Silicon Valley's AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet: Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley who's who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable for everyday tasks. Read More
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Vinod Khosla believes ex-DeepMind engineer's Wajo will win agent market on trust: Wajo's Fo agent can hire humans to complete a task. Read More
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Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy: The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct. Read More
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Meet Virginia Tech's Computer Science and Applications faculty in person at our Open House on Thursday, October 8, 6–8 PM, at Academic Building One in Alexandria. Ask about focus areas like applied AI, cybersecurity, and software systems, and learn about scholarships for Spring 2027.
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India's JioHotstar takes partnership route for Middle East expansion: JioHotstar will be offered inside Starzplay rather than through a stand-alone service. Read More
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The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in: Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard aims to help. Read More
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Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits: "We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone." Read More
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Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior: Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing that LLM role-play falls short for market research and brand strategy. Read More
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Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals: French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals. Read More
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Carriers, forwarders and warehouses still juggle separate tools for dispatch, stock, fleet and billing. Rapido, from Romania, connects TMS, WMS, ERP, CRM, eCMR and fleet on the same live data, so delivered trips become invoices in one click. Already live with a carrier and five manufacturers, it's raising €1.5M to scale across Europe and the U.S.
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Paramount closes historic Warner Bros. merger to form Skydance: The deal brings together two major streaming platforms, Paramount+ and HBO Max, along with networks including CBS, CNN, MTV, TBS, Comedy Central, and Food Network. Read More
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