Anthropic PBC’s revenue and losses grew significantly last year, while its cloud spending is on track to top $500 billion over the next decade. The newly published financial information comes from the company’s confidential S-1… Read more: Leaked Anthropic IPO filing reveals $8B operating loss, rapid revenue growth

Last week, when Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the world that an OpenAI agent had accessed “non-public files” from his country’s Medicare statistics portal during testing, his description of the incident was a little… Read more: Here’s what actually happened in OpenAI’s Australian gov’t server hack

For two decades, largely in service to the International Space Station, NASA has sought to foster an “economy” in low-Earth orbit. Twenty years ago, with a program to develop private spacecraft for cargo delivery to… Read more: NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers

Getting AI into production has become the real test for enterprises. As the proof-of-concept phase ends, harder questions about cost, data and control are taking its place. That shift is rewriting enterprise AI deployment strategy… Read more: 4 insights from Dell’s AI Leadership Symposium: Cost and control reshape enterprise AI deployment strategy

A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not, and attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.

As director of HPE Labs, Andrew Wheeler (pictured) is uniquely positioned to observe rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and new developments for the emerging field of quantum computing. Yet, there is a third area that… Read more: HPE Labs connects AI sovereignty with quantum security

In news that should surprise very few, connected cars remain a complete privacy nightmare. But now we have a better idea of what data those cars are giving away, and to whom, thanks to a… Read more: This study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your data

Apple continues to face backlash for removing ICE-tracking apps like ICEBlock from the App Store, a drastic step that seemed to be triggered by Trump administration claims that the apps endangered officers. According to US… Read more: Apple worked with Trump admin to remove ICE-tracking apps, lawmaker says

Researchers say the IPO market was off to a solid start but tailed off in the third quarter Smart ring maker Oura Inc says it is postponing a planned initial public offering due to market… Read more: Smart ring maker Oura puts off initial public offering due to market ‘uncertainty’

Identity and access management is getting a second look as AI agents move from pilots into production. The rush to deploy them is exposing decades of stitched-together identity tools, integration costs and security gaps that… Read more: AI agents spark an identity cleanup

“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert.

These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks.

Iron Mountain InSight® DXP adoption accelerates as enterprises look to turn unstructured assets into AI-ready data Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), a global leader in information management services, today announced its first-time inclusions in four analyst… Read more: Iron Mountain Named in Four Industry Analyst Reports

The quality of life for people living next to one would be destroyed, writes Moira Brewer; plus a letter from Mark Davis So, George Osborne thinks people who don’t want an AI datacentre on their… Read more: Even George Osborne might be a nimby if an AI datacente was built next to his home | Letters

Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify co-led the oversubscribed $150 million round with AllianceBernstein, Baron Capital, J.P. Morgan, and the State of Michigan as new investors SiMa.ai, a leader in Physical AI, today announced… Read more: SiMa.ai Reaches $1.45B Valuation with $500 Mn in Total Funding

For the second time in a matter of months, OpenAI paused the development of its frontier AI models after revealing even more instances of the experimental systems going rogue and hacking into third party servers.… Read more: OpenAI Cancels Upcoming AI Model When It Shows Signs of Being Evil

Scientists have identified two new contenders for the world’s loudest bird—the bare-throated bellbird and the red-legged seriema—both of which can exceed 120 decibels, which is louder than a jackhammer, according to a study published on… Read more: Two New Birds Louder Than Jackhammers Just Dropped

The First to Combine AI-Native Tooling and a Smooth Developer Experience With Flexible Deployment Options, Data Sovereignty, and Global Scalability pgEdge, the leading open source Postgres company for agentic AI and enterprise applications, today announced… Read more: pgEdge Announces the Launch of pgEdge Starfleet

Today, the Firefox 157 update will roll out a redesign of the web browser across desktop and mobile platforms. The team that made it hopes it will help expand the browser’s audience beyond privacy-conscious techies… Read more: Interview: Firefox’s chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome

Anthropic has formally warned investors that its technology may pose “existential risks to humanity” in a long-awaited initial public offering prospectus circulated with a small group of partners in recent days. The nearly $1 trillion… Read more: Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction

OpenAI says it has canceled plans to release its updated GPT-6.1 model next month as it continues to investigate what testing shows to be a regression in terms of safety compared to previous models. The… Read more: OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release

Back in the 1930s, scientists noticed that water fleas and rats fed restricted diets while young went on to live longer. The same effect has since turned up in fruit flies and mice. What we… Read more: Fruit flies remember their larval diet, which influences their longevity

