The strongest quantified cost claim comes from Deel’s payroll evaluation: 72% accuracy at one-thirty-third the per-query cost of Claude Opus 5.5. The results are specific to partner tests.

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10 hours agoProducts

Launch Products

Amazon launches Bee AI listening devices for wrists and phones, starting at $74.99

The new hardware captures conversations for summaries and reminders. Alexa+ access, shopping recommendations and app connections require the $11.99 monthly Bee Pro subscription.

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10 hours agoPolicy

Government action Policy

GSA schedules October 19 kickoff for government AI hackathon

Registration is closed for the virtual MCP event. Participants will work with public data and sandboxed services, and the listed dates remain subject to change.

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11 hours agoProducts

Launch Products

Maka launches a kids’ streaming app without ads, autoplay or endless scrolling

The service pairs expert-reviewed shows with parent-set timers. Its harder task is persuading families to pay—and staying sustainable without chasing watch time.

3 min

11 hours agoTools

Research Tools

Patient feedback improves AI seizure detection in simulation, small study finds

The hospital prototype let patients question their brain data and label alerts. Its detector gains came in simulation, not a trial showing improved seizure control.

3 min

13 hours agoInfrastructure

Partnership Infrastructure

AEP will invest about $4 billion in a fuel-cell project to supply Google

The Wyoming facility will use Bloom Energy technology under a 20-year electricity contract. AEP also plans carbon capture, making near-zero emissions a project goal rather than an operating result.

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13 hours agoProducts

Enterprise adoption Products

Bar-Ilan aims to bring its AI study agent to 100 more courses

The university’s course-bound assistant searches lectures and generates practice questions. Early accounts suggest benefits, but do not establish better learning.

3 min

13 hours agoBusiness

Acquisition Business

Cohere signs letter of intent to buy AISLE for autonomous software security

The proposed acquisition would pair AISLE’s vulnerability research with Cohere’s models and deployment platform. Financial terms were not disclosed.

3 min

14 hours agoModels

Open release Models

Tether releases an open-weight speech model that transcribes audio offline

TranscribePsy keeps transcription on the device and offers dedicated phone builds. Tether reports strong speed and accuracy results, but the release waits until each recording or utterance ends.

3 min

14 hours agoBusiness

Partnership Business

Runway adds dedicated enterprise video deployments through Baseten

Customers can license model weights and fine-tune them on their own data. Dedicated GPUs separate workloads, while Baseten retains infrastructure management.

2 min

14 hours agoStartups

Funding Startups

DaltonTx wins Gates grant for TB drug discovery, with shared AI tools planned

The project will screen hundreds of tuberculosis genes, evaluate predictions against existing data and develop models for labs with limited computing resources.

2 min

15 hours agoStartups

Funding Startups

Parallel Loop launches with $6.6 million to bring AI into existing business systems

The startup combines software with engineers working alongside customers. Havells says several hundred employees already use it for workflows, automation and dashboards.

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16 hours agoBusiness

Pricing change Business

AI-exposed companies face record default-insurance costs as debt worries deepen

CoreWeave’s protection costs exceed 1,000 basis points. The concern is whether AI investments can produce profits quickly enough to cover mounting interest bills.

3 min

16 hours agoBusiness

Earnings Business

TSMC earns record quarterly profit, up 68.7%, as AI-chip demand holds

Revenue also exceeded expectations. The sharp annual profit increase was much larger than the earnings beat against analysts’ forecasts.

2 min

17 hours agoInfrastructure

Funding Infrastructure

Salience Labs raises $125 million to manufacture optical switches for AI data centers

AMD Ventures and Intel Capital joined the financing. The company is backing an all-optical networking design intended to connect thousands of GPUs, with larger switches still on its roadmap.

2 min

17 hours agoModels

Security risk Models

Newer Google and OpenAI image models were easier to bypass, White Circle researchers say

The same attack method elicited explicit nudity more often from newer versions. The researchers offer possible explanations, but the cause remains unresolved.

2 min

18 hours agoProducts

Launch Products

Figma adds shared design rules for AI agents and opens code layers to public beta

The coordinated Config updates connect written design guidance, interactive prototypes and outside tools. More predictable AI output is the goal—not a guaranteed result.

3 min

19 hours agoPolicy

Security risk Policy

Anthropic adds election-abuse defenses and prepares voting answers in Claude

External testing found Claude could reject a harmful request yet miss a deceptive campaign split into ordinary tasks. The midterm update also details voting-information plans and remaining political-bias problems.

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