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Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures seeks $490M for new funds amid AI-driven cybersecurity boom
Cybersecurity focused Ballistic Ventures is seeking to raise $360 million for a new flagship fund and another $130 million for a separate investment vehicle.
Salesforce to buy customer service automation startup Cresta for reported $2.7B
Salesforce Inc. has agreed to buy Cresta Intelligence Inc., a venture-backed provider of customer service software. The cloud giant didn’t disclose the financial terms in its late Monday announcement...
Hiding inside Palantir’s skyrocketing quarter is a foreboding signal
Palantir delivered such a huge third-quarter earnings report on Monday that its press release even bragged that the numbers were “crushing consensus expectations.” Yet, retail investors were lukewarm...
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra designed a hardware device from scratch in under a week
OpenAI's hardware team used GPT-6 Astra to design a device for the Codex coding agent in under a week, handling everything from the enclosure to the circuit board to the firmware. Several revision...
Rapid LLM development is outrunning the research meant to explain it, study finds
Stanford researchers tested 50 widely cited claims about LLMs against 20 current models. 44 percent of the findings are already "expired," and another 34 percent have weakened significantly. The...
AI inference startup Fal doubles its valuation to $16B as demand surges
The five-year-old startup raised a $1.3 billion round led by Bessemer.
Netflix’s new AI Discover tab helps you find something to watch based on your mood
The first experimental feature under the tab will allow users to get recommendations based on what they're currently in the mood for.
Anthropic is still grappling with the economics of compute
At a moment when Anthropic's compute margins should be getting better, they’re getting worse.
AI agents take over at SETI's Allen Telescope Array, scanning for extraterrestrial intelligence
The SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen are now using AI agents at the Allen Telescope Array to control the telescope and analyze incoming radio signals. Tasks that used to take weeks can now wrap...
Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search
Schools choosing to restrict AI altogether will no longer be able to access Google Search, as AI features are now integrated into the search engine.
Apple restricts dating apps and AI companions to users 18 and up
Apple's new App Store rules will require 18+ ratings for dating apps and AI companions that offer sexual or romantic content.
OpenAI hires ex-Army Secretary, gaining bipartisan reach just as midterms loom
OpenAI hires Dan Driscoll, the former civilian head of the US Army, as "Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization," likely to win government contracts and help shape AI rules for the...
Snowflake expands agentic AI platform with business context and governance tools
Snowflake Inc. today announced a sweeping collection of artificial intelligence capabilities designed to bring business context, governance and autonomous development into the same environment, as...
The Download: controlling AI agents and “Super Intelligence” loyalty tests
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. How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check A new...
Startup Athena raises $2.5M in pre-seed funding to revamp the revenue model for legal AI
Athena Circle Corp., an artificial intelligence-native legal technology startup that’s automating the nitty gritty of commercial real estate deals, said today it has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed...
PagerDuty debuts Paige AI agent with renamed PD Reliability Platform and PD Labs
Operations management software company PagerDuty Inc. today introduced Paige, an artificial intelligence agent for site reliability engineering that is built to work as a member of operations and...
Anthropic's Message Threads cut time to first token by 35 percent for long conversations
Anthropic released Message Threads for the Messages API. Instead of resending the entire conversation with every turn, agents now only transmit what's changed. For requests between 500,000 and one...
China’s Largest Startup Deal Ever Lifts Global Venture Funding To $59B In October
Global venture funding in October totaled $59 billion, a 45% jump from a year earlier, per Crunchbase data, in large part due to a record-setting $15.9 billion funding round for China’s DeepSeek.
Huawei tells customers to find their own AI chip memory, effectively outsourcing procurement to the black market
Huawei is telling customers to source the high-performance memory for its AI chips on their own, pushing them onto the black market. Smugglers are exploiting a loophole in U.S. export rules by...
‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers
Ahead of the midterms, WIRED talked to New York City’s mayor about data centers, AI in schools, and the future of the Democratic party.
How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check
A new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to control powerful AI models by designing systems that incentivize them to stick to the rules. As AI models become more capable, safety researchers...
Bug hunters can now earn up to $172,000 from OpenAI as company ramps up security
OpenAI quadruples bug bounty payouts and launches new internal security sprint. The article Bug hunters can now earn up to $172,000 from OpenAI as company ramps up security appeared first on The...
Anthropic cracks down on game cloning in Claude Code after wave of AI-built knockoffs
Anthropic is blocking its coding assistant Claude Code from recreating existing video games. The article Anthropic cracks down on game cloning in Claude Code after wave of AI-built knockoffs appeared...
Apple Watch’s AI features for rewinding and recapping conversations begin beta testing
Now in beta: Apple's new Audio Intelligence features can help you remember what someone said or take notes on conversations.
