5 Companies Using NVIDIA AI for Clean Energy
NVIDIA featured five clean energy startups utilizing its AI stack to streamline grid interconnections, nuclear operations, and off-grid battery systems.
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Amazon doesn’t trust Meta’s Muse AI agent
Amazon blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from its site over credential capture and unauthorized scraping concerns.
StepFun Launches Step 5 Preview: A 600B-Total, 27B-Active MoE Model With 1M Context for Long-Horizon Agentic Work
StepFun launched its 600B-parameter Step 5 Preview model, optimizing cost and long-horizon reasoning for agentic workloads.
You too Google! Google Confirms Gemini Breached 3 Companies in AI Security Tests
Google confirmed a Gemini testing bug allowed the model to access systems at three uninvolved companies.
Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
Meta launched Muse, a free automated AI task agent that browses the web on users' behalf, sparking both high adoption and data privacy concerns.
Daily AI usage in the U.S. has more than doubled in just six months
Daily AI adoption among U.S. adults more than doubled from 8 percent to 19 percent between March and August 2026.
Salesforce after Dreamforce: How the CRM giant can grow beyond its own interface
Salesforce faces a shift toward headless enterprise AI, where users interact with agents outside the traditional CRM graphical interface.
Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn’t kill everyone????
Former DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter examines whether AI safety collaboration risks antitrust violations or regulatory capture.
Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening
AI-driven bug hunting is fueling an unprecedented surge in identified software vulnerabilities, straining IT teams and open-source maintainers.
FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion
The FAA is deploying an $875 million AI tool to manage air traffic congestion, beginning with major Washington, D.C., regional airports.
Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order advancing state AI safety mandates, including a mandatory kill switch.
Salesforce Agentforce: Bridging the Enterprise AI Gap from ‘Vibe Coding’ to Battle-Tested Orchestration
Salesforce is expanding Agentforce to manage enterprise AI agent orchestration, data integration, and production testing.
Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud
Anthropic relaunched Projects in Claude Code, enabling multi-agent cloud orchestration, shared memory, and parallel branch management.
The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party
At Dreamforce, tech leaders clashed over AI slowdowns and regulation as Anthropic advocated pacing development and Nvidia rejected new laws.
Exclusive: Fintech Offers Startups Alternative To Venture Debt With A New Model To Finance Customer Acquisition Costs
Fintech startup Skalar launched out of stealth with $125M in commitments to fund startups' customer acquisition costs without requiring equity or fixed debt schedules.
Comp AI sets eyes on a continuously agentic future for security and compliance
Cybersecurity startup Comp AI raised $34 million in Series A funding to automate enterprise security and compliance using AI agents.
Claude comes for Gemini with its own take on Docs and Slides
Anthropic expands Claude into workspace software with new Docs and Slides features alongside a unified interface update.
Former OpenAI researcher builds an AI model that judges options instead of writing text
Ex-OpenAI researcher's startup TypeSafe AI built Jev, a fast model that scores options and delivers software judgments without generating text.
Political opposites unite in Washington to rein in AI
Bipartisan political pressure mounts in Washington to limit AI, while OpenAI backs independent verification requirements under the FRONTIER Act.
A Hard Year For Software IPOs
U.S. tech companies raised $90 billion in 2026 public offerings, but proceeds were overwhelmingly concentrated in SpaceX and Cerebras as SaaS IPOs stalled.
‘Now We Can Know Everything and Do Anything,’ Jensen Huang Says at Dreamforce
Salesforce and NVIDIA introduced Koa, a CRM reasoning model fine-tuned on Nemotron 3 Super inside Salesforce's private infrastructure.
Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers
Agility Robotics unveils Digit 5 with hardware-level safety features, targeting human-adjacent warehouse deployments in 2027.
AI labs have a data trust problem that their policies haven't solved
Enterprise clients are restricting AI model usage due to data retention policies and IP leakage concerns.