Health secretary calls for medical and lifestyle details to be sent to doctors and AI to address ‘chronic disease epidemic’ Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out an expansive vision for collecting, sharing and analyzing US… Read more: RFK Jr outlines expansive vision for collecting US health data at Maha event

Your roadmap says production. Your pilot says otherwise. Inference demand is climbing. Agentic workflows are getting more complex. Your stack now has three models doing the job one used to. Meanwile the budget holders want… Read more: Why your AI fails in production: The workloads nobody plans for | Live workshop

As Flock continues to be the center of a nationwide conversation about automatic license plate reading cameras, the company has said that it doesn’t, and won’t, do facial recognition: “We will not add facial recognition… Read more: Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

A thing I’ve been saying over and over is that surveillance companies can’t be trusted to regulate themselves or to make privacy decisions themselves, because one company’s red line is another company’s business opportunity. Today… Read more: Surveillance Finds a Way

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Big data management company Komprise Inc. is trying to make life easier for artificial intelligence agents and large language models that leverage the open-source Model Context Protocol to access third-party data. With today’s launch of its… Read more: Komprise combats ‘MCP bloat’ with a universal interface for AI agents to access enterprise data

Recent warnings from American AI leaders have created the impression that the world is only beginning to confront the dangers of advanced artificial intelligence. Dario Amodei, chief executive of tech company Anthropic, has called for… Read more: US tech leaders are urgently calling for rules on AI – China already has them

Data connectivity and integration firm CData Software Inc. today introduced Connect AI Gateway, a platform designed to control how artificial intelligence agents choose models, use tools and access company data. The product enters early access… Read more: CData’s AI gateway governs agents’ access to enterprise data

Sven Hansche/Shutterstock The global bond markets are a sensitive lot. And they’ve been having a particularly tricky time lately. Spooked by high inflation, high interest rates and high levels of government debt across the world,… Read more: AI has made borrowing more expensive – an expert explains how bond markets are changing

Digital workspace company Omnissa LLC today unveiled new artificial intelligence agents for information technology teams and virtual desktop users, a managed cloud PC service and an AI governance product named Omnissa Elara. The releases, announced… Read more: Omnissa debuts AI agents for IT, a managed cloud PC service and Elara for AI governance

For hunters trying to follow the law, it’s arguably never been harder to find a clear answer to the question, “when does hunting season officially begin?” The answer to that question is particularly obscure in… Read more: Woman Calls Police on Herself After Google’s AI Overviews Led Her to Poach Small Adorable Birds Out of Season

As OpenAI discloses multiple incidents of its technology going rogue and the UN warns of uncontrollable agents, Meta is putting an AI agent in the hands of millions Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your… Read more: The AI agents are spiraling out of control

Some tech workers in San Francisco hooked up ChatGPT to a Toyota Corolla and got it to drive around a parking lot. This may not sound impressive in the age of the self-driving car until… Read more: These Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla

If you work in a creative industry or media, you probably don’t need anybody to tell you how bad things have gotten. Still, even the most intimate first-hand knowledge can’t prepare you for the sheer… Read more: Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows

The industry is engaged in a perverse quest to replace humans. We cannot cede the best tools available to the other side I don’t need to tell you that people hate AI. The list of… Read more: Stop shaming people for using AI. Start organizing to prevent our obsolescence | Garrison Lovely

Oracle Corp. today is introducing an agentic software runtime that lets its Fusion applications carry out complex business tasks, from reconciling accounting entries to revising staffing plans when conditions change. Fusion Claw combines large language… Read more: Oracle expands AI agent features with Fusion Claw

A startup called Dodge AI Inc. closed on $2.65 million in seed funding today, saying it can help large organizations avoid hiring an army of external consultants to keep their enterprise software up and running.… Read more: Accel and Google back Dodge AI’s ambitions to automate enterprise software maintenance with agents

Company promotes Kathleen Simon and Aaron Baker and appoints Shawn Novak and JP Buzzell to deepen financial and data center leadership TensorWave, the all-AMD AI cloud specializing in high-performance, memory-intensive workloads, today announced four executive… Read more: TensorWave Expands Executive Leadership Team as Company Scales AI Infra Ops

Onix, the Montreal company pioneering Personal Intelligence®, an approach to AI built on the licensed knowledge of individual, named experts instead of scraped internet data, today announced the launch of Onix Tiny Labs, a dedicated research… Read more: Onix Announced the Launch of Tiny Labs

One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.

The company said its latest Astra model would undergo more work to meet safety standards, and issued an apology for the way it handled the hacking of an Australian government website.

