Labelbox raises more than $100 million as AI training data shifts to reinforcement learning environments
Labelbox raised a $100M+ Series E at a $1.25B pre-money valuation, saying it works with 90 percent of leading frontier labs on RL environments.
Modal passes $1 billion annualized run rate and raises $750 million at a $15.75 billion valuation
AI infrastructure provider Modal raised a $750M Series D led by Accel at a $15.75B valuation after crossing $1B in annualized run rate.
State attorneys general sue OpenAI over ChatGPT's safety for children
Arizona, Idaho, Montana and other states sue OpenAI in their own courts, alleging ChatGPT was designed to hook minors and its safety was misrepresented.
Waymo opens driverless rides to anyone in San Antonio, San Diego and Tampa
Waymo removed waitlists in San Antonio, San Diego and Tampa, letting anyone hail a driverless ride, including at San Antonio International Airport.
Anthropic made Claude Code Review generally available for Team and Enterprise
Claude Code's automatic pull-request reviewer left research preview for Team and Enterprise plans, with per-repo depth settings and faster reviews.
FDA clears TumorSight Risk, an AI tool that predicts breast cancer recurrence from MRI
SimBioSys won FDA 510(k) clearance for TumorSight Risk, which scores 5- and 10-year breast cancer recurrence risk from routine MRI and pathology.
Hong Kong Monetary Authority launches the ART framework for AI in banking
The HKMA issues updated supervisory guidance on responsible AI and plans a discussion paper on supervising agentic AI, including an agent registry.
TSMC reports Q3 2026 revenue of $46.7 billion, up 41 percent, and lifts 2026 growth outlook to about 44 percent
TSMC's Q3 2026 revenue hit $46.72B, up 41.2 percent YoY, with net income up 68.7 percent as AI accelerator demand kept leading-edge fabs full.
Venture Global signs power island framework deals and targets up to 10 GW of off-grid AI compute
Venture Global signed frame agreements with GE Vernova and Baker Hughes for up to 16 gas power islands, aiming at up to 10 GW of compute by 2034.
ChatGPT added parallel agents to GPT-6 Pro and launched ChatGPT Slides
OpenAI let GPT-6 Pro split a task across agents running in parallel inside a chat, and shipped Slides, a collaborative deck editor, the same day.
China proposes export controls on 23 AI technologies and requires registration before export
China's commerce and science ministries propose adding 23 AI technologies, including large models and agents, to the export control catalogue.
NIST, NSA and CISA publish ten key practices for AI control incidents in training and evaluation
Three US agencies issue voluntary guidance on catching, shutting down and reporting AI agents that act beyond their instructions during training and tests.
Waymo announces Toronto as its first Canadian city, targeting riders in 2028
Waymo said it will start manual mapping drives in Toronto, partner with Element Fleet Management, and aims to carry first riders in 2028.
Anthropic's Frontier Safety Roadmap update: automated red-teaming beats its bug bounty, two new policy goals
Anthropic says an automated red-teamer matched or beat human bounty hunters on 24 of 24 classifier tests and adds goals on third-party evaluators.
EU publishes EN 18286, the first harmonised standard under the AI Act
The Commission references EN 18286:2026 in the Official Journal, giving high-risk AI providers a presumption of conformity with Article 17 QMS duties.
Hundreds of authors file individual copyright suits against Meta, rejecting the class action route
Five same-day suits in San Francisco accuse Meta of torrenting pirated books and scanning books for Llama and Muse, seeking per-work damages.
Town raises $108 million Series B at $1 billion valuation for team AI assistants
AI assistant startup Town raised a $108M Series B co-led by Menlo Ventures and Forerunner at a $1B valuation for its email-first Townie assistants.
ASI raises $325 million Series C at $3 billion valuation for AI that runs physical infrastructure
ASI, formerly Air Space Intelligence, raised a $325M Series C led by Spark Capital at a $3B valuation to extend its airspace AI to energy and defense.
Daytona raises $60 million Series B at $1 billion valuation to build sandboxes for AI agents
Agent sandbox provider Daytona raised a $60M Series B led by FirstMark Growth at a $1B valuation, reporting revenue up about 25x since January.
Salesforce agrees to acquire Braze for about $5.66 billion to feed real-time data into Agentforce
Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to buy customer engagement platform Braze for about $5.66B, citing AI decisioning and agentic marketing.
Waymo announces Madrid as its first city in Spain, aiming for riders in 2027
Waymo said Jaguar I-PACE vehicles will start manual driving in the Madrid region within days, with first riders targeted for 2027.
Anthropic previewed Claude Duet, a proactive agent app that works in the background
Anthropic opened a waitlisted research preview of Claude Duet, a standalone Opus 5.5 agent app that monitors connected apps and asks before acting.
Lam Research posts record $8.22 billion quarter as AI drives chip equipment demand
Lam Research reported record September-quarter revenue of $8.22B, up 22% sequentially, crediting AI-driven semiconductor demand, and guided to $8.6B next.
Legora raises $550 million Series E at $8.8 billion valuation as legal AI passes $200 million ARR
Legal AI company Legora raised a $550M Series E led by Atreides at an $8.8B post-money valuation, reporting ARR above $200M.
Microsoft Research details the AI-agent-assisted proof of the 31-year-old KLS conjecture
Zhao Song and Xinzhi Zhang's O(1) bound for the KLS constant, found with parallel AI agents, settles a 1995 high-dimensional geometry conjecture.
OpenAI announced its frontier models and Codex are coming to Google Cloud
OpenAI and Google Cloud said OpenAI frontier models and Codex workflows will be sold through Model Garden, drawing down GCP spend commitments.
Reservoir and the Elvis Presley song owners sue Anthropic, and Reservoir sues Suno, over AI training on music
Three N.D. Cal. complaints claim Claude and Suno were trained on over 2,000 songs without a licence, seeking up to $150,000 per work.
SAP Q3 2026: current cloud backlog reaches 24.1 billion euros as it sells the Autonomous Enterprise
SAP reported Q3 2026 cloud revenue up 26% and current cloud backlog of 24.1 billion euros, crediting Business AI and its Joule Work agents.
Tesla Q3 2026 update: Optimus production starts in Fremont and SI training compute heads to 400 MW
Tesla's Q3 2026 update reported Optimus production in Fremont, Cybercab robotaxi rides in Austin, and a plan for 400 MW of AI training compute by year end.
Anthropic donated the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic handed Agent Skills, its open format for packaging agent know-how, to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, joining MCP there.
OpenAI made the Decisions API generally available at $0.10 per million input tokens
OpenAI's Decisions API, a GPT-6 Luna endpoint for bounded classify-route-score calls, reached GA with input-only pricing and a GPT-Live hook.
Pennsylvania enacts the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act
Pennsylvania's Act 99 of 2026 requires a clear disclosure when ads use AI-generated content that creates a false impression of the product.
The full Claude Platform became generally available on Google Cloud, run by Anthropic
Anthropic made an Anthropic-managed Claude Platform GA on Google Cloud, billed against GCP commitments, and took Opus 5.5 fast mode to GA.
Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, asking a court to bar ChatGPT for minors
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues OpenAI and Sam Altman in Collin County under the DTPA and SCOPE Act, seeking to bar ChatGPT for Texas minors.