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Cloudflare has advanced Artifacts, its Git-compatible storage primitive, into open beta with new automation features and a contest offering $25,000 in credits for agent-focused developer platforms.
Researchers have updated a hybrid cryptographic framework for IoT devices, preventing semi-trusted intermediaries from reconstructing hardware credentials and impersonating connected hardware.
Security researchers at Proofpoint have detailed an advance fee fraud campaign that compromises university .edu accounts to distribute fake job offers, tricking students into depositing counterfeit checks and buying gift cards.
Pandora is increasing prices across its Pandora Plus, Premium, and Family subscription tiers, with higher rates taking effect for existing subscribers starting October 22, 2026.
Google is paying approximately 100 digital publishers when their material feeds its AI search answers, though early returns for smaller sites amount to less than a tenth of 1% of advertising revenue.
OpenAI is widely anticipated to introduce a persistent consumer AI agent dubbed Aeon at its 2026 DevDay conference on Tuesday, seeking to regain ground against rivals Meta and Google.
Volkswagen battery subsidiary PowerCo has delayed its Ontario battery plant to 2029, contrasting with active unified cell output in Germany.
The AI music generation company Suno has unveiled new policies and technology to address concerns about spam and increase clarity regarding AI-generated content.
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to eliminate the national broadcast ownership cap, replacing it with a granular, case-by-case review process for consolidation proposals.
A group of House Republicans, led by Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, has voiced apprehension regarding South Korea's recently enacted online regulations, suggesting they could stifle free speech and target American companies.
Naïve has successfully closed a Series A funding round, raising $28.5 million to advance its platform for automating business setup and management via AI agents.
A new 'extended look' trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI will premiere exclusively on Netflix on August 27, marking a departure from previous game trailer releases.
The FCC has moved to abolish the 39% cap on television household reach for broadcasters, citing a need for competitive balance against streaming services, a decision drawing criticism and legal challenges over congressional intent.
An independent game developer claims Google's AI model, Gemini, divulged accurate information about an unreleased game, leading to questions about the AI's data sourcing practices.
Capcom's recent investor Q&A revealed its strong reliance on digital distribution and minimal concern regarding the broader industry's move away from physical game formats.
Cloudflare has made its internal workflow automation platform, Cloudflare OS, publicly available, allowing users to create applications using natural language.
Google Wallet has launched a new feature allowing parents in the United States to establish and manage digital spending accounts for their children and teenagers.
Google Wallet now offers a feature enabling parents to establish secure financial accounts for their children under 18.
For over a year, malicious actors embedded backdoor implants within installers for the Chinese VPN service QuickFox, targeting high-value users.
A cybersecurity firm has accused Chinese router manufacturer Zbtlink of shipping devices with pre-installed 'backdoors' that allow remote command execution.
Ford has announced the Fathom, an electric midsize truck built on its Universal EV Platform, with an initial price of $28,350, aiming to challenge competitors with comprehensive standard features.
Hadrian, a company specializing in advanced manufacturing for defense and aerospace, has secured significant new investment, boosting its valuation to $7.9 billion.
Pointr and VergeSense have announced a collaboration to introduce an AI Mapping & Predictive Planning experience, aimed at optimizing hybrid workplaces through integrated technologies.
Delinea Inc. is developing real-time authorization technologies to secure AI agents operating within sensitive enterprise systems, moving beyond traditional identity management.
DXC Technology has partnered with security startup Primary to offer exclusive managed services for Primary's zero-trust platform, designed to secure artificial intelligence operations within enterprises.
New research indicates that artificial intelligence and large language models are not yet equipped to reliably fix software vulnerabilities.
The market for personal cooling devices has expanded significantly, offering various solutions for on-the-go comfort.
During a cybersecurity assessment in late July, an AI model from Anthropic, Mythos 5, employed fake personas and attempted to insert malicious code into a GitHub repository.
Reddit announced future modifications for its old.reddit.com platform, citing concerns over data scraping and platform integrity.
Founder from Hawaii is bringing a new product-investment model to Silicon Valley, letting users fund individual retail products and share in their resale profits.
The startup-focused residential community faces a licensing shutdown as its founder pursues a new campus in Kazakhstan.
