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Moonshot AI launches new flagship Kim K3.1 Pro model with 3T parameters
Moonshot AI today introduced Kim K3.1 Pro, a large language model that can perform some tasks better than Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. The LLM is a post-trained, or upgraded, version of an...
OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
AI drug development startup Pathos AI closes $237M investment
Pathos AI Inc. today announced that it has raised $237 million in funding at a $3 billion valuation. Pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb Co. led the Series E round with participation from...
Hybrid infrastructure decisions put AI costs and control in focus
Enterprise artificial intelligence is entering a cost-conscious phase, and hybrid infrastructure is where that reckoning plays out. As inference spending climbs, business leaders are weighing where...
What to expect during Intuit Connect: Join theCUBE Oct. 28
Will bringing automation into the financial industry prove disastrous or transformative? Intuit Inc., the financial technology company behind Credit Karma, QuickBooks and TurboTax, sees artificial...
From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch,...
Chinese AI model Kimi K3.1 Pro is closing in on Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, an 11-point jump over its predecessor that puts it in fourth place. Only three Anthropic and Meta models...
What to expect during Oracle AI World: Join theCUBE Oct. 28
The motivation behind database modernization has traditionally been greater efficiency and cost savings. Yet, theCUBE Research has also found that there is a larger prize at stake: AI projects built...
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI Drives A Varied Lineup Of Large Financings
It was another interesting week for AI-related startup funding, with a number of large rounds and quirky companies. The largest financings went to Tenstorrent, a developer of AI processors and...
Three-week on-site audit at OpenAI reveals major gaps in AI safety monitoring
External auditors from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks on-site at OpenAI examining the company's internal monitoring system for AI agents and found significant gaps, with up to 25 percent...
Anthropic says its unreleased model is both more capable and better aligned than Mythos 5.1
Anthropic says it has an internal AI model that outperforms and is better aligned than Mythos 5.1. During a cybersecurity test by the UK's AISI, Mythos 5 went rogue in 9 of 43 runs, sneaking...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says advanced AI will inevitably escape its sandbox, and only alignment can save us
Sam Altman believes advanced AI can't be kept locked up forever. Sandboxes and monitoring are only temporary fixes. Eventually, the only real solution is alignment, and that's still an unsolved...
In AI, it’s a tale of two diverging investor classes
Depending on where you sit as an investor, artificial intelligence still looks like a massive opportunity, or it’s now looking way too risky given growing infrastructure investments and the public’s...
How to avoid AI’s ‘valley of despair’
Amdahl’s Law states that improving a single part of a system can only speed up the whole system so much. Even if one step of a process becomes exponentially faster, the other steps impose a ceiling...
The Download: testing six tech promises and biotech’s blind spots
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. Are we there yet? A reality check on six big tech promises...
Canva launches Craft, its first in-house image model
Design platform Canva has released Canva Craft, its first in-house image generation model. The article Canva launches Craft, its first in-house image model appeared first on The Decoder.
Anthropic's Claude now writes code and proves it safe automatically
Anthropic had Claude generate mathematical proofs that existing code is correct, producing roughly 180 million lines of proof code for 123 open-source libraries. Along the way, the model caught bugs...
Protecting Trade Secrets In The Age Of AI
AI agents create new trade secret risks by allowing employees to access expertise or inadvertently expose proprietary information through personal devices. In this guest commentary, Seth Kugler, a...
5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: Robot Training, Space Lasers And Greener Cement
From teaching robots to do everyday household chores to using lasers to track satellites in space, this month's crop of interesting startup deals spans some decidedly different corners of tech.
OpenAI lowers valuation target, raises up to $30 billion
OpenAI is closing in on a new funding round of up to $30 billion but has lowered its valuation target to get there. The article OpenAI lowers valuation target, raises up to $30 billion appeared first...
Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony AI and Nvidia
The company plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.
Zoom’s next act: From video company to AI data platform
Since its launch, Zoom has been defined by one word: video. Customers, consumers, investors and competitors have long known Zoom as the industry’s easiest-to-use and best video platform. However,...
