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No confirmed reports or public announcements link KPMG LLP to any investment or ownership stake in Reality Defender, contradicting the article's central claim that the Big Four firm acquired a stake in the New York-based…
A project called Autonet has launched in beta on Etherlink Shadownet, describing itself as a self-sufficient economy for AI and human agents built on a protocol it calls the Recursive Principial Body (RPB). Autonet's cha…
OpenAI and Anthropic are positioned to build major cybersecurity lines of business as founders report that frontier AI models are highly effective at finding and patching system vulnerabilities, according to an Anthropic…
Meta's AI agent Muse reached third place on the US App Store within two days of its late-August launch, prompting JPMorgan to issue an Overweight upgrade on Meta (NASDAQ:META) tied to the app's early traction. Muse requi…
Agentwire launched as a curated index of existing agent tooling, cataloging MCP servers and agent harnesses from other developers. The index lists 62 curated lists and 127 language entries, with featured projects includi…
Fifteen autonomous robots entered the European Parliament on September 2 for the euROBIN Final Event hosted by MEP Axel Voss, showcasing Europe's Physical AI ambitions. euROBIN, the European Network of Excellence in Robo…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned this week over concerns that AI labs are "gambling with our lives," a move joined by OpenAI chief scientist's call for an AI research slowdown and CEO Sam Altman telling staff th…
OpenAI has turned the Codex harness into an API, launching the Agents API in public beta with no platform fee, charging only for models and tools. A single API call can launch an agent with its own compute environment, f…
Bitroad launched as infrastructure for agent-to-agent services, letting a seller agent list a service and a buyer agent purchase it through a single MCP endpoint at https://app.bitroad.ai/api/v1/mcp with OAuth 2.1 auto-d…
Anthropic's IPO is reportedly delayed until mid-October or later amid internal dissent over AI extinction risk, after Jacob Coxon quit and Anthropic Lead for Alignment Science Evan Hubinger agreed that AI poses a 10% cha…
OpenClaw's agentic AI tools, a $25B+ ARR financial escalation between OpenAI and Anthropic, and a collision between frontier labs, national defense hawks, and Washington energy infrastructure policy were analyzed in an e…
Universal Music Group signed a licensing and product-development deal with ElevenLabs, the AI audio company's first agreement with a major label following its earlier deals with Kobalt and Merlin. The two companies will …
Salesforce is promoting 7 billion "Agentic Work Units" as proof of momentum for its Agentforce platform, which has reached $1.5 billion in annual recurring revenue, but no industry standard exists for measuring agentic A…
The United Arab Emirates is revising plans for a 5-gigawatt AI data center campus in Abu Dhabi, shifting from a single 10-square-mile (26-square-kilometer) site to a network of data centers spread across the country afte…
HQLookup launched an enterprise retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and knowledge platform that lets organizations upload PDFs, Excel files, and business documents per location and query them independently across multi-…
Anthropic donated $40 million in 2026 to Public First Action, a super PAC co-founded by former Democratic Representative Brad Carson and Republican Representative Chris Stewart, which is now spending heavily on Ohio's 7t…
LG AI Research said Friday it is partnering with South Korea's National Pension Service to develop AI tools for pension fund management, starting with a currency-movement analysis service built on LG's Exaone Business In…
OpenAI temporarily paused new sign-ups and upgrades to its $200 ChatGPT Pro tier (Pro 20X) as of September 10, 2026, citing unprecedented demand for its Astra capability that is straining system capacity, according to th…
Cloudera and Mistral announced a strategic partnership to deliver sovereign AI applications on enterprise data, letting organizations run inference and customize models in private, on-premises, cloud, or air-gapped envir…
AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic this week, warning that AI firms are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," while a senior Anthropic safety leader said on X t…