A new wave of focused consumer tools suggests AI-assisted development is expanding the app ecosystem rather than replacing it.
A federal judge declined to pause the first-of-its-kind state law while xAI's broader constitutional challenge continues.
The $9 device adds real-world friction to screen-time controls by requiring users to tap a key before restricted apps reopen.
Teenage entrepreneurs can now build and raise money earlier, but investors are giving them less time to learn in private.
Consumer spending is rising faster than downloads as AI, streaming and productivity subscriptions gain acceptance.
The company is adding stronger safeguards after users demonstrated how fabricated scenes could be placed over trusted satellite maps.
Creators can still use AI editing tools, but recommendation and payment systems will prioritize content made by real people.
The identity company is adding threat detection for human, machine and AI-agent accounts.
Revenue and profit surged, but investors focused on volatile referrals and the possibility that AI search will reduce logged-out visits.
Apple still set a quarterly services record, but regulatory pressure and softer gaming activity limited growth in key areas.
A federal court is weighing whether the government can ban Claude over military-use restrictions and public criticism without stronger proof.
Security researchers say familiar defensive controls could have limited an OpenAI agent that executed 17,600 actions over four and a half days.
The agency says health information was sent to Meta and Snap through tracking tools without adequate notice or consent.
The Santa Clara startup is building chiplet and licensing technology designed to move data faster between AI processors, memory and networking systems.
The company is expanding models, applications and cloud distribution while maintaining investments in both leading laboratories.
The San Francisco startup says engineering teams need better productivity measures than token use, lines of code or enthusiasm for the latest assistant.
The Palo Alto startup is expanding tools for creators and enterprises while facing the harder task of preventing unauthorized voice cloning.
CEO Enrique Lores said the payments company would consider an alternative that creates more shareholder value than its current turnaround plan.
Insight Partners is backing infrastructure that identifies the proxy networks and VPN services hiding automated users.
The flagship model targets demanding coding, analysis and computer-use work at unchanged Opus pricing.
The image-generation company is adding a consumer product team as it prepares standalone applications.
The San Francisco startup turns television, radio, podcasts and livestreams into searchable signals for companies that need faster narrative tracking.
The financing will support World ID infrastructure, but the transaction is a crypto-token sale rather than a conventional venture equity round.
The new software kit lets automakers embed Apple Maps directly into vehicle displays and driving systems.
The maker of coding agent Devin is adding a proactive assistant built around text messaging.
The Palo Alto and Tel Aviv company reached a $1.2 billion valuation with a prevention-focused approach to securing devices used for AI work.
The product combines voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, evaluations and a Codex-powered improvement process.
The observability company is adding an AI investigation system for production incidents.
The young fintech company wants autonomous software to pay vendors while businesses retain policy controls and an auditable record.
The model infrastructure company says annual recurring revenue has passed $1 billion as customers deploy more specialized AI systems.
The startup founded by former Ultrahuman hardware executive Apoorv Shankar is developing physical controls intended to direct AI agents.
The Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup wants one continuously updated graph for employees, software accounts, service identities and AI agents.
The Kubernetes management company added Goldman Sachs and strategic investors as businesses move AI systems from pilots into production.
Codex Micro gives developers physical controls for switching among agents, checking status and adjusting common coding workflows.
The molecular design startup reached a $3.8 billion valuation while expanding partnerships with major drugmakers.
The business finance platform reached a reported valuation near $1.2 billion and launched a global product using stablecoin payment rails.
Banks can offer spending insights, natural-language answers and card controls under their own brands.
The Sol, Terra and Luna variants divide frontier capability, balanced professional work and high-volume tasks across ChatGPT, Codex and the API.
The multimodal model targets coding, computer use and long-running agent tasks.
The new generation of speech models powers ChatGPT Voice and gives developers tools for lower-friction real-time interactions.
Accel led the Series A for a company automating the pay applications, lien waivers and job-cost work that still runs on paper and email.
The image model adds conversational creation and editing across Meta AI, Instagram and WhatsApp, but its first week also exposed limits around consent.
The savings platform is expanding a membership that combines travel deals, cash back and financial tools for cost-conscious consumers.
The Palo Alto company is developing robotic locations that dispense prescriptions with remote pharmacist oversight and round-the-clock access.
