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SoftBank Completes $30 Billion Investment in OpenAI
SoftBank Group completed its $30 billion follow-on investment in OpenAI on October 1, 2026, paying the final $10 billion tranche…
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SiMa.ai Raises $150 Million Series C to Scale Physical AI
SiMa.ai, a San Jose-based Physical AI startup, raised $150 million in an oversubscribed Series C round co-led by Fidelity Management…
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AstroForge’s Autonomous AI ‘Solo’ Takes Command of Deep-Space Probe
Asteroid-mining company AstroForge has built an autonomous AI control system called Solo, a transformer-based model designed to let spacecraft navigate…
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OpenAI, Anthropic Skip Australian Senate AI Hearing, Reschedule for Joint Committee
OpenAI and Anthropic both declined to send executives to an October 1, 2026 Australian Senate hearing on AI incidents, citing…
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AI-Assisted Hack Exposes Data on 25,000 Shinhan Bank Customers
Personal information belonging to roughly 25,000 Shinhan Bank customers, including names, phone numbers, annual income figures and loan details, was…
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Anthropic IPO Prospectus Discloses Amodei Siblings’ 2025 Pay
Anthropic’s confidential IPO prospectus disclosed that CEO Dario Amodei earned nearly $18 million in 2025, primarily from stock and option…
Opinions
AI can resurrect the dead. Ask my chatbot mom.
MIT researcher and author Sherry Turkle writes about her own encounter with “grief tech” — generative AI programs that create…
Engineering
Dynamic Harness Search: Building Multi-Agent Systems Per-Query via Prediction
Researchers introduce SHIFT, a method that builds a custom agent harness for each query instead of relying on a single…
Engineering
Periscope: Extending Frozen Language Models Beyond Their Context Window
Researchers present Periscope, a training-free inference method that lets a frozen language model answer questions over text far longer than…
Engineering
Beyond Semantic Similarity: Performance and Costs of Agentic Retrieval for Complex Tasks
Researchers evaluate agentic retrieval, which combines large language model reasoning with a retriever in a ReAct-style loop, against standard dense…
News
Trump and Six Major AI Companies Sign Voluntary Accord on Safety Controls and Audits
President Trump and the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI, and Nvidia signed a voluntary accord at the White…
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DoorDash Launches Text-to-Order AI Agent Inside Apple Messages
DoorDash unveiled an AI ordering agent that operates inside Apple’s Messages app, letting US customers on a waitlist place orders…