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  1. Unite.AI
    AI score56

    Warp Sciences Raises $215 Million to Build Chemistry Labs with AI and Robots

    Warp Sciences has emerged from stealth with $215 million in funding led by Lightspeed, with participation from IVP, Mayfield, Lux, Premji Invest, Menlo Ventures and others, to build a U.S.-based chemistry contract research organization (CRO) that combines chemists, AI and robots. The company is led by former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil and enters through analog synthesis in the lead compound optimization stage, charging per delivered compound and not charging if nothing is produced, and currently works with a small number of design partners. Its long-term vision is to feed experimental data (including failed experiments) back into model training, gradually increasing the degree of laboratory automation.

    Same story · 5 reports

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.#Embodied AI

  2. Thurrott
    AI score54

    The Browser Company announces that the Arc browser will be discontinued on December 22, guiding users to switch to Dia

    The Browser Company has announced that the Arc browser will be discontinued on December 22 and is inviting users to migrate to its new AI browser, Dia, which currently supports Apple Silicon Macs and Windows 11 PCs. The discontinuation will proceed in stages: starting immediately, new Arc accounts can no longer be registered; on November 23, tab syncing and AI features such as Browse for Me in the iOS and Android versions of Arc will be shut down; and on December 22, the desktop version will stop working and Arc accounts will be deactivated. The company says maintaining two browsers at the same time is untenable from a security standpoint. Dia supports vertical tabs in a sidebar, Spaces (now called Profiles), pinned tabs, folders, and split view, and allows users to import sign-in information, extensions, and other user data when they sign up.

    Same story · 5 reports

    #Product updates#OpenAI#Industry news

  3. The New Stack
    AI score65

    OpenAI Donates the Open Responses API Specification to the Agentic AI Foundation

    OpenAI announced that it is donating the Open Responses API specification to the open-source organization Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), which is part of the Linux Foundation. Open Responses aims to unify foundational LLM primitives such as messages, tool calls, and function calls, reducing the adaptation work developers face when switching between APIs from different vendors. Vercel AI Gateway and Databricks Model Serving have already implemented the specification. AWS Bedrock, Ollama, Hugging Face, NVIDIA, OpenRouter, Red Hat, vLLM and others have also expressed support, while Anthropic and Google continue to use their respective Messages API and Interactions API. Also joining AAIF this time are OpenSandbox, Anthropic's Agent Skills, and Hugging Face's OpenEv framework.

    Same story · 3 reports

    #Industry news#Open-source ecosystem#English text is being prepared.

  4. The New Stack
    AI score58

    Ramp built its own AI agent harness, Laminar, in six weeks; LangChain CEO says it reflects an industry shift

    Ramp spent six weeks building an internal agent harness called Laminar, integrating agent execution, sandboxing, observability, and asynchronous workflows into a single platform that now supports all of the company's agent products. Ramp engineer Sam Kronick said the team evaluated hosted agent APIs, open-source frameworks, and third-party platforms before choosing to build in-house in order to escape lock-in to a single model provider and gain better observability. LangChain CEO Harrison Chase praised on X its design choices such as separating sessions from sandboxes and asynchronous agents, and said LangChain's Deep Agents is doing similar work; the article also mentions that LangChain routes models by task complexity in Open SWE, cutting the median LLM cost across 973 agent threads from $2.61 to $0.94 per thread.

    #Industry news#Agents#English text is being prepared.

  5. AI Business
    AI score58

    OpenAI Models and Codex to Launch on Google Model Garden

    OpenAI and Google Cloud announced that OpenAI's models and Codex agent workflows will launch on Google Model Garden, with plans to subsequently enter Google Antigravity and Gemini Agent. Enterprises already on Google Cloud can call OpenAI models within their existing environments, combined with Google Cloud's access controls, data governance, and infrastructure. This move follows OpenAI ending its cloud exclusivity agreement with Microsoft and launching models on AWS in April, giving its models coverage across various cloud providers.