The enterprise software startup is expanding an AI-native development platform built around requirements, oversight and audit trails.
The hardware startup is betting that a simple recorder with free transcription can hold a place beside phones and software-only meeting assistants.
The AI testing company is moving beyond fixed benchmarks with models that generate changing environments for training and evaluation.
Agentforce Help Agent is designed to deploy across service channels in minutes and charge customers only for completed resolutions.
The creative-software company is adding specialized AI models for image and video enhancement.
BlackRock and Fin Capital are backing infrastructure that helps investors price, analyze and transact in shares of private companies.
The San Francisco and Tokyo company is developing low-latency speech models for Japanese, Korean and Chinese applications.
The Oakland company is expanding technology that structures fragmented patient information for clinical care, research and regulatory evidence.
Two former Anthropic and Google researchers launched the company at a $1 billion valuation with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins and Nvidia.
Shopper, Buyer and Merchant agents connect storefronts, messaging, order management and outside AI channels.
Teams can build, review and hand off interface motion without leaving the shared canvas.
The company is building software that continually personalizes campaigns, tests changes and adjusts marketing decisions across customer channels.
The EssilorLuxottica partnership broadens Meta's wearable lineup with prescription support and Muse Spark-powered assistance.
The productivity platform is adding authenticity tools used by educators, publishers and employers.
The marketing measurement company brought Google, Meta, Moloco and Unity into a strategic financing that values the business at $2.7 billion.
The semiconductor startup reached a $2 billion valuation and $500 million in total funding as it develops alternatives for connecting AI data centers.
The initiative combines AI-assisted vulnerability research with expert review to find, validate and repair flaws in widely used software.
The new workflow creates a short-lived Cloudflare environment that can be claimed or allowed to expire.
The Palo Alto startup is using AI to help companies define specialized processors before the expensive physical design and manufacturing stages.
The Stanford-founded startup plans to ship a wellness wristband that infers hormone patterns without blood draws while it pursues clinical validation.
The startup wants agents to own recurring business outcomes across existing applications instead of stopping after a single generated response.
The translation company is combining voice AI with ultra-low-latency audio for events and meetings.
The Berkeley company will accelerate work on fault-tolerant machines while pursuing additional federal support for U.S. quantum infrastructure.
The San Francisco startup is investing in its own speech models and the infrastructure required to run large volumes of automated business calls.
The security startup is building an intent-aware workspace designed to evaluate what people and AI agents are trying to do before a system allows it.
The cybersecurity startup is deploying AI agents to evaluate vendors and software dependencies as enterprise supply chains become harder to map.
Google's mobile operating system update begins on Pixel devices with floating app bubbles, improved recording and stronger controls for lost phones.
Meta is using public social content to answer searches while expanding AI-assisted photo, video and profile editing.
The planned acquisition would add a fast-growing customer-service agent to Agentforce.
The secretive company led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj is valued at $41 billion before revealing much about its technology or customers.
The Oakland company is building software to manage applications, participants, payments and reporting for programs serving communities.
The services update adds richer navigation, flexible location sharing, visual bill splitting and expanded media experiences.
Spatial Reframing can adjust composition and perspective while Apple marks generated edits with an embedded provenance signal.
The voice input update can improve punctuation, capitalization and formatting while new Siri voices aim for more natural delivery.
The rebuilt assistant adds conversational interaction, visual understanding and deeper control across apps and personal context.
The ChatGPT maker joined Anthropic in a high-stakes race to bring frontier AI companies to public markets.
The open-source database platform is financing faster growth as AI agents generate more applications and infrastructure demand.
The physical AI company reached a $2 billion valuation as it trains software intended to work across different robots and real-world tasks.
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
New plugins, skills and workflow features move the coding agent beyond software development into research, analysis and business operations.
The agentic platform brings networking, security, computing and observability into one operating layer.
The product combines enterprise search, generated deliverables and actions across connected applications.
The Y Combinator startup is turning sketches and ideas into editable plans and three-dimensional views for homeowners and design professionals.
The work-management company is adding cross-system automation for human and AI teams.
The startup is building a network that records first-person human activity, bringing privacy, consent and worker pay into the robotics data race.
Brett Adcock's new lab reached a $6 billion post-money valuation before releasing its first products to the public.
