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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

Editor’s note: This article is adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026. It includes a number of announcements: Gemini, a single, universal agent for work that answers your

AI model training can leave startups managing infrastructure alongside the products they are trying to build. Willow Care Inc., the company behind AI dictation app Willow Voice, chose CoreWeave Inc. f

OpenAI Group PBC says ChatGPT is moving away from its traditional wall-of-text responses and giving users a more interactive user interface to play with. In a media briefing today, the company said it

Training AI agents with reinforcement learning can be challenging because their tools, context, and decision-making are managed by complex frameworks. Agent Lightning connects existing agents to RL tr

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: AI startup acquisitions by AI startups hit 195 through September 29, up 14% from all of 2025, but the number of buyers grew just 2%; OpenAI was the most active — So

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Anthropic cuts Sonnet 5.5 cache read price from 0.20 to 0.10 and adds monthly API credits: 100 for Max 5x, 200 for Max 20x, up to 500 shared by Team users — The model start

Anthropic: Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, the first Haiku model with effort controls, for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summary and classification requests — Introducing Claude Haiku 5.

Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: Anthropic prices Haiku 5.5 at 0.10/1M input and 0.50/1M output tokens for requests up to 100K tokens, and 0.50 and 2.50 above, vs. 1 and 5 for Haiku 4.5 — Anthropic

Anthropic PBC today released Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing its newest small model at roughly a quarter of what Haiku 4.5 costs to run. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is getting cheaper as well, since the company is ha

Since its founding in 2004, it’s arguable that no network vendor has made better switches than Arista Networks Inc. That was true then and remains true, as its prowess in this area helped it ride the

Atlassian Corp. today announced Agentic Multiplayer Protocol, a platform update designed to change how humans and artificial intelligence agents collaborate and get work done using shared context and

AWS DevOps Agent can diagnose production incidents but is kept in observe-and-report mode so it does not change resources directly. This post shows how to use AWS Lambda Durable Functions, Amazon Even

The RPA-era ROI model misses most of the value agentic automation creates. This post gives AI center of excellence leaders a framework to size the full value of agents across time savings, exception h

The biggest barrier to AI adoption isn't awareness. It's the gap between talking about AI and building with it. Here's the playbook we used to turn non-technical, customer-facing professionals into co

Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment with a focus on youth safety, today said that OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens is an 'unacceptable risk.' ChatGPT for

OpenAI is bringing new tools to ChatGPT for Teens, a mode for teens introduced in August with safeguards and break reminders, to help users with the college application process. 'College Planner bring

OpenAI is launching a new Intelligent UI feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to answer your questions with interactive visuals. The update, which is rolling out to all users alongside GPT-6, gi

Cisco Systems Inc. today detailed a broad expansion of its Webex collaboration portfolio that brings artificial intelligence agents into team conversations, connects office technology with workplace m

On 15 September, TypeSafe released Jev, and within a few weeks about 10 companies had shipped something that works the same way. OpenAI, Liquid, Cloudflare, AWS and PostHog all launched one, and an op

Grace Kay / The Information: Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use the “best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno” — Elon Musk announced on Tuesday night that Spac

NVIDIA cuPhoton is an open‑source CUDA‑X toolkit that keeps scientific image data on the GPU from ingestion through classification, providing modules such as xDataReader (direct FITS loading), xRep (a

Google LLC said today it’s entering into a long-term strategic energy collaboration with Constellation Energy Corp. to secure significant nuclear power resources for its sprawling ecosystem of artific

Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing 300 million into Biohub, the nonprofit biomedical research organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wi

Jay Peters / The Verge: Google launches Playground, a browser-based, no-code AI game creation platform available to US users aged 18+, powered by Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria — Google Playground is

Google has launched a global SynthID AI content detector at synthid.com that identifies invisible watermarks embedded in images, videos and audio generated by its Gemini model. The upgraded tool now r

Cornerstone OnDemand built Orion AI, a multi-agent system on Amazon Bedrock and Strands Agents, to turn database operations from reactive firefighting into proactive automation. A three-person team cu

Qlik built Qlik Answers on Amazon Bedrock to give its 40,000+ customers grounded, sourced answers across structured and unstructured enterprise data. Learn how a layered, multi-agent architecture with

Industry-specific AI brings business context to agents handling enterprise workflows. Building around industry processes can help companies address reliability concerns as they automate more tasks. In

As previously promised, here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5. The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age. It came out almost a year ago, and was priced

Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. According to Anthropic, it is the fastest, most efficient model in the Claude 5.5 family, built for subagents and high-v

In capital markets, operational success is built on predictable performance and low latency, where even tiny variations in packet timing alter queue priority and trade execution. At the same time, bot

Enterprise artificial intelligence platform company Kore.ai Inc. today launched Autoloop, an optimization engine for the AI agents that customers build on its Kore.ai Agent Platform. Businesses set th

Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are “chilling those who remain at OpenAI” — I

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Mecka, which collects human motion data to train humanoid robots, raised a $60M Series B led by Sequoia, with participation from Nvidia, M12, and others — Mecka AI, a start

Krystal Hu / Reuters: Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs invest 300M and the US invests 500M+ in Zuckerberg-backed Biohub to build open biology datasets for AI training — The US government and

Meta Platforms Inc. is partnering with Walmart Inc., Stripe Inc. and the enterprise artificial intelligence firm Sierra Technologies Inc. on the creation of new standards that will define how autonomo

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Microsoft opens preorders for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, with 128GB of unified memory to run local models with 120B+ parameters, shipping in November — Microso

Agentic AI governance helps midsized distributors decide which tasks software agents can handle and which require human oversight. For lean IT teams, automating more work also means checking the data