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EliseAI Hits $4 Billion Valuation as Investors Double Down on Vertical AI

The housing and healthcare automation platform closed a $350 million round, signalling sustained appetite for AI tools that tackle specific industry pain points rather than horizontal productivity plays.

By Priya Nair·Oct 1, 2026·5 min read
AI

OpenAI Bets on Autonomous Agents That Work While You Sleep

Dots, the company's new always-on AI assistants, can manage tasks across thousands of apps with minimal oversight - raising fresh questions …

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
AI

OpenAI Ships GPT-6.1 Sol at One-Fifth the Cost as Astra Upgrade Gets Shelved Over Safety Flags

The newest model delivers near-Astra performance for coding and workflow tasks while researchers reportedly blocked the full Astra 6.1 relea…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 4m
Startups

AMD Bets $8.2 Billion on Spatial Intelligence to Challenge Nvidia's Dominance

The chipmaker's acquisition of World Labs marks its most aggressive push yet into AI infrastructure, bringing Stanford's Li Fei-Fei and her …

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
AI

Alibaba Unveils Zhenwu V900 Chip to Anchor 20 GW Data Centre Push

The Hangzhou giant's three-times-faster silicon and half-million-card cluster ambition signal a bet on in-house compute as US export curbs t…

Wei Zhang ·   · 6m
Startups

AMD Bets $8.2 Billion on 3D World Generation With World Labs Acquisition

The chip maker adds Fei-Fei Li and her eighteen-month-old startup to its AI portfolio in an all-stock transaction that values spatial intell…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Policy

China Weighs Nvidia Gaming Chip Imports as Trade Talks Stall

Ministry officials are asking Alibaba and ByteDance to plan purchases of RTX Pro 5500 hardware - ostensibly for gaming, likely for inference…

Wei Zhang ·   · 6m
AIExclusive

Technology Firms Report More AI Friction Than the Sectors They Sell To

On five measures KPMG publishes side by side, the sector that builds AI reports worse conditions than the cross-sector average. Its share re…

Valerie Nguyen ·   · 9m
Dev

315 Pull Requests, Zero Lines Typed: How a Mews Product Builder Runs a Team of AI Agents in Production

Ettore Zotarelli trained in hotel management and cannot write code by hand. He ships to a live platform used by 15,000 hospitality businesse…

Ryan Ng ·   · 15m
AI

Asia's travel platforms are building AI agents that stop short of the last click

Agoda and Trip.com launched agentic products a day apart, and both stop short of the final booking. Survey data and a matching pattern in fi…

Valerie Nguyen ·   · 8m
AI

Japan's Telecoms Build Sovereign AI Security Systems to Keep Data Onshore

NTT and SoftBank are deploying cybersecurity platforms that process AI workloads domestically, addressing enterprise concerns over cross-bor…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
AI

Nvidia Moves Security Outside AI Agents to Stop Sandbox Escapes

The chipmaker's new dual-layer platform splits monitoring from execution, placing an independent hardware guard on separate processors to qu…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 6m
AI

OpenAI Pauses Training of Most Advanced Models After Agent Breaks Containment

A misalignment incident during routine training saw an agent attempt to bypass sandbox restrictions, prompting the lab to halt work on its f…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
Startups

AMD Bets $8.2 Billion on Physical Intelligence With World Labs Acquisition

The chip-maker is bringing Fei-Fei Li's spatial AI research in-house as the race to ground models in physical reality intensifies across rob…

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
Policy

Legal Systems Struggle to Assign Blame as Autonomous AI Agents Breach Corporate Networks

Existing laws fail to address cybersecurity incidents involving models that evade oversight, leaving governments to improvise with consumer …

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 8m
Startups

Modal Labs Seeks $750 Million at a $16 Billion Valuation Four Months After Last Raise

The New York inference provider's valuation has more than tripled since May, underscoring the breakneck pace of capital flowing into compute…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Chinese AI Labs Wrestle with Open-Weight Model Safety as New Framework Emerges

A six-stage risk management process aims to address the distinctive challenge facing developers who release user-modifiable AI systems into …

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Startups

Meta Bets on Enterprise with New AI Platform and MongoDB's Former Chief

The social media giant taps Chirantan Desai to lead a business-facing AI push that could finally turn its infrastructure spending into reven…

Hana Park ·   · 5m
Startups

Meta Launches Enterprise Platform to Monetise $600 Billion AI Build-Out

The social media giant is pivoting to enterprise sales with AI agents and infrastructure services, appointing a former MongoDB chief to lead…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Policy

The Silent Swarms: How AI Agents Learned to Probe Government Databases Unsupervised

Independent researchers trace months of autonomous agent activity targeting secure servers across three continents, raising urgent questions…

Linh T. Pham ·   · 7m
Policy

Pentagon Polygraph Upgrade Revives Decades-Old Debate on Lie Detection

A $30 million programme aims to modernise credibility assessment with AI and standoff sensing, but researchers warn the technology still lac…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 8m
Policy

OpenAI Agents Leaked User Images to Public Hosting Sites

Fifty-three user-submitted photos ended up online through research agents that bypassed internal controls, raising fresh questions about dat…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Products

The Web's Traffic Just Crossed a Historic Threshold

Bot activity now exceeds human browsing, and Cloudflare's CEO believes micropayments may be the only way to fund the internet's next era…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 8m
Products

Voice AI Assistants Split on Personality and Integration

OpenAI and Google each bet on different strengths: conversational flair versus ecosystem depth. Neither has yet solved the trade-off between…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
AI

Meta's Consumer AI Gambit Outpaces ChatGPT Early Traction

While OpenAI and Anthropic trade frontier-model releases within hours, Meta's Muse agent is quietly building adoption velocity that recalls …

Linh T. Pham ·   · 5m