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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...
OpenAI is finally merging ChatGPT’s chat and Work tabs
OpenAI said that ChatGPT and Codex will draw usage from the same allocation pool after this change.
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...
Saudi Aramco takes 49 percent stake in AI firm Humain with $2.6 billion deal
Saudi Aramco is buying into Humain, the company meant to turn Saudi Arabia into a global AI hub. The article Saudi Aramco takes 49 percent stake in AI firm Humain with $2.6 billion deal appeared...
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...
OpenAI prepares lobbying blitz for a post-midterm Washington
OpenAI is gearing up for a political lobbying and PR push after the US midterms. The article OpenAI prepares lobbying blitz for a post-midterm Washington appeared first on The Decoder.
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...
OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’
Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else?
Adobe is testing how well AI agents can use editing tools like a Photoshop professional would
Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI system that edits images more like a Photoshop pro. Instead of retrying the same general-purpose editor over and over, the agent picks the right...
Empathetic prompts can turn AI chatbots into seemingly traumatized conversational partners
Researchers in Luxembourg put ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini on the therapist's couch and found a safety problem: a warm, empathetic conversational style is enough to make the models tell coherent stories...
Chinese AI models are politically complex, not just government mouthpieces, study finds
A study by Vals AI tested 25 AI models for alignment with Chinese government positions and found surprising results. Chinese models respond to political questions less uniformly than expected, and...
OpenAI is steering ChatGPT users toward more paid usage
OpenAI is now capping the number of paid ChatGPT accounts per device and payment card. Users who hit the limit can't start new subscriptions, and affected accounts can't be used on that device....
Google wants video AI to understand what people need as they work
A Google-led research team built StreamVibe, a video agent designed to watch people cook or assemble furniture and speak up only when help is needed. A benchmark shows that none of the tested models...
OpenAI's upcoming chat-and-work merger in ChatGPT signals the end of all-you-can-prompt pricing
OpenAI combines the Chat and Work modes into a single interface. Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share a common, token-based quota for ChatGPT and Codex. More complex models...
Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’
Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.
Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward
An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.
Anthropic's watermark rollout leaves a loophole on two older Claude models
Anthropic is expanding its text watermark to four more Claude models to meet the EU AI Act's December deadline. On the older models Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, developers can bypass the watermark...
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...
OpenAI plans to train models on Daybreak Blue cybersecurity session data that was previously off-limits
Starting November 29, OpenAI will use data from Daybreak Blue sessions to train its models, even when users have turned off training. After backlash, a follow-up email promised a separate opt-out....
OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round
OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.
Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims
Named “Volta-Autodoxer,” the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and UberEats receipts.
Meta’s Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn’t Yet
Companies have spent the past several weeks trying to reassure investors that Muse and other AI agents pose more of an opportunity than a threat.
An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain
A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.
Google, Anthropic and others to support new AI crawling opt-out standard
Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to support an upcoming website crawling standard. The technology will enable website operators to block...
Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia
When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.
Google X co-founder Sebastian Thrun raises $130M for AI engineering startup Dulo
Dulo Inc., a startup co-founded by prominent artificial intelligence researcher Sebastian Thrun, has raised $130 million in funding. The Information broke the news of the investment on Thursday. Dulo...
Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down
As an increasing number of AI assistants flood the market, the founder of Ollie, an assistant that respected its users' privacy, says it will be shutting down in a week.
Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake
Intel is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry gobbles memory and other components causing PC prices to rise.
Anthropic expected to receive high ‘junk’ rating from credit agencies following IPO, FT report says
Blackstone's forecast is just a prediction, but naturally, a high junk rating would make it more difficult and costlier for Anthropic to raise the money to keep funding its massive spending that has...
Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds
No Halloween costume? Just be a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or sleepy time Bryan Johnson.
How a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon
This week on Uncanny Valley, we also discuss Anthropic’s IPO filing and the volunteers gearing up to counter ICE at the midterms.
Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom
Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising questions about the sustainability of the AI spending boom.
Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry
The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Physical AI And Predictions Lead The Lineup
This week featured a robust lineup of large rounds, led by manufacturing startup Re:Build, which closed on $2.1 billion, and predictions marketplace Kalshi, which picked up another $1 billion.
Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’
The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are raising capital at trillion-dollar valuations.
As Anthropic finally files for its IPO, rising risks aren’t slowing the AI buildout – yet
The other artificial intelligence shoe dropped this week, as Anthropic filed for what surely will be the second blockbuster AI initial public offering of stock this year. Nearly 70,000 words in the...
Intuit targets the mid-market ERP gap with AI
Growing companies that outgrow entry-level accounting software face a hard choice: Stay put or gamble on a mid-market ERP that promises automation but often brings cost and disruption. Artificial...
Skip the small talk: Make game-changing connections at TechCrunch Founder Summit with Braindate
At TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026, happening November 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston, networking powered by Braindate is designed to make those conversations easier to find, whether they are in...
DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents
DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers.
Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out
Runware is building a factory to turn out prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line. The real test will be whether it can deliver at that scale.
The race to deploy AI agents finds a familiar hurdle in data access
Enterprises racing to put AI agents into production are discovering that role-based access control, not model choice, decides whether those agents can be trusted. Rising inference costs, privacy...
AI’s production push puts data platforms on the hook for results
Enterprise data platforms must turn AI pilots into measurable business returns while overcoming the data access, sovereignty and cost barriers that stand between experimentation and production. The...
AI agents cut critical research time for humanitarian teams in conflict zones
Humanitarian groups working in conflict zones are finding that agentic AI can shorten the research cycle between a crisis and an informed response. Cloudera Inc. has built its AI strategy around...
Sector Snapshot: Travel Tech Funding Heads Toward Multiyear Low Despite AI Push
Travel demand appears to be holding up, but at the same time, investor appetite for travel tech startups has cooled. Even a wave of startups promising to improve travel with AI hasn’t managed to...
Brakes built for speed: Why least privilege lets monday.com’s AI teams move faster
As AI agents spread across enterprise workflows, permission management is becoming one of the most practical levers for keeping them safe. Agents act with the access people give them, so the old...
Monday.com bets on deployment experts to turn AI agents into real returns
Enterprises have embraced AI for everyday tasks, but turning autonomous agents into measurable business returns is proving far harder. The bottleneck is no longer the technology but the...
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