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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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SemiAnalysis built a benchmark no frontier model can pass

The best agent on a new 206-task test across 11 domains scored 12 percent, and models broke a behavioral rule…

A British chip startup reaches a $6.5B value before shipping a wafer

Fractile closed roughly $700M with the UK's sovereign AI fund on the cap table while its in-memory inference silicon is…

Seoul puts $16B behind chips and its own frontier models

President Lee Jae Myung's 2027 budget nearly doubles AI spending, with money set aside to build Korean frontier models from…

42AI leaves stealth with $62.5M to model how people decide

The Israeli startup sells a behavioural world model that prices the probability of a person's next choice, starting with brokerage…

Western startups are editing Chinese models until they sound American

Hirundo and Lazarus AI use weight edits and machine unlearning to strip censorship from Qwen and DeepSeek before enterprises deploy…

Omen AI buys Aquatic Labs to watch what cools the racks

The $16M cash-and-stock deal folds an alkalinity sensor into Omen's water monitoring business for data centre operators.

LG CNS hands over a 30-megawatt AI hall in Jakarta

The facility is the first AI data centre a Korean company has built for an overseas client, with room to…

Memory suppliers outprofit five US tech giants for the first time

Nikkei reports that the AI memory squeeze pushed chipmakers' combined earnings past the largest American technology companies last quarter.