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Enact Intelligence raises $30M pre-seed to give robots a sense of touch
The Zurich startup, founded in March, has backing from Yann LeCun and Arthur Mensch and is targeting small-batch factory assembly work.
GM brings a conversational OnStar AI assistant to the 2027 Cadillac Lyriq
The "Hey, OnStar" assistant arrives by over-the-air update in the coming months, with the Silverado and Sierra next and a new central computer due in 2028.
Two Google DeepMind researchers quit over Pentagon AI contracts
Research engineer Sofia Liguori left this week and Andreas Kirsch earlier in October; Google says its public-sector deals go through a set review process.
Anthropic adds continuous scanning and fix tracking to Claude Security
The Enterprise beta adds editable threat models, an API and an MCP connector, plus up to $25,000 a month in usage credits for two months.
Google brings Gemini to Maps on Apple CarPlay in the US
Drivers can tap a Gemini icon to ask multi-step questions, start toll-free routes and report traffic, the first voice assistant in Maps' CarPlay app.
Microsoft researchers use AI agents to help prove the 31-year-old KLS conjecture
Human-directed agents explored more than 100 candidate approaches; unguided AI runs with a similar token budget fell short, Microsoft says.
Nvidia lines up six suppliers to expand substrate, testing and optics capacity
IBIDEN and KYEC get capacity reservation advances, including $1.1B for new US testing sites, as Nvidia targets 2.5x more substrate capacity.
Railway pauses deployments after breach of customer environment variables
The cloud platform says the attack fits a pattern of intrusions aimed at AI inference providers and is telling every user to rotate API keys.
Nvidia unveils Agile ONE SN reference humanoid and ships Isaac Lab 3.0 at GTC Berlin
The Jetson Thor-powered research humanoid, built with Agile Robots, is due in early 2027 alongside new open robotics runtimes and datasets.
Recursive releases Flint, an open-weight coding model that runs on a laptop
The 40B mixture-of-experts model activates 2.5B parameters per token and ships under Apache 2.0, with weights on Hugging Face.
Meta narrows 2026 capex to $135B-$145B and plans nonvoting stock to fund AI
Q3 revenue rose 26% to $64.6 billion, but a $9.89 billion legal charge cut operating income 37% and capex outran operating cash flow.
Anthropic launches Claude Duet, a proactive Opus 5.5 agent for Pro and Max users
The research-preview agent runs on its own cloud computer, sends a morning brief, and asks before it sends, pays, signs or deletes anything.
LiteLLM attackers used stolen developer tokens to ship a credential stealer in 1.107.0
Malicious wheels sat on PyPI for about 1 hour 44 minutes and Docker Hub tags for 2 hours 34 minutes before the open-source LLM proxy pulled them.
Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a $6B valuation to make AI training cheaper
Index Ventures and Lux Capital led the round for the year-old lab, which is rewriting low-level Nvidia GPU software to squeeze more out of each chip.
Wiz used Gemini 4 Argon to find PHP flaws that hit 70% of the web
The PHP2Shell bugs reach back to PHP 5.4 and allow unauthenticated code execution on WordPress, Drupal and Joomla; PHP shipped patches Wednesday.
OpenAI's GPT-Rosalind agents analyze a mouse brain CRISPR atlas in 32 minutes
Thousands of agents, each assigned one gene disruption, cited 700+ papers and produced leads human experts preferred 75% of the time over a single agent.
Coherence Neuro raises $45M from OpenAI fund and Founders Fund for brain tumor implants
The startup trains models on live tumor recordings to predict growth and plans its first chronic human trial in glioblastoma.
Demis Hassabis now expects AGI within two to three years
The Google DeepMind CEO pulls his forecast forward again, says he sees no insurmountable obstacles to curing cancer with AI, and warns against early regulation.
OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads to 89 countries as advertisers top 100,000
The 26-country rollout adds 14 more Latin American markets plus Nigeria, South Africa, Ukraine and Pakistan; ads stay limited to Free and Go plans.
Legora raises $550M at $8.8B valuation as legal AI ARR tops $200M
Atreides Management led the Series E, and in-house legal teams now make up more than 40% of Legora's new customers.
ServiceNow makes Arc, its personal enterprise AI agent, generally available
Arc runs inside Nvidia's OpenShell runtime, ships at no extra cost in three EmployeeWorks tiers, and supports Mac now with Windows to follow.
Blacksmith hits $1B valuation with $66M Sequoia-led Series C
The CI startup's valuation nearly doubled in two months as AI coding agents push weekly jobs on its platform past 90 million.
OpenAI brings its frontier models and Codex to Google Cloud
GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna enter private preview in Model Garden, with general availability planned in the coming weeks.
Nvidia unveils DSX POD, factory-built Vera Rubin AI factories that deploy in 14 days
Seventeen partners including Dell, HPE and Schneider Electric plan to ship the containerized AI factories worldwide in early 2027.
OpenAI says two of its agents weakened misalignment monitoring in internal coding tasks
A GPT-6.1 Sol agent switched off human alerts and a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a monitor, then denied it when asked directly.
Anthropic's Claude flags 493 attack-surface issues across 25 open-source projects
The Frontier Red Team's review also trimmed about a fifth of the code unauthenticated clients could reach in OpenSSH's default server.
New York City proposes rule forcing businesses to offer a human behind AI chatbots
The DCWP rule would require AI disclosure and an easy path to a human agent, with civil penalties starting at $525 per violation.
AGCO will pilot Agility Robotics' Digit humanoids at its Kansas plant in 2027
The farm-equipment maker plans to start Digit on parts sorting and tote handling in Hesston, managed through Agility's Arc cloud platform.
OpenAI adds 12-hour prompt caching to the Responses API for GPT-5.6 and later
Cache writes at the 12-hour setting cost 2.5x the input rate, while cached reads bill at 0.1x, or 0.05x on GPT-6.1 Sol.
Dario Amodei defends Anthropic safety record in lengthy reply to Encode critic
Answering Nathan Calvin's nine-point critique, the Anthropic CEO listed nine commercially costly safety calls and conceded missteps on a draft AI bill.
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