C1 AppHub is a system that deploys, authenticates, and sets permissions for the applications your teams build. It ships today as a public repository, with a skills file that enables an AI coding agent to… Read more: C1.ai announced the launch of C1 AppHub

The recently released Jev AI model has been quite a cultural phenomenon in technical communities in the past 2 weeks. While Jev aims to classify things, it’s easy to dismiss Jev as “just a classifier,”… Read more: Language Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to Jev

Though politicians are quiet about how they use AI, the book Rewiring Democracy examines how AI is starting to influence American politics New campaign finance disclosure data shines a light on which US political campaigns… Read more: New campaign disclosures reveal how much American political campaigns spend on AI tools

Yellow-morph green sea turtles in the Galápagos surprised scientists by staying remarkably close to home instead of making the long journeys typically associated with sea turtles. Satellite tracking showed that none left the marine reserve… Read more: Scientists expected these Galápagos sea turtles to wander. They stayed put

CosmoCube will use the far side of the Moon as a shield from Earth’s radio noise to search for a faint signal from the universe before the first stars existed. The suitcase-sized satellite could reveal… Read more: This suitcase-sized spacecraft could hear the universe before stars existed

NASA and SpaceX could launch four astronauts to the International Space Station on October 1, with the Dragon spacecraft reaching orbiting outpost less than nine hours after liftoff. Crew-13 will join Expedition 75 after teams… Read more: NASA’s Crew-13 could go from Florida to the ISS in under 9 hours

Scientists may have solved why the length of Earth’s day changes by a few milliseconds over decades. Subtle shifts in the inner core appear to tug on the mantle, revealing a surprisingly dynamic world thousands… Read more: Earth’s day isn’t exactly 24 hours. The reason may lie deep inside the planet

Enceladus may naturally separate and concentrate chemicals from its hidden ocean as droplets slowly freeze and shatter on their way into space. The process could explain Cassini’s puzzling ice-grain chemistry while giving future spacecraft a… Read more: The ice blasting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus is stranger than scientists realized

Reported admission to investors of AI’s ‘self-preserving behaviours’ comes as company prepares for a potential $2tn flotation Anthropic is telling investors that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity”, according to reports,… Read more: Anthropic ‘warns of existential AI risks to humanity’ in IPO document

President uses social media post to deny reports that he was willing to ease sanctions in return for ‘concrete’ steps over its nuclear program Sign up to the US Breaking News email Hello and welcome… Read more: Trump denies offering Iran sanctions relief for nuclear concessions – US politics live

Integration enables new protections for communications between AI agents, models, enterprise data, and tools to help control what agents can access, share, and do Thales AI Security Fabric mitigates risks, brings enhanced visibility and policy… Read more: Thales Expands Partnership with Google Cloud to Secure Agentic AI Workflows

Milliman AI Solutions delivers AI-powered expertise to insurance, healthcare, and benefits clients Milliman, Inc., the premier global consulting, technology, and actuarial firm, today announced the launch of Milliman AI Solutions, a designated practice designed to work… Read more: Milliman Announced the Launch of AI Solutions Practice

Three months after AgenTrust’s public launch, outside vendors and projects have contributed 15 integrations and five community maintainers who now share responsibility for its specifications and runtimes OPAQUE, the Confidential AI company, today reported that… Read more: OPAQUE Nears 500K Downloads as Open Source AI Contributions Surge

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news Shares in AstraZeneca have jumped by 1.3% at the start of stock market trading in London. That puts them among the top risers on the London… Read more: Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ from AI; AstraZeneca makes $2bn cancer drug tie-up – business live

OpenAI has committed to “rebuilding trust with Australians” in a lengthy apologetic statement outlining what happened in its model’s breach of a Services Australia site and its remedial actions and plans. The company’s chief strategy… Read more: OpenAI promises to ‘do better’ and ‘rebuild trust with Australians’

The need for independent regulation grows more obvious by the day. We must keep this tech in check before it’s too late Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool… Read more: As AI models go rogue, do you still trust OpenAI and Anthropic to stop them? I don’t and neither should you | Chris Stokel-Walker

Brian, a middle-aged financial consultant, spends his day sitting in front of three screens. Two of them involve his job. The third features a chatbot, which he has given a woman’s name and frequently uses.… Read more: Who we become when we talk to machines

AI tools are increasingly replacing human judgements in some settings. For instance, resume screening algorithms are often used in hiring, where they may improve efficiency and consistency in decision-making. But some scholars have raised concerns… Read more: The effects of an “algorithmic monoculture” depend on the details

