Physicl raises $10M to make the digital world real enough for robots
Physicl is trying to solve the sim-to-real gap with a pipeline originally built to market goods online.
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Anthropic's $1.5 trillion IPO hits resistance as investors balk at valuation
Anthropic's IPO is in trouble as investors push back on the $1.5 trillion valuation and the tech market sells off.
Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard
Back to Articles A few months ago, we added private data to the Open ASR Leaderboard : 11 splits from Appen and DataOceanAI covering scripted and conversational speech from five accents ( blog ). The community response was great, with many highlighting the importance of held-out sets for trustworthy evaluations .
I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.
I’m not the sort of person who typically pays for a house cleaner. I’m too frugal, and I kind of enjoy putting on a podcast and going to town on my tub with a Magic Eraser.
Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam
Protesters have broken into a construction site of a new Microsoft data center in Amsterdam this morning. Members of the Geef Tegengas group helped organize the protest against the construction of three 85-meter data center towers in the outskirts of Amsterdam.
Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M
Clutch, backed by Lightspeed and SignalFire, was last valued at $85 million, according to a source.
Franklin Templeton uses OpenAI to support investment research
Starting with equity research, Franklin Templeton is developing AI workflows to help portfolio managers compare research views and examine investment risks.
Flipsnack grows product signups with conversion optimization
Flipsnack focused its ChatGPT Ads campaigns on getting people to try its product, growing registrations while lowering the cost per signup.
Merge builds product and business tools with OpenAI technology
Merge uses GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, and Codex to review product code and support marketing. Its teams also use AI to plan executive dinners and prepare sales updates.
Australian universities are creating AI-native graduates
Australian universities are expanding access to ChatGPT and bringing AI into teaching and learning to prepare students for an AI-enabled workforce.
OpenAI is stepping back from NDAs for data center projects
Following this week's midterms where voters resoundingly voiced their opposition to data center expansion, OpenAI today announced new commitments to communities where it is working on data center projects, including that it won't use non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) with public officials.
Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder.
Bitter energy drinks turned out to be ChatGPT-steered poisoning, lawsuit says.
Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiable
Google is technically offering schools more choice but not the choices anyone wants.
Vera Delivers the Best of Both Worlds: Highest Throughput and Fastest Agents
AI agents do more than generate answers. They search for information, query databases, write and test code and take action. Each of those steps relies on a CPU, with agents moving between GPU reasoning and CPU execution throughout a task.
Grimes is going to star in an AI movie that’s coming to theaters
The AI-generated sci-fi film Gods Don't Give Gifts has added a bit of star power: Pop star Grimes is going to appear in the movie.
‘Total repudiation’: The blue wave is about to hit AI
On Tuesday night, Democrats made history as they took control of the House and the Senate, and a blue wave swept through traditionally red and swing states. In these and other campaigns, one theme kept coming up: holding AI companies accountable to the American people.
OpenAI president Greg Brockman says company could be IPO ready in 2027
OpenAI president Greg Brockman says the company could be ready to go public in 2027, pointing to accelerating enterprise revenue and a turnaround in its business.
Meta warns that election backlash against data centers could make AI expansion harder
Meta warns that growing political opposition to data centers could threaten future AI investments, as communities push back against massive infrastructure projects.
Meta buys AI coding startup Conductor as big tech races to lock in developers
Meta is acquiring AI coding startup Conductor, which lets developers control multiple AI coding agents at once. On the same day, OpenAI announced plans to acquire Pierre Computer, and Anthropic already bought Stainless back in May. The deals follow a pattern: AI models are becoming interchangeable, and the value is shifting to the tools built around them.
More Performance From Every Byte: How Full-Stack Codesign Solves AI’s Memory Challenge
Larger models, longer contexts and agentic applications are increasing GPU memory pressure while supply tightens and prices rise — a trend expected to continue through the near term. NVIDIA works closely with memory partners to rapidly adopt the latest memory technologies. NVIDIA was first to adopt HBM3e and HBM4 technologies into an accelerated computing stack.
Dropbox acquires Tigris Data for $350M to bolster its AI infrastructure
The deal is expected to support the development of DBX Agent Cloud, a new storage platform aimed at developers building AI models and agents.
Axiom Math wants to keep AI slop out of mathematics
As AI floods math with unchecked proofs, Axiom Math is betting on verification. The startup’s AI agents just formally verified the Stacks Project, one of the field’s biggest libraries.
Nov 5
Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI
Catherine Wu, the founding product lead for Claude Code, is leaving Anthropic for OpenAI, where she'll head up product management for "Core Products" and work directly with Codex lead Thibault Sottiaux. She's the third person to leave Anthropic's Claude Code team in just two weeks.
Apple slashes internal AI budgets, with deeper cuts still planned
Tech companies are cutting internal AI spending, and Apple is the latest to follow suit.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra quietly sabotaged safety research by inventing fake obstacles
OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model apparently sabotaged AI safety research on purpose. It invented obstacles, withheld solutions, and performed about 40 percent worse on safety tasks than on comparable other tasks. Removing a flawed training dataset fixed the problem, but OpenAI can't fully rule out strategic motives.
Anthropic reverses course and pays for news content for the first time
Anthropic signed its first licensing deal with a news publisher just ahead of the US midterm elections.
After midterm rout, OpenAI tries to win over communities it needs for AI expansion
OpenAI is responding to the clear vote by US voters against new data centers with voluntary commitments for future sites. The pledges only apply to facilities OpenAI operates itself, though, and a large share of its infrastructure is built by partners like Oracle. Voters rejected new data centers in 40 out of 41 local ballot measures.
Agility Robotics' Nasdaq debut invites scrutiny of humanoid robot market
US leader in deploying humanoid robots goes public on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
You can post AI music straight to SoundCloud from ElevenLabs
After partnering with Moises earlier this year, SoundCloud is now adding integration with another AI music platform, ElevenLabs. Now, rather than having to export and download your outputs from ElevenLabs and then upload them to SoundCloud, you can publish them directly.
Agility is the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market. Are you buying?
Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.
A YC startup is putting $1M behind 5 unsolved materials science problems for AI
While frontier AI models have solved a remarkable series of outstanding mathematics problems and made progress in the life sciences, they have yet to truly plumb the complex physics in advanced materials.
Setting a new standard for responsible AI infrastructure
OpenAI introduces its National Community Compact and Compute Campus Policy Blueprint to protect local resources, create jobs, and guide responsible AI infrastructure development.
Big Tech’s big AI buildout will not end until someone stops it
After four of the biggest competitors in the AI race held quarterly earnings calls late last month, two things are clear: Big Tech is not done spending record amounts on the AI data center buildout, and the AI data center buildout is not any closer to yielding its promised returns.
[AINews] It's Swapping Season
OpenAI’s Linux kernel security work, Kimi K3.1 Pro’s open weights, and Ricursive’s Ripple-65B.
After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be coming
Data center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesday’s midterms.
Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage
The tokenmaxxing frenzy has been short-lived as bills for said tokens came due, and companies decided that token rationing might be a more fiscally sensible approach.
A thousand fewer paths to root
OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel.
Qualcomm is betting big on data centers as smartphone sales sink
With smartphone sales tanking by around 20 percent compared to 2025, Qualcomm is looking to data centers to help boost its bottom line.
Nothing CEO says company’s mysterious AI-first device is dropping next month
While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said the product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.
AI PACs spent millions trying to shape Congress — here’s how they fared
AI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2026 midterms, with mixed results. Political groups are already looking toward the next election cycle.