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Manus raises over $500M to rebuild its agent alone

The Chinese agent developer lands a Boyu Capital-led round at a reported $4B valuation after…

Agentic AI Foundation takes on four projects and reaches ten total

OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face and Alibaba each handed over a component of the agent stack.

TypeSafe banks $870M at a $7.5B valuation weeks after Jev launch

TypeSafe, maker of the non-text Jev model, has raised $870M at a $7.5B valuation led…

Anthropic rewrites its usage rules to ban abusive chats and election meddling

Anthropic's updated usage policy outlaws election interference, weapons software, surveillance and prolonged verbal abuse of…

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Circuit Mind puts a swarm of agents on schematic review

The London startup closed $25M and shipped a verification engine that audits circuit boards before prototypes exist.

Upwind turns down a takeover and raises more instead

The cloud security vendor topped up its Series C by $100M and now carries a $3.8B valuation

DeepMind keeps Gemini 4 Carbon behind a cyber defenders gate

Google's strongest model ships first to a vetted cohort of cyberdefenders rather than the open developer market.

Nvidia folds three speech jobs into a single open model

Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe handles 40 languages with 30B parameters and only about 4B active per step

An inference cloud bets on rival silicon while the bears circle

General Compute raised $100M at an $800M valuation by renting out chips nobody else wanted to build around.

Publishing staff threw a party for an AI assistant that died

WIRED found Macmillan promoted a chatbot called NOA with doughnuts and marquee letters, then shelved it within two years.

A UK borders watchdog circles two GPT asylum tools

The inspectorate wants detail on two OpenAI-based systems used in asylum cases, where post-rollout checks found a 22 percent failure…

Baidu’s new OCR model reads books without forgetting the start

Unlimited OCR 2 uses sparse attention to hold decoding cost flat across documents hundreds of pages long.