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Cloudflare announced new analytics and granular access policies to help site owners understand how personal agents access their sites on behalf of humans and set access terms for that traffic.

At Aviator, nine engineers merged 4x more pull requests by verifying intent, acceptance criteria, invariants, decisions, and evidence instead of raw diffs. Median merge time fell from 2.1 days to 3.4 hours and reverts dropped 40%.

OpenAI has received roughly $11 billion in new funding, the first tranche of a round valuing it at $1.25 trillion, as it seeks more capital from wealthy investors amid pressure on AI valuations.

Vals AI researchers found profanity in 50 of 2,655 benchmark runs by Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small, including 316 instances of "fuck" or variations, though most failed runs had no expletives.

As AI agents automate coding, software engineers are shifting from writing code to designing the automated pipelines and human gates that move work from idea to release.

A study by Anthropic Institute researcher Andy Hall finds AI auditors can detect many cases of AI agent misbehavior, but pushing detection higher sharply increases false alarms that could overwhelm human reviewers.

Vals AI says AI agents can independently break into realistic simulated corporate networks, with an open-weight model close behind a restricted closed model at far lower cost.

Fireworks AI supports on-prem AI but VP Rob Ferguson says economics favor managed inference, citing idle GPU costs, model routing, caching, data value and speed.

A report said TSMC is preparing 3D DRAM plans at Nvidia's request, but TSMC says it is a pure-play logic foundry. The technology is years away and could carry major risks.

Google Research says an AI model can spot signs of hypertension using a regular smartwatch's pulse and motion sensors, with no blood pressure cuff needed for calibration, according to a Google blog post.

A Carnegie Mellon-led benchmark called Into the Unknown tested nine AI agents on 15 open research tasks from US Department of Energy national labs. None of the 135 submissions met all expert requirements.

Caregiver apps now use AI to track medications, coordinate care, store records and prepare for appointments, but experts warn about privacy, upkeep and the limits of the technology.

Nous Research fine-tuned Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B into Arete-27B, cutting propaganda answers from 22 percent to under one percent while keeping general capabilities intact and releasing the model under Apache 2.0.

Anthropic explains how Claude's agent memory works across sessions, covering memory notes, salience judgment, dreaming, wiki building, and evaluations on database and Pokémon tasks.

Crusoe has sold an unfinished southeastern Wyoming data center project to Google, which plans to invest $17 billion in the campus while Crusoe continues work for other major tech customers.

OpenAI has reportedly raised $11 billion so far in a new funding round that values the AI lab at $1.25 trillion, Bloomberg reported. The round may total about $20 billion and comes as AI market sentiment remains unsettled.

CesiumAstro secured $730 million in Series D funding at a valuation above $4.5 billion to shift from payload supplier to constellation operator and build its 737-satellite Synchronicity network.

Following a tech selloff and post-midterm market slump, some Anthropic investors now see a $1.5 trillion IPO valuation as a stretch, with $1 trillion to $1.25 trillion viewed as more likely.

New Vals research says open-weight AI models, including DeepSeek, are nearly matching closed models at complex hacking tasks in simulated networks, while costing far less to run and raising security concerns.

Bloomberg reports Microsoft is winding down a 2023 deal to rent Oracle servers running older Nvidia chips, after declining to renew, while reassessing more than $80B in outside cloud contracts.

Federal prosecutors say three foreign nationals used AI to impersonate corporate executives and attorneys in a scheme that allegedly stole more than $129 million from companies worldwide.

Security researchers found more than 800 publicly accessible deployments of the Chinese-made AI hacking tool Artex, exposing attack tools and raising risks of misuse by outsiders.

Academic library websites are slowing or crashing under data-scraping bots used to feed AI models, with one school reporting more than 11,000 searches for Finnish music in one day.

Ramp says company AI spending flatlined over late summer while token volumes rose, as price cuts and thriftier customers pressure OpenAI and Anthropic ahead of Anthropic's IPO.

METR's audit of Anthropic found model progress has roughly doubled, with about 80 percent of the speedup tied to AI used in internal research. Anthropic redacted much of the most informative evidence.