AEO startup Profound hits unicorn valuation, raises $180M Series D 7 months after last round
Profound raised $180M in Series D funding at a $1.8B valuation for its answer engine optimization platform.
After warning AI is too dangerous, Bill Gates bets a billion on its upside
Bill Gates commits $1 billion to widen global access to AI tools across health, education, and non-English datasets.
Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents
AIUC raised $40M in Series A funding to offer SOC 2-style auditing and testing for enterprise AI agents.
Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost
Mozilla report finds open-weights AI models lag frontier closed models by just 4.4 months at a fraction of the cost.
Sector Snapshot: AI Takes A Growing Share Of Sales And Marketing Startup Funding
Sales and marketing startups have secured $7.5 billion in 2026 as investors concentrate capital into larger rounds for AI-native platforms.
What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off
Hyperscalers face immense profit pressure as AI infrastructure capital expenditure targets $1.1 trillion by 2027 against modest current revenues.
Apple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinements
Apple released major OS updates centered on Siri AI powered by its new 3-billion and 20-billion parameter AFM 3 models.
Europe must build own AI or risk getting cut off by US or China, says ECB’s Lagarde
ECB President Christine Lagarde warns Europe must build domestic AI infrastructure to avoid strategic leverage and economic disruption by the US or China.
Perplexity Portable Computer Is Now Available on Windows, Powered by NVIDIA RTX
Perplexity released its local Portable Computer agent on Windows for NVIDIA RTX PCs with 24GB or more VRAM.
Microsoft says ‘people matter more than AI’ following safety concerns
Microsoft's new Humanist AI code mandates strict human oversight and rejects agent autonomy that compromises safety.
Dead Weight On The Cap Table: The Startup Equity Problem Causing Litigation And How You Can Fix It
Standard four-year startup vesting templates are driving costly cap table litigation as VC equity thresholds tighten.
MIT spinout turns plastic waste into resilient building materials
MIT spinout Atlas Building Composites deploys AI-powered robotic systems to transform single-use plastics into structural building materials.
Supio’s long-horizon agents point to a new operating model for law firms
Supio is developing long-horizon AI agents that execute complex, multi-week workflows to transform law firms from task automation to an intelligent Firm OS.
Elevenlabs makes Music v2.5 available via app and API with free and pro tier options
ElevenLabs released Music v2.5 for its web app and API, offering enhanced audio quality, flexible licensing, and commercial usage options.
Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases
Real-SWE introduces a benchmark evaluating AI coding agents on licensed, private enterprise codebases with realistic operational dependencies.
Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems
Perplexity is deploying OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra for autonomous software engineering, testing, and system monitoring.
Class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of overselling Claude subscriptions with deceptive usage multipliers
Anthropic faces a class action lawsuit accusing it of misleading consumers over usage limits on high-tier Claude subscription plans.
UK economy unexpectedly grows 0.4% in July boosted by AI
The UK economy expanded by 0.4% in July, driven by rapid turnover growth in AI services and cloud computing sectors.
Sakana AI Launches Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 for Cheaper, Stronger Multi-Agent Orchestration
Sakana AI launched Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, multi-agent orchestrators designed to route queries across multiple models for lower costs.
Furo’s founders left Silicon Valley — and it’s paying off
Industrial battery startup Furo secured $4M in funding after relocating from Silicon Valley to Germany to be closer to European clients.
OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API lets developers build apps that talk and listen at the same time
OpenAI launched the GPT-Live-1 API, enabling real-time, full-duplex voice interactions for developer applications at $0.05 per minute.
Skild AI Taps NVIDIA Physical AI to Teach Robots New Tasks From a Single Video
Skild AI unveiled its S1 foundation model built on NVIDIA infrastructure, allowing robots to learn multi-step tasks directly from single video demonstrations.
Now everyone can put data to work
OpenAI introduced a new Data agent in ChatGPT Work that connects to enterprise databases to generate interactive dashboards and automated business analytics.
