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Madison Mills / Axios: Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1 — After burning t

Echo Software Ltd., a startup that’s using artificial intelligence agents to secure container images, today announced it’s acquiring the assets of Minimus Inc. following the company’s wind-down. The c

Business Insider: Source: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing — - The companies have not reached a deal

Researchers at nonhuman identity security company Oasis Security Ltd. today disclosed a vulnerability in Nvidia Corp.’s NemoClaw that hands an attacker full control of the local model server powering

Singapore-based robotics data infrastructure firm Ropedia Pte. Ltd. today announced the launch of HOMIE Gen2, the next generation of the company’s head-mounted wearable that records human movement dat

According to OpenRouter data, agentic AI workloads consume 15x more tokens than a simple chat request. Why? Consider what happens when an AI agent researches a company for an investment decision. The

An anonymous provider has been handing out free access to a frontier-class coding model on OpenRouter Inc. since Aug. 20, and no company has admitted to building it. The model is listed as “Ox Alpha”

Hugging Face Inc. is exploring a sale that could value the artificial intelligence model repository at 13 billion or more, Business Insider reported today. The company has brought in a bank to sound o

Broadcom Inc. is reportedly seeking to borrow up to 100 billion as part of a new artificial intelligence chip financing deal. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the debt is intended to suppo

Simile AI’s CEO Joon Sung Park describes how the company moved from the 2024 “Summer of Simulative AI” and its landmark *Generative Agents* paper to building digital twins that predict individual and

ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale Promptwatch is part of the emerging 'GEO' space, for Generative Engine Optimization - the chatbot version of SEO, where companies offer tools and con

As artificial intelligence data centers continue to proliferate across Ohio and public opposition grows, Axios reported today that the GOP’s Senate campaign arm has privately warned AI companies that

Adronite Inc. today launched Codistry, an artificial intelligence coding platform for large enterprise codebases. The platform runs on Adronite’s Context Engine, or ACE, which the company has patented

Big-data company Cloudera Inc. says it’s going to eliminate the headaches and hassles that have slowed enterprise’s efforts to adopt artificial intelligence with today’s launch of its new Cloudera Any

Telemetry data company Cribl Inc. today said it has acquired technology assets from artificial intelligence security operations startup Radiant Security Inc. The purchase covers the intellectual prope

Stripe Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence model routing startup OpenRouter Inc. in a deal reported at 7.5 billion or more. Neither company disclosed terms and the reporte

OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its research environments

Cloud-native access control company Portnox today unveiled expanded capabilities aimed at governing the artificial intelligence agents and other nonhuman identities now logging in to corporate network

Alex Heath / Time: Sam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI development was caused by a collection of research observations showing “various degrees of misalignment” — “I think it is a good ti

Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI's Q2 revenue grew 18% QoQ to 6.7B, while its losses deepened; Anthropic's Q2 revenue more than doubled to 11.6B, with a small operating profit — The ChatGPT-maker'

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Hexaware Technologies Ltd. today introduced the Zero Friction Enterprise, a delivery framework that folds the information technology services company’s modernization, cybersecurity, engineering, opera

Antoine Tardif / Unite.AI: Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its “Post-Transformer” BDH architecture, raised a 30M seed at a 500M valuation — AI research company Pathway ha

A new report from threat intelligence company Flashpoint has found that criminals now use artificial intelligence in day-to-day operations, well past the experimental stage. The 2026 Global Threat Int

Enterprise voice artificial intelligence company Regal Voice Inc. today unveiled an integration with Five9 Inc. that makes its autonomous AI voice agents available to customers of the contact center s

Financial Times: Sources: legal AI startup Legora is in early talks to raise funds at a 10B+ valuation, up from 5.6B four months ago; its ARR rose 50% QoQ to 150M in Q2 — Swedish company was valued at

Denmark-based LuaBio ApS, operating as Again, today announced the acquisition of Genomatica Inc. to combine the company’s cutting-edge biomanufacturing capabilities with Geno’s artificial intelligence

Marketing intelligence company Ahrefs Pte. Ltd. today launched Letaido, an agent-powered marketing workspace built to take over the recurring research, reporting and monitoring work that fills up a ma

Google LLC today expanded its Pixel consumer hardware line with a foldable handset, three smartphones and a smartwatch. The devices will ship with an upgraded version of the company’s Gemini Intellige

IBM Corp. will provide infrastructure to artificial intelligence startup Together AI Inc. as part of a 240 million deal announced today. The partnership comes a few weeks after the latter company rais

Shares of Nebius Group NV closed 34% higher today after it reported second-quarter earnings that topped expectations across the board. The Netherlands-based company operates a cloud platform optimized

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's special projects lead and the company's former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at the AI lab. In an internal memo he later posted to X, Lightcap told col

Learn how First Orion, a branded communications company, shifted from brittle script-based UI testing to AI-driven QA automation with Amazon Nova Act. By describing tests in plain English instead of m

River AI Inc., a startup that helps enterprises customize open-source artificial intelligence models, has raised 1.1 billion in early-stage funding. The company stated in today’s announcement that it

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI — Company is racing

Meta Platforms Inc. today released Muse Glimmer, an open-source language model that can run on personal computers. The company also published a lengthy essay penned by Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuc

Shane Burke / The Information: US data center bans top 500, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas join cities and counties pushing back against data center development — Local government re

OpenAI says it is pausing 'internal activities' around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows i

Anthropic PBC today disclosed that it plans to develop a custom artificial intelligence chip. A spokesperson told Business Insider that the company will co-design the processor with its future large l

In July, NVIDIA joined more than 200 companies and organizations in signing “Open Weights and American AI Leadership,” an open letter arguing that AI leadership will be measured not by any single fron

Cloudflare Inc. today launched Identity-Aware AI Gateway, a service that attaches a verified identity to every artificial intelligence request leaving a company network. Information technology and sec

Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing It happened again. This time it was the UK government's AI Security Institute who accidentally attacked other companies while running

Wall Street Journal: Meta is offering a cheaper Muse Spark 1.2 “contributor” tier priced at 0.10/1M input and 0.20/1M output tokens in exchange for using user prompts for training — The company, press

Threat detection company Vectra AI Inc. today launched Vectra AI Pro, a product built to give the artificial intelligence agents now working inside security operations centers a more reliable read on

This year is turning out to be a good one for companies in the server and storage architecture business. In late July, Super Micro Computer Inc. told investors during a preliminary earnings forecast t

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. delivered another strong quarter Tuesday, beating Wall Street expectations as its artificial intelligence infrastructure business continued its rapid expansion. The company