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Firecrawl Inc., a provider of web scraping tools for artificial intelligence agents, today announced that it has raised 75 million in funding. Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Smash Ventures led

Identity security now determines how safely artificial intelligence agents can access systems and act across enterprise workflows. As AI agents log in to applications and execute tasks, companies must

NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 introduces a 3D‑Guided Neural Rendering system that adds realistic lighting and material detail to the renderer’s frame while preserving artistic intent; it operates one‑frame‑in/one‑f

Business identity and risk infrastructure startup Baselayer is shifting its attention to artificial intelligence agents after raising 35 million in early-stage funding today. Alongside the Series A ro

Global technology company Xiaomi Corp. today announced the release and open-sourcing of its MiMo-V2.6 series generative artificial intelligence models today, which includes two natively omnimodal mode

Clean energy isn’t hard to come by, but the pace of large-scale adoption has historically been slow due to bottlenecks — including out-of-date infrastructure, elongated research and development timeli

Maria Curi / Axios: Ahead of Sam Altman's UN address, OpenAI urges the US to lead an effort to develop global safety and security standards for building frontier systems — OpenAI on Monday released in

AI security is an engineering problem. That means defined security requirements, enforceable controls, named owners and evidence that protections work. As AI becomes more capable, the industry must ac

Reuters: Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu says the company plans to train a 5T- to 10T-parameter AI model, as it lays out a sweeping push across AI models, chips, and data centers — Alibaba Group (9988.HK) plans

Bloomberg: Alibaba's T-Head unveils the Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, which it says triples its predecessor's performance and can scale to clusters of up to 500K units — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is ro

Amazon.com Inc. has blocked Meta Platforms Inc.’s Muse artificial intelligence agent from accessing its e-commerce marketplace. The cloud and online retail giant notified users of the move late Sunday

Meta's Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports. A popup message started appearing on Sunday for Muse users saying that 'continued access by an unau

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI assistant from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and merchant consent — Amazon says it

Amazon Web Services Inc. says it’s trying to help developers solve the problem of scaling artificial intelligence agents to cloud environments with the launch of Strands Harness, an open-source agent

Financial Times: Big Tech is increasingly using residual value guarantees for off-balance sheet AI spend, giving Nvidia and Broadcom a way to support their customers' purchases — Wall Street finds new

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: British Columbia sues OpenAI for alleged safety violations and negligence for failing to flag the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect's ChatGPT activity to police — The

Today, Egypt’s AI builders gathered in the Grand Egyptian Museum for a reception that highlighted the nation’s rapidly growing AI ecosystem — spanning AI natives, developers, researchers, startups and

Demand for AI infrastructure is at an all-time high. Global accelerator shortages mean engineering teams can rarely get all the compute they need from just one data center — capacity comes a cluster h

Google LLC today announced the launch of its Googlebook lineup, a new family of lightweight, higher-power laptops in the Chromebook legacy that feature artificial intelligence and can run Android apps

Learn how Benchling built a defense-in-depth security architecture to run untrusted, AI agent-generated scientific code across thousands of life sciences tenants using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code In

BMW Group operates CLEA, a FinOps platform monitoring more than 14,000 cloud accounts. This post shows how BMW added automated daily cost anomaly detection, moving from reactive dashboards to proactiv

Agent evaluation is moving from scoring individual function calls to judging full task completion within executable environments that track state over multi‑step tool use. Scoring occurs at two levels

Last week TypeSafe AI unveiled Jev, their first example of a new category of model that they are calling 'System One models' (I'm with Maggie Appleton, I think 'decision models' is a better name for t

LittleHorse Enterprises LLC, a maker of workflow orchestration software spanning multiple applications, today announced version 1.3 of its Saddle Command Center, adding no-code agent deployment, prebu

The surge in AI development has created unprecedented demand for compute capacity around the globe. This can have negative implications for data processing and pipelines with Apache Spark. Whether you

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: MiMo-V2.6-Pro ties Grok 4.7 (xHigh) and beats GLM-5.3 (max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, making it the benchmark's top-scoring open-weight model — That puts

Bloomberg: Nscale's S-1: Microsoft and Anthropic account for 85% of its 103B in total contract value, only 2.6B of contract value was active as of late August, and more — Nscale's 1,000-fold increase

Every AI factory needs power and cooling that fit its computing architecture. As AI infrastructure expands, power, cooling, water, site and grid constraints are shaping what builders can deploy. Choos

Salesforce Inc. keeps putting all of its eggs in the agent basket — but the strategy appears to be paying off so far. At Dreamforce 2026, Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce, bantered

OpenAI: OpenAI says it is working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to responsibly share math-related AI advances — Loading... On August 28, we began training a new internal model.

EXL built an AI-powered Medical intelligent document processing (IDP) solution on AWS, combining IDP with domain-specific large language models on Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock to extract, summa

Positron, Posit's IDE for data science, now runs on Amazon SageMaker AI. This post shows how a data scientist explores an Amazon Athena table, validates features in R, trains an XGBoost model in Pytho

When running modern AI workloads, there’s often a conflict between performance and cost. Workloads like large language models (LLMs) load massive files, and may serve thousands of AI agents that need

Bloomberg: Sensor Tower: Muse was downloaded 902K+ times in the six days after its launch on Sept. 8, vs. Meta AI's 773K in the same post-launch period; META jumps 12%+ — Meta Platforms Inc.'s new art

Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: Shopify plans to allow Meta's Muse to complete purchases on behalf of users at Shopify-powered stores via its one-tap checkout service Shop Pay — Shopify plans to

NVIDIA TensorRT’s multi‑device inference lets a single TensorRT network span multiple GPUs using NCCL‑backed collectives, preserving all standard optimizations and supported from TensorRT 11.0 onward.

Bloomberg: Some startups, like Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, and Rogo, are embracing open-weight models or training their own models to reduce expensive reliance on frontier labs — The $15.6 billion legal st

The Information: Source: before the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI was negotiating a legally binding deal with Anthropic for the companies to stress-test each other's models — OpenAI is rethinking a ra

The Information: Sources: OpenAI is developing features to counter SpaceX's Grok Bot “teammates”, and has discussed creating a personal AI assistant to compete with Meta's Muse — OpenAI pioneered AI t

NVIDIA Earth‑2 is an AI‑driven data‑assimilation platform that ingests observations from proprietary or third‑party sources—such as satellites, radar, and in‑situ sensors—to generate more frequent wea

Governments need to rein in increasingly capable AI agents before their risks are fully understood, a United Nations scientific panel warned in the global organization's first major assessment of Open

Yash Roy / Bloomberg: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says OpenAI's Hugging Face hacking incident is “the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents” — Treasury Secretary Scott

Physical AI is moving rapidly from research to large-scale deployment. By 2035, ABI Research projects an installed base of 49 million level 3-5 autonomous vehicles (AVs), while Omdia estimates that ro

xAI's Grok 4.6 is now available in Amazon Bedrock: a frontier model for long-running agents, coding, and knowledge work, with a 500K token context window and four reasoning effort levels. It runs on b

Xiaomi: Xiaomi debuts open-weight omnimodal models MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash; Pro allegedly performs “on par with Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol across most agent benchmarks” — Frontier intelligence, all the mo

Owen Walker / Financial Times: AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansion in response to government overtures — Anthrop