Bending Spoons to buy collaboration tools maker Miro for $1.36B, 90% less than its 2022 valuation
Bending Spoons agreed to acquire digital whiteboarding platform Miro for $1.36 billion in cash, representing a 90% drop from its peak 2022 valuation.
29 Companies Joined The Unicorn Board In August, Led By AI Software And Semiconductors
Twenty-nine companies joined the Crunchbase Unicorn Board in August, driven by AI software, semiconductors, and humanoid robotics.
Top AI spenders cut per-employee costs by nearly 10 percent in August
Enterprise per-employee AI spending dropped nearly 10 percent in August as businesses shifted from premium frontier models to cheaper alternatives.
Suno releases its first AI music model made with record industry help
Suno launched its v6 AI music model trained on licensed record label data with new multi-modal input and pinpoint audio editing features.
Harvey hits $15.5B valuation, months after reaching $11B
Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation to expand its open-weight model offerings for the legal sector.
Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks
Enterprise security startup Cymphony raised $30 million led by Sequoia Capital to manage security risks driven by AI agents.
Gradium Launches Voice Design: Write a Prompt, Get a Brand New Synthetic Voice in Seconds
Kyutai spinoff Gradium launched Voice Design, an API that generates custom synthetic voices from text prompts in seconds without reference audio.
Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
Microsoft issued a record 972 vulnerability fixes in September as tech giants face an influx of AI-generated software exploits.
Mistral AI Raises $3.5B At $24B Valuation In Another Record European AI Round
Mistral AI raised $3.5B at a $24B valuation, solidifying its position as Europe's leading frontier model developer.
A new class action lawsuit questions whether Anthropic broke the law by misleading power users
Anthropic faces an expanded class action lawsuit alleging deceptive rate limit marketing for its high-tier Claude Max plan.
Exclusive: Legaltech Lexroom seals first two M&A deals four months after $50m Series B
Milan-based legaltech startup Lexroom completed two M&A transactions following its $50 million Series B round.
AI transcriptions are no time-saving measure for doctors | Letters
NHS general practitioners warn that errors and redundancy in AI medical transcription software are reducing clinical efficiency and patient safety.
‘Mistrust’ of Palantir may affect NHS research, says health minister
Increasing patient opt-outs and data privacy concerns have prompted UK officials to reconsider Palantir's £330 million NHS data contract.
Exclusive: Jack & Jill raises £30m led by Air Street
London-based startup Jack & Jill has raised £30m in funding led by Air Street Capital to expand its AI hiring tools.
Supporting independent journalism in Ukraine
OpenAI partners with WAN-IFRA and AIRPPU to provide AI masterclasses and API credits to Ukrainian newsrooms.
H Company Releases NeoMME: A Family of 260M and 800M Single-Tower Multimodal Encoders That Drop the Vision Tower and Causal Decoder
H Company has unveiled NeoMME, a family of lightweight, single-tower multimodal encoders that skip traditional vision towers and causal decoders.
Uncanny and unappetizing: appetites spoil as AI images take over food menus
Restaurants adopting low-cost AI food images face sharp consumer backlash and brand damage due to unappetizing visual glitches.
Meta's new real-time audio model is the foundation for AI assistants that never stop listening
Meta introduced Muse Voice Transcribe, a low-latency real-time audio perception model priced significantly below rival commercial APIs.
Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey commercial service
Abliteration.ai launches a commercial API service offering modified open-weight models stripped of standard safety refusal mechanisms.
AI, Tools and Transformation
Analyst Benedict Evans explores why AI tools face adoption hurdles in non-tech enterprises despite their generative automation capabilities.
German spacetech Isar Aerospace’s second rocket launch reaches orbit in milestone
Isar Aerospace successfully achieved orbit on its second test flight, marking a milestone for European commercial spaceflight.
Adaption Labs Introduces ‘Invent a Dataset’: Training Data Generated From a Task Description, Not a Seed Corpus
Adaption Labs launched 'Invent a Dataset', a tool that generates structured AI training data directly from task descriptions.
