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Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream with $17M from a16z to build AI world models for construction
rained on 100 million square feet of building permits, dream wants to disrupt Autodesk with AI.
Paris-based Mistral releases "Le Chonk," a strong coding model that still trails China overall
Mistral has released the weights for Large 4, aka "Le Chonk," a trillion-parameter model trained entirely in Europe. Mistral says it beats its open rivals at coding, and independent testing shows...
Mistral releases open weights for Mistral Large 4, providing sovereign control for the company’s ‘Le Chonk’ AI model
Mistral AI SAS today announced the availability of the open weights of its frontier model Mistral Large 4, nicknamed “Le Chonk,” the company’s most capable large language model to date, initially...
The ‘Pain in the Ass’ Math That Could Save Vibe Coding From Itself
A new startup called &Truth is joining the race to automate formal verification, a painstaking process that uses math to prove software works as intended.
Wabi, the AI agent that builds mini apps, now valued at $1.25B after latest round
On Thursday, AI app Wabi, now describing itself as a "personal agent," said it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation.
US antitrust regulators are scrutinizing Nvidia's Hugging Face deal and sales practices
The US Justice Department is looking into Nvidia's planned acquisition of open-source platform Hugging Face. The article US antitrust regulators are scrutinizing Nvidia's Hugging Face deal and sales...
Mistral Says Its AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Has Leapfrogged China in the Open-Weight Race
The French AI lab claims its latest release matches or outperforms even the best models from DeepSeek and Z.ai in coding and cybersecurity.
OpenAI's Astra becomes the main target for Chinese AI labs after Anthropic tightens its defenses
Chinese AI labs are now mainly tapping OpenAI's most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra, instead of Anthropic's Claude. The article OpenAI's Astra becomes the main target for Chinese AI labs after Anthropic...
Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure
With Pipecat, Deepgram will likely gain a deeper understanding of real-time voice and video infrastructure.
The Download: AI agent tracking and climate feedback loops
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. Opinion: We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in...
Crux Labs raises over $6M to improve enterprise agents with human judgment
Crux Labs, an artificial intelligence platform turning enterprise judgment into continuous agent improvement, launched today with over $6 million in funding. Benchstrength and Misneach led the round,...
Solink raises more than $100M to pull business data from security cameras with AI
Video intelligence company Solink Corp. revealed today that it has raised more than $100 million in new funding. Solink started out in Ottawa in 2009 selling cloud video surveillance, and its...
Jumbo Series A Rounds Hiding The Real Squeeze On Seed Startups
AI megarounds are masking a shrinking Series A market, leaving seed founders facing higher revenue expectations and longer timelines despite larger seed checks. To improve their chances, MGV's Marc...
Google's AI search problem finally shows up in the earnings report, some investors believe
Google's stock dropped as much as ten percent after its quarterly earnings. Cloud revenue more than doubled to $30.7 billion, but search revenue grew just 12 percent, slower than expected. Google...
We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time
This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues...
Google debuts flagship Gemini 4 Carbon model with cybersecurity upgrades
Google LLC today debuted Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier large language model adept at complex programming tasks. The LLM is rolling out just two weeks after the search introduced its previous flagship...
Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows
The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.
Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI
Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous...
Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record-breaking revenue in a row
Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19%...
Creating AI value with enterprise context
Across a business, any number of AI platforms, systems, and tools may be at work simultaneously—for example, AI-powered customer platforms, conversational assistants, and workflow and process...
Cloudera expands its AI ecosystem with partnerships and packaged blueprints
Cloudera Inc. Tuesday announced an expansion of its enterprise artificial intelligence ecosystem, introducing preconfigured AI applications built with Nvidia Corp. technology and expanding...
Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying
The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.
Google Deepmind releases Gemini 4 Carbon just two weeks after Argon with gains across the board
Just two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon, Google DeepMind is releasing Gemini 4 Carbon, which tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 with 59 points. Google says the model is built for extended...
Chrome’s AI-powered Autofill can now dig through your Gmail to fill out forms
The autofill update lets Chrome pull flight confirmations, tracking info, order details, and other information from your inbox, with your permission.
As AI agents reshape the web, Google opens Gemini and Search to more apps
A new developer platform will let businesses bring their services to Google's AI experiences, potentially changing how consumers discover and use apps.
Google opens Android development to third-party AI agents and unveils new Gemini APIs
Google is opening up Android Studio to third-party AI agents. Through a new "Bring Your Own Agent" feature, the IDE now supports more than 40 coding agents, including Anthropic's Claude Agent and...
The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued into 2026. See the latest companies to cut roles.
