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Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, with OpenShell for CPUs and Sentry for Nvidia DPUs — Nvidia is rolling out a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment.
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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta Enterprise Platform, the “next major pillar of our business” to deploy AI tools, led by MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai; MDB falls 20%+ — The tech giant is pushing to monetize its multibillion-dollar AI investments by selling more tools and services to companies
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| Utkarsh Shetti / Reuters: |
AI agent startup Instinct raised a $1B Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a $10B valuation and details recent products, such as a concierge service — AI agent firm Instinct said on Monday it has raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation in a Series C funding round.
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| Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia increases its share buyback program by $150B, raising the remaining authorized amount to $235B, aiming to complete it through FY 2028; NVDA is up 20% YTD — Nvidia Corp., the chip developer at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom, increased the size of its share buyback plan …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China has expanded its foreign travel restrictions to include the direct relatives, such as spouses and children, of certain key AI and chip executives — China has expanded overseas travel restrictions for top AI professionals in private firms to include the families of key personnel …
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| Stefania Palma / Financial Times: |
Litigation funder Burford Capital says it stands to gain up to $1.4B after a US jury ruled against Apple in a patent case, awarding $5.7B in damages to Taction — Litigation funder's share price jumps 9% after US jury's decision — Litigation funder Burford Capital said it stands to gain … | The Washington Sun: |
Hundreds of people attended a pro-AI party in DC on September 26, in what the organizers called a counterprogram to the “bipartisan psychosis” over data centers — The Loudoun County Iced Tea, an homage to Virginia's “data center alley,” was peach-forward and watery, with a flat finish.
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| Patrick Jenkins / Financial Times: |
An interview with ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on the company's 42-year history, its complex supply chain across 2,000 companies, US export bans, AI, and more — Christophe Fouquet has built Europe's biggest business through a total monopoly over the most advanced chipmaking equipment
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
AI agents are the ultimate aggregators; they reveal apps as a means, not an end, and offering them is tech's ultimate prize, with Meta and Microsoft well-poised — Three revolutionary products — you know the line. A wide-screen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone …
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| Alexandr Wang / @alexandr_wang: |
Alexandr Wang says Meta built Muse “to help people build the world they want”, offering “every person on earth ... a second mind beyond their own” — Here's to the wanting. Here's to the dreaming. Here's to everyone. https://x.com/...
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| Sourav Rudra / It's FOSS: |
The Dutch government is testing DAWO, a NixOS-based digital work environment covering the OS, an office suite, and more, after Microsoft cut off the ICC in 2025 — Eight municipalities are already testing DAWO, the government's NixOS-powered work environment.
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| Artificial Analysis: |
Artificial Analysis launches the Cyber Index Alliance with partners Collinear, IBM, Nvidia, and Vercel to evaluate how AI agents find and fix vulnerabilities — The Artificial Analysis Cyber Index Alliance brings together industry partners to set a new standard for evaluating how AI models perform on enterprise cyber defense tasks.| Financial Times: |
AlphaSense: mentions of open models in US earnings calls and conferences rose 6x YoY in August and September; open models hit 56% of Vercel tokens in August — US businesses far beyond Silicon Valley are adopting Chinese alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic's systems| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Physical AI chip startup SiMa.ai raised a $150M Series C led by Fidelity and Amplify at a $1.45B valuation, aiming to compete with Nvidia's CUDA-based hardware — Custom physical artificial intelligence chip startup SiMa.ai Technologies Inc. today announced it has raised $150 million …
More: RoboticsTomorrow.com and Times of India
| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Quartermaster, which builds a SmartMast for ships to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $140M Series B, with $100M in equity, after a $43M Series A in May — Arlington, Virginia-based startup Quartermaster in May closed a $43 million Series A around its idea of using weather-hardened sensors … | Liana Baker / Bloomberg: |
Cyber defense tech company RedLattice plans to go public via the Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp. SPAC, in a deal valuing RedLattice at ~$1.25B including debt — Private equity-backed cyber defense technology firm RedLattice said it's going public via a merger with blank-check company Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp.Sponsor Posts
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