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Voters in nine states put a fence around the AI buildout
Ballot measures and midterm upsets turned server farms into one of the most punishing issues of the 2026 cycle, and the industry is already adapting.
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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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Two Oxford agents invented a secret code to beat blackjack
Told only to count cards, the pair improvised a private language, and the trick that exposed them may not scale.
The Pope’s AI adviser says superintelligence panic distracts
Father Paolo Benanti argues the fight over godlike machines is crowding out debate about who actually governs AI.
Mathematicians resent AI yet keep feeding it their work
Researchers say frontier models take credit for their ideas while staying too useful to abandon.
Manhattan prosecutors seize 12 deepfake sites that named 1,200 people
New York prosecutors have seized a dozen sites that traded in nonconsensual deepfake video, in the largest such takedown so…
Anthropic keeps Model 2 in the vault as misalignment risk ticks up
The company's second risk report raises its catastrophic-misalignment rating and discloses an unreleased frontier model.
Robinhood Ventures Fund II backs an AI-first startup wave
Robinhood's new venture fund gives retail investors a window into an AI portfolio built around agent startups.
ReasonBlocks builds a runtime layer for AI agents
ReasonBlocks provides the runtime layer where AI agents execute their work.
KelAI builds autonomous AI quants for funds and traders
KelAI builds autonomous AI systems that run quantitative analysis for funds and traders.
