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Asymptote Labs raises $5.5M to track and control what AI agents do

New York startup Asymptote Labs has raised a $5.5M seed round led by Tower Research Ventures. It makes Beacon, a free open-source tool that records what AI agents do, and sells a paid platform that can block risky agent actions. The money will go on engineering, hiring and sales. Asymptote Labs, a New York startup […]

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Spotify pulls 50M AI slop and spam tracks from its recommendations

Spotify says it has taken more than 50 million AI-generated “slop” and spam tracks out of its recommendations this year, on top of 75 million spam tracks it has deleted. It found these were the tracks listeners skipped or rejected most. Spotify did not say how many of the 50 million were made with AI. […]

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Inception says its Mercury 3 model beats GPT-6 Luna and runs far faster

Inception, the Redwood City AI lab, released Mercury 3 on Monday. It is the newest version of what the company calls a diffusion LLM, a design that differs from the systems behind most chatbots. Most language models are autoregressive. They write one token at a time, each one chosen after the last. A diffusion model […]

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OpenAI pulls back from China chip controls, Politico reports

OpenAI has stopped pushing for strict US limits on selling advanced chips to China, according to Politico. For much of last year the company openly called for such limits. Capitol Hill aides and lobbyists with direct knowledge of its position now say it has gone quiet. TNW has not independently verified the report. The shift […]

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Anthropic to rewrite part of its leaked AI bill after safety backlash

Anthropic has told US lawmakers it will rewrite part of its own draft AI safety bill. The leaked text drew days of criticism from the AI safety community. The confidential draft was published by Politico on Friday. Anthropic has been circulating it on Capitol Hill. Critics say the bill is weaker than the main AI […]

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DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the engine that runs its AI models

DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the software it uses to run its AI models in production. The Chinese AI lab announced the release on X on Tuesday and published the code on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 licence. For now, it supports only DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. 🚀 Introducing DeepInfer, our in-house inference framework, now fully open source! Powering […]

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US Army picks a bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, its plan for autonomous AI agents

Army Cyber Command has picked one company’s bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, a programme for AI agents that hunt down targets in computer networks. The command’s technology centre and the Cyber Fusion Innovation Center (CFIC) made the choice on 8 October, according to CFIC’s website. A statement of work and contract will follow, it says. CFIC does […]

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ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia’s RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards. Their combined sticker price is over $35bn. Reuters reported the orders on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. TNW has not independently verified the report. Nvidia has told customers and partners it cannot guarantee it will […]

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Microsoft adds EU access oversight and offline AI to its sovereign cloud

Microsoft is adding new controls to its sovereign cloud for governments and regulated companies, the CEO Satya Nadella announced today. The changes give customers more say over who can reach their systems, and let them run more AI tools on their own hardware. Today in Paris, we announced new capabilities across Microsoft Sovereign Cloud, expanding […]

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Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin says it grows 51% a month with no salespeople

Daytona runs sandboxes for AI agents, co-founder and chief executive Ivan Burazin told TNW. Its users include Meta, Cohere and Handshake, and the company has about 30 employees. Burazin, a Croatian citizen, started Daytona with two co-founders, one of whom he has worked with for almost 20 years. Before Daytona, he co-founded Codeanywhere, a cloud […]

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