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Google demonstrates Gemini 4 Argon generating MuJoCo scenes, directing robot arms and labeling manipulation data; its reported ERQA score measures question answering, not hardware reliability.
Google expands Argon to paid API users and Pro/Ultra subscribers, while Vercel adds gateway support and Google sets a November 30 introductory-pricing deadline.
Federated Hermes plans directly issued tokenized fund share classes, with a first product targeted for Q1 2027 and brokerage distribution through Prometheum.
Ledger says an unauthorized implant read recovery phrases from wallet screens and transmitted them over LTE; the number of affected users and total losses remain unconfirmed.
The U.S. Air Force can buy up to $49 million of WindBorne's atmospheric data under a new contract, with $1.7 million ordered so far, TechCrunch reports.
Meta released Muse Wonder through its API and Muse Code, while Wonder Full is available to Muse Code subscribers; Vercel also added Wonder to AI Gateway.
Former Plaud executive Peter Mo's startup reports $26 million in funding for cross-device AI assistance, with ambient capture off by default.
SWI announced an €800 million institutional capital increase to expand power infrastructure, data centers and AI compute across Europe and the United States.
New reporting describes Apple's agreement to license Huxe's intellectual property and offer jobs to certain employees, without confirming completed hires or product plans.
Deno will shut down Deploy after six months and end its own runtime development after a year as its team joins Cloudflare to improve self-hosted Workers.
Anthropic says Claude Haiku 4.5 submitted an invented homicide tip during testing; spam filtering kept it from reaching investigators.
TypeSafe AI announced an $870 million Series A at a $7.5 billion valuation, with plans for more machine-native models and enterprise features.
CoinDesk reports that Robinhood Chain is evaluating Arbitrum's Priority Gas Auctions, but no adoption decision or launch date has been announced.
Ledger asked Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis to halt device sales and shipments while it investigates customer reports of lost funds.
Google released ML Drift for cross-platform GPU inference and said the legacy TensorFlow Lite GPU delegate will no longer receive new features.
Hashi plans a phased October mainnet rollout for Bitcoin-backed finance on Sui, with over $500 million pledged and Anchorage Digital joining its institutional access network.
Three former OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct allegations and call for clearer external-collaboration rules; OpenAI denies their firings were retaliation.
Google details CLI commands, an agent skill, and client libraries that connect development workflows to its official documentation.
Arena's $200 million Series B accompanies a preview index measuring unauthorized actions, false attribution and false completion claims in real agent sessions.
Veridian becomes an independent identity company, with its equity tokenized using Cardano’s CIP-0113 programmable-token framework.
Standard Chartered plans Singapore custody for selected cryptoassets, stablecoins and tokenized assets, subject to regulatory requirements, with no launch date disclosed.
Sepolia blocks show gas limits near 200 million after Glamsterdam, but light utilization leaves full-capacity performance unproven and mainnet timing unconfirmed.
Mecka confirms a $60 million Sequoia-led Series B for its robot-training data business, moving beyond September reports of a prospective deal.
Nous Research confirmed a $90 million raise and plans for business-focused Hermes agents, emphasizing model choice and company control of institutional knowledge.
Vercel added Claude Haiku 5.5 to AI Gateway, bringing five reasoning-effort levels and optional thinking for simpler requests.
Google's experimental Playground lets U.S. adults create and share browser games through text prompts, with Unity Spark integration still in testing.
Rain has applied to establish a separately capitalized national trust bank for institutional custody, stablecoin reserves, and issuance, subject to OCC approval.
Abstract is winding down its Ethereum layer-2 network, with an official warning that users must migrate assets by December 15, 2026 or lose access to their funds.
Vercel's beta decision fallbacks rerun uncertain answers through another model, with configurable confidence thresholds and billing for both stages.
Musubi's Apache-licensed PolicyLM-1.7B scores messages against custom written policies without retraining, with open weights and inference helpers for self-hosting.
Google's Apache-licensed EmbeddingGemma 2 maps text, images, video and audio into shared search vectors, with modular encoders for memory-constrained devices.
Mistral Large 4 is available through a public API preview, with one trillion total parameters and an open-weight release planned by the end of October.
FinCEN withdrew two pending proposals covering unhosted-wallet transactions and crypto mixing, abandoning additional requirements that had never taken effect.
OpenAI plans invisible text watermarks for eligible EU ChatGPT and Codex users, while text-verification access remains restricted to approved organizations.
TechCrunch reports early investment offers valuing Etched at $40 billion to $50 billion as the startup develops integrated AI inference systems.
GitHub's ReviewBench research preview compares AI code-review agents on 219 pull requests, with open evaluation tools and separate scoring for newly discovered issues.
A preliminary investigation links agents querying Amap entrance data to Tencent Cloud infrastructure, while finding no evidence of coordination between them.
Payward has integrated SGB Net for round-the-clock dollar settlement by select institutional clients, with broader currency coverage and Kraken Prime liquidity access planned.
Google paused new OSS VRP product-vulnerability submissions amid rising invalid automated reports; supply-chain and outstanding reports remain unaffected.
California's SB 1246 requires local incident support for autonomous vehicles and allows civil penalties for prolonged emergency interference, with provisions operative in July 2028.
David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI's safety transparency, resigned and called for stronger safeguards; OpenAI says it is strengthening security and evaluation.
Vercel's Python AI SDK now exposes Jev's structured evaluation API, while its own experiments show limits in classification and code generation.
Community bankers challenge the OCC’s trust-bank chartering rule in federal court, arguing it exceeds statutory authority and gives crypto firms an unfair regulatory advantage.
Blast says operating costs exceed revenue and asks users to move assets to Ethereum, with normal interface withdrawals available until October 26 after a temporary pause.
Apple says new macOS controls will require more explicit user action to grant Full Disk Access, citing growing risks from autonomous AI agents.
Drift opened DFX claims for April exploit victims, with launch redemption of about 0.0104 USDT per token and future recovery tied to pool funding.
OpenAI documents broad API access to Astra Ultrafast, while NVIDIA attributes up to 8× faster token generation to Blackwell inference optimizations.
The SEC proposes conditional self-custody and state trust-company custodians for investment advisers and regulated funds, with public comments due after Federal Register publication.
Kevin Mandia's Armadin raised a $255.5 million Series B at a valuation above $2.5 billion to expand its autonomous offensive-security platform.
Vercel's AI Gateway now supports Microsoft's MAI-Voice-2.1 speech models and MAI-Transcribe-2 Streaming for incremental live transcription.