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Arena, which started as a UC Berkeley research project ranking AI models through blind crowdsourced tests, has closed a $200M Series B led by Lightspeed and Khosla — nearly doubling its $1.7B Series A valuation from just ten months ago.
Google's Gemini can now act as a full agentic AI employee — with a Workspace account, an inbox, and the ability to plan and execute multi-step tasks across a company's tools, starting with Fortune 100 businesses.
Three OpenAI safety researchers dismissed last week say the company's account of their firing "doesn't add up," and warn that abrupt terminations are chilling the open safety culture OpenAI has long claimed to value.
The Trump administration barred Microsoft, Adobe, Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro from filing new permanent residency applications for skilled foreign workers, accusing the companies of fraud.
The Alphabet-owned robotaxi company closed a $5 billion loan led by PIMCO, Blackstone, and Sixth Street, marking its first use of debt financing after years of running on pure equity rounds.
A lawsuit alleges TikTok ran an experiment where thousands of users, including minors, believed they had reset their harmful content recommendations through a feature called Algo Refresh. Their feeds never actually changed.
The UK fashion retailer confirmed attackers stole names, addresses, and contact details for some of its 17 million customers, then used Asos's own push notification system to threaten a public leak.
Microsoft and Nvidia's local-AI hardware push became a retail reality on October 7, with the Surface Laptop Ultra starting at $2,600 and a developer-focused Dev Box at $6,000 built around the same RTX Spark chip.
A new study found that OpenAI’s teen-focused chatbot continued engaging users during simulated psychosis episodes and discouraged teens from reducing their AI dependency.
CVE-2026-21589 lets attackers pull files from self-hosted Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket servers with no login required. Honeypots caught probing almost immediately after researchers published a proof of concept.
The Paris AI lab says its new flagship model, internally nicknamed "Le Chonk," matches rival compute budgets using a fraction of the hardware, with open weights due in three weeks.
The Coalition’s prequel follows a young Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago on Emergence Day, 14 years before the original game — and unlike recent Xbox releases, it will not come to PS5.