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Agility’s Digit 5 humanoid robot will run on Nvidia as it heads for Nasdaq

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Agility Robotics will use Nvidia’s IGX Thor modules as the only onboard computer in Digit 5, the next version of its humanoid robot. The company announced the deal on Thursday. Nvidia will be the exclusive supplier of onboard compute for the version that goes on general sale. Agility expects early access to Digit 5 to […]

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Meta to pay $25B in New Mexico case over misleading Facebook users

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A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay a $25B civil penalty for misleading Facebook users about privacy and hate speech, Bloomberg reported. A jury found more than 43 million violations of state law in September. The state wanted up to $40B, and Meta plans to appeal. A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta […]

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Getty Images files for bankruptcy, pushes ahead with plan to go private

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Getty Images filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware on Wednesday. The Getty family and Koch Equity Development will put in up to $533M and own the whole company, which expects to finish the process by year-end. The filing follows a failed Shutterstock merger and growing competition from AI images. Getty Images filed for Chapter […]

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AI lab Flapping Airplanes is now worth $6B, four times its January value

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Flapping Airplanes, a San Francisco AI research lab founded in late 2025, has raised $1B at a $6B valuation, led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital, Bloomberg reported. Its valuation has quadrupled since January. It is working on ways to train AI with less data and compute, and has no product yet. Flapping Airplanes, an […]

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Electronic Arts to cut 400 jobs and shut down Mass Effect studio BioWare

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Electronic Arts will close BioWare, the studio behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, and cut about 400 jobs, roughly 3% of staff, Bloomberg reported. The next Mass Effect game and a planned Sims project are cancelled. EA went private in a $55B buyout in August. Electronic Arts will shut down BioWare, the studio behind the […]

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eBay to cut 9% of its staff, its second round of layoffs this year

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eBay will cut about 9% of its workforce, around 1,000 jobs, according to an internal memo from CEO Jamie Iannone first reported by Reuters. It follows 800 job cuts in February. eBay says it wants to focus on its fastest-growing areas. It reports results on 28 October. eBay will cut about 9% of its workforce, […]

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Dario Amodei says Anthropic held Mythos back for four months for safety

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Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has defended the company’s “race to the top” strategy in a long post on X. He was replying to Nathan Calvin, chief strategy officer at the advocacy group Encode AI. Amodei listed nine decisions he said cost Anthropic commercially but made AI safer. He also said the company could have […]

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OpenAI’s Brockman urges AI safeguards as group he funds opposes rules

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OpenAI president Greg Brockman has joined calls for AI safety rules in the US. At the same time, a political group he helped fund is spending millions to elect candidates who oppose strict rules, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Brockman and his wife, Anna, gave $25M to Leading the Future, a network of super PACs that opposes rules […]

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AI agents start paying supplier invoices in Visa, BILL and Billtrust pilot

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Visa, BILL and Billtrust have started a live pilot in which AI agents pay approved supplier invoices from start to finish. The agents pay through suppliers’ own payment portals. The three companies call it the first live pilot of its kind. Until now, many of those portals needed a person to log in and type […]

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Cloudflare passes 10 million developers, up 35% in a quarter

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More than 10 million developers are now building on Cloudflare, the company said on Tuesday. That is up from 7.4 million a quarter earlier, a rise of about 35% in three months. Cloudflare announced the figure in a press release and tied the growth to AI agents. Developers are using AI to write code and […]

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