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- NVIDIA commits $250 million in compute over five years to UK agentic AI safety research and joins the Earthshot Prize
OfficialNVIDIA BlogOct 14Part of NVIDIABusiness & funding - NeoSoul's NeoTrade uses Alibaba Cloud model services for trading agents that act within user-set controls
OfficialX @alibaba_cloudOct 14Business & funding - Alibaba Cloud says Lion Parcel automated document processing with Qwen-VL-Plus
OfficialX @alibaba_cloudOct 14Business & funding - FLock's THIS / THAT decision model is built on Qwen3.5 and runs on Alibaba Cloud
OfficialX @alibaba_cloudOct 14Business & funding - Jensen Huang meets Emmanuel Macron on NVIDIA's investments in France's AI ecosystem and AI safety
OfficialX @nvidianewsroomOct 14Part of NVIDIABusiness & funding - Pluto Security comes out of stealth with $42M to find risky AI tools and vibe-coded apps inside companies, per TechCrunch
- ShipStation Global builds Deckhand, an IT help desk agent for Slack, on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
OfficialAWSOct 14Part of DeckhandBusiness & funding - DeepSeek to lead a seed round in Winverse AI, ex-Tencent scientist Hu Han's robot AI startup, at about a $400 million valuation, per Bloomberg
ReportedBloombergOct 13Business & funding - Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with Disney as $20 million stalking-horse bidder for some of its assets
OfficialCharacter.AIOct 13Part of Character.AIBusiness & funding - Robotics and physical AI startups have raised nearly $48 billion in 2026, already above all of 2025, per QbitAI
ReportedQbitAIOct 13Business & funding - UBTech ranks 11th on the 2026 Fortune Future 120, the top Chinese company on the list, per QbitAI
ReportedQbitAIOct 13Part of UBTechBusiness & funding - Infinigence AI raises 2.3 billion yuan Series C, bringing total funding to 4.3 billion yuan, per QbitAI
- Manus partners with OPPO to bring its agent into AI Mind Pilot on the Find X10 series
OfficialManusOct 13Part of ManusBusiness & funding - Epic Games moves its Disney shooter to 'AI first' development and delays it, as Tim Sweeney confirms a 'huge pivot', per Ars Technica
ReportedArs TechnicaOct 13Business & funding - Honeywell partners with Google Cloud to use Gemini for predictive maintenance in industrial operations
OfficialX @googlecloudOct 13Business & funding - MiniMax global business president Linda Sheng speaks at DBS Asia Future Forward in Singapore
OfficialX @MiniMax_AIOct 13Part of MiniMaxBusiness & funding - WindBorne wins a US Air Force contract worth up to $49 million for data from its AI weather balloons, per TechCrunch
ReportedTechCrunchOct 13Part of WindBorneBusiness & funding - Former Plaud exec Peter Mo raises $26M for Ambi, an always-listening AI assistant app, per TechCrunch
ReportedTechCrunchOct 12Part of AmbiBusiness & funding - Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart for around $7 billion, per Wall Street Journal
ReportedWall Street JournalOct 12Part of AmazonBusiness & funding - Nvidia is in early talks to acquire or deepen its stake in Reflection AI, per Financial Times
ReportedFinancial TimesOct 12Business & funding