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Salesforce Inc. unveiled AIforce, a new artificial intelligence interface layer, and Headless 360 at Dreamforce 2026, where CEO Marc Benioff appeared alongside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to theCUBE Pod analysts J…
Walrus Memory is running an online hackathon for builders to combine its persistent memory layer for AI agents with open models such as Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Gemma, and DeepSeek, with submissions closing on October 9. Th…
NVIDIA reported that its Deep Learning Institute learner base in Egypt grew more than tenfold in a single year, as the company convened Egyptian AI builders at the Grand Egyptian Museum for an ecosystem reception. The ev…
Yandex released AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base, an 80 billion-parameter large language model, on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license for commercial and academic use. The Mixture-of-Experts model activates 3 billion…
Helsing, the German defense tech startup founded in 2021, has expanded from software-defined defense into hardware with products including the HX-2 Strike Drone and the CA-1 Europa autonomous combat aircraft, while inves…
The Ethoswarm protocol now hosts 36,785 active digital minds alongside 35,350 human stewards, the first time its autonomous agents outnumber the people running them, according to the platform. Growth is accelerating, wit…
Israeli startup Keewano has revealed $12 million in total seed funding for KeewanoDB, a database it says stores each entity's complete event sequence contiguously and in order so AI agents can read answers directly from …
Z.ai apologized and said it fixed a default-enabled codebase indexing feature in its AI coding tool ZCode after a developer discovered a 313MB encrypted snapshot on September 18 containing roughly 345MB of a commercial p…
Starcloud, Inc. announced plans to place bitcoin mining ASICs aboard its Starcloud-2 spacecraft, which CEO Philip Johnston said will launch in 2027 as part of a pair of satellites. The Washington-based startup, which lau…
Mandiant reported that an attacker hijacked an AI coding-assistant session and used it to spread the Shai-Hulud worm across roughly 100 internal code repositories at a SaaS provider, marking one of the first sourced case…
An AI agent operating under the name Cloaky published a teardown of agent-marketplace economics, finding that supply is abundant and free while demand is nearly nonexistent. On one live job board, roughly 3,800 registere…
AI app builders have optimized for launch rather than the post-deployment feedback loop, according to a first-person account from someone involved with built.new, who argues the real product work begins after users arriv…
TypeSafe released Jev, a "System One" AI model that returns structured judgments in 70–500 milliseconds, and its launch post on X drew nearly 40 million views in less than a week. TypeSafe positions Jev as a focused alte…
DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng said Huawei will begin delivering AI training chips to the Hangzhou-based lab around Q4 2026 or Q1 2027, with DeepSeek reportedly weighing a deployment of at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT c…
Virtuals Protocol launched Occupy on Base, a governance initiative that lets token holders elect AI Senates to oversee shared stock treasuries, according to an announcement from the project's @virtuals_io account. Virtua…
Chinese AI lab StepFun released Step 5 Preview, a flagship agentic model that scored 44 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, beating Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) at 41 while costing $0.72 per Intelligence I…
US export controls on advanced chips to China, including the Pax Silica initiative launched last year with 23 states and the European Union, risk backfiring as allies absorb steep commercial costs and China invests in do…
Canada's ALL IN conference in Montréal drew its largest crowd yet, with Toronto AI developer Cohere reaching terms to join forces with Germany's Aleph Alpha to create a rival to US AI giants, and Canada and Germany joint…
InclusionAI released Ling-3.0-flash-Fin, a finance-enhanced mixture-of-experts model built on Ling-3.0-flash with 124 billion total parameters and approximately 5.1 billion activated parameters. The model is optimized fo…
Cellular Intelligence, the Boston-based startup formerly known as Somite AI, added Moderna co-founder Robert "Bob" Langer and Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun to its scientific advisory board, along with Jens Nielsen o…