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Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weights Mixture-of-Experts model with 42B active parameters, on October 15, 2026, under the Muse Model License that imposes a $20M MaaS revenue gate over any consecut…
China's Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology announced on October 16 that exporters of certain AI, biopharmaceutical and solar technologies must register international transfers with regulators, an…
Stellon Labs, whose product brand is KittenML, has expanded beyond its 25 MB CPU speech model with the release of KittenTTS 2, a 1.7-billion-parameter speech model, plus hosted text-to-speech and transcription APIs and K…
Mistral released Timestral, a model targeting time-series and temporal reasoning workloads, according to the company's announcement and GitHub repository. Mistral simultaneously acquired New Material (newmaterial.ai), a …
Liquid AI released d1-ultra on October 15th, a multimodal model that takes text, images or both and returns probabilities for defined decisions in one pass, priced at $0.042 per million input tokens with no charge for ou…
A five-person team post-trained GLM-5.3 Flash into Ultramarine 1 Flash, an open model it says reaches Fable-class performance on professional knowledge work for $300,000 all-in. Ultramarine 1 Flash scores within three po…
AI governance startup nFOX Lab launched its nFOX Platform for managing owned large language models and announced plans to open-source Blockhouse, a Linux kernel-level security sandbox, under the Apache 2.0 license. Block…
Cursor investigated whether its employees sent confidential client data into SpaceX's AI systems while testing Grok, a probe that reportedly began in late July 2026, weeks before SpaceX closed its $60 billion acquisition…
Nvidia released three new open-weight AI models — Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB, and Nemotron Bolt E4B 4GB — designed to run AI agents from data center systems down to desktop computers. Nvidia sa…
BAND launched a desktop app on October 15 for developers coordinating multiple coding agents, led by co-founder and CEO Arick Goomanovsky. The company raised $17 million in April from Team8, Hetz Ventures and Sierra Vent…
Anthropic co-founder Benjamin Mann said at the company's Singapore office launch on Wednesday that Anthropic will not relinquish oversight of how customers use its most powerful models, citing the technology's "dual use"…
A developer built Receipt & Invoice Sorter Pro, a privacy-first local micro-SaaS utility that parses multi-vendor PDF, CSV, and JSON invoices into structured, itemized tables with automatic tax categorization. The tool r…
Acyclic, a YC F2026 company in London, launched this week a platform that runs multiple AI coding agents as a swarm on a single codebase, splitting one task across isolated workspace forks and merging the results into on…
Composio launched Instant on October 8th, loading more than $1 million across AI agent wallets so agents can call over 100 paid tools through a Composio balance without users opening separate provider accounts or managin…
Paper Instruments CEO Daanish Khazi launched Ultramarine 1 Flash on October 14th, an open model for professional work in finance, law, consulting and operations, which Khazi said a five-person team post-trained for about…
Topos Bio, an AI-powered biotechnology company, introduced two AI foundation models — Topos-2 and Topos-Bind — to predict how intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) move and change shape and how those dynamic proteins …
Flox Intelligence, a KTH Royal Institute of Technology spinout founded in 2020, is a finalist in the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, held October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, for an edge-device …
Ann Arbor-based Laplace Intelligence, founded a year ago out of the University of Michigan by CEO Howie Sun and chief scientist Henry Liu, is building automated red-teaming for robotics and physical AI, using a high-fide…
Meta Superintelligence Labs shipped Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its second-generation model family, roughly 14 months after the lab was founded, with leaked pricing of $4 per million input tokens and $20 per millio…
China's Communist Party Central Committee and State Council issued guidance on October 9 placing humanoid robots among the intelligent products backed by the country's AI Plus initiative, while official implementation gu…