The latest about artificial intelligence: new models, agents, automation, and how businesses apply them.
OpenAI is negotiating a $30 billion bridge round at a $1.25 trillion valuation, with UAE investors leading and Coatue participating.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face and Alibaba donated API and sandbox projects, bringing the Agentic AI Foundation portfolio to 10 tools.
At Smarsh EDGE in New York, Smarsh recast archived messages as business intelligence, with only 26% of firms saying governance keeps pace with AI.
1Password launched 1Password for Agents, a login flow where the vault fills credentials after a digital identity check and user approval.
SpaceX launched the Super Intelligence Partner Network with Apollo, Nvidia and over 130 firms to expand Grok adoption across sales, IT and engineering.
Spotify reached 788 million users and €5 billion in revenue, while positioning itself as the media service agents turn to.
Ai2 released OlmoEarth v1.3 with precomputed annual embeddings for the planet at 10-meter resolution and a browser tool that builds maps in seconds without sign-in.
Anthropic delayed its IPO from October to November with $16.8 billion in Q3 revenue, while safety concerns and open-weight pricing reshape the debate.
An InfoQ engineering team automated disaster-recovery analysis with S3 storage, DuckDB and an AI agent interpreting deterministic facts.
OpenAI added a ChatGPT sidebar to Chrome that reads open tabs and, via ChatGPT Work, fills forms and completes tasks.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg agreed to remain in California for eight years under a Founder Alignment Agreement tied to new nonvoting shares.
AWS engineers built Deep Insight, a system of eight agents that turns CSV data into a validated report with charts.