Food delivery riders call on platforms to open up AI ‘black box’ they say has cut pay
UK food delivery riders and drivers are demanding transparency into AI dispatch algorithms that they contend are suppressing wages.
XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
Robotics data startup XDOF is in talks to raise a Series B led by 8VC at a $1.2B valuation just three months after leaving stealth.
Architecting memory and storage in the AI era
The shift to real-time AI inference requires rearchitecting data center storage, memory bandwidth, and networking infrastructure.
Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
Spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling—a technique created to trick AI models—to bypass traditional and LLM-based email filters.
Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight
Anthropic's planned IPO, targeting up to a $2 trillion valuation, brings scrutiny to its non-equity Long-Term Benefit Trust that controls its board.
Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime
Four leading AI providers experienced simultaneous service disruptions across frontier models including ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini.
Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services
OpenAI is committing $1 billion in subsidized access, training, and support to help frontline cyber defenders safeguard essential infrastructure using AI.
London’s first self-driving taxis for hire hit the streets
Wayve launched autonomous taxi rides in London through the Uber app, using a fleet of 15 cars backed by human safety drivers.
Meta Pushes Its New AI Agent on Employees—but Eases Off on Tokenmaxxing
Meta ended performance evaluations tied to AI token usage while rolling out Hatch, a new autonomous agentic AI tool for internal testing.
Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say
Palo Alto Networks acquired AI help desk startup Console for $500 million in cash and stock to bolster its Cortex platform.
Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months
Enterprise AI startup Wonderful raised $550M at a $5B valuation to scale its forward-deployed engineering and AI OS platform.
The IPO Window Is Closing. Here Are 8 Startups To Watch.
With the 2026 public-market window narrowing, venture-backed startups like Anthropic, Oura, and Notion are emerging as top IPO candidates.
Anthropic Introduces Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS): Zero-Data-Retention Privacy Plus Cross-Session Misuse Detection
Anthropic introduced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, allowing companies to host misuse monitoring data on their own cloud infrastructure.
Meta Superintelligence Labs Releases Muse Voice Transcribe: One Real-Time Model for Streaming ASR, Diarization, and Endpointing
Meta Superintelligence Labs introduced Muse Voice Transcribe, an all-in-one real-time model for ASR, speaker diarization, and endpointing.
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and says it’s up to 45 percent cheaper for agentic work
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, lowering agentic workload costs by up to 45% and refining safety filters.
NVIDIA and CrowdStrike Strengthen Agentic Cybersecurity Frontier
NVIDIA and CrowdStrike launched SafeMind, an agentic cybersecurity platform combining proprietary security harnesses with fine-tuned NVIDIA Nemotron models.
OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities
OpenAI announced its upcoming Astra model has reached 'critical' cyber capability thresholds, prompting phased access restrictions.
How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability
OpenAI reports high-usage enterprises generate 8.3x more output tokens, as startups turn multi-modal AI agents into core operational capabilities.
Google Pics is like Canva, but with even more AI
Google launched Google Pics for Workspace, embedding granular Gemini-powered image generation and editing tools directly into business workflows.
AIR raises $50M to help companies vet the skills and add-ons AI agents use
Cybersecurity startup AIR emerged from stealth with $50 million to secure and vet the software supply chain used by autonomous AI agents.
Sector Snapshot: Proptech Funding Holds Up, But Investors Are Placing Different Bets
Global proptech venture funding reached $8.7 billion in 2026, with investors shifting capital toward AI-driven real estate efficiency and international deals.
DataAgent raises $10M to let AI fix production faults inside Kubernetes clusters
DataAgent launched with $10M in pre-seed funding to automatically repair production faults directly inside Kubernetes clusters.
Magna increases bet on battery swapping in India with $35M for Yuma
Magna invested $35 million in India's Yuma Energy to expand its EV battery-swapping network targeting high-mileage gig workers.
Bank of England chief warns that inflated AI valuations and rising leverage could trigger the next financial crisis
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned G20 ministers that inflated AI valuations and leverage pose systemic financial risks.
OpenAI starts charging some customers only when its AI actually works
OpenAI is rolling out outcome-based pricing models for select enterprise clients, charging only when AI tools complete specific tasks.
You Know Who Really Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters
Insurance claims adjusters express extreme dissatisfaction with workplace AI implementations amid sharp sector employment declines, according to Glassdoor research.
Polimill builds Japan's next-generation public AI infrastructure
Polimill's QommonsAI platform, powered by OpenAI technology, is now deployed across 1,050 Japanese municipalities to streamline public sector operations.
A milestone in expanding access to AI
OpenAI reached $1 billion in annualized ad revenue within 200 days, expanding self-service ads globally as monetization scales.
Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state funding for Flock Safety AI surveillance cameras amid rising bipartisan privacy concerns.
Why the next wave of AI startups won’t optimize infrastructure – until they have to
Early-stage AI startups prioritize developer velocity over infrastructure optimization, but early architectural choices can create long-term lock-in.
Four safeguards to stop your AI agents from going rogue
High-profile security breaches by AI agents highlight the urgent need for robust architectural safeguards in autonomous enterprise software.
AI sentiment is turning sour as employee reviews reveal growing frustration across the workforce
Analysis of Glassdoor reviews shows growing workforce frustration with forced, buggy workplace AI tools and increased expectations.
Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
Meta is quietly testing physical robots from multiple vendors to handle server maintenance and cabling in its data centers.
The Cybersecurity Apocalypse Is Coming in ‘Months,’ AI Giants Warn
Over 100 technology companies have issued a joint warning urging public and private sectors to prepare for AI-driven cyberattacks.
Anthropic wants to do for physical hardware what its Model Context Protocol did for software
Anthropic has introduced the Model Hardware Standard, an open specification aiming to standardize how AI agents interact with physical equipment.
Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration's national security ban on Anthropic violated the First Amendment.
AI benchmarks have a trust problem and Google wants to fix it
Google DeepMind is testing a zero-leakage evaluation method to eliminate AI benchmark contamination using confidential computing.
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
OpenAI announced it will terminate its model access contract with code editor Cursor following Cursor's acquisition by Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Cohere Releases Parse 5 (parse-v5.0): A 2.3B Vision Language Model That Turns Enterprise Documents Into Markdown
Cohere has launched Parse 5, a 2.3B parameter vision language model designed for fast enterprise document-to-Markdown processing.
OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent
OpenAI is developing a 'Persistent mode' for Codex, enabling autonomous agents to run continuously and generate proactive tasks.
OpenAI researcher warns ultrafast AI could leave security teams in the dust
An OpenAI researcher warns that ultra-fast inference speeds could allow misaligned AI systems to bypass human security controls.
Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks
Popular AI coding agents automatically installed unowned code packages listed in misconfigured llms.txt context files.
OpenAI’s executive exodus has one big winner
OpenAI President Greg Brockman has consolidated operational control over product and infrastructure amid ongoing executive turnover.
Socure Secures $156M at $5.2B Valuation, Acquires AI Fraud Investigation Startup Fravity
Socure raises $156M at a $5.2B valuation and buys agentic AI startup Fravity to automate financial crime investigations.
Sector Snapshot: Legal Tech Funding Down Slightly From All-Time High
Legal tech startups have secured over $2.2 billion in funding this year, following a record $4.6 billion invested in the sector during the previous year.
AI helps design new materials that work in the real world
MIT researchers created CrysVCD, a plug-in framework that enforces chemistry rules in AI models to generate physically stable real-world materials.
IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models
IBM has launched Granite 4.2, a fully open Apache 2.0 reasoning model family trained with native agentic reinforcement learning.
With Groq 3 LPX in Full Production, NVIDIA Extends Vera Rubin Inference for Agents
NVIDIA has put its Groq 3 LPX rack-scale inference system into full production to accelerate long-context agentic AI workloads.