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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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OpenAI’s bug hunt turns up 948 paths to root

An experimental cyber model found and proved out 948 Linux root exploits in a single October run that cost $1.2M…

Baidu hands out a 280B model with no instructions attached

Baidu published the raw pre-training weights of ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base on Hugging Face, a 280B mixture-of-experts checkpoint that has never been taught…

Claude cites a wire service after a quiet licensing turn

Adweek reports Anthropic paid the Associated Press for election data that surfaced in Claude, the lab's first deal with a…

Anthropic wants a receipt proving which model answered you

A cryptographic fingerprint could let users check that the model they paid for is the model that replied, without labs…

Sequoia gathers $10B and bets everything on one close-knit team

The venture firm is closing its London office and ending its Arc and Scouts programs, betting that fewer, more senior…

Tencent folds vision detection and masking into a compact offering

An open model from the WeChat vision team handles detection, counting, OCR and pixel masking without bolting on a separate…

Fal lands $1.3B and a $16B price tag on inference demand

Serverless model hosting has turned into one of the most expensive races in AI infrastructure, and investors just priced it…

Pangram adds video detection built on a frame-by-frame model

The text detector is moving into visual forensics with a flagship image model and a lighter sibling fast enough to…