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- Town raises $108 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation for AI assistants for teams
- Cognizant and Google Cloud launch a Gemini Frontier Capability Group backed by more than 18,000 Cognizant engineersOfficialCognizantOct 20Business & funding
- NVIDIA signs an industrial AI declaration of intent with Germany's government and plans investments in four German startupsOfficialNVIDIA BlogOct 20Business & funding
- NVIDIA and the European Broadcasting Union expand sovereign AI standards for broadcasters with Microsoft, Nebius and open modelsOfficialNVIDIA BlogOct 20Business & funding
- Google says IDC named it a Leader in the first IDC MarketScape for agentic AI platforms
- Anthropic puts 5% of its shares into a new Public Benefit Fund, adding up to 2% more for each 50% rise in its valueOfficialAnthropicOct 19Business & funding
- NVIDIA and Mercedes-Benz extend their partnership to build next-generation automated driving systemsOfficialNVIDIAOct 17Business & funding
- DeepSeek is hiring AI and Agent Harness product managers for its product department in Beijing and Hangzhou
- Tencent raises about $5.7 billion in US dollar and offshore yuan bonds, with orders above $23 billion
- Anthropic opens applications for STEM and Conceptual Reasoning Fellowships starting January 2027, deadline October 28OfficialAnthropicOct 16Business & funding
- OpenAI pledges $5 million to a Simons Foundation program helping mathematicians study and extend AI-produced resultsOfficialOpenAIOct 16Business & funding
- NVIDIA joins the EU's AI in Science Enablers Initiative with open models, DLI courseware and AI-factory compute accessOfficialNVIDIA BlogOct 15Business & funding
- Ramp AI Index: Anthropic reaches 43.8% of US businesses in September versus OpenAI's 40.6%OfficialRampOct 15Business & funding
- OpenAI says Block's security team uses Daybreak to triage every alert and propose patches, turning weeks of work into hours
- Baseten adds Runway as a Model Labs partner, letting enterprises deploy Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 on single-tenant Dedicated InferenceOfficialBasetenOct 15Business & funding
- ElevenLabs says its own ElevenAgents support agent resolves over 22,000 tickets a month and 65% of tickets end to end
- Google Workspace says Amplifon analyzes frontline customer feedback with Gemini Notebook and Gemini, saving store teams hours of manual work
- NVIDIA commits to an investment in Prima Mente, deepening their partnership on neurodegenerative disease research
- Tamnoon details Tami, its agent on Amazon Bedrock that investigates and remediates cloud security findings
- Anthropic opens a Singapore office, its fifth in Asia-Pacific, and signs an AI safety MOU with Singapore's digital ministryOfficialAnthropicOct 14Business & funding