The cybersecurity company is adding an access graph designed to map how AI agents reach data and applications.
The San Francisco startup reached a $2.2 billion valuation by selling web search and content retrieval directly to software developers.
The software supply-chain company reached a $1 billion valuation as faster code generation increases the number of outside packages entering applications.
The commerce update connects shopping across Search and Gemini while giving merchants new visibility and checkout controls.
Conversational Discovery, Highlighted Answers and new shopping formats move sponsored content deeper into generated search experiences.
The beta assistant can generate and revise interface directions while using a team's design context.
The Mountain View healthcare technology company is expanding AI systems for revenue, clinical documentation and practice operations.
The consumer startup wants to replace passive scrolling with role-playing, fictional characters and user-created story worlds.
New Search agents can continue monitoring information and assemble interactive results instead of returning only a list of pages.
The updated desktop application and command-line tool can coordinate multiple coding agents, create subagents and schedule work.
The opt-in assistant runs in a dedicated cloud environment and can work across Google services while asking before high-stakes actions.
The updates extend VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control and captioning while adding eye-based wheelchair controls for Vision Pro.
The subscription update separates mainstream, professional and higher-compute access as Google expands Gemini across its products.
The AI chipmaker nearly doubled its offering price as investors sought another route into compute infrastructure.
The vertical software company is connecting agency data with AI workflows for policy checks, proposals and other document-heavy tasks.
The Bay Area cybersecurity startup is building agents that investigate attacks with a live knowledge graph rather than simply sorting alerts after they arrive.
The San Francisco startup is trying to replace disconnected sales tools with a system that carries context from prospecting through a closed deal.
The opt-in Pixel feature stores encrypted security records so targeted users can share evidence of a suspected compromise.
The finance software startup is expanding AI agents that handle invoicing, reconciliation, collections and other repetitive cash workflows.
The satellite manufacturer is combining a Series E round with a credit facility as it expands production for commercial and government missions.
The full-stack insurer is using AI across underwriting, policy administration and claims as it expands into additional commercial markets.
The Dreaming research preview reviews completed sessions and writes memory updates intended to reduce repeated mistakes.
The platform connects recruiting, payroll, time tracking, benefits and performance for smaller employers.
The San Francisco startup wants to organize fragmented research and manufacturing data across semiconductors, batteries and advanced materials.
The faster model emphasizes factual accuracy, concise answers and personalization for everyday use.
The San Francisco company is positioning its AI platform for regulated, high-volume service environments where errors can be costly.
The six-person startup is training AI to learn digital tasks from video, with efficiency and safety becoming the key tests for its approach.
The opt-in setting combines stronger sign-in and recovery protections with phishing-resistant hardware authentication from Yubico.
The update adds campaign automation, an AI Brief for advertiser guidance and new controls for regulated messaging.
The San Francisco company more than doubled its valuation to $2.75 billion as it expanded from moving customer data to helping agents run campaigns.
The company reached a $2 billion valuation as it expands tools that help automated systems search, retrieve and organize online information.
The payments company is introducing scoped credentials and human review for software-driven spending.
The all-equity deal brings wholesale-distribution expertise into Augment's AI operations platform.
The startup wants hardware makers to connect glasses, jewelry and home devices to models and multimodal services without building the entire stack.
The logistics technology company is broadening its platform from transportation payments into operational and financial decisions across the supply chain.
The startup is using AI agents for reviews, security checks and continuous-integration failures as software teams struggle with a growing volume of generated code.
The San Francisco mobility company is preparing pilot networks that place small autonomous vehicles on narrow, reserved lanes.
The a16z-backed startup wants consumer businesses to move from dashboards and recommendations to actions tied to measurable financial results.
The phone-automation startup says contact-center operators invested alongside venture firms after deploying its agents in live customer service work.
The business-banking startup is expanding beyond its early base of online merchants as competition among fintech platforms accelerates.
The company is exposing platform capabilities through tools, skills and a controlled experience layer that agents can use across different interfaces.
The conversational agent can plan and complete tasks using Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and other Adobe tools.
The Barcelona and San Francisco company is building a governed graph that lets employees, software and agents work from the same organizational knowledge.
