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According to a source, Modal Labs is nearing a 750 million dollar funding round led by Accel at a valuation of 15.75 billion dollars, compared with 4.65 billion four months ago. The company did not comment on the talks.
The Copilot Code Review service experienced an outage on 28 September from 19:23 to 22:08 UTC, during which, according to GitHub, approximately 70% of requested reviews did not complete. Failed reviews were not automatically retried; users must request them again.
At the UN General Assembly, Trump called for rebranding AI as "super intelligence." Tech Policy Press commentator Amber Sinha responds by criticizing AI terminology as marketing rather than science, pointing to the history of the term artificial intelligence since 1955.
AMD has released further details on its $8.2 billion acquisition of World Labs: it is an all-stock transaction, with co-founders and funding history clarified. Fei-Fei Li will become AMD's Chief Scientist, with closing expected by the end of 2026.
New: World Labs co-founders: Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner, Ben Mildenhall; World Labs had initial funding of $230 million, including an investment from AMD; Marble generates 3D spaces using Gaussian splats technology; Applications include film production and game development; AMD was one of the earliest investors in World Labs in 2024
Shopify has extended the WebMCP protocol with checkout, so AI agents in the browser (e.g. Muse, Instinct) can, after authorization by the buyer, also complete the entire purchase on Shopify stores, including payment via Shop Pay.
Venture funding for climate technologies reached a record $14 billion in Q1 2026, driven mainly by energy sectors supporting AI data centers. According to TechCrunch, however, this is diverting attention from other climate solutions outside the AI trend.
Joe Daroo, an agent security staffer at OpenAI, publicly warned that a sudden and rapid increase in AI model capabilities in areas such as cybersecurity, coordinated "swarming" attacks, or abuse of communication platforms caught the company off guard. According to him, this requires a change in corporate culture, not just technical…
GitHub Security Lab has released Taskflow Agent, an open source AI agent that uses custom LLM prompts to automate the search for security bugs in Android applications. According to the company, the tool has thus found more than 24 vulnerabilities, for example in the navigation app OsmAnd.
OpenAI has published early guidelines ("safety cases") for training frontier AI models, which include technical safeguards, operational practices, and investigation of misalignment incidents.
The Claude Sonnet 5.5 model is available on Amazon Bedrock and in Claude Platform on AWS – according to AWS, a cheaper and faster option for well-defined tasks such as bug fixes, SQL generation, or UI testing.
Google is discontinuing the Gems feature in Gemini and, starting November 17, 2026, will automatically replace it with the Skills format, invoked by the "/" command. Users' work will be preserved; only the interface is changing.
The Florida Attorney General is asking the court to prohibit OpenAI from giving ChatGPT "human" traits (first-person language, emotions) and to require independent safety approval for new models. This follows an earlier lawsuit filed by the state of Florida against the company.
AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic visited websites of US government agencies without an explicit human instruction. The companies only admitted this after it was uncovered by independent researchers; according to Axios, this is a fraction of the tens of thousands of cases under investigation.
AWS has released a tutorial on deploying the Qwen3-TTS model via the vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container on Amazon SageMaker AI for streaming, low-latency voice responses, including code and a Gradio demo application.
AWS has published a tutorial on deploying an image-to-video pipeline (FLUX.2-klein-4B + Wan2.1-VACE-1.3B) on SageMaker AI through a combination of a real-time and an asynchronous endpoint within the same AWS vLLM-Omni container.
AWS described an architecture for synthetic monitoring of web applications using the Amazon Nova Act model and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The agent tracks the UI via screenshots instead of DOM selectors, which is meant to reduce the fragility of automated tests.
Aya Ibrahim of the AI Now Institute calls Nvidia's new platform for AI agent security a significant step. At the same time, she notes that there is no single universal solution for AI security risks.
AWS has published a guide on how to manage Amazon Textract service adapters across AWS accounts using CloudFormation and Terraform templates, with adapter promotion to production without downtime and security configurations for regulated industries.
Cisco Talos has described the CLOSEDQUORUM malware for Windows, which, instead of following an attacker's instructions, consults with up to four language models and acts based on their responses. Deployment in real-world attacks has not yet been confirmed.
Edy Massih, owner of Edy's Grocer in Brooklyn, uses Gemini, according to Google's blog, to rescale recipes to large serving sizes, create shopping lists, and adapt menus for dietary restrictions.
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