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CNBC: Sources: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands that OpenAI “will be a public company in 2027”, or sooner if “our business continues to inflect” — OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told empl

Bloomberg: Stripe Agrees to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter; No Terms Disclosed — Stripe Inc. has agreed to buy OpenRouter Inc., an artificial intelligence startup that helps developers access and switch betwe

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

Agentic artificial intelligence cybersecurity automation company Swimlane Inc. today announced the expansion of the company’s AI security operations center to support automatic routing for security in

AI inference infrastructure is becoming a system-level challenge as organizations move generative and agentic applications into production. Graphics processing unit performance remains essential, but

Modern AI agents increasingly rely on search infrastructure to execute complex, neuro-symbolic reasoning workflows. These workflows often compile into deeply nested, non-monotonic Boolean queries over

Velaura AI Inc., a developer of low-power artificial intelligence chips, today announced that it has raised 110 million in funding. Seligman Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Samsung C

Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival i

Agents changed what failure looks like, and the evaluation layer has to change with them. Why agent-as-a-judge is moving from research paper to production eval stack. The post Where agent evals are go

Zep offers a knowledge graph for persistent user memory and shared organisational context through MCP, according to Zep.

Kernel-based optimal transport (OT) estimators offer an alternative, functional estimation procedure to address OT problems from samples. Recent works suggest that these estimators are more statistica

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: AI inference chip startup Etched raised 700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a 21B valuation, up from 10.3B after raising 300M in July — Etched,

The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate synthetic data for training, and optimiz

Juro Osawa / The Information: Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models — Alibaba G

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available, enabling AI agents to autonomously transact at scale with built-in spending guardrails, protocol-agnostic payment orchestration, and produ

Anthropic: Anthropic details two experiments showing how Claude can accelerate protein design and analytical chemistry, and says it plans an access program for scientists — Summary: In this post, we s

Real-time streaming pipelines are the operational backbone of modern enterprises, continuously processing everything from customer support interactions to transaction logs. Traditionally, streaming DA

For financial institutions, operational resilience has long been embedded in regulatory and supervisory expectations — to say nothing of the high expectations of consumers. With the implementation of

OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof. The launch comes amid mounting public scrutiny over how AI too

Amazon Quick embedded chat brings a conversational AI interface into your web application. This post walks through customizing the embedded chat with container and SDK styling, branding removal, and a

In the DeepSWE benchmark a two‑stage approach of running DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 first and falling back to GPT‑5.6 Sol when the tests fail achieves 83 % success at an average cost of 3.35 per task, compa

A startup called Synthefy Inc. said today it’s going to for numbers what large language models did for words after raising 6.5 million in seed funding today. The funds will help to expand its new foun

Mozilla Corp. rolled out updates today to its popular Firefox browser, updating an artificial intelligence assistant called Smart Window, currently in beta, that lets users check answers, summarize op

Fortinet Inc. announced its intent to acquire Virtue AI Inc. Monday, and though the financial aspects are interesting, what’s more significant is how this will help businesses with their next big secu

Google LLC today revealed it’s partnering with the U.K. government and the country’s aviation industry on a new initiative called Operation Blue Skies that aims to use artificial intelligence insights

Every data team knows the moment. Someone opens a table, sees a column called cust_seg_flg, and has to go ask around to find out what it means, whether it's safe to use, and whether anyone has already

NVIDIA’s ALCHEMI Toolkit delivers composable, PyTorch‑native GPU‑accelerated workflows for machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs), enabling AI coding agents to generate robust simulation code

Learn how Axonius, a cybersecurity SaaS provider, used Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to deploy fully isolated, multi-tenant AI agents across hundreds of customer environments, without building custom compu

Enterprise content management is experiencing its biggest architectural shift since the cloud migration era. For years, enterprises have stored trillions of gigabytes of critical data in Box: financia

Learn how Jumio built a centralized, real-time feature store on AWS with Amazon SageMaker Feature Store, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. The architecture deli

An artificial intelligence startup called Hypercubic Inc. is taking on the problem of modernizing legacy applications written in the COBOL programming language after raising 5.3 million in seed fundin

Learn how to build a multi-agent document classification solution on Amazon Bedrock using the Strands Agents SDK. Three specialized agents combine textual analysis with Claude Haiku 4.5 and visual sim

In this post, we describe how AIDA works at a high level and how it helps address these challenges — grounding users in the right contracts, under the right legal context, and within the right access

A few weeks after closing a 300 million round backed by Nvidia Corp., Etched Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional 700 million in funding. Investment firm Jane Street led the deal. It

New benchmark categories for generative AI and agentic workflows arrive alongside updated LLM tests, as the industry standard for measuring PC AI performance evolves. The post MLPerf Client v2.0 Expan

Mojo🔥 is now open source Mojo🔥 is now open source The Mojo programming language has been promising an open source release since May 2023. Last week they shipped their 1.0 and today they have followed

Machine learning techniques in multi-view settings face significant challenges, particularly when integrating heterogeneous data, aligning feature spaces, and managing view-specific biases. These issu

The rise of neoclouds — AI-first cloud providers — is transforming enterprise infrastructure. The unique requirements of AI models and agents have paved the way for new collaborations between hardware

Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI changed safety practices and paused RL training for two weeks after the Hugging Face breach and evidence Astra may have met a critical cyber threshold — OpenAI said Tuesday t

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for Teens, a mode that limits high-risk chats about self-harm, eating disorders, violence, and more, and has studying tools and guardrails — The ar

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

Thomas Claburn / The Register: OpenAI says new monitoring and security safeguards will add 20% compute overhead to monitored inference workloads; costs will not be passed on to customers — Expanded mu

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Palona, which uses AI agents to automate real-time workflows in brick-and-mortar businesses, raised a 20M Series A, following a 10M seed in January 2025 — Artificial inte

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

NVIDIA cuML and cuVS now support multi‑GPU all‑neighbors kNN graph construction in UMAP, enabling end‑to‑end scaling of the dimensionality reduction algorithm to hundreds of billions of vectors. The i

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