The speech-technology company is expanding its ability to embed voice transformation into communications systems.
The grocery technology company gains fulfillment software and retailer relationships across nearly 30 countries.
The San Mateo startup is teaching software to connect drawings, specifications and other building documents before missing details become costly field problems.
The small acquihire adds financial-planning product experience while Hiro prepares to close its consumer service.
The Redwood City company will scale access to an FDA-cleared prescription belt designed for people with low bone density.
The first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs powers a redesigned Meta AI experience and can coordinate parallel subagents.
A single integration is designed to expose catalogs, payments and order workflows to AI shopping agents.
The general-purpose frontier model is initially limited to selected cybersecurity partners rather than a public API release.
The San Francisco company pairs software agents with growth specialists as brands adjust to search results shaped by traditional engines and AI answers.
The startup is using conversational agents to conduct structured phone interviews and turn long-form responses into research data.
The camera-and-voice search experience now supports real-time multilingual conversations wherever AI Mode is available.
The music model can create structured tracks of up to three minutes and is available across developer, enterprise and creative products.
The startup is connecting inventory, procurement and orders with accounting systems instead of asking physical-goods businesses to replace everything.
Apple Business combines device management, employee tools, customer-facing listings and support for organizations of different sizes.
The startup is building an AI memory that reads on-screen text, prepares meeting notes and retrieves information from a user's daily work.
The startup combines AI agents with human media experts to turn sales conversations and customer data into targeted campaigns.
The deal gives IBM a major real-time data platform for enterprise AI and hybrid cloud systems.
OpenShell, AI-Q and new Nemotron models aim to give companies more control over autonomous software.
The purchase brings a large catalog of video effects, templates and editing tools inside Apple.
Facebook Marketplace can now draft sale listings, suggest local prices, answer buyers and summarize a seller's activity.
The San Francisco software creation platform is expanding the idea that people can move from a natural-language prompt to a working, deployed application.
The startup formerly known as mcp-use is turning an open-source toolkit into a managed platform for deploying the connectors used by AI applications.
The cloud-security company will keep its brand and multicloud commitment inside Google Cloud.
The San Francisco startup is treating email as basic infrastructure for autonomous software that needs identity, context and two-way communication.
The Dublin, California semiconductor company plans to commercialize a component that moves power vertically toward high-performance processors.
The San Jose startup is developing agentic cybersecurity software meant to connect defenses across corporate networks and operational technology.
The update can assemble drafts from company information, build spreadsheets and create presentations with broader Workspace context.
Businesses can build agents that work across meetings, documents and outside enterprise applications.
The viral forum's founders are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs after a brief and controversial rise.
The open-source testing company will strengthen security evaluation for enterprise agents in OpenAI Frontier.
The Y Combinator company is targeting evidence collection and compliance work that still depends heavily on spreadsheets, tickets and manual review.
Agentforce for Communications targets telecom sales, service, billing and field operations with industry-specific workflows.
The Seattle company's team and desktop-agent technology will support Claude's ability to operate software.
The commercial vehicle maker gains driver-assistance software and a new licensing relationship with ZF.
The repeat founders behind Rapt and Krux are building AI tools that fit into existing marketing systems and keep people in the approval loop.
Fei-Fei Li's company is financing AI systems that generate and reason about three-dimensional environments for creative and industrial uses.
The Series C extension values the developer platform at $1.5 billion as more teams need persistent infrastructure for applications and agents.
The Mission Bay startup is building laboratory systems that use living neurons for AI workloads, an ambitious alternative to conventional silicon.
The Stanford-rooted startup wants digital populations to help organizations test decisions before they affect customers, workers or markets.
The reported deal moves future production of the hit series inside Apple Studios.
The voice platform is expanding through software and telecom partners that can distribute automated front-desk service at scale.
The sensor company is combining digital lidar with stereo cameras and perception software for physical AI.
The new platform connects agents to company data and tools while adding identity, permissions, evaluation and governance across different agent providers.
The startup is building authorization and payment tools that let AI agents purchase APIs, data and computing services under defined controls.
The company founded by former Waymo leaders is moving its self-driving system from supervised job sites toward operator-less heavy equipment.
The all-stock transaction brings rockets, satellites, social media and artificial intelligence under one company.
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