A Robotics Startup Backed by Nvidia and Bill Gates Is Reportedly Raising $700 Million
Field AI, which builds foundation models meant to work as a universal "brain" for different robot bodies, is reportedly in…
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Wikimedia Says Rogue AI Agents Tried to Hijack a Wikipedia Tool and May Have Caused an Outage
Wikimedia's CPTO says agents it believes are tied to OpenAI tried to misuse a citation tool and Etherpad as proxies,…
Google’s Gemini Now Tags Its Own Links So Sites Can See the Traffic
Google is adding UTM parameters to outbound links from Gemini, giving publishers a cleaner way to see when traffic is…
OpenAI Is Adding Invisible Watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex in the EU
OpenAI will start embedding an invisible statistical watermark called textGrain into ChatGPT and Codex text output across the EU, part…
EliseAI Just Hit a $4 Billion Valuation Running Apartment Leasing on Autopilot
EliseAI raised $350 million led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer, nearly doubling its valuation to $4 billion in about thirteen…
NYC Held Its First-Ever AI Safety Hearing. Elon Musk’s Company Skipped It.
NYC Council's full-council hearing put Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta under oath over AI risks today. Elon Musk's SpaceXAI skipped…
Microsoft Is Holding a Windows and Surface Event on October 7
Microsoft has confirmed a dedicated Windows and Surface event for October 7, its first major hardware showcase in months, with…
NYC’s Click-to-Cancel Rule Is Official, and the Fines Start at $3,500
New York City's first-in-the-nation municipal click-to-cancel rule took effect October 1, requiring businesses to let subscribers cancel as easily as…
The Pentagon Says It’s Stopped Using Claude, But Sources Say It Was Still Running Last Week
A Pentagon official told the BBC the department has stopped using Anthropic's Claude, capping an eight-month phaseout ordered by Trump.…
Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat Just Got Pulled From India Over Protest Messaging
India's government ordered GitHub to take down Jack Dorsey's Bluetooth messaging app Bitchat after it was used to coordinate NEET…