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Perplexity and Valarian Bring AI Tools Into Customer Infrastructure

Perplexity and Valarian are partnering to deploy Perplexity's AI tools within infrastructure controlled by customers through Valarian's ACRA environment.

October 20, 2026

llm-d 1.0 Adds Controls for In House AI Inference

The Kubernetes based inference framework adds workload priorities, uninterrupted upgrades, and routing tools for organizations running large AI models on their own infrastructure.

October 20, 2026

US Navy Raises Gecko Robotics Contract Ceiling to $300 Million

The US Navy raised the ceiling on its Gecko Robotics contract from $71 million to $300 million, expanding the use of robotic ship inspection systems to the Atlantic Surface Fleet.

October 20, 2026

AstraZeneca and Oracle Partner on AI for Clinical Trials

AstraZeneca and Oracle will combine clinical expertise, health data, cloud infrastructure, and AI to support trial recruitment, diagnosis, safety monitoring, and care workflows.

October 20, 2026

CBRE agrees to acquire Onnec for up to £760 million

CBRE agrees to acquire data center infrastructure provider Onnec for an initial £460 million in cash, plus an earnout of up to £300 million.

October 20, 2026

Yelp adds AI calls for restaurant wait times

Yelp is adding Check for Me, an AI feature that calls restaurants for wait times and sends the results by text. The company is also updating its assistant and introducing a paid tool for businesses.

October 20, 2026

Otter.ai Raises $320 Million From General Catalyst Customer Value Fund

Otter.ai raised $320 million from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund. The company will use the financing for enterprise sales, international expansion and product work.

October 20, 2026

Neura Robotics and NXAI Develop xLSTM Memory for Robots

Neura Robotics and NXAI are developing an xLSTM memory component for Neuron AI and will offer a separate NXAI model through the Neuraverse platform.

October 20, 2026

Samsung Tests Humanoid Robot for Continuous Factory Work

Samsung Electronics is testing a bipedal humanoid robot for continuous work in manufacturing and logistics, with a possible CES 2027 showcase.

October 20, 2026

San Francisco Mall AI Data Center Plan Faces Permit Freeze

A confidential client is exploring buying the closed San Francisco Centre mall to turn its upper floors into a data center and AI lab, as the city pauses data center permits.

October 20, 2026

Elice Shares Plunge 33% in Seoul Trading Debut

Elice shares fell as much as 33% on their first day of trading after the AI infrastructure company raised 201 billion won in its IPO.

October 20, 2026

BloomX Raises $13 Million for AI Pollination Systems

BloomX raised $13 million in Series A funding to expand its robotic pollination systems into the United States and more Latin American markets.

October 20, 2026

Simons Foundation, Anthropic and OpenAI Commit $15M to Mathematics AI Program

The partners will fund workshops and other initiatives focused on evaluating AI assisted results, using new tools and creating standards for AI use in mathematics.

October 20, 2026

Massachusetts weighs strictest US AI safety law with independent model tests

A Massachusetts bill would have independent evaluators test large AI developers' models for catastrophic risk at least three times a year. Anthropic endorses it.

October 20, 2026

OpenAI stops pushing for China chip export limits, Politico reports

OpenAI has stopped pressing lawmakers for new chip export limits on China, aides and lobbyists told Politico, a shift that helps Nvidia.

October 20, 2026

OpenAI Faces Proposed Class Action Over Children's ChatGPT Data

A proposed class action alleges that OpenAI collects personal information from minors through ChatGPT and uses it to train AI models without valid consent.

October 20, 2026

G42 and AMI Labs Explore World Models for Physical AI

G42, AMI Labs and Analog signed nonbinding agreements covering world model research, AI infrastructure, cloud services and possible industrial applications.

October 20, 2026

Google to Fund Grid Upgrades for Expanded Arkansas Data Center

Google will cover new power resources and grid upgrades for its expanded West Memphis data center campus. Entergy Arkansas projects at least $500 million in additional customer savings over 20 years.

October 20, 2026

DeepSeek and Huawei Collaborate on Ascend AI Chips

DeepSeek plans to invest in Huawei's AI chip design and help improve Ascend processors for training large language models.

October 20, 2026

Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff of three endgames for AI safety

Sam Altman reportedly told OpenAI employees the options are an IAEA-style global body, a CERN-style merger of the labs, or one lab shutting out rivals, which he called terrible.

October 20, 2026
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