increasingly be run as a systematic…
If you have a personal Google AI subscription, all your saved chat history in Gemini can be used for training and there is no way to opt out unless you turn off chat history or use temporary chat sessions. These chat transcripts may even be read by human reviewers.
OpenLake lets companies deploy, train and serve models that keep improving.
AI for how the physical world gets built
Sources: Apple cut some engineers' daily AI spending cap to $200 from $300 and plans cuts to as little as $100, as cost cutting stokes staff fears of layoffs — Apple Inc. is reducing employee budgets for artificial intelligence usage as part of a cost-cutting effort, even as the company seeks …
OpenAI says Images 2.6 generates images 50% faster and adds animated GIF creation from prompts or photos, across ChatGPT, Codex and the API.
Kino bundles footage storage, a video editor and review links so teams and their agents can make videos together.
Docusign is buying Suplari, which uses AI to analyze corporate spending and supplier data, years after its team bought it back from Microsoft.
A simulation-based robot policy that needs no fine-tuning or teleoperation
Cat Wu, who left Anthropic last week, says she is joining OpenAI to lead product manangement for core products; Wu was the product lead for Claude Code — Cat Wu, who left Anthropic last week after becoming one of the company's highest-profile product managers, is joining OpenAI.
Sources: Anthropic and AP struck a licensing deal just before the midterms, marking the first time Anthropic paid a digital news publisher to license content — The arrangement marks the first time the artificial intelligence firm has paid a digital news publisher to license its content
vsActual is a standalone AI product that tracks whether a company's work matches its plan, even for companies that don't use Smartsheet.
While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said the product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.
Data center shares fall as investors expect slower AI buildout after Democrats win Congress; Hut 8 drops 23%, IREN 11%, Core Scientific 10%, Applied Digital 7% — Wall Street closed sharply higher on Wednesday as Democrats' sweeping midterm election victory eased political uncertainty …
Figma reports Q3 revenue up 43% YoY to $391.4M, above est., gross margin of 80%, below 81% est., and lifts its 2026 revenue outlook; FIG drops 6%+ after hours — Figma (FIG.N) is leaning on cashing in on its AI features through credits and using its first-party model to power tasks …
Seattle startup Finpilot, which uses AI agents to take the paperwork off the plates of people who invest money for…
Tencent Holdings Ltd. today introduced Hy4, a new large language model that adds computer-use capabilities for the first time, using advanced visual understanding, reasoning and tool-calling to deliver long-horizon agentic performance.
Hey guys, I’m currently building an MVP for a grassroots problem I’ve noticed with local MSMEs (Kirana stores, hardware shops, local vendors) and I need some brutal feedback from this community.
US AI capacity grows from 38gw today to an 81gw ceiling in 2027. Because 40% of compute serves inference & new Blackwell & Rubin racks lift blended monetization from $9.4b to $15.1b per inference gigawatt, theoretical US inference revenue rises 3.4x from $0.14t to $0.49t.
Simon Willison follows up the paper "Sparks of Weight-Space Programming" and finds a local Qwen model can also read neural network weights.
Schools that restrict Google's AI tools would also lose Search, since AI is now built into it. After a backlash, Google said schools can switch on Gemini, Gemini Notebook and Search individually.
Fal hosts image, video and audio AI models for developers; the new valuation is double its April value. Bessemer led the round, and Nvidia and T. Rowe Price also invested.
Off-balance-sheet debt from AI-related obligations at US tech giants almost doubled in six months, to $3.2 trillion.
Traversal's agents help companies such as American Express and Pepsi troubleshoot site outages.
A poster says the data-sharing setting their team had turned off in Codex was switched back on without anyone opting in.
Ballistic Ventures is seeking $360 million for a new flagship fund and $130 million for a separate investment vehicle.
The prototype would let anyone check that a response really came from the model it claims to be from.
Applied Compute, an AI infrastructure provider, raised at a $3.25 billion valuation after reaching a revenue milestone.
Revolut says it cut AI coding inference costs by ~90% in less than a year by making self-hosted GLM models its default over commercial tools like Claude Code — Revolut says that in less than a year it's managed to slash its AI coding inference costs by roughly 90 percent by making self-hosted…
Crunchbase counts $59 billion of global venture funding in October, up 45% from a year earlier, largely because of DeepSeek's record $15.9 billion round.
Cat Wu, product lead for Claude Code and Cowork, has left Anthropic; Thariq Shihipar, who worked on Claude Code, announced his departure last month — - Cat Wu, who helped scale Claude Code into one of tech's most important products, has left Anthropic. — She joined the startup in 2024 …
Strong demand for its AI-optimized servers lifted the forecast; Arista Networks also beat expectations the same day.
Amazon's new guidelines stress results for customers over how much AI engineers use; an AWS team called Velocity Labs took a new open-source model to public release in under a week.
Lisa Su called it AMD's largest and most profitable quarter, and the company forecasts another record of $17 billion next quarter.
Yvonne Bajela's Evertrue Capital announced a $17M debut fund to back early-stage AI and fintech startups in Europe.
New App Store rules require 18+ ratings for dating apps and for AI companions that offer sexual or romantic content.