OpenAI teases Dots for Europe, but its Berlin DevDay was really about building a platform
At DevDay Exchange in Berlin, OpenAI mostly repeated what it had already announced, but it did share a few new details. The AI assistant Dots should roll out more widely in Europe "in a few weeks,"...
Claude for Legal now verifies sources automatically, then hands the file to a lawyer
Anthropic is adding pre-built templates to Claude for Legal. These interactive overviews and tables simplify setup for legal teams and speed up routine work like contract reviews, while more than 60...
Nvidia's open Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe combines transcription, translation, and speaker recognition
Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open speech recognition model that handles transcription, speaker recognition, and translation and takes its instructions as text prompts. It leads...
South Korea’s financial industry hit by fresh wave of cyberattacks
South Korea’s financial institutions have been hit by another wave of cyberattacks, highlighting the growing risk of AI-driven hacking in Asia.
Nvidia releases all-in-one adaptable Nemotron 3.5 audio transcription and translation model
Nvidia Corp. today released a leaderboard-winning open artificial intelligence model for multilingual audio transcription and translation, along with an open data pipeline for fine-tuning Nemotron...
Voice AI in vogue: Nvidia releases new open transcription model
Nvidia just released a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but it only works on recordings, not live audio, so it’s a big step for meeting and medical transcription...
Virtana lets its AI agents pull in agents from other vendors to work IT incidents
Information technology observability company Virtana today added Agentic Observability Enterprise Management to its platform so its artificial intelligence agents can pull agents from other vendors...
Jedify formally launches Data Agents for building AI analysts in plain language
Enterprise artificial intelligence context startup Jedify Inc. today formally launched Data Agents, a product that lets business teams set up autonomous AI analysts by describing the work they want...
The Download: dead startups fueling AI and interspecies communication
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. AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their...
Circuit Mind lands $25M and puts AI agents to work checking circuit board schematics
British circuit board design startup Circuit Mind Ltd. today announced it has raised $25 million in new funding to extend its artificial intelligence platform across more of the hardware design...
Exclusive: Numeracle Raises $28M To Keep Legitimate Business Calls From Spam Label
Numeracle, a McLean, Virginia-based company that verifies businesses and links their identities to the phone numbers they use to contact customers, has raised $28 million from Edison Partners to help...
The Invisible Graph: How Companies Grow Revenue And Still Lose Value
Revenue growth does not guarantee a larger exit, as declining valuation multiples can outweigh operating gains and reduce enterprise value. Guest author Itay Sagie suggests that founders and boards...
From Monk To Startups: One Founder’s Unusual Path To Building Government Software
After living as a monk while managing Graves’ disease, a former Facebook engineer left Big Tech to pursue meaningful work, eventually founding government software startup FSH Technologies which aims...
Macmillan Staff Say the Publisher Threw a Party for a Workplace AI Assistant That Was Later Killed
Workers tell WIRED that NOA—or “No Ordinary Assistant”—was unhelpful. Bestselling authors also say AI is ruining their relationships with Big Five publishers.
VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
Google introduces cutting-edge Genie 4 world model
Google LLC today previewed Genie 4, an artificial intelligence model that can generate realistic three-dimensional environments. The algorithm is the latest addition to a series of world models that...
Oracle brings Google’s TPUs to its cloud, adds ChatGPT integrations
Oracle Corp. today announced plans to make Google LLC’s TPU artificial intelligence accelerators available through its public cloud. The initiative marks the first time the search giant is supplying...
The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid
As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.
Dell expands cyber recovery tools to protect identity
Restoring data after a cyberattack isn’t enough if the identity systems that control access are compromised. Dell Technologies Inc. is extending its cyber recovery tools to cover those systems,...
Dell sees AI agent guardrails as a path to greater autonomy
As enterprises put AI agents to work, they face a challenge: How can they give those systems more autonomy while keeping AI agent guardrails in place? Security and resilience are becoming central...
Anthropic Says It Will Revolutionize Biology—Some Day
In breathless press releases and posts, the company has touted its models’ ability to deliver scientific breakthroughs. But its IPO filing taps the brakes on just how fast its AI will lead to big...
Dell links supply chain security to the challenges of agentic AI
Supply chain security is taking on new importance as enterprises bring AI into core business operations. Those deployments introduce risks that require security teams to examine how infrastructure,...
Cloudera bets portability, not agents, will set it apart in enterprise AI
Enterprises racing toward AI automation are finding that where their models and data run matters as much as what the models can do. Regulatory pressure, rising token costs and fear of lock-in are...
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Wabi, the AI agent that builds mini apps, now valued at $1.25B after latest round