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Everyone is very concerned about being respectable, so I’m going to be the goofball who raises worst-case possibilities. I think there is a 1% chance we live in Minicrypt, and a 15% chance we function
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Everyone is very concerned about being respectable, so I’m going to be the goofball who raises worst-case possibilities. I think there is a 1% chance we live in Minicrypt, and a 15% chance we function
Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blue
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Sabi, which is building a baseball cap that uses 100K non-contact neuro-sensors to convert neural signals into text prompts for AI systems, raised a $50M seed — Palo Alto-b
Eli Tan / New York Times: Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's decision to launch Muse despite safety concerns, after seeing that AI startup Instinct's similar agent product gained traction — Meta had del
Maria Curi / Axios: Sources: top execs at Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt following a catastrophic AI event — - The first example of significan
Brenda Goh / Reuters: The Chinese developer of ARTEX says they have converted the AI agent into a closed-source project after CrowdStrike said it was used to hack South Korean banks — The Chinese deve
Release: ttok 1.0 I released ttok 0.4, ran uv tool upgrade ttok, piped a file into the new version... and realized that it was defaulting to the GPT-4 tokenizer when it should very clearly default to
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: Warehouse robotics startup Ultra raised a 12M seed and a 50M Series A, and expands its deal with Physical Intelligence to supply AI software for its robots — Finance edito
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is fu
NVIDIA’s SimReady Foundation provides a five‑step workflow to convert CAD models into simulation‑ready OpenUSD assets for robotics. The process imports an ABB YuMi robot from STEP files, applies visua
Cade Metz / New York Times: A look at Emeryville, CA-based Atomic Machines, which is training AI on materials and designs to revamp how microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are built — Atomic Machine
Manus, the creator of the eponymous artificial intelligence agent, has raised more than 500 million in funding. The Chinese startup announced the round today. It stated that private equity firm Boyu C
The story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates and supports content about how technology and science are changing the way we liv
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: AI hardware startup Natura unveils Interface, a 99 smart ring that connects to AI agents and apps, including Claude, ChatGPT, Muse, Grok Bot, and Instinct — Meet Interface, a
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: AI retail trading agent startup Catalyst raised a $30M seed led by Sequoia and says a pilot generated hundreds of millions in trading volume over two weeks — Justin Zheng is
Ashley Campion / CrowdStrike: Analysis: the hacker who targeted South Korean banks is likely Chinese-speaking, financially motivated, and used LLMs and open-source Chinese agentic tool ARTEX — CrowdSt
Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse - including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and
Anthropic's offering to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities with a new service called OSS Scanner. It says open-source projects that opt-in will get 'thorough, periodic secur
Anthropic: Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, a free opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects; its AI-generated reports are sent without human review — We're launching OSS Scanner,
Sam Sabin / Axios: Anthropic launches the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program to provide AI models, threat research, and on-site support, starting with CrowdStrike and others — Anthropic is launch
Hayden Field / The Verge: Anthropic updates its usage policy to ban “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude; ending chats is “the primary enforcement mechanism” — The usage po
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Arena, which develops the popular AI model leaderboard, raised 200M at a 3.1B valuation, up from 1.7B in January, and launches an Alignment Index — Arena Intelligence Inc., th
For as long as Cisco Systems Inc. has held its WebexOne event, the show has aimed to drive thought leadership in the collaboration industry. This year, with artificial intelligence on tap, it had its
Automation Anywhere Inc., an enterprise agentic automation and orchestration firm, announced Wednesday an agreement to acquire Boost.ai Inc., a conversational voice artificial intelligence company, fr
Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI are making it possible to au
Vultr demonstrated its composable cloud platform at the Agent Arena Hackathon in San Francisco by partnering with Cerebral Valley to build production‑ready enterprise agentic AI systems using Serverle
The NVIDIA KGMON team secured second place in the KDD Cup 2026 Data Agents competition by building a constrained harness around a small fixed LLM, unifying heterogeneous data into an SQLite database w
My Decoder guest today is Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, and we’re discussing the new wave of consumer-friendly AI agents. If you’ve been paying attention to this space, you know AI ent
Enterprises racing to put agents into production are learning that the AI improvement loop never really ends. Agents must be run, observed, evaluated and improved continuously. CoreWeave Inc. has been
The full-stack AI cloud market is about more than access to graphics processing units: it also encompasses the tools needed to improve models and agents in production. Providers are seeking to disting
