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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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Otter takes $320M without giving up a slice of itself

General Catalyst's customer value fund is financing the meeting-notetaker's enterprise push on marketing results rather than equity.

Mistral bundles listening, thinking and speaking into one voice stack

Voxtral 3 pairs transcription and speech synthesis with a LiveKit-based agent SDK, priced per minute and runnable on customer hardware.

Tenstorrent doubles its value to $6.2B on open-weight inference

Jim Keller's chip company raised $1.5B after showing its Galaxy servers could serve DeepSeek models.

AWS bets one config line is enough to peel PyTorch off CUDA

TorchNeuron moves PyTorch workloads onto Trainium with a single settings change, and Amazon is aiming it squarely at Nvidia's software…

Google hands PyTorch a native path onto its TPUs

TorchTPU replaces PyTorch/XLA and puts Google's accelerators beside GPUs and CPUs as a first-class device in the framework.

Spotify pulls 50 million AI slop tracks from recommendations

The streaming service says a year of filtering cleared AI-generated spam from its recommendation surfaces and pushed human artists back…

Eric Schmidt’s quiet Anthropic bet may be worth $20B

The former Google chief executive reportedly owns about 1% of Anthropic from a 2021 Series A cheque, a stake that…

Washington orders DeepSeek scrubbed from civilian agency systems

A Homeland Security directive tells federal civilian agencies to stop buying DeepSeek-based products and pull existing installs off their networks.