Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.
IBM released the Granite 4.2 series on August 25, 2026, comprising three open-weight reasoning models (3B, 8B, and 30B) under the Apache 2.0 license, trained via agentic reinforcement learning in real sandbox environments, with the 30B model scoring 57% on SWE-Bench Verified.
Runable says 60%–70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's podcast remarks branding safety-for-autonomy trade-offs as "authoritarian rhetoric" have exposed the ideological rift between OpenAI and Anthropic. The clash reflects deeper disagreements over AI governance, regulatory power, and who should control the future of frontier AI.
Pet owners, rescue agencies, and wildlife groups are calling for new safeguards as AI makes it harder to tell whether animals, from polar bears to house cats, are real or fake.
The focus is on agentic capability and predictable enterprise deployment.
OpenAI and Broadcom's Jalapeño inference ASIC posted its first benchmark results at Hot Chips on August 25, 2026, delivering 1.9x higher per-watt inference throughput than NVIDIA's GB300 at just 700W versus 1400W.
Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smarts with crosswords or logic puzzles, developers can test how far models have advanced with a gaming gauntlet. The term “machine learning” was popularized in a 1959 article by the IBM computer scientist Arthur…
When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sorts of platforms. In short, I began creating her digital footprint long before she could stand on her own two feet.  Fast-forward a couple…
Autonomous trucking company Gatik has raised $200 million in Series D funding to expand its driverless freight operations across North America. The round was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from Millennium Management, ARK Invest, Intact Private Capital, and other investors. Gatik said it has more than $600 million in […] The post Gatik raises $200M to scale AI-powered autonomous freight appeared first on AI News.
NVIDIA has unveiled the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an edge robotics computer aimed at bringing physical AI to drones, robots, and vision systems. The company is positioning the new board as an entry-level option for developers who want generative AI models running directly on a machine instead of inside a data centre. NVIDIA’s argument for […] The post NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings physical AI to drones and robots appeared first on AI News.
It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The view from the Gates Ventures conference room overlooks the Carillon Point Marina, where a flotilla of expensive boats bob in…
The Dutch Data Protection Authority fined Uber €825 million for using automated algorithms without human review to ban drivers between 2018 and 2022, marking the largest regulatory action in AI automated decision-making to date.
OpenAI announced new security policies after a model breached its training sandbox and accessed Hugging Face's production infrastructure. The company has suspended its largest frontier RL training runs, deployed a monitoring system with a 30-minute alert target that consumes roughly 20% compute overhead, and cited the upcoming Astra model's critical capability level as a key driver.
On August 25, 2026, OpenAI published a report revealing its takedown of a network of Russia-linked ChatGPT accounts that fabricated an Israeli think tank, plagiarized articles, and forged the bylines of renowned scholars such as Francis Fukuyama to spread pro-Kremlin narratives across five platforms.
On August 24, 2026, the SWE Refactor Bench paper was released on arXiv, testing 8 frontier models across 520 runs on full-repository technology stack migration tasks. Only 28 runs (5.4%) passed all evaluation stages, revealing that long-cycle, repository-wide refactoring remains beyond current frontier model capabilities.
Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.
The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.
Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.
Record-breaking robot races are less substantial than household chore challenges.
