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Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services
Ema has raised $140 million to date and has more than 50 enterprise customers, including Google and Microsoft.
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The Download: India’s smart glasses menace and AI’s trillion-dollar gamble
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India When Shubnam saw an Instagram video of a Delhi protest they had attended, they realized a content creator wearing Meta smart glasses had…
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Meta’s Muse AI Assistant Rolled Out With a Serious Security Flaw
Meta says it issued a fix for the Muse zero-day vulnerability that would have let attackers do “whatever” they wanted on a victim’s Mac, highlighting the inherent dangers of AI helpers.
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Spotify’s is giving you the keys to its recommendation algorithm with US launch of ‘Taste Profile’
Spotify is rolling out Taste Profile to Premium users in the U.S., letting listeners see how the streamer understands their tastes and use natural language to reshape their recommendations
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U.S. TRANSCOM deploys randomised AI to secure military logistics
Deploying randomised AI logistics offers military planners a viable defence against adversarial tracking, allowing U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) to insulate global distribution networks against contested disruption.  Commercial freight software historically prioritises static scheduling, steady delivery windows, and just-in-time routing to eliminate transit waste. In an operational theatre, however, those fixed cadences expose military transports to […] The post U.S. TRANSCOM
UN Security Council Holds First Thematic Debate on AI Loss of Control: Altman Presents in Person as China and U.S. Share the Stage Under a Sovereignty-Security Framework
The UN Security Council held its first dedicated session on the risks of AI loss of control and malicious use, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among the speakers. The meeting highlighted both the push for international AI safety baselines and the structural limits of the Security Council in governing deeply technical AI risks amid U.S.-China strategic competition.
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AT&T Is Automating Away Jobs—and Its Old Telecom Empire
The telecom giant is eager to show Wall Street that it can do more with less. That means fewer employees, less electricity, and increased automation.
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Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India
Shubnam was packing boxes for a move into a new home when their friend sent them an Instagram video. The footage had only been up for a few hours, but it was days old, recorded at a Delhi protest this spring against a bill that would have narrowed the legal recognition for transgender people in…
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AI Agents Are Becoming a New Malware Distribution Channel
By Farukh Rakhimov, Head of Compliance, Data Protection and Information Security at AdTech Holding Roughly 7,600 fake GitHub repositories, 6,600 fraudulent profiles and more than 14 million downloads: that is the scale of FakeGit, a malware campaign documented by Island in July 2026. Over 800 repositories impersonated AI skills and MCP servers, distributing SmartLoader and […] The post AI Agents Are Becoming a New Malware Distribution Channel appeared first on AI News.
British Columbia Sues OpenAI: ChatGPT Had Already Flagged the Shooter; Executives Vetoed Reporting to Police, Leading to 8 Deaths
British Columbia has sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in federal court in San Francisco, alleging that the company knew months in advance about the Tumbler Ridge shooter's violent plans and that executives rejected internal recommendations to alert law enforcement. The case is described as the first government civil claim over an AI platform's chat records and raises novel questions about AI platforms' duty to warn.
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‘We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle’: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI
Most leaders on a trade mission stick to the pitch, but when I interviewed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week, he also admitted that no government is ready for what AI is about to do.
325K Experiments Reveal Economic Bias in AI Assistants: 8 Models Recommend Pricier Options to Wealthy Users, Defying Instructions
A 325K-experiment arXiv paper finds that eight mainstream models systematically recommend more expensive options to wealthier users even when explicitly instructed to choose the cheapest, revealing a structural economic misalignment in personal AI agents.
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Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms
The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.
Pentagon Report: Overreliance on Palantir Maven System Caused Errant Strike on Iranian School, Killing 123 Children
A Pentagon investigation has concluded that the February 28, 2026 U.S. strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, Iran, which killed at least 123 children, occurred amid a severely compressed targeting process and overreliance on Palantir's Maven Smart System. The report also points to failures in intelligence updating and civilian-harm mitigation staffing.
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New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money
The frontier AI model race has entered its comparison shopping phase.
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TechCrunch Founder Summit’s agenda revealed: Unlock fundraising, hiring, and AI insights in Boston on November 4
Founders shouldn't have to learn the hardest lessons the hardest way. TechCrunch Founder Summit is designed to make the challenges of starting a company easier and the highs that much greater.
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Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI
Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.
Grok 4.7 Released: 71% on DeepSWE and the Real Cost Behind the Half-Price Pay-as-You-Go Paradox
xAI released Grok 4.7 with 71.0% on DeepSWE v1.1 xHigh and unchanged $2/$6 per million tokens, but 125% higher output token consumption undermines the apparent half-price advantage. It is strong in long-horizon coding collaboration yet lags in autonomous command-line tasks.
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WDCD Run #336: Average Instruction Decay Hits -36.4% as Gemini 3.1 Pro Holds Zero Decay
WDCD Run #336 (2026-09-23) benchmarked 11 models on multi-turn commitment, recording an average instruction decay of -36.4% from Round 1 to Round 3, with Gemini 3.1 Pro standing out at 0% decay.
Four Models Slide Collectively in WDCD as Gemini 2.5 Pro Plunges 16.7 Points
In the WDCD v3.1 pilot, Gemini 2.5 Pro fell 16.7 points from Run #331, the largest decline among four evaluated models. DeepSeek V4 Pro, GPT-5.5, and Qwen3 Max dropped 6.6, 6.5, and 7.9 points respectively, with no model improving this period.