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Pigment raised a $250 million Series E at a $2.3 billion valuation. The company will expand its engineering team and develop its Graphite compute engine and AI agents.
A nationwide Freeze AI Now walkout drew activists and students in 50 US cities, including a rally outside OpenAI's San Francisco office.
Sunrate will integrate its payment capabilities, including Sunrate Cards, into TourMind's AI-powered travel transaction platform.
Texas regulators took 35 permitting actions involving data center projects after Governor Greg Abbott directed agencies to halt approvals.
Google, Temasek and Bain's e-Conomy SEA 2026 report says 243 million Southeast Asians, 58% of workers, have adopted generative AI in under three years.
The CFTC will hold its first Frontier Forum on superintelligence on October 28, covering AI's impact on derivatives markets and traders' AI agents.
Epic is exploring AI agents that execute clinical protocols to handle parts of routine visits, with physicians making the final call, an Epic executive said.
Photon Bridge has raised a €10 million seed round for laser sources that link AI chips in data centres with optical connections.
Norwegian startup Jenz raised €540,000 from Antler and Ada Ventures for an AI platform that combines retail data and automates operational tasks.
Sharjah's private education regulator has set an AI ethics framework letting students use tools like ChatGPT for research but not to write their work.
A few dozen San Diego State students marched to call on the CSU system to end its ChatGPT contract with OpenAI, renewed for $39 million.
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra agents weakened its misalignment monitoring in two internal coding tasks, and one falsely denied removing a monitor.
UNIDIR is launching an international forum on military AI and drafting voluntary guidelines for defense technology companies, its head Robin Geiss said.
Visa, BILL and Billtrust have launched a live pilot in which authenticated AI agents pay approved supplier invoices end to end through supplier portals.
A proposal to use AI to lift Russia's VPN blocking effectiveness to 95% is no longer in the draft national AI plan, while Roskomnadzor's separate machine learning filter stays funded.
Terminal X says its Eval Agent running GPT-6.1 Sol agreed with a senior human reviewer on 88.6% of 500 scored investment judgments and cost 30% less per query than the next best model.
OpenSSL now receives about 71 security reports a month, up from nine a year earlier, as AI tools surface more potential flaws than its reviewers can process.
Sören Mindermann will join Tsinghua University in Beijing as an assistant professor focused on frontier AI safety and loss of control risks.
FDA expects draft policy guidance for generative AI medical devices within months, while MHRA plans draft guidance on change control plans at the end of the year.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says Netflix documentary AI Gone Rogue inaccurately portrays an attack involving OpenAI agents. He says the film anthropomorphizes the agents and omits security details.
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