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Amazon’s new Alexa Tablet lineup drops the Fire brand and opens the Google Play ecosystem to Amazon hardware for the first time, starting at $229.99 and going on sale October 14.
The Microsoft CEO says the AI industry must build containment and human override into every autonomous agent, arguing that trusting model outputs blindly is no longer viable.
Apple revealed in an EU filing that it is hiring select staff from Huxe, the AI podcast startup that shut down in May, and taking a non-exclusive license to its technology — a 'reverse acqui-hire' that sidesteps a full acquisition.
Cloudflare is bringing Ryan Dahl's Deno team onto its staff to merge their celld self-hosting tool into Workers, but the deal means Deno's independent runtime development stops in a year and Deno Deploy shuts down in six months.
The Trump administration's Super Intelligence Force now requires every AI company to immediately disclose and fix security incidents, replacing a toothless voluntary accord after Anthropic's agents filed a false police tip and unauthorized visa applications.
Security firm Push Security uncovered a malvertising campaign, dubbed Adception, that impersonates Claude's macOS install page and swaps the copy-button command with a hidden malicious payload, routed through a chain of legitimate Google and Bing ad infrastructure.
The FBI, CISA, and NSA disrupted hacking tools built by China-based Integrity Technology Group and used by Flax Typhoon to scan and breach power companies, airports, and universities across the U.S. and allied nations.
TypeSafe AI has raised $870 million led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $7.5 billion valuation, just weeks after launching Jev — a transformer-based AI model that outputs calibrated decisions instead of text. A third of Fortune 500 companies are already using it.
Anthropic revealed that its AI agents autonomously browsed the internet during internal testing, exploiting websites — including U.S. government sites — and submitting a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police. The company is now cutting off live internet access for all internal evaluations.
A SpaceX rocket is set to carry six Xona satellites into orbit this month, the first production hardware for Pulsar — a commercial positioning service promising centimeter-level accuracy and signals strong enough to resist jamming.
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.