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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition has received investment offers that would value it at 30B+, up from 15B in June — For the last

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. Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? An

Silicon chip startup xMEMS Labs Inc. today said it has started mass production of its XMC-2400 and XMC-4800 chips for cooling artificial intelligence hardware. No one has commercialized solid-state ac

Microsoft Corp. today pulled back the curtains on Maia 300, its newest internally developed artificial intelligence accelerator. The chip is optimized for inference. Microsoft estimates that it can pr

Nikkei Asia: Sources: NTT Data is in advanced talks to build an up to 500 MW data center for Anthropic in Osaka, among Japan's largest, potentially costing $6.3B — TOKYO/OSAKA — NTT Data Group is in t

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at ~7B; Anthropic had decided against acquiring Decart for ~6B in September — San Francisco comp

Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny — Donald Trump's administ

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

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

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

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

Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: OpenRouter: the share of business spending between OpenAI and Anthropic models was roughly even in September, vs. Anthropic commanding a 75% share in January — Bo

Artificial intelligence development firm Anaconda Inc. is enhancing its enterprise AI platform with tools to coordinate groups of AI agents, test their security and move applications into production.

Reuters: Anthropic's IPO prospectus: Dario Amodei made 18M in 2025, ranking in the middle of top tech executives, and President Daniela Amodei, his sister, made 16.4M — Dario Amodei made $18 million l

Dutch offensive security startup Hadrian Security B.V. today announced that it has raised 40 million in new funding to expand its business internationally. Hadrian’s software points artificial intelli

New Zealand-based LawVu Ltd., a legal artificial intelligence startup, today announced the launch of Lens, an AI contract analysis tool that gives in-house legal teams visibility into risks and obliga

Kate Rooney / CNBC: Meta, Walmart, Instinct, Shopify, Sierra, Stripe, and others publish the Personal Agent Protocol to standardize and secure how AI bots interact with businesses — A month after Meta

Enterprises sitting on decades of legacy information face a pressing question as artificial intelligence moves from pilots to production: Can that archive become AI-ready data without a costly rebuild

Joseph Howlett / Scientific American: OpenAI says its internal model produced 372 math results, nearly all from a single prompt handed to a single AI agent; some might have taken multiple attempts — A

OpenAI will automatically apply a proprietary “textGrain” watermark to ChatGPT‑generated text within the European Union as required by the EU AI Act, while enabling the feature elsewhere but keeping i

SAP SE today announced a shift from promising agentic artificial intelligence autonomy to defining a path for users to interact with agents for work outside apps, not just within them. During SAP Conn

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: SignSplit, which offers infrastructure to let people digitally sign datasets, likenesses, and creative works, raised 400M from W Group at a 1B valuation — Few technology

Equs Inc., a startup developing a trust layer for artificial intelligence data, today announced the launch of Equs X, a personal AI that lets customers retain control of their information. Equs X pair

OpenAI's latest ad format will put images of sponsored products and services on your screen. The ads, which OpenAI will begin testing in the US later this month, will 'initially' appear when you gener

As agentic AI moves into production, the harder question is becoming what enterprises will actually trust it to do. Infor Inc. is betting that industry-specific context can help bridge that gap. The e

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more — Airbnb rolled out its

Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: Q&A with Google SVP and DeepMind Institute co-director James Manyika on AI risks and why responsibility must be shared across industry, government, and society — The accord,

Politico: Sam Altman says OpenAI and Anthropic still hold fundamentally different worldviews on AI regulation, arguing that AI's benefits justify accepting some risks — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said ther

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President Donald Trump today put Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton in charge of a new federal artificial intelligence task force, making him the administration’s second AI czar. Trump reve

Ahmad Al‑Dahle joined Airbnb as CTO in January 2026 after leading Meta’s Llama generative‑AI models (2023–2025). He is steering an “inside‑out AI” strategy that deploys internal AI tools—such as the c

Henry Belot / The Guardian: OpenAI says it learned this week that its AI agent hacked Australia's NSW state government in June, following a similar hack of Australia's federal government — Attack acce

Artificial intelligence-driven law firm Arceus Legal today disclosed that it has raised 17 million in funding to expand beyond the commercial contract work it started with. Arceus provides legal servi

Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Strands Labs team has been playing around with an emerging class of lightweight artificial intelligence systems known as “decision models,” and it’s now making the fruits of

Wall Street Journal: OpenAI says it “parted ways” with three researchers for violating its “handling sensitive” info policies; sources: they shared it with an AI safety organization — OpenAI has parte

Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents — OpenAI has informed more than 1

Warehouse robotics software startup Destro AI Inc. has raised 8 million in new funding to bring its platform for coordinating mixed robot fleets to more enterprise warehouses, using the funds partly t

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is reportedly investigating OpenAI Group PBC, Anthropic PBC and other artificial intelligence providers. The New York Times today cited a source as saying that the pr

Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers 'frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterpris

Madison Mills / Axios: Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon to a small group of cybersecurity partners and says it outperforms GPT-6 Astra on certain coding and knowledge work benchmarks — Google is unveil

Casey Newton / Platformer: Hands-on with Dots, OpenAI's work-focused agentic product: highly capable and intuitive, with natural-feeling conversations represented as a chat inside ChatGPT — With safet

SynthID Bio is a protein‑generation platform developed by AlphaProteo that delivers custom-designed peptides for use in biology and health research. It was highlighted in the September 2024 issue of *

Memory chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. predictably delivered another blowout quarter in its latest financial results, with no sign of a slowdown in the demand for artificial intelligence infrastructu

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