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Anthropic’s Cloud Challenges and Wealth-Sharing Plans Highlight AI Sector Risks
Anthropic faces cloud capacity shortages, massive losses, and reliance on key customers ahead of its IPO.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
OpenAI reports AI agents disabled safety monitoring and lied about it
OpenAI disclosed incidents where its GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra agents disabled safety monitoring and lied about it during internal tasks.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
'Sidewalk surveillance': Illinois residents accuse delivery robots of capturing biometric data without permission
Scan and deliver
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Unitree reveals its H2-X bodyguard robot — a 'Kung Fu' humanoid with an 8-hour battery life and some serious martial arts skills
But don't expect the personal Robocop to go on sale
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
OpenAI’s Brockman urges AI safeguards as group he funds opposes rules
OpenAI president Greg Brockman signed an AI safety pact, while Leading the Future, a group he gave $25M, backs candidates opposed to strict AI rules.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Exclusive: ServiceNow and Nvidia launch Arc, a new AI agent for enterprise
The two companies are trying to solve the AI agent security conundrum with multiple layers of real-time security checks.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
When A Startup Sells, Its Employees’ Equity Plans Can Change Overnight
Startup acquisitions can reshape employees’ finances and careers, with individual outcomes depending on a variety of conditions. Guest author Ron Honig, co-CEO and managing partner of From-Honig Family Office, suggests…
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
‘Weird And Maybe Uninvestable’: How Reach Capital Spots Its Venture Winners
Crunchbase News spoke with James Kim, partner at Reach Capital, about how Reach’s education roots inform its broader strategy, what it saw in AI detection company GPTZero, and why some of its best investments initially…
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
AI agents start paying supplier invoices in Visa, BILL and Billtrust pilot
The agents complete payments buyers have already approved, without shared portal logins or CAPTCHAs. The pilot is processing real transactions between BILL buyers and Billtrust suppliers.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Cloudflare passes 10 million developers, up 35% in a quarter
The company tied the jump in Cloudflare developers, from 7.4 million, to AI agents. Daily agent requests on its network grew more than 1,700% in a year, it said.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Scaleup Europe Fund leads $250M funding round in Pigment
French enterprise software startup Pigment has raised $250m at a $2.3bn valuation, it said today, in a funding round led by the EU's new €5bn ($5.6bn) investment fund aimed at scaling up future European tech…
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to build AI agents that speed up drug development
OpenAI is acquiring startup Orchestra Bio and plans to merge it with its life sciences AI platform Rosalind. The goal is to build AI agents that help pharma teams coordinate drug development, from tracking trials to…
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Rulen secures €1.8M to turn tax rules into action with AI
Italian AI startup Rulen (formerly LexSA) has raised €1.8 million in its first funding round to further develop its AI-powered platform for the tax and accounting sector and support its commercial expansion. The round…
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
China's Moonshot AI to operate in Singapore, jobs post shows
Chinese AI startup Moonshot is expanding into Singapore, with a new sales role listed on the company's LinkedIn page this week.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
OpenAI says its AI agents weakened internal monitoring system
By Carlos Me- OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI agents weakened parts of an internal monitoring system designed to detect misbehavior, the latest case of AI agents acting in ways their developers did not intend…
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Jenz lands €540K four months after hackathon win to streamline retail operations
Norwegian AI startup Jenz has raised €540,000 in pre-seed funding from Antler and Ada Ventures. The company has also received a NOK 1 million (€92,000) startup grant from Innovation Norway.Founded by Remi Bjørnestad…
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
EssilorLuxottica's smart glasses boom runs into tougher regulatory scrutiny
Smart glasses that resemble ordinary eyewear are under increased scrutiny from European regulators and advocacy groups, leaving investors questioning whether sales can keep booming as Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Anthropic recorded net loss of over $80 billion in first half of this year
AI startup Anthropic recorded a net loss of more than $80 billion in the first half of this year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
AI infrastructure management software startup ASI hits $3B valuation after raising $325M in funding
AI infrastructure management software startup ASI hits $3B valuation after raising $325M in funding - SiliconANGLE
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to bring AI agents into drug development
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to bring AI agents into drug development - SiliconANGLE
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 20, 2026
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its production services
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its production services - SiliconANGLE
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 20, 2026
Anthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed
The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 20, 2026
Inception says Mercury 3 beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at up to 8x the speed
Inception says Mercury 3 beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at up to 8x the speed - SiliconANGLE
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 20, 2026
Korean AI data centre firm Elice sinks 32% in a record-worst IPO debut
The Elice IPO raised $151m at the top of its range, with retail demand 400 times the shares on offer. It is the latest AI infrastructure listing to stumble.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 20, 2026