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425 stories · updated Oct 28

Ongoing AI stories, each with every update in order and who confirmed it.

PyTorch

On Oct 20, PyTorch 2.15 brought FP8 to Apple Silicon and up to 6.5x faster MoE decoding on MPS, Hugging Face said.

LatestOfficialPyTorch 2.15 brings FP8 to Apple Silicon and up to 6.5x faster MoE decoding on MPS, Hugging Face saysOct 20

Company1 update · last updated Oct 19

XHToken

On Oct 19, XHToken released Spark-X2.6-4B, an on-device model with selectable thinking levels and stronger agent and coding results.

LatestOfficialXHToken releases Spark-X2.6-4B, an on-device model with selectable thinking levels and stronger agent and coding resultsOct 19

Company1 update · last updated Oct 19

Ruizhi Technology

As of Oct 19, Beijing Ruizhi Technology has closed an angel round of tens of millions of yuan led by Zhongguancun Capital, 36Kr reports.

LatestReported by 36KrRuizhi Technology, which uses AI agents for materials research, raises an angel round of tens of millions of yuan, per 36KrOct 19

Product11 updates · last updated Oct 19

Deals & pricing

On Oct 19, MiniMax Code offered unlimited M3.1 Flash through Oct. 25 and 50% off a first month of M Plan through Oct. 31.

LatestOfficialMiniMax Code offers unlimited M3.1 Flash through Oct. 25 and 50% off a first month of M Plan through Oct. 31Oct 19

Company12 updates · last updated Oct 19

OpenAI math releases

On Oct 6, OpenAI released 722 mathematical manuscripts produced by an unreleased frontier model.

LatestReported by The Daily CalifornianFields medalist Richard Borcherds says human math research could be redundant in a few years after OpenAI's Navier-Stokes result, per The Daily CalifornianOct 19

Company1 update · last updated Oct 19

AI

As of Oct 19, on The Verge's Decoder podcast, Illinois Gov.

LatestReported by The VergeIllinois Gov. JB Pritzker says AI may help his kids live to 100 but compares its risks to nuclear weapons, per The VergeOct 19

Product1 update · last updated Oct 19

Together Post-Training

On Oct 19, Together AI launched Together Post-Training, a service for RL and SFT on open models where users write the training loop.

LatestOfficialTogether AI launches Together Post-Training, a service for RL and SFT on open models where users write the training loopOct 19

Company1 update · last updated Oct 19

As of Oct 19, Tolan, an AI companion app that helps people organize daily life and family tasks, has raised $30 million from Union Square Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Homebrew, doubling its total funding, Upstarts Media reports.

LatestReported by Upstarts MediaAI companion app Tolan raises $30M from USV, Khosla Ventures and Homebrew, per Upstarts MediaOct 19

Product1 update · last updated Oct 19

Wabi

As of Oct 19, Eugenia Kuyda, who founded Replika, launched Wabi for all users on Monday as a personal AI assistant that works like a messenger app, with separate agentic threads for different tasks and goals, TechCrunch reports.

LatestReported by TechCrunchReplika founder Eugenia Kuyda launches Wabi 2.0, a multiplayer AI assistant that builds apps inside shared chat threads, per TechCrunchOct 19

Company1 update · last updated Oct 19

doubleAI

On Oct 19, doubleAI said its Maxwell code execution model made LTX-2.5 generate 4K video nearly 2x faster.

LatestOfficialdoubleAI says its Maxwell code execution model made LTX-2.5 generate 4K video nearly 2x fasterOct 19

Product2 updates · last updated Oct 19

Notion

On Oct 19, Notion rebuilds its AI agents with their own computer and day-long tasks, and moved to a new credit system.

LatestOfficialNotion rebuilds its AI agents with their own computer and day-long tasks, and moves to a new credit systemOct 19

Company2 updates · last updated Oct 19

Cua

On Oct 19, Cua released the Cua Spaces SDK to run Claude Code, Codex and other agents on computers you choose.

LatestOfficialCua releases the Cua Spaces SDK to run Claude Code, Codex and other agents on computers you chooseOct 19

Company1 update · last updated Oct 19

Skyfall AI

On Oct 19, Skyfall AI previews SKY-001, a world model that plans CAD and BIM designs step by step.

LatestOfficialSkyfall AI previews SKY-001, a world model that plans CAD and BIM designs step by stepOct 19

Company1 update · last updated Oct 19

Lovart

On Oct 19, Lovart 2.0 added Arti, a personal design agent with memory and scheduled design tasks.

LatestOfficialLovart 2.0 adds Arti, a personal design agent with memory and scheduled design tasksOct 19

Company1 update · last updated Oct 19

Town

On Oct 19, Town raised $108 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation for AI assistants for teams.

LatestOfficialTown raises $108 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation for AI assistants for teamsOct 19

Product1 update · last updated Oct 19

Exa

On Oct 19, Exa launched Exa 3.0 search and a cheaper Exa Lite tier at $4 per 1,000 requests.

LatestOfficialExa launches Exa 3.0 search and a cheaper Exa Lite tier at $4 per 1,000 requestsOct 19

Company1 update · last updated Oct 19

MiraclePlus

On Oct 19, US sanctions MiraclePlus and Linwei Ding's Shanghai Zhisuan under PAIPA.

LatestOfficialUS sanctions MiraclePlus and Linwei Ding's Shanghai Zhisuan under PAIPAOct 19

Product1 update · last updated Oct 19

ECHOTRIBBLE

As of Oct 19, U.S. Army Cyber Command is developing ECHOTRIBBLE, a platform meant to turn AI agents into tools that autonomously navigate adversaries' networks and "neutralize" targets, according to contractor documents obtained by The Intercept.

LatestReported by The InterceptArmy Cyber Command is developing ECHOTRIBBLE, autonomous AI agents for offensive hacking, per The InterceptOct 19

Company1 update · last updated Oct 19

Waymo

As of Oct 19, Waymo plans to use the $5 billion it recently borrowed to grow its fleet from about 4,000 cars to 8,000 by the end of 2026 and 20,000 by the end of 2027, Semafor reports, citing people familiar with the matter.

LatestReported by SemaforWaymo plans to grow its robotaxi fleet from 4,000 to 20,000 cars by the end of 2027, per SemaforOct 19

Product1 update · last updated Oct 19

GPT-2-small

On Oct 19, Researchers train GPT-2-small models on 96 synthetic languages to test how language models learn action nominal constructions.

LatestOfficialResearchers train GPT-2-small models on 96 synthetic languages to test how language models learn action nominal constructionsOct 19

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