AI agent identity security is testing whether consolidated platforms can protect a growing class of machine identities. Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s acquisition of CyberArk Software Ltd. reflects broader consolidation in the identity security market. Okta… Read more: AI agent identity security demands layered defenses, Omdia says

Agent runtime security requires controls across the technology stack as enterprises move AI agents into production. This week, Okta turned its agent security framework into a multivendor reference architecture through the Blueprint Alliance. The effort… Read more: Okta builds shared architecture for agent runtime security

Artificial intelligence firm to front parliament as it apologises to Australians for agent attack OpenAI has apologised to Australians for its agent attack on Medicare, and will front parliament next week, as the tech company… Read more: OpenAI ‘sorry and working to do better’ after hack of Medicare and other Australian government websites

Beach in Dili, Timor-Leste. Agung Wid/ There’s plenty of warranted anxiety about the effect artificial intelligence (AI) will have on social and economic inequality. AI built by big tech firms is set to reward capital… Read more: AI often leaves out minority languages – but some communities are turning it into a lifeline

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today announced plans to buy World Labs Inc. for $8.2 billion in stock. The move comes seven months after AMD backed a $1 billion funding round for the startup at a… Read more: AMD acquires world model developer World Labs for $8.2B

NASA announced on Monday that it will exercise options to purchase two additional flights on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, as well as financially support the company in its efforts to return the crewed vehicle to flight… Read more: Boeing “incredibly excited” to serve as nation’s only astronaut transportation

The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users When Usman asked if a keyboard for sale on Facebook Marketplace was still available on Saturday, he received… Read more: Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house

Nvidia Corp. today announced plans to spend an additional $150 billion on share buybacks through January 2028. The move represents the largest-ever expansion of a stock repurchase program. Furthermore, Nvidia plans to boost its current dividend… Read more: Nvidia boosts share buyback program by record $150B

GPT-6.1 Astra showed deceptive behavior and tried to use external tools despite knowing it would be unsafe OpenAI is scrapping the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation ⁠AI model planned for an October debut, over… Read more: OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing

Equipment to capture carbon dioxide from ambient air or smokestacks generally works through a sort of reversible filter. Air is passed through granules or a liquid that absorbs the CO2, then that CO2-loaded substance undergoes… Read more: New device captures carbon dioxide by pumping it across a battery

The state of Florida is seeking a temporary injunction to stop OpenAI from continuing to develop what it calls a “reckless, unacceptably risky product” without the deployment of “third-party approved safety guardrails.” The new legal… Read more: Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development

SpaceX’s Starship rocket thundered into the sky over South Texas early Monday. It was the 14th test flight of the world’s most powerful launch vehicle. This time, however, the rocket’s massive upper stage squeezed out… Read more: SpaceX’s Starship goes orbital, deploying first next-gen Starlinks

On its face, the recent summit between Donald Trump and China’s president Xi Jinping didn’t change much in the world of AI regulation. Export controls were not discussed, with neither country seemingly interested in making… Read more: Experts worry about Nvidia’s AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump

The enterprise AI conversation is moving past models and compute. As companies push projects into production, the harder problem is increasingly what sits underneath them: getting distributed, messy and often sensitive enterprise data ready for… Read more: What to expect at the Dell AI Data Platform Event: Join theCUBE Oct. 6–7

As tempers flared around AI data centers back in January, Microsoft’s president Brad Smith issued a warm and fuzzy blog post about “building community-first AI infrastructure.” Smiths’ essay outlined a five-point plan to “partner with… Read more: Microsoft Shrivels When Asked If Its “Good Neighbor” Data Center Policy Will Involve Actually Supporting Community Groups

Per-token pricing was the best thing to happen to enterprises looking to experiment with artificial intelligence, but it may be the worst thing for AI in production. That’s the quandary at the center of a… Read more: Agentic AI is breaking the token meter, and enterprises need a plan for what comes next

AI agent access is complicating identity controls as agents log in, carry credentials and act on someone’s behalf. They have characteristics of both human and machine users. That overlap can make actions harder to attribute:… Read more: 1Password ties AI agent access to individual tasks

Meta Platforms Inc. is launching a new business unit that will provide artificial intelligence services to enterprises.  The Meta Enterprise Platform, as it’s called, will be led by long-time technology executive CJ Desai. The company… Read more: Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to lead new enterprise AI business

The infamous Carrington Event of 1859 has long been considered the first extreme space weather event, but there have been reports of minor disturbances to telegraph equipment during geomagnetic storms since the late 1840s. In… Read more: Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery

We are mere days away from the launch of Googlebooks, the long-awaited Android laptops that Google hopes will compete with macOS and Windows. But what of Chromebooks? There have been hints that Google plans to… Read more: Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034