    Same story · 13 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Google

  7. Wallstreetcn
    AI score55

    Tesla and Nvidia Plan to Invest About 3.7 Trillion Won in Samsung Electro-Mechanics to Expand FC-BGA Substrate Production

    According to South Korean Maeil Business Newspaper citing industry sources, Samsung Electro-Mechanics will receive investment commitments totaling about 3.7 trillion won from Tesla and Nvidia to expand high-end FC-BGA substrate capacity, and the related investment is included in its 4.27 trillion won Sejong plant investment plan disclosed in September. Samsung Electro-Mechanics signed a five-year long-term supply agreement with Tesla from 2029 to 2033; Tesla will contribute about 1.1 trillion won to lock in priority supply from dedicated production lines, with the substrates used for autonomous driving AI chips and the humanoid robot Optimus; Nvidia's investment commitment is about 2.6 trillion won but the specific amount was not disclosed, and it is simultaneously laying out capacity at Japan's Ibiden and Taiwan region's Unimicron. The new production lines are expected to be completed by the end of 2027 and begin mass production in the second half of 2028, with the first shipments for Tesla expected to start in 2029.

    Same story · 7 reports

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.#English text is being prepared.

  8. Greg Brockman
    AI score58

    OpenAI and Uber Partner to Roll Out ChatGPT Work to All Employees

    Greg Brockman said that OpenAI is working closely with Uber to roll out ChatGPT Work to every Uber employee, bringing agent capabilities to the entire company. According to Uber executive Praveen Neppalli, whom he cited, after completing a 1,000-person pilot, Uber is rolling out the enterprise-oriented ChatGPT Work to its entire workforce; previously, its engineering processes had shifted from AI assisting individual tasks to completing entire workflows.

    Quoted postPraveen Neppalli · @praveenTweets

    Great to host @gdb at @Uber HQ this week. We’ve worked closely with @gdb and the @OpenAI team for several years, and it’s remarkable how much has changed. The first piece of work we did with ChatGPT years ago was with our support team, tinkering with a 4K context window :-). That’s hard to imagine now. Now we’re using the latest frontier models to automate engineering workflows at global scale, moving into the era of agentic engineering. Today we’re expanding agentic capabilities across the whole company. Following a 1,000-person pilot, we’re rolling out ChatGPT Work from @OpenAI for Business to every Uber employee. We’ve seen the shift in engineering, moving from AI helping with individual tasks to completing whole workflows, and we want to bring that same shift to teams across the business. I’ve spoken before about the ‘AI pods’ we launched earlier this year, pairing AI engineers with teams across Uber to improve how work gets done. One team reduced the time needed for an intense capital allocation process covering 150 cities from 15 hours to 30 minutes. That’s what I love about applied AI: combining the latest technology with the expertise of people on the ground to completely rethink what’s possible. Now we want to do that at scale. Uber has always been a company of builders, and every day millions of people around the world rely on what we create. I can’t wait to see what the team builds.

    #Product updates#Agents#OpenAI

  9. David Singleton
    AI score54

    Muse fixes vulnerability where shared artifact links could be discovered via passive DNS

    Muse fixed a design flaw in shared artifacts: the URLs of some shared artifacts could be discovered via passive DNS. The team immediately disabled the sharing feature and restored it after the fix. Artifacts shared before the fix have been assigned new URLs; visiting an old link prompts users to ask the sharer for a new link. Muse clarified that the issue only affects shared artifacts, not chat sharing. The Muse bug bounty program offers up to $300,000 for valid reports.

    #Safety / alignment#Product updates#English text is being prepared.

  10. TechCrunch AI
    AI score56

    Meta plans to issue non-voting stock to finance AI investment

    Meta confirmed on its third-quarter earnings call that it will create a new class of non-voting capital stock, to be distributed to existing shareholders through a stock dividend, for purposes such as financing, employee compensation and acquisitions, while preserving the voting rights of existing Class A and B shareholders. CFO Susan Li said the move can maintain the founder-led structure and expand financing tools. This quarter Meta's revenue was $64 billion, up 26% year over year, while costs and expenses rose 68% year over year.

