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Security researchers at Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude to gain access to OpenAI's GitHub account through a zero-day vulnerability in its forum-hosting software, prompting criticism from security professionals and an in…
Andrew Schwartz and Bhavik Patel launched Tandem on September 22nd, an AI agent layer for restaurant operations, five years after Toast acquired their previous company xtraCHEF for an aggregate purchase price of $48M on …
Fountain rebuilt its real-time data plane on ClickHouse Cloud with ClickPipes, cutting analytics latency from three hours to under two minutes — most queries returning in under a second — at roughly 66% lower cost, accor…
Mercedes-Benz signed a definitive production agreement with British self-driving startup Wayve to integrate Wayve's end-to-end "AI Driver" into future Mercedes vehicles, with integration starting within two years. The de…
Mercedes-Benz signed a production agreement to integrate Wayve's AI Driver self-driving software into future models within two years, making the German carmaker the first premium automaker to adopt the London start-up's …
Lunos founder and CEO Duncan Barrigan launched a free cash-flow forecasting product on Tuesday that connects directly to QuickBooks, NetSuite or Xero and models when individual customers are likely to pay, the New York f…
The Biological Computing Co. is seeking a partnership with AWS to sell a text-to-video model that it claims runs five times faster and 80 percent cheaper using a software layer derived from lab-grown neurons. The layer a…
SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.7 at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, the same price and speed as Grok 4.6, which the company says is twice as fast and half the price of "comparable models." SpaceXAI…
Astrus, a Khosla-backed startup, has raised new funding to automate analog chip design using reinforcement learning, targeting one of the biggest bottlenecks in chip design. The post With new funding, Astrus prepares to …
Andreessen Horowitz announced the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a tuition-free, one-year AI fellowship backed by $42 million in funding led by a16z, with applications opening September 22 and the first cohort starting Fal…
Nutanix is acquiring French software developer Ryax Technologies, founded in 2017 in Lyon by CEO Andry Razafinjatovo and CTO Yiannis Georgiou, to build, run and govern agentic AI across public clouds, private clouds, edg…
The Biological Computing Company, a San Francisco startup founded by neurosurgeons Alex Ksendzovsky and Jon Pomeraniec, raised a $25 million seed round led by Primary Ventures and opened a wet lab in Mission Bay, using l…
Baselayer, officially Osiris Ratings Inc., raised $35 million in early-stage funding and launched its Agentic Identity Suite, which it calls the first interoperable trust layer and fraud prevention platform for the agent…
Mercedes-Benz will integrate Wayve's autonomous driving system into at least one model to be deployed within the next two years, as the German carmaker aims to close an AI gap with Chinese rivals, the Financial Times rep…
Amazon Web Services began offering select customers a limited preview of The Biological Computing Company's "rat brain" AI model on Tuesday, a system built from rat brain cell neural patterns and designed to improve AI v…
The Biological Computing Company (TBC) struck a multi-pronged partnership with Amazon Web Services to deploy its brain-cell-derived algorithms for data center AI, with TBC cofounder Alex Ksendzovsky saying the approach m…
Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen are launching The Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a highly selective San Francisco school for young builders after high school or their first or second years o…
KPMG LLP is consolidating its AI, innovation and ecosystem functions into a new Client Technology & Innovation (CT&I) group effective Sept. 22, led by 15-year KPMG veteran Todd Lohr as vice chair reporting directly to CE…
TypeSafe AI, a San Francisco lab founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, emerged from stealth on September 15, 2026 with Jev, a "System One model" that returns typed, probability-scored decisions instead of ge…
The University of Manchester and the Jeremy Coller Foundation have shortlisted five finalists for the Coller AI Competition, with one winner set to receive a £100,000 equity investment for a responsible AI venture. The f…