Here’s who is falling in line for Trump’s “Super Intelligence” loyalty test
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. At the end of September, President Trump signed an executive...
Google takes Dreambeans to India in bid to bring AI-generated personal stories to the masses
Google's Dreambeans, its latest AI experiment, now supports 13 Indian languages.
VCs bet $30M on Larridin’s ability to help enterprises demonstrate AI’s value for money
As enterprises jack up their spending on artificial intelligence tools, it’s only right for senior executives to want to know exactly what they’re getting in return for their costly investments....
Apple may try to increase revenue by doing…something with third-party AI apps
Apple hinted at ways that it could spur revenue through third-party "opportunities" during its Monday night earnings call.
How Xatoms is using AI to solve the global water crisis
Every September, Climate Week and Global Citizen Week in New York bring together policymakers, investors and innovators focused on the world’s most pressing problems. It’s also when Cisco Systems...
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens
Y Combinator Garry Tan has jokingly admitted that he's suffered from "cyber psychosis” and barely sleeps sometimes because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents. On a new episode of Walter...
Rack-scale AI: How Dell and AMD are building infrastructure
Dell Technologies Inc. and its partner Advanced Micro Devices Inc. face similar competitive pressures. Both tech powerhouses operate in a business climate where success is now measured across central...
Anthropic’s quarterly revenue jumps to $17B, losses grow ahead of IPO
Anthropic PBC today published an updated version of the S-1 filing for its upcoming public offering. The original document, which the company released last Monday, didn’t contain its third-quarter...
Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts
The one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million.
42AI launches with $62.5M to predict how traders act when markets turn volatile
Israeli artificial intelligence startup 42AI launched today with $62.5 million in funding to build what it calls a behavioral world model. Its first customers are brokerages that want to know how...
Goldman Sachs pulls AI coding tools from traders and bankers
Goldman Sachs is pulling AI coding tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot from traders and bankers, limiting access to engineers only. As recently as July, CIO Marco Argenti publicly praised "vibe...
Web host Squarespace lays off 19% of its employees
The website builder said that the job losses are part of a broader restructuring of its organization.
New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping
The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and...
Raising the quality of insights in agentic analytics
In just a few years, generative AI has changed the face of enterprise analytics, notably by making analytics accessible to users across the organization. Agentic AI promises to do even more, by...
On theCUBE Pod: Stock market gets the jitters and Anthropic files IPO
The hubbub at the New York Stock Exchange was audible on theCUBE Pod last Friday, with concerns rising over the artificial intelligence bubble. Several tech companies, including Intel Corp., Alphabet...
42AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can ‘predict human behavior’
Here's a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation?
Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to ‘unsustainably high’ costs
Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having "the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life."
Omen AI adds liquid know-how in $16 million Aquatic Labs acquisition
Two startups tackling the data center water problem are joining forces in a $16 million deal.
With Agentic Studio, LinearB provides the critical context needed to accelerate software delivery
Application development intelligence startup LinearB Inc. said today it’s trying to ease the growing congestion in organization’s software delivery pipelines that has arisen with the widespread...
Stop counting tokens, start counting what ships
When a developer gives an AI agent a coding task, the agent does more than answer once. It plans, generates code, runs tests, and repeats the process to correct errors. A single task can use 10 to 50...
The Download: the agentic web arrives and the drive for safer roads
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. The agentic web is here In 2001, a decade after inventing the...
More Money, Fewer Checks: These 3 Charts Show The Divide Behind VC’s Record Funding Year
Record venture funding in 2026 has been increasingly concentrated in massive AI rounds, while seed- and early-stage deal counts are on the decline. Using Crunchbase data we provide a look at how...
Enterprises bring AI to their data as privacy rules tighten and costs climb
Every enterprise AI strategy eventually comes down to the same question: Should proprietary data travel to the model, or should the model come to the data? As privacy rules tighten and geopolitical...
Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features
WIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regular AI tools but had secret features that let users create violent AI-generated images and video.
Marble Cognition raises $3.75M for its AI agent workers that watch and learn how people work
Artificial intelligence agents have become two a penny in the enterprise today, but just because they’re rapidly being commoditized does not mean organizations know how best to use them. That’s the...
Can enterprise AI pay for the boom?
The artificial intelligence buildout is making an enormous bet on what businesses will eventually be willing to pay for intelligence. In our research this summer on forecasting the AI bubble, we...
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Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures seeks $490M for new funds amid AI-driven cybersecurity boom
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OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra designed a hardware device from scratch in under a week
Rapid LLM development is outrunning the research meant to explain it, study finds