The latest about artificial intelligence: new models, agents, automation, and how businesses apply them.
Spotify says more than 70% of ads now use AI tools, with 20,000 creatives generated for 7,000 advertisers.
XPENG named its robotaxi business XPENG YOYO on October 8, 2026 and opened public registration in China via invitation codes.
Cloudflare released open-weight Clef models with 9B and 27B parameters that return decision probabilities in one pass.
US startups raised a record $515.8 billion in nine months, with AI taking 82.7% of deal value while exits depend on a few large acquisitions.
Google launched a web-based SynthID Detector that flags AI-made images, video and audio from Google, OpenAI, Nvidia and Kakao.
Mecka raised a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital to scale robot training data, research models, and commercial deployment operations.
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 input and $0.50 output per million tokens and halved Sonnet 5.5 cache reads to $0.10.
Nous Research raised a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation and launched Hermes for Businesses for private multi-step agents.
Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5 is now on Amazon Bedrock, costing around 75 percent less than Haiku 4.5 for most tasks.
Meta acted on 33.2 million pieces of child exploitation content and added LLM detection for ads that redirect users off-platform.
Google launched Playground, a free browser platform on Gemini that builds games from text for adults in the US.
North American startups raised $92 billion in Q3, down 35% from Q2, while AI companies captured $61 billion ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs.