Independent AI news, with every claim linked to its primary source
Independent AI news, with every claim linked to its primary source
What happened in AI, and what it means. Model releases, company moves, funding and regulation.
Apple’s Agent Seer pipeline generates graded agent evaluation scenarios from a single MCP specification, with no examples or live tool access. Across seven servers it scored 0.911 on tool calling, and parameter complexity, not tool count, drove the failures.
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Stability AI has raised $76 million in Series B funding from a group that includes the three major record labels
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OpenAI has told SpaceX it’s winding down the contract that puts its models in Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026.
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OpenAI turned on account sign-in for the ChatGPT Work cloud browser on August 25. The model never sees your password, but the session cookie lives on OpenAI servers.
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Nvidia had $33.5 billion of senior notes outstanding at the end of July, and its own quarterly filing lists indebtedness as a risk factor. Debt due in one to five years jumped to $15 billion.
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OpenAI’s technical report ties last month’s Hugging Face breach to 198 ExploitGym tasks no model has ever solved. Agents turned an internal Artifactory instance into a message board, reached the open internet on July 8 and were inside Hugging Face production by July 11.
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Alibaba priced an HK$80 billion share placement, about $10.2 billion, to fund AI infrastructure. Hong Kong shares fell as much as 10%, and the completion filing splits the proceeds 60/40.
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Stanford’s Claude Code agent won Databricks’ first live AI agent contest with 63.3% accuracy, sealing the win in the final 56 seconds.
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Experts want proof ChatGPT for Teens works. Past parental alerts took 24 to 48 hours, and a reporter talked teen mode into writing a full essay on day one.
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The Dutch privacy regulator fined Uber 824.99 million euros for letting software deactivate drivers with no human review. Uber has filed an appeal.
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Anthropic hopes its IPO beats SpaceX record 85.7 billion dollar raise, with investors projecting a 2 trillion dollar valuation and AI backlash named as a key risk.
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Runable raised a $21M Series A co-led by Susquehanna and Nexus at a $65M valuation, betting AI agents can take small businesses from built to growing.
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