    Same story · 11 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Meta

  11. TechCrunch AI
    AI score78

    Microsoft says China-linked hackers used ConnectWise vulnerability to spy on thousands of enterprises

    Microsoft security researchers say hackers linked to the Chinese government breached ConnectWise's cloud backup service and stole application credentials used to establish data links, allowing them to log in as authorized users to customers' Microsoft hosted environments and access email and other files. The hackers used AI agents to compromise about 2,250 organizations at a rate of nearly 3,000 login attempts per minute, a speed Microsoft says left defenders almost no time to detect and respond. The AI framework used was the open-source stress-testing framework ARTEX, which was previously used in an intrusion into South Korea's financial system. ConnectWise said it has suspended access to the cloud backup system and launched an investigation, and as of Thursday was restoring service.

    #Safety / alignment#Agents#Microsoft

  12. Cailian Press
    AI score59

    Barclays announces 5,000 layoffs; UK union Unite accuses it of using AI as an excuse to abandon employees

    Barclays Bank announced it will cut 5,000 positions, about 5% of its total workforce, with roughly 60% coming from support departments including developers; management says the adjustment is related to organizational streamlining and the impact of AI. Barclays will invest about £600 million in this round of restructuring this year, roughly double its previous estimate. UK union Unite criticized Barclays for using AI as an excuse to abandon employees, saying it is in urgent negotiations with the bank; HSBC and Standard Chartered are also preparing layoffs.

    Same story · 4 reports

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.#English text is being prepared.

  13. The Decoder
    AI score55

    Gartner Survey: Only 13% of Enterprises Achieve Significant Returns from AI

    A survey of 2,002 CIOs and technology leaders released by Gartner at the IT Symposium in Orlando shows that only 13% of respondents said they had achieved major or transformative returns from AI. 58% of CIOs are being asked to use AI to achieve cost savings, but 51% expect AI to increase the total operating cost of their technology stack, and 44% of CEOs find it difficult to demonstrate to stakeholders the financial returns brought by AI. Gartner analyst Alicia Mullery believes that the gap between vendors' "innovation race" and the "outcomes race" that enterprises need is widening; even with uncertain returns, 75% of CEOs still plan to increase technology spending.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.#English text is being prepared.

  14. Deutsche Welle Chinese
    AI score83

    AI discovers major PHP vulnerability; multiple governments and enterprises suspend online services

    The PHP development team released an emergency security update on October 21, fixing a severe vulnerability present in all versions of PHP over the past 20 years. Cybersecurity firms say some hackers have already begun exploiting the vulnerability to launch attacks. Censys data shows that of the 2.6 million hosts reported to be running PHP, about 1.5 million are still using versions with no fix available; Nomura Securities, Mitsubishi UFJ, All Nippon Airways, and East Japan Railway in Japan, as well as the Dutch government portal, the Port of Rotterdam, and some Wikipedia systems, have suspended related online services. Wiz says it discovered these vulnerabilities using its autonomous vulnerability research tools Wiz Atlas and Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-5.6 Sol, while Calif says it discovered the vulnerability on August 1 with the help of a large language model.

    Same story · 8 reports

    #Safety / alignment#Open-source ecosystem#English text is being prepared.

  15. Yicai
    AI score58

    DeepSeek and MiniMax complete registration for open-source and overseas authorized use

    According to Yuyuantantian, on October 16, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology solicited public comments on the revision of the Catalog of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export in China, which involves 23 AI-related technologies including large models, agents, computing clusters, and information processing. Since the policy was announced, the two leading companies DeepSeek and MiniMax have completed registration procedures and finished open-source and overseas authorized use. In its Q&A, the Ministry of Commerce gave more and more specific explanations of "what is not regulated" than of "what is regulated." The report holds that the core of the Catalog is to delineate boundaries rather than simply restrict the export of AI technology.

