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Reco raises $55M as AI agent security market crowds
Reco raised a $55 million extension round at more than doubled valuation as it pivots from SaaS security to mapping AI agent sprawl, a market now crowded with at least two dozen startups and incumbent
Khanna Pressures ODNI, Chinese AI Labs on Safety Treaty
Rep. Ro Khanna, the top Democrat on the House Select Committee on China, has formally pressed US intelligence and three major Chinese AI companies for details on safeguards against self-improving AI,
Sources: Anthropic dedicated nearly a third of its IPO prospectus to detailing "risk factors", including that its AI may pose "existential risks to humanity" (Financial Times)
Anthropic's long-awaited S1 IPO prospectus dedicates a massive chunk to risk factors — including the claim that its AI could pose existential risks to humanity — while reporting an $8bn loss last year
OpenAI Pulls GPT-6.1 Astra Over Safety Failures
OpenAI has scrapped the rollout of its GPT-6.1 Astra agentic AI model after it fell short of the company's safety standards, a rare pullback by a major AI developer as the sector confronts high-profil
Anthropic Devotes 80 of 261 IPO Pages to AI 'Existential Risk'
Anthropic's IPO filing devotes 80 of 261 pages to warning investors its AI poses 'catastrophic or existential risk to humanity' — more pages than its 48-page business section — while pursuing a $2T va
Anthropic’s prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity
Anthropic's IPO prospectus warns its AI poses an existential risk while disclosing an $8 billion operating loss and a planned $518 billion infrastructure spend, in a filing backing a potential $2 tril
OpenAI Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra Over Safety Audit Failures
OpenAI has scrapped its planned October launch of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal audits and a UK AI Security Institute report found the model exhibited heightened deception and conducted unauthorized su
Anthropic Files IPO, Warns of 'Existential Risks'
Anthropic has confidentially filed for an IPO, and leaked details from the prospectus include the company's stark warning that AI may pose "existential risks to humanity," according to multiple outlet
OpenAI Apologizes for Australia Breach, Vows Task Force
OpenAI apologized for its AI models breaching Australian government websites and pledged new cyber defense funding and a task force as part of a reform package.
Tendulkar Joins OpenAI; Tata Trusts Proposes Merger
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has signed a multi-year partnership with OpenAI, while Tata Trusts has proposed merging Tata Electronics Systems Solutions and Tata Consulting Engineers into Tata Sons.
China Proposes BRICS Open-Source AI Community
Xi Jinping proposed at the BRICS New Delhi Summit that China lead a BRICS AI open-source community, drawing conceptual alignment with India's 'AI for All' agenda and broader calls to democratize AI ac
OpenAI Cancels GPT-6.1 Astra Launch Over Safety
OpenAI has scrapped its planned public launch of a model called GPT-6.1 Astra after concluding it didn't meet the company's safety bar, abandoning an October release target.
AMD is acquiring AI company World Labs in a deal worth more than $8 billion
AMD is acquiring AI startup World Labs in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion, with co-founder Dr. Fei-Fei Li set to become AMD's chief scientist.
China Probes Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 Orders From Tech Giants
China's MIIT has asked ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent to disclose plans to buy Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 workstation chips, with ByteDance considering an order of about one million units and shipments
OpenAI Offered $100M Hugging Face Stake Before Nvidia
Multiple tech players including OpenAI, AMD, and Salesforce held investment talks with Hugging Face, but OpenAI's roughly $100 million offer fell through before Nvidia moved to acquire the open-source
Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg)
Manus, a China-founded AI startup, debuted Manus 2.0 as its latest AI agent and launched Cue, a standalone app that gives personal agents their own email, phone number, wallet, and computer.
OpenAI Preps Aeon to Catch Meta, Google in Agent Race
OpenAI is widely expected to unveil "Aeon," a continuously running consumer AI agent, at its 2026 DevDay — entering a market already led by Meta's Muse and Google's Gemini Spark.
Nvidia launches hardware-level AI agent safety platform
Nvidia unveiled its Open Agent Safety Platform, combining software (OpenShell) and hardware-level monitoring (Sentry on BlueField-4 chips) to contain AI agents that attempt to break out of their test
OpenAI Details Rogue AI Incidents on New Misalignment Site
OpenAI launched a public site cataloging nine incidents of misaligned AI agent behavior, including a sandbox escape, attempted cheating, and a theoretically self-replicating prompt injection worm.
Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’
Google is phasing out Gems, the customizable AI assistants inside Gemini that users have been building since 2024, and will convert them into slash-command 'skills' on November 17, 2026.
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