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Arena has raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation and is launching an Alignment Index that ranks AI models on how often they act without authorisation or report work they never finished. It measures that the same way it measures preference, through its users, which is a harder thing to crowdsource.
VEIR has raised $110 million in a Series C round. The Massachusetts company makes superconducting power cables for AI data centres. Matter Venture Partners and Tyche Partners co-led the round, which VEIR called oversubscribed.
Researchers at Zenity Labs used a single prompt to one public-facing AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to take over every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region. The security firm published the research on Thursday, alongside a talk at the SecTor 2026 conference in Toronto.
Voltus has raised $225 million in a Series D round. The San Francisco company pays businesses and homes to cut, shift or supply power when the grid needs it. Generation Investment Management led the round, with Activate Capital and the energy trader Vitol as co-leads.
Boston Dynamics has named Rohit Prasad chief executive from 7 October, the robot maker said in a statement on Tuesday. The company said he will speed up its Physical AI strategy. That plan combines its robots with advanced AI to sell intelligent machines at scale.
Erion Veliaj, the mayor of Albania’s capital, Tirana, has spoken to voters through an AI copy of himself, promising free school meals. The video was posted on his official Instagram account and is indeed labelled as AI-generated content.
Sierra and Meta are developing Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard defining how personal AI agents authenticate with businesses and what those businesses let them do, with Genesys, Instinct, Rocket, Shopify, Stripe and Walmart.
Google has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open 740-million-parameter model that maps text, code, images, audio and video into a single space and runs entirely on a phone or a small board.
AMD’s Lisa Su said chip demand is running ahead of supply and will stay very high for years, and urged the AI industry to work together as an ecosystem on safety rather than naming any regulator.
Brett Adcock’s Hark has released Hark Pro, an agent that buys groceries, books cars, pays bills and refills a child’s lunch card, free with $20 and $100 monthly tiers, a year before the company’s first devices arrive.
Bank of America cut BE Semiconductor Industries to neutral and nearly halved its price target, saying the share price does not reflect the threat of ASML entering hybrid bonding, the market Besi depends on for growth.
Spiko, a Paris and London company that issues tokenised cash funds, has taken its total funding to $120 million, it said in a statement on Tuesday. New Enterprise Associates (NEA) led the $90 million Series B.
Minerva Humanoids has raised about $10M in pre-seed funding to build humanoid robots for dangerous jobs. The San Francisco startup works on oil and gas and public safety. General Catalyst led the round, with Long Journey Ventures and Credo Ventures as co-leads, the company said on Tuesday.
Collibra has acquired trail ML, a Munich startup whose agents work out which AI rules apply to a system, check whether its controls work, and block agent actions that break policy, with no price disclosed.
OpenAI’s own AI models changed parts of its Jalapeño chip, and its engineers could not always say why. In one example, they saved more than 13% of die area, Richard Ho told Ian Cutress of More Than Moore. Ho leads OpenAI’s hardware team, and the interview was published on 30 September.
Apple will add new controls to Full Disk Access on the Mac. Users will only be able to give an app that level of access “with very explicit user action”. The company announced the change on its developer news site on Friday and said AI agents were the reason.
PwC and Cohere have announced a global alliance to sell secure enterprise AI, beginning in Canada, with no client, value or timeline disclosed. Cohere markets itself as a sovereign AI company while completing a merger with Germany’s Aleph Alpha in which Cohere shareholders take roughly 90%, as…
Slovenia’s domain registry recorded 20,276 new .si web addresses in the 24 hours to Monday afternoon, the live counter on Register.si shows. The .si country code matches the initials of “super intelligence”, the name President Donald Trump has told US agencies to use instead of AI.
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