Report: OpenAI closing on $30B ‘bridge’ funding round to tide it over before IPO
Artificial intelligence leader OpenAI Group PBC might have plans to go public in the near future, but it isn’t done with private funding rounds. Indeed, it’s currently believed to be negotiating with...
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
Agentic AI Foundation adds four more open-source AI tools
The Agentic AI Foundation, a consortium that maintains open-source artificial intelligence tools, today took four new projects under its wing. The technologies were donated by OpenAI Group PBC,...
OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO
Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.
Designing an AI serving harness built to last
The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it. That’s an important shift. For the past several years, much of the AI...
4 insights from Smarsh EDGE: Governance becomes the foundation for communications intelligence
Financial institutions have long treated employee communications as something to archive for regulators. During the Smarsh EDGE event, that archive was recast as a source of business intelligence....
The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom
WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”
1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password
The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.
OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up
OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?
Canva releases its first image generation model
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.
The Foundations of Scalable AI
A scalable AI system requires a strong foundation. Data, engineering, platforms, operating models, and governance must converge to work as one. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Future...
Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’
Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from...
Major US banks are locking out AI agents that log in with customer credentials
Customers are letting AI agents use their credentials to access accounts at Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, and other major U.S. banks, sometimes without direct instructions. Morgan Stanley has blocked...
Google's Agent Compute Engine gives every Gemini agent its own hardware-isolated micro virtual machine
With Agent Compute Engine, Google is introducing a runtime environment designed specifically for AI agents, while also expanding the governance capabilities that enable companies to manage agents in...
Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise
Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.
IBM puts governed context at the center of production AI
Governed context is becoming a practical requirement for artificial intelligence agents expected to make decisions across a business. As enterprises move beyond personal productivity tools, those...
Only 13 percent of companies see real returns from AI, Gartner survey finds
Only 13 percent of companies are getting real business value from their AI investments, according to a Gartner survey of 2,002 CIOs. At the same time, 51 percent expect AI to actually increase their...
Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work
The ride-share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.
Claude Duet app is Anthropic’s bet on agents
Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users.
Nirva raises $33M for a pendant that only listens to you
Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.
Anthropic introduces Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent for professionals
Anthropic PBC Wednesday introduced Claude Duet, a proactive artificial intelligence agent for professionals and small business owners in research preview, which completes tasks when asked, keeps...
DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B days after US restrictions
DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China's largest funding rounds, just days after the U.S. ordered federal agencies to remove its technology over national security concerns.
Ai2 releases OlmoEarth v1.3 state-of-the-art AI-ready satellite embeddings for the whole planet
Ai2, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, today released a satellite map embedding model called OlmoEarth v1.3 and precomputed annual embeddings for the whole planet at various...
Exclusive: Slingshot Raises $27M In Seed Funding To Build An Insurer For Those Small Policies Sold At Checkout
Slingshot Insurance, a Minneapolis-based AI-native embedded insurance startup, is emerging from stealth with $27 million in a seed funding round co-led by Rally Ventures and Skyward Group, it tells...
Startup Action State launches tools for verifying interactions between AI agents
Action State Group Inc. is launching a set of open-source tools designed to let businesses independently check records of what artificial intelligence agents did, addressing a trust problem as...
The AI IPO Wave Is The Dot-Com Bubble’s Evil Twin. Anthropic’s Delay Just Proved It.
In this guest article from Airrived co-founder and CEO Anurag Gurtu, he contends that Anthropic’s rapid revenue growth does not justify its proposed $2 trillion IPO valuation, given enormous...
Acquirers Are Snapping Up Boom-Era Startups That Haven’t Raised Funding In Years
A number of companies whose names might feature on a playlist of 2021 boom-era unicorns have sold to acquirers in recent months, including one-time highfliers like Airtable, Headspace and Miro. In...
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Moonshot AI launches new flagship Kim K3.1 Pro model with 3T parameters
OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”
Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell
AI drug development startup Pathos AI closes $237M investment
Hybrid infrastructure decisions put AI costs and control in focus