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The startup uses AI to automate tedious paperwork for insurance agencies and brokers.
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Modulate deploys its models to detect deepfake, fraud and scam
Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.
SpaceXAI has become a partner of NVIDIA's Open Agent Safety Platform, which will be used for safety controls on Cursor agents and the Grok model. The platform combines Nvidia OpenShell software with the Nvidia Sentry hardware layer to keep AI agents within defined boundaries.
Instinct, the personal AI assistant operated by Spear Street Technology, is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of about $10 billion, with Sequoia Capital and Benchmark expected to lead. The company previously raised $250 million in August at a $2.25 billion valuation; its user base has surpassed 100,000, though the service occasionally experiences response delays due to compute constraints.
NVIDIA has released the Open Agent Safety Platform, an open-source reference design comprising the OpenShell 0.1.0 runtime and the Sentry reference system, using kernel-level controls, process isolation, and policy enforcement to restrict AI agents' access to systems and data. The announcement has drawn support for its engineering approach and criticism over possible commercial motives tied to NVIDIA's BlueField hardware.
“Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out."
Mathematics has been one of humanity’s most creative endeavors, akin to painting and poetry. Now, mathematicians are trying to save it from the brute force of AI.
Your next coworker might well be an AI agent—and will require a whole new model of workplace interactions.
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its agents…
In the wake of a series of high-profile AI safety incidents, Nvidia is introducing a new software tool that helps keep agents from escaping containment.
A British startup is shaping video game inputs into training data for AI models that can navigate the physical world.
On September 27, 2026, Beijing-based lab NaiveAI released Naive-N0.5-Flash, a 309B MoE open-source model with 15.5B activated parameters, 1M context support, MIT licensing, and inference speeds up to 2000 tok/s. It uses a hybrid attention design and is positioned for coding and AI R&D tasks.
OpenAI and Anthropic are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which frontier models took actions that external evaluators deemed problematic, prompting a pause in training and raising doubts about the industry's ability to control advanced AI systems.
This will be the first one-on-one meeting between Dario Amodei and Donald Trump
This week, 417 translation tasks were completed by three models. A sample of three was blind-evaluated across multiple models, with deepseek-v4-pro earning the best overall average score of 8.7/10.
K-Dense has open-sourced LabMCP, an Apache-2.0 project that gives Claude and other MCP-enabled AI assistants 32 connectors for controlling lab instruments. The connectors simulate manufacturer command sets based on vendor manuals and are explicitly intended for research use.
The United States and China have confirmed a bilateral communication channel for AI-related incidents and launched a U.S.-China Super Intelligence Dialogue, while President Trump said Washington will not slow the technology race or share its lead with Beijing. The arrangement is essentially a hotline between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Vice Premier He Lifeng, and its symbolic value currently outweighs its operational value.