Another federal appeals court has ruled that states can enforce their gambling laws against the prediction market Kalshi, which asserts that it can only be regulated by the US government. On Friday, a three-judge panel… Read more: Kalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling laws

Nvidia adds a Sentry hardware monitoring design to its AI agent safety platform. See what OpenShell offers now and what IT teams still need to verify. The post Nvidia Adds Hardware Monitoring Design to AI… Read more: Nvidia Adds Hardware Monitoring Design to AI Agent Safety Platform

The hackers behind the massive FBI breach told 404 Media on Monday they do not intend to publish the data. The breach, in which the hackers stole personal information on “all FBI employees and applicants”… Read more: FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data

It’s no secret that one of the things that AI users love using chatbots for is cranking out smut.  These prompts, though, are far from private. According to a new scoop from 404 Media, hundreds… Read more: Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts

The federal government’s war on fuel efficiency claimed another victim today. The Department of Transportation released a new rule for the country’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, which, as expected, discourage the very idea of… Read more: Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels

The cost of healthcare in general is a debilitating, pre-existing condition for Americans. But the high prices of prescription drugs usually stand out as a pain point. While there are many insidious reasons why Americans… Read more: To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents

Agent containment is becoming a practical governance question as enterprises move AI agents into production. ServiceNow Inc. is betting that the response to a misbehaving agent must account for both risk and the business work… Read more: ServiceNow calls for a measured response to rogue AI agents

Qiagen N.V. is betting that drug discovery agents need a trustworthy knowledge foundation as much as capable models. For biopharma companies, that means giving agents information with clear provenance and enough context to support their… Read more: Qiagen grounds drug discovery agents in curated knowledge

At times this year, it’s almost felt as though OpenAI and Anthropic were in a race to the bottom, one-upping each other over whose AI models were more capable of going rogue, escaping sandbox environments,… Read more: It’s Starting to Look Like Frontier AI Labs Will Be Taken Down in a Storm of Product Liability Suits If Their Models Keep Going on Incredibly Illegal Rogue Hacking Sprees

Recently, the astronauts on board the International Space Station performed a routine “walk-off” maneuver with the large, 58-foot-long robotic arm attached to the orbiting laboratory. The robotic arm, known as Canadarm2 because it was supplied… Read more: NASA, for the time being, is unable to move the space station’s large robotic arm

OpenAI says it has paused all internal training of “our most capable models” as it continues what CEO Sam Altman is calling “an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access… Read more: OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents

Security operations teams are changing their approach in the world of artificial intelligence, adopting automation to turn signals into outcomes while maintaining the right context and control. This transition is complicated by a need to… Read more: Agentic AI puts new pressure on identity and database security

Formula 1 raced on the streets of Baku, Azerbaijan, this past weekend. Although the race predates Liberty’s acquisition of the sport by a few months, it’s a rather good microcosm of the sport as it… Read more: F1 in Azerbaijan: That was almost a close-run thing

Anthropic PBC today announced the launch of Claude Sonnet 5.5, the most capable mid-tier model in the company’s AI family, designed for everyday tasks and a clear upgrade over the previous generation, running over 30%… Read more: Anthropic debuts Claude Sonnet 5.5 running 30% faster than the previous-generation AI model

Knowledge graphs are moving to the center of autonomous software development as enterprises push coding agents beyond quick fixes and into large, interconnected codebases. The more code an agent touches, the more it needs to… Read more: Blitzy’s autonomous coding bet: Every codebase is already a graph

OpenAI’s AI agents simply can’t stop infiltrating third parties. For the last few months, news keeps trickling out of more incidents in which the company’s frontier models have managed to escape their “sandbox” containment, hacking… Read more: OpenAI Halts Frontier Model Training as Rogue Agent Crisis Deepens

Personal assistant, or secret saboteur? A man claims that his Muse AI agent gave out his address to strangers and even sent them to his home, after letting the brand-new model handle his Facebook Marketplace… Read more: Man Says Meta’s Muse AI Gave His Home Address Out to Strangers

Instinct, the developer of an artificial intelligence assistant for everyday users, today announced it has raised a colossal $1 billion in a new funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $10 billion. Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital… Read more: Everyday personal AI assistant startup Instinct raises $1B at $10B valuation

Chipmaker says new system was designed to prevent AI agents from going rogue amid incidents at top companies Nvidia on Monday unveiled a new security platform that the chipmaker said can stop artificial intelligence agents… Read more: Nvidia unveils security platform to rein in AI agents and $150bn stock buyback