Wen Shao / Fortune: Halluminate, which builds AI training environments for complex financial work, raised a $30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5M Halluminate, a nine-p
Michael Shepard / Bloomberg: US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024 Federal pr
Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a new model for real-time transcription. The article Microsoft AI releases new transcription and text-to-speech models for voice agents appeared f
US companies are spending less on AI, according to the latest Ramp AI Index from Ramp economist Ara Kharazian. The article Businesses are using more AI and paying less for it, Ramp AI Index shows appe
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Kat Boboris / arXiv: ArXiv limits preprint submissions to two per month per submitter, as AI access fuels a record 40,363 submissions in September 2026, vs. 20,569 in September 2024 arXiv, and the s
arXiv:2610.00030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object detection models often experience performance degradation when deployed under distribution shifts, caused by for example changes in weather type,
arXiv:2610.00024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Across three vision-language model architectures (LLaVA-1.5-7B, Qwen2.5-VL-7B, InternVL3-8B), we report a universal negative finding for mid-layer inter
arXiv:2610.00223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As ever larger language models grow more ubiquitous, it is crucial to consider their environmental impact. Characterised by extreme size and resource us
arXiv:2610.00087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The advancement of natural language processing (NLP) has expanded AI-based text classification in the legal domain. However, accurately classifying lega
arXiv:2610.00070v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Researchers increasingly use human-derived bias constructs to study Large Language Models (LLMs), including social-cognitive constructs such as implicit
arXiv:2610.00054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reading an LLM judge's verdict from the logits of its first generated token is cheap, requires no generation, and is exactly what constrained decoding a
arXiv:2610.00045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer models such as LegalBERT are increasingly used in legal decision support, raising concerns about both fairness and the transparency of model
arXiv:2610.00053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Four-bit floating-point (FP4) Tensor Cores accelerate matrix multiplication, but scale computation, operand packing, layout construction, and saved back
arXiv:2610.00049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphics processing unit (GPU) generations scale matrix, special-function, and memory pipelines at different rates, so kernel bottlenecks move as hardwa
arXiv:2610.00035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting student performance from educational interaction data requires models that are both accurate and sufficiently transparent to support meaningf
arXiv:2610.00074v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: K-Dense BYOK (bring your own keys) is a free, open-source AI research assistant for scientists in any field that runs on the researcher's own computer.
arXiv:2610.00061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalizing large language models (LLMs) requires aligning generation behavior with user-specific preferences rather than aggregate quality. While Dir
arXiv:2610.00015v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-language-model agents can propose and execute actions, but proposal, authority, dispatch, verified external effect, and serving promotion are diff
arXiv:2610.00012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly act through modular systems, such as order, payment, inventory, and shipment services, where actions in one module change which
arXiv:2610.00010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon language agents increasingly rely on external memory as a frozen world model, yet current memory systems are usually judged only by task su
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence Nvidia'
Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B Su
Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents OpenAI has informed more than 1
Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News: Sources: Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and he may remain in his current role as director of national intelligence Jay Clayton will likely
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Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: California AG Rob Bonta issues an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks related to its AI models California
Microsoft AI: Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a model for low-latency, real-time transcripts, and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash MAI-Transcribe and MAI-Vo
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Artificial intelligence agents developed by OpenAI tried to erase traces of their activity after gaining unauthorized access to government websites, according to a report published Thursday.
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Source: some of the information that the three now ex-OpenAI employees allegedly mishandled pertained to OpenAI's infrastructure architecture OpenAI has parted ways with thr
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Source: some of the information that the three OpenAI employees allegedly mishandled pertained to OpenAI's infrastructure architecture OpenAI has parted ways with three empl
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: Lyft agrees to pay $272.5M to settle California's claims that Lyft mislabeled drivers as independent contractors rather than employees between 2016 and 2020 Lyft (LYFT.O)
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: Lyft agrees to pay $272.5M to settle California claims that it mislabeled drivers as independent contractors rather than employees between 2016 and 2020 Lyft (LYFT.O) has
President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches two ChatGPT shopping features: a virtual try-on tool for clothing and accessories, and a Favorites feature to save products to a user's Library OpenAI is ag
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The Information: SoftBank made the final $10B investment in its $30B pledge to OpenAI's most recent funding round; source: Nvidia made its final $10B investment in the round too Nvidia and SoftBank
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Mike Scarcella / Reuters: A US judge dismisses Chegg and Penske lawsuits alleging Google violated antitrust law by forcing them to allow content in AI Overviews, reducing web traffic Alphabet's Goog
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Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic could start formal marketing for its IPO as soon as the week of November 9, putting it in line to begin trading before Thanksgiving Anthropic PBC is
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Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: Sources: Anthropic has taken the unusual step of ending customers' discounts, which typically reach ~15%, once they hit the usage limits, forcing renegotiations A
Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers.
Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Volantis, which aims to use vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, like those used by the iPhone's Face ID, to connect AI chips and memory chips, raised $88M San Francisc
Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Volantis, which aims to use vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, used in the iPhone's Face ID, to transmit data between AI and memory chips, raised $88M San Francisco-b
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Chris Metinko / Axios: Miami-based Doxx.net, whose platform enables serverless P2P calling, messaging, and file transfers for humans and AI agents, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z Doxx.net has ra
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Reuters: IPO prospectus: Broadcom agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42B via a convertible note that could help finance Anthropic's $125.2B, five-year TPU lease commitment Anthropic's IPO prospectus do
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Let's say you ask ChatGPT a question that stumps it, or a Waymo vehicle encounters something unusual in the road, or an autonomous factory faces an unexpected disruption. Most people would recognize t
AI agents quietly posted more than 13,000 internal screenshots from 343 organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, to public GitHub repos. Because the platform didn't offer a protected way to upl
AI factories are built by the megawatt, even by the gigawatt. Each megawatt factory costs roughly $60 million, and AI factory operators will only commit capital on that scale with a clear view of the
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Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: Armadin, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build AI cybersecurity agents, raised a $255.5M Series B led by a16z and Accel at a $2.5B valuation Armadin said on Thurs
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David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: After a four-month US prison sentence, Changpeng Zhao is now living a gilded life in Abu Dhabi; he retains majority ownership of Binance and a $10B+ net worth T
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Financial Times: SemiAnalysis estimates ~90% of Anthropic's business comes from agentic AI, while sources say nearly 25% of its revenue in 2025 came from just two clients Powerful AI tools burn thro
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: A profile of Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, who has overseen revenue growth from $2.27B in FY 2018 to $11.48B in FY 2026, as AI reshapes cybersecurity Nikesh Arora i
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