    Same story · 8 reports

    #English text is being prepared.#DeepSeek

  16. Wallstreetcn
    AI score72

    Tan Tan's interpretation of China's AI technology export ban: what it regulates and why it was introduced now

    Yuyuan Tantian interprets the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology's public solicitation of comments on the revision of the Catalog of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export in China, which involves 23 artificial intelligence technologies including large models, agents, and computing power clusters. The article states that two leading companies, DeepSeek and MiniMax, have completed registration procedures and finished open-sourcing and overseas authorized use; scenarios in which enterprises use restricted-category large models to provide API calls, APP/webpage interaction, SaaS applications, and lightweight local on-device deployment do not fall within the scope of large-model technology export management. The catalog also sets out facilitation scenarios such as open-source technology, overseas self-built computing power centers, and chip tape-out, and provides quantitative indicators such as computing volume exceeding 10²⁶ floating-point operations and parameters exceeding 2 trillion.

    #English text is being prepared.#DeepSeek#Open-source ecosystem

  17. Wallstreetcn
    AI score59

    AI Trade Hit by Selloff: Philadelphia Semiconductor Index Falls Over 6% Intraday, Meta Down More Than 7%

    On Thursday, October 22, AI-related assets in the U.S. stock market fell collectively. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index and the semiconductor industry ETF SOXX fell more than 6% at one point in early trading, while Meta fell more than 7% intraday. Meta's third-quarter revenue rose 26% year over year to $64.6 billion, and earnings per share were $3.83, both beating expectations, but its 2026 capital expenditure guidance was raised to $135 billion to $145 billion, future spending commitments rose to $825 billion, and the price of its five-year CDS once rose to about 119.3 basis points, a record high. Lam Research fell more than 10% due to supply constraints, while optical communications, memory, and AI cloud computing sectors declined in tandem. Brent crude oil rose above $110 per barrel, further weighing on risk appetite.

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  18. East Money
    AI score60

    The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology revise the technology export catalog; DeepSeek and MiniMax complete open-source and overseas licensing registration

    On October 16, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology publicly solicited opinions on the revision of the Catalog of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export in China, involving 23 artificial intelligence technologies such as large models, agents, and computing clusters. Since the policy was announced, two enterprises, DeepSeek and MiniMax, have completed registration procedures and finished open-source and overseas licensed use. The article states that enterprises using restricted-category large models to provide external API calls, APP/webpage interaction, SaaS applications, etc. does not fall within the scope of technology export management, and that situations such as open-source technologies are eligible for facilitation measures such as automatic licensing.

    Same story · 4 reports

    #English text is being prepared.#DeepSeek#Open-source ecosystem

  19. Fortune Tech
    AI score58

    Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft pledge to reduce secrecy and invest more money in the communities hosting their data centers

    Facing opposition from communities across the United States to large data centers, Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft have pledged to stop requiring government officials to sign non-disclosure agreements and to increase their financial investment in the communities where they operate. Amazon and Meta said they will each invest $1 billion in community incentives over the next few years, while Google said its investment in local projects in its data center communities will reach $1 billion by the end of 2027. The four companies are expected to spend a combined total of more than $600 billion on capital projects this year, mainly for data center construction in the United States.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.#Google

  20. Fortune Tech
    AI score66

    Ukrainian drone strikes hit three Yandex data centers in Russia, impacting cloud services and AI development

    This month, Ukraine used drones to strike three Yandex data centers, as well as one each at Sberbank and VKontakte, causing sustained disruptions to Russian cloud services, banks, e-commerce, ride-hailing, and Yandex's virtual assistant Alisa. Yandex's data center in Sasovo houses two of its three supercomputers, including its most powerful one, which ranks 19th globally; satellite imagery shows the facility was severely damaged. Some analysts believe repairs could take months or even years, and given the shortage of high-end chips and the impact of sanctions, Russia's AI development progress may fall further behind.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.