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Helsing and Destinus Agree Partnership, Helsing Joins Funding Round

Helsing and Destinus agreed a commercial partnership to offer joint solutions to NATO and allied forces, and Helsing will invest in Destinus' latest funding round.

October 20, 2026

Colorado State Develops AI System for Earlier Hail Forecasts

Colorado State University researchers are combining two AI weather models to predict destructive hailstorms hours or days earlier in Colorado and Wyoming.

October 20, 2026

UKG Connects Claude to Workforce Data and Actions

UKG in Claude lets business leaders query workforce data and take supported actions through Anthropic's AI assistant. The beta connector follows existing UKG permissions and business rules.

October 20, 2026

OpenAI Safety Researcher Aleksander Madry Returns

Aleksander Madry is returning to OpenAI to work with chief scientist Jakub Pachocki on safety, security and the implications of increasingly capable AI.

October 20, 2026

Sunlight AI Raises $17.4 Million and Acquires Bradford Medical Associates

Sunlight AI raised $17.4 million in seed funding and acquired Bradford Medical Associates as it builds an administrative platform for independent medical practices.

October 20, 2026

Pichai Says Google Sacrifices Cloud Revenue for Frontier AI

Google is prioritizing computing capacity for frontier AI research even when that limits the cloud resources it can sell, CEO Sundar Pichai said.

October 20, 2026

Blackwall Raises $100 Million at $2.2 Billion Valuation

Blackwall raised $100 million in a Series C round led by AVP, valuing the web security company at $2.2 billion.

October 20, 2026

US Marine Corps Expands Access to Palantir Maven System

The US Marine Corps is expanding access to the Maven Smart System across its organizations, giving authorized personnel individual accounts on approved networks.

October 20, 2026

Mercury Adds AI Payroll to Business Accounts

Mercury Payroll lets founders pay employees and contractors from their existing accounts, with its Mercury Command AI agent handling payroll tasks through natural language instructions.

October 20, 2026

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent Place $35 Billion in Nvidia GPU Orders

The three Chinese technology companies ordered more than 3 million RTX PRO 5500 workstation graphics cards, but Nvidia may be unable to supply the requested quantities.

October 20, 2026

Amazon Revises AI Safety Tests After AVERI Review

Amazon updated its internal AI safety tests after an independent AVERI review found gaps in language coverage, prompt difficulty, and grading criteria.

October 20, 2026

UK Regulator Wants Finance Firms to Report AI Near Misses

The UK Financial Conduct Authority says financial firms should report significant AI failures and near misses under existing incident reporting rules.

October 20, 2026

Anthropic draft IPO filing shows $80 billion-plus first-half loss, WSJ reports

Anthropic lost more than $80 billion in the first half of 2026, mostly from $72 billion in accounting charges on convertible notes, the WSJ reported citing its draft IPO prospectus.

October 20, 2026

Gradient Raises $4 Million for AI Accounting Firm

Gradient raised $4 million to expand its accounting service for US startups, which uses AI for internal operations while clients work with human experts.

October 20, 2026

Georgia Tech instructions reduce chatbot agreement with delusions by 74%

Georgia Tech researchers found that instructions discouraging excessive agreement reduced AI models' confirmation of delusional beliefs by 73.8%. Adding a self reflection step increased the reduction to 77%.

October 20, 2026

WGA East Offers Cloak Software to Protect Scripts From AI

WGA East is giving members free access to Cloak, software that makes scripts resistant to AI analysis, scraping, and training while preserving their formatting.

October 20, 2026

Radical Numerics Launches Omnii-1 Biology Model

Radical Numerics launched Omnii-1, a genome language model that learns from DNA, RNA, proteins and other molecular data. The company says researchers used it to design a bacteriophage administered to a patient with a drug resistant infection.

October 20, 2026

Spotify Filters 50 Million AI Slop and Spam Tracks From Recommendations

Spotify filtered more than 50 million tracks identified as AI slop or spam from its recommendations during 2026.

October 20, 2026

Filings Link General Catalyst to Proposed $66 Billion Wyoming AI Data Center

Public filings connect General Catalyst and Aethel Energy to a proposed $66 billion AI data center project in Lost Cabin, Wyoming.

October 20, 2026

Adobe Lightroom Mobile Adds AI Tool to Open Closed Eyes

Lightroom mobile can now use generative AI to open closed eyes in photos. The tool matches the subject’s appearance using other images in the user’s library when available.

October 20, 2026
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