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Straia raised $3.1 million in a seed round led by Speedrun, bringing its total funding to $4.5 million. Its AI platform helps colleges organize data for advisers and administrators.
The ILIA 2026 index identifies computing capacity, business adoption and national strategy implementation as major AI gaps across Latin America and the Caribbean.
OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia increased their combined federal lobbying spending by 22% from the previous quarter and nearly 60% from a year earlier.
Senators Richard Blumenthal and Josh Hawley asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai what the company knows about how its AI products in schools affect children, setting a Nov. 2 deadline.
Matt Gennone joins evolv Consulting as CEO after serving as chief commercial officer at Fractal and CEO of its Cogentiq platform.
Anrok MCP connects tax accounts with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and VS Code, allowing users to query records and make approved changes from AI tools.
General Motors plans to reduce vehicle development from four to five years to about two years through AI, simulation and concurrent engineering.
Flapping Airplanes raised $1 billion in a round led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital. The AI research startup is developing methods to train models with less data and computing power.
Moov AI and Nurun are combining to form MOOV, a Canadian AI and digital transformation company with more than 200 employees.
Recursive introduces Flint, an open weight coding model created largely through an automated system that helps improve AI models.
Dario Amodei cited nine decisions that he says reduced commercial opportunities for Anthropic but improved AI safety, while accepting responsibility for weaknesses in some company policies and communications.
Chat Egypt uses AI to monitor and verify text, images and videos against official government information. Its database contains more than 21,000 entries.
Krafton released Raon-1 mini preview, a 28.8 billion parameter reasoning model with 4.3 billion active parameters and support for up to 262,144 tokens.
Asuri.ai launches an enterprise platform that coordinates specialized AI agents across more than 1,000 business applications.
NVIDIA is expanding substrate, advanced packaging, semiconductor testing and optical engine capacity through agreements with six manufacturing partners.
NVIDIA and the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design released RFD4-Proteina, while NVIDIA and Siemens Healthineers expanded work on adaptive radiotherapy.
NVIDIA is expanding its Hyperion autonomous vehicle platform through projects with Bolt, Lucid, Volvo Cars, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Einride.
NVIDIA expanded its Isaac robotics platform with the Agile ONE SN reference humanoid, Isaac OS, Isaac Lab 3.0, new datasets and robot training workflows.
Unstructured launched new models for Transform, its service for converting PDFs, forms and scans into structured data. The company reports fewer table errors and hallucinations than several general AI models in its own testing.
Oman and the United Kingdom signed letters of intent covering responsible AI use in education and cooperation in the space sector. An education pilot will use AI tools to support English learning in selected Omani secondary schools.
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