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Manus hunts a $4B valuation as it rebuilds without Meta
The agent startup is in talks to raise $500M after Beijing blocked its $2B sale to Meta.
Disney creates a CTO role and hands it to Character.AI’s chief
Karandeep Anand takes a newly created job running technology, data and AI platforms at Disney.
California sets a November deadline for a frontier model kill switch
Executive Order N-9-26 orders state agencies to draft an emergency shutoff for frontier AI.
Google Labs retools CC as a shared agent for busy households
The experimental agent now runs from its own Google account and serves up to six family members.
DeepMind opens an institute to host its own AGI disagreements
The new DeepMind Institute will publish essays where its own researchers disagree about AGI.
Anthropic puts a number on how much Claude runs its own research
A prototype index says Claude leads 26 percent of Anthropic's AI research and development work.
PrismML bets reasoning models can shrink onto phones
The Caltech spinout squeezed an Alibaba model to 5.9GB while keeping 98 percent of its benchmark scores.
Scale AI and Korea build a bilingual safety test that shifts context
ROK-FORTRESS varies language and national grounding to expose what translation-only benchmarks miss.
Lovable buys the SLang language behind Sutro’s zero-infra backends
The vibe coding leader is absorbing the team that spent five years building a backend language.
Waymo picks Singapore as its next driverless market for 2028
A three-phase rollout starts with electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles arriving in the coming months.
AWS rewrites its agent runtime to hand memory back early
The reworked AgentCore runtime holds cold starts near two seconds as container images grow to 2GB.
OpenAI splits off a legal edition of its Astra model
Astra for Law pairs GPT-6 Astra with a search index covering more than 230 million URLs.
Huawei pulls Ascend 960DT launch forward to early 2027
Huawei has moved its next-generation Ascend AI chip up by two quarters as it tries to close the…
Baseten’s Base Labs recruits Hugging Face and Goodfire for open model safety
Baseten has launched a safety infrastructure effort for open-weight models with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI.
Anthropic rebuilds Claude Code projects around cloud threads
Claude Code projects now coordinate parallel cloud sessions with shared memory, leaving local workflows waiting.