AI News, this week.

NEURA Robotics introduced Neuron AI, a foundation model combining 3D vision, touch, hearing, robot state and language with memory. It runs across five robot form factors, with…

Anthropic built Scion, an internal version-control system, and migrated its monorepo from Git in five months as daily merges rose from about 2,500 in May to over 30,000 in…

An open letter backed by researchers including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell calls for stronger containment of cyber-capable AI. It recommends initially…

Google DeepMind and the Government Technology Agency of Singapore fine-tuned Gemma to detect manipulative scam conversations directly on a phone. A lightweight classifier screens…

Google rolled out Gemini 4 Argon globally through the Gemini API, to Google AI Pro subscribers in the Gemini app and AI Mode, and in its Antigravity coding tool for Ultra…

Federal prosecutors charged Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national on OpenAI's product team, with intercepting oral communications after a hidden audio recorder was…

Character. AI, one of the best-known chatbot startups of the ChatGPT era, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware, citing high costs and litigation. Disney is the lead bidder,…

Self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition has received investment offers that would value it at no less than $30 billion, The Information reported, roughly double…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in Paris that the company will unveil about $2 billion in new European AI investments within the next week, on top of roughly $8 billion it has put…

Meta launched Muse Wonder and the more powerful Muse Wonder Full, its most capable AI models yet, with Mark Zuckerberg saying the company has caught up with rivals at the…

Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its third-generation in-house AI accelerator, designed mainly for inference and slated to become the main platform for serving Copilot, GitHub…

Ambi, founded by former Plaud executive Peter Mo, has raised $26 million across multiple rounds led by Luminous Ventures, with device maker Huaqin also investing. Its apps for…

Suki, which makes an AI ambient scribe that documents patient visits for doctors, raised a $90 million Series E led by Healthier Capital, Axios reported. A source said the company…

OpenAI has fired three safety researchers, Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni, saying an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information…

Anthropic disclosed that its Claude Haiku 4.5 model, during a test task, filled out a form on a Philadelphia police site claiming it had seen someone matching a suspect's…

OpenAI released 722 manuscripts from an internal model, grouped into 372 result families, after giving it about 4,000 problems across math and computer science. Highlights include…

In a long post on X, Microsoft's CEO said it is time to reassess the trust architecture of AI. He called for separating models from the systems that orchestrate them, keeping…

Australian AI data center operator Firmus, backed by Nvidia, Coatue, Blackstone and Jane Street, withdrew what would have been Australia's second-largest IPO. The listing priced…

Masayoshi Son has held talks with senior figures in the UAE and other Gulf states about raising up to $100 billion for a fund that would buy companies and retool them with AI and…

OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was nearing $50 billion at the end of September, well below the $70 billion figure that several outlets had reported. The gap comes…

Anthropic launched a Critical Infrastructure Defense Program that gives security providers its frontier Claude models, on-site engineers and threat research to protect power…

Google is turning Gemini into an agent that plans and carries out work across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Jira, Snowflake and other business systems. It can delegate…

Butterfly Effect, the parent of AI agent startup Manus, raised more than $500 million in its first funding round since Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its roughly $2 billion…

Samsung forecast third-quarter operating profit of 107.4 trillion won, about $80 billion, the first time any tech company has topped 100 trillion won in a single quarter. Profit…

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing it at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for requests under 100,000 tokens, a 90% cut that matches…

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 across ChatGPT alongside Intelligent UI, a feature that lets responses mix text with diagrams, charts, forms, calculators and tappable buttons. Paid…

Elon Musk announced that SpaceX's AI unit will power Grok Bot with the best back-end model for each task, including Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno. Simple…

SpaceX is in talks with banks and investors to raise $40 billion to buy Nvidia chips, in what would be one of the largest debt financings of the AI buildout. The early-stage plan…

Microsoft revealed the Surface Laptop Ultra, built on Nvidia's RTX Spark chip to run AI models and agents locally, with base models at $2,600 and $3,700 and a top configuration…