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University of Utah retains operational sovereignty as Redtail expands research access
The University of Utah connects operational sovereignty with broader research access as Redtail supports its statewide education and public-service mission.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
‘Every listing must include at least one photo of the actual item’: Etsy is finally cracking down on AI images and text in listings — and apparently this is just the start
Etsy is finally cracking down on misleading listings
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
No AI agent scores above 12 percent on SemiAnalysis' new real-world work benchmark
SemiAnalysis is putting AI agents through simulated knowledge work in its new GDPx benchmark, covering everything from chip design to quant trading. No model breaks 12 percent. Claude Opus 5.5 leads narrowly over Gemini…
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
Oracle wants to pull stalled AI agents out of demo mode and into production
Oracle Corp.’s Çetin Özbütün explains how security, uptime and patching gaps keep AI agents stuck in demos instead of production.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
What to expect during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA: Join theCUBE Nov. 10-12
Container orchestration is evolving for AI through OpenShell, a Kubernetes-native secure agent runtime, ahead of KubeCon in Salt Lake City.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
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.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
Tencent releases Hy4 with vision and computer use, claims second place among Chinese AI models
Tencent has unveiled Hy4, its first multimodal language model that understands images and can operate software on its own. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, it scores 35 points, solid but behind Kimi K3.1…
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
Exclusive: Nurx And Journey Clinical Co-Founders Raise $6M For Mental Health Startup Siggy
Siggy has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding to build a mental health service that uses AI to collect patients’ histories and track progress between appointments with licensed clinicians, the startup told Crunchbase…
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
Daniel Dines: workflows will go from people-centric to AI-centric
Daniel Dines told the TNW Podcast why ordinary software should still do whatever it can. He also explains how having no plan B kept UiPath going in its hardest years.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
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…
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
Anthropic’s compute costs rose to 58% of revenue last quarter, filing shows
Anthropic compute costs took 58% of revenue in the third quarter, up from 48%. Broadcom has also agreed to cover losses on a $63bn chip lease if Anthropic defaults.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
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.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
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…
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
Box taps Nvidia’s Nemotron for new agent-first content retrieval system
The system can supposedly answer queries four times faster, with 20% fewer errors and 90% fewer tokens used.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
Isomorphic Labs in talks to raise $5bn at a $50bn valuation, Bloomberg reports
Bloomberg says the Google DeepMind spinout is in talks to raise roughly $5bn. The Isomorphic Labs valuation would be about $50bn, though it has no drug in human trials yet.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
Revolut completes its $115bn share sale as it cuts AI coding bills by 90%
No new money came in: investors bought existing shares, which set the Revolut valuation. Its AI operations lead says self-hosted Chinese models now handle most of its engineers’ AI coding.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
Claude’s share of UK AI subscription spending quadruples in seven months
A study of 14.2 million UK bank accounts finds adults spend £1.07bn a year on AI subscriptions. Claude users are 20 times likelier to pay for £80-plus plans.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
A YC startup is putting $1M behind five unsolved materials science problems for AI
Discovered Materials, a months-old YC startup that uses AI to find chip materials, is offering $200,000 for each solution to five open materials science problems.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
AMD expects to outsell Intel for the first time after a record quarter
AMD’s earnings show data centre revenue up 97% to $8.5 billion in a record $13.4 billion quarter. Gaming fell 40%, and free cash flow dropped by almost two thirds.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
Sam Altman backpedals and says ‘I want you to have so much RAM’ after backlash — but his RAM crisis solution is unconvincing
Clarifying his comments or just trying to save face?
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
AI super PACs lost their biggest general election bet of the midterms
AI super PACs spent $79M across 68 seats this cycle. Leading the Future, the biggest network, ends it with just over $20M left, and most Republicans backed by either camp lost.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
Sector Snapshot: Construction Robotics Funding Soars To $1.6B, Tripling Previous Peak
Companies spanning construction and robotics have raised about $1.6 billion so far this year — more than 4x the $389 million recorded in all of 2025 — according to Crunchbase data. The surge was driven by three…
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
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.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026
US voters rejected AI data centres in 40 of 41 ballot measures
Ohio held 21 of the votes on data centres, and Texas’s governor-elect wants a moratorium. Goldman Sachs says states likely to restrict them hold about 45% of planned US capacity.
Tarun Mottlia
Nov 5, 2026