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BotGauge launched a platform for red-teaming AI agents that uses adaptive adversarial scenarios to uncover unexpected agent behavior before deployment, then converts findings into repeatable evaluations and safeguards. T…
Stripe unveiled 288 new products and features at Stripe Sessions on April 29, 2026, including the Agentic Commerce Suite now covering OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, and Google, plus Link Wallets for Agents for its 250 million …
OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX all released new models this week that they said are cheaper than their prior top systems, a trend experts say could give AI labs a financially viable path to slow development, Axios reported…
Sequen, a ranking startup founded in 2024 by Zoe Weil and Mo Afshar, raised a $90 million Series B in September after developing a technology it calls "Recursive Ranking Intelligence," the company told The Stack. Sequen …
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump will meet Thursday at a military airbase to discuss AI guardrails, with both sides signaling they will not slow development, according to Bloomberg. Two days before the summit, Alibaba Group H…
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will visit Kazakhstan for the first time as a special guest of AI Month, the country's AI and Digital Development Ministry announced, with his closing fireside chat alongside Deputy Pr…
Circle Foundation awarded its first U.S. grants on Sept. 22 to Accion Opportunity Fund and Pacific Community Ventures, funding AI-enabled lending and data infrastructure for underserved small businesses, with the amounts…
Alibaba Group will open its first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands over the next 12 months and expand data centres in Malaysia, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, France and Hong Kong, Alibaba Cloud I…
DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash, an open-weight coding model that scores 74.2 on DeepSWE v1.1, essentially matching Claude Opus 5's 74.0 and GPT-5.6 Sol's 73.0 while pricing cached input at $0.003 per million tokens off-pea…
Persona AI is partnering with HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, HD Hyundai Robotics and Posco to deploy bipedal humanoid robots in South Korean shipyards and steelmaking, with a prototype slated for welding t…
Chinese AI labs including DeepSeek closed much of the training gap with US labs such as OpenAI and Google despite the US holding a years-long head start, according to an analysis of the question. The analysis attributes …
A developer argues that AI agents need dedicated payment infrastructure, comparing three custody models: agents holding private keys (fast but exploitable), multi-sig with human approvals (secure but too slow for microtr…
Salesforce has launched Koa, its first in-house reasoning model, post-trained on NVIDIA's Nemotron-3-Super-120B with 30 years of synthetic CRM scenarios and now in pilot with select Agentforce customers. On Salesforce's …
Typesafe AI's Jev, the company's first public model, entered early access in mid-September as a "System One" model that returns typed decisions with probabilities instead of generating text. Typesafe says Jev was built o…
TypeSafe launched Jev, a specialized "System One" model, on September 15, 2026 alongside disclosure of a $40 million seed round, claiming end-to-end response times of 70 ms to 500 ms versus 3 s to 329 s for frontier mode…
Together AI launched together/Tev1-4B-experimental, a Jev-like classification model built on Qwen3.5 4B and served on Together's serverless platform, and published a tutorial showing how to fine-tune a comparable model f…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on September 22, cutting API prices roughly 50% across the board — Sol to $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, and Luna to $0.10 and $0.50 — the same wee…
OpenRoboto, the team behind Bittensor Subnet 80, launched a decentralized data-collection platform called Shift that pays contributors to film egocentric video of real-world environments such as factories and kitchens an…
Andreessen Horowitz announced Tuesday that applications are open for the first class of The Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a private, full-time, for-profit school in San Francisco that has raised $42 million, with a16z inv…
Viva-Thera and XtalPi announced on September 22nd that they nominated a preclinical small-molecule HIV drug candidate in seven months, using XtalPi's AI design tools and automated laboratory, according to a XtalPi compan…