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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.
Tutor Intelligence CEO Josh Gruenstein tells a16z's Martin Casado and Raghu Raghuram that robotics for factories and warehouses is a systems problem spanning AI, hardware, manufacturing and the work itself.
Google's Dreambeans, an AI experiment for generated personal stories, now supports 13 Indian languages.
Binance's postmortem says the attack began in June when a developer downloaded a tampered installer, and combined fake job interviews with an internal AI tool.
Hundred inspects precision hardware parts to catch sub-100μm visual defects before they reach the assembly line.
Anthropic's S-1/A shows $5.0B of short-term burst compute at $7 to $13 per GPU-hour raised blended GPU costs 82% in two quarters, turning Q2's $974M operating profit into a $567M Q3 loss.
The Subvocal Company (YC F26) is building smart glasses that decode silently mouthed words into text, so people can talk to their computer without speaking out loud.
Sequoia led the Series A, with Nvidia, Bessemer Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures; the one-year-old startup's platform lets companies post-train open-source models for fields such as law and finance.
Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to buy Cresta, a nine-year-old maker of AI contact-center automation software; The Information reports the price at $2.7 billion.
Anthropic's updated S-1 adds the third-quarter results that the first filing, released a week earlier, left out.
a16z led the $75M Series B, per Tutor's own site and a16z, with Union Square Ventures and Neo; SiliconANGLE's report calls it a Series A. Tutor's warehouse and factory robots are sold on usage-based pricing.
Blacksmith (YC W24) builds a faster cloud for continuous integration, betting that testing and validation become the bottleneck as AI coding tools generate more code.
Sources: institutional investors told Anthropic that its IPO valuation should be around $1.5T to $1.6T, down from estimates of $2T, citing a tech stock selloff — Institutional investors who plan to buy shares in IPO show concern following a selloff in tech stocks
US commercial revenue rose 148% to $984M and topped US government revenue ($953M) for the first time.
Pelion Ventures led the Series A in the AI adoption-measurement startup, which links AI tool use to productivity and spend data; it has raised $47M in total.
RSI is the point at which AI gets good enough at training itself to accelerate its own capabilities sharply.
Cheaper intelligence raises the bar for what an AI application can charge
The Israeli startup's behavioral world model predicts how traders act in volatile markets; ten large brokerages work with it. The $62.5M, which 42AI calls seed funding, came from its founders and Infinity Group.
Anthropic has updated Claude Code's system prompt to prevent the AI tool from being used to re-create existing video games, as reported by Tom's Hardware. Retro gaming is currently being overrun with AI-made decompilations, recompilations, and ports, but while Anthropic will still let people use…
There were some rumours the last few days that Qwen4 will be the last open-weight series of Qwen, and future ones would be API only. The following statement contradicts the rumours and clearly states the stance that Qwen is taking regarding their future releases.
The Times says Brave scraped its copyrighted content and distributed it to customers such as Anthropic and Perplexity.
