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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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MapQuest adds a layer showing where the cameras are

The navigation app now marks license plate readers from Flock and other vendors, turning surveillance mapping into a consumer feature.

Mamdani tells New Yorkers the AI rollout is not inevitable

At an AI Now Institute assembly, the mayor argued cities must act where federal regulators have stepped back.

A four-bug chain is turning Plex servers into mining rigs

Attacks exploiting the Plex2Shell chain are live in the wild, installing cryptominers and residential proxy software on unpatched boxes.

Meta suspends Muse sharing after researchers enumerate 6,800 links

A guessable URL scheme exposed conversations, images and business details that users believed were private.

Eka Robotics reaches $1.45B on a gripper that learns by touch

An a16z-led $150M Series A backs a manipulation stack that adapts to unfamiliar objects without retraining.

Bob McGrew’s Arda raises $230M to put agents on factory floors

The former OpenAI research chief's startup is valued at $1.5B for agent software that rebuilds assembly lines on demand.

Salesforce pays $5.66B for Braze to own the marketing agent

The deal lands months after the Fin acquisition and sends Braze shares up more than 50 percent as Salesforce assembles…

Microsoft turns its security agents inward on the agents it sold

Guardian Agents watch enterprise deployments for insider-style behaviour, built on the premise that frontier models cannot be trusted.