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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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Microsoft bets its own silicon can carry Azure inference

Microsoft unveiled Maia 300 and said its homegrown accelerators will move to multi-gigawatt deployments beginning in 2027.

Meta returns to the frontier with two Muse Wonder models

Meta's Superintelligence Labs shipped its first frontier-grade models, putting the company back in the same conversation as OpenAI and Anthropic.

Audio AI splits into a cheap tier and a specialist tier

OpenAI and Anthropic trim prices on cheap models while AudioShake builds for dirty real-world recordings.

OrcaRouter ships a security model with a million-token window

OrcaCyber Zero 1.5 targets threat analysis over very long documents held in a single context window.

Flahy bets clinical decisions belong on a knowledge graph

The healthcare startup links patient data to biological context so a model can see which facts matter.

AI pricing engines reach the grocery aisle and the courts

A McDonald's antitrust suit over algorithmic menu pricing lands as supermarkets adopt digital shelf labels.

A new class of model scores options instead of writing text

Microsoft and Nace both shipped small decision-scoring models that rank choices rather than generate prose.

Agent teams burn far more tokens for almost no gain

A benchmark of GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 finds teams beat solo agents in just one of four comparisons.