AI costs don’t always scale predictably with traffic. A retry loop, oversized context window, or unnecessarily expensive model can make a small number of traces disproportionately expensive. The post
Fraud prevention startup Darwinium UK Ltd. today launched two new capabilities that make intent intelligence the foundation of its platform. Journey Transition Probability flags unusual changes in the
Financial Times: Docs: OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was nearing 50B at the end of September, well below the 70B reported by the media based on investor docs — AI giant recently told in
Enterprise search and security company Elastic N.V. today introduced AlertZero, a team of specialized artificial intelligence agents for security operations. Built into Elastic Security, the agents ta
Today, we announced the new Gemini agent, your single, universal agent for work. For small and midsize businesses, with lean teams and margins, Gemini will be a critical tool for you to operate effici
Coverage period: July 1, 2026 through September 30, 2026 Overview This roundup consolidates selected major AI-related security incidents and exploit disclosures reported during the coverage period. It
Google LLC’s Cloud division today introduced Gemini agent, a unified artificial intelligence assistant that can act autonomously, generate code and complete work across any device, including web, mobi
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Google Cloud unveils a universal Gemini agent to handle multi-day enterprise workflows in Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack that supports several AI models — Google is un
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google debuts Google AI Edge Foresight, a local macOS note-taking app for meetings that uses its 740M-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 model and Gemma 4 assistant — Earlier in April
Google LLC is making its SynthID identification tools for artificial intelligence-created and AI-edited videos and images more widely available with the launch of a new service today that everyone can
Google is launching a 'universal' Gemini AI agent that can work across apps and devices in the background. The tool, announced as part of the Gemini at Work event on Thursday, will be available within
Public research universities solve some of society’s most urgent challenges, but turning ideas into breakthroughs requires fast, secure access to cutting edge technology. In the agentic AI era institu
Google has released an experimental note-taking app that can transcribe meetings and audio files entirely offline, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The app, called Google AI Edge Foresight, is free
In recent decades, Ireland has grown into a vibrant hub for global technology. As modernization accelerates, Irish organizations — spanning government agencies, established enterprise brands, and grow
Turning a simulation idea into a working application means assembling assets, connecting physics and rendering, and checking that the scene behaves as intended. Developers are combining frontier AI mo
Classification is one of the oldest problems in machine learning. Unlike modern decoding transformers, most classification models were non-autoregressive by nature. Before Jev, the common approaches w
Lakebase provides database‐branching functionality that lets coding agents work on isolated data copies during the agentic software development life cycle (SDLC). Each branch gives an agent its own sa
On-device personal AI requires models and agent software that can operate within fixed hardware limits. Developers also need ways to keep those systems improving after deployment. Model builders are r
Anniek Bao / CNBC: Manus' parent Butterfly Effect says it raised 500M+, led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, in its first funding since Meta was forced to unwind its Manus buyout — AI agent startup Ma
CNBC: Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave, and other AI stocks fell after a report that OpenAI's annualized revenue at September's end was $20B less than previously reported — Shares of Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeav
Nous Research Inc., the developer of the popular Hermes artificial intelligence agent, today announced that it has raised 90 million in funding. Early-stage startup fund Robot Ventures led the Series
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments gives AI agents a managed way to pay for services on demand, with spending limits enforced by the infrastructure. See how Incarna's agents pay BlockRun for model infe
Gears of War: E-Day leads the charge on GeForce NOW this week, bringing Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago’s first fight against the Locust Horde to the cloud with GeForce RTX-powered performance. A new wa
Rein Security Inc. said today it’s trying to help enterprises protect themselves against two distinct security threats relating to agentic artificial intelligence after raising 25 million in early-sta
A reference architecture for securely sharing one Amazon SageMaker HyperPod EKS cluster across multiple teams, using AWS IAM Identity Center for authentication, per-team SageMaker Domains and Kubernet
Bloomberg: Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $40B — Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug di
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time s
Release: ttok 0.4 ttok is my CLI tool for counting tokens, using OpenAI's open source tiktoken library. It hasn't been in updated in a couple of years, but I finally fixed a Click warning, updated CI,
USA Today Co., along with the several local newspapers it owns, is suing OpenAI over claims that the company copied 'hundreds of thousands' of articles to train its AI models, as reported earlier by R
Bloomberg: USV raised 900M, including a 500M early-stage fund, up from $275M in 2024, cuts general partnership to four investors, and aims to lead more AI rounds — New York City-based venture firm Uni