Gemini 4 Argon Launches for Developers and Enterprises
October 13, 2026: Gemini 4 Argon Launches for Developers and Enterprises - Google has released Gemini 4 Argon globally for developers and enterprises via API, Google AI Ultra subscribers, and Gemini app users. The model ranks first on the Vals Index, which measures performance across finance, coding, legal, and tax sectors. Priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per...
Google Rolls Out Gemini 4 Argon With Safety Guardrails
October 13, 2026: Google Rolls Out Gemini 4 Argon With Safety Guardrails - Google is broadly releasing Gemini 4 Argon, a model designed for complex tasks in coding, finance, legal, cybersecurity, and science. Before public rollout, trusted cyber defenders in the Fairwind Program tested it, with Wiz using it to find a critical bug in hospital software protecting hundreds of...
Character.AI Bankrupt, Selling Assets to Disney
October 13, 2026: Character.AI Bankrupt, Selling Assets to Disney - Character.AI, an early generative AI startup known for its chatbots and roleplay bots, has filed for bankruptcy and is selling some of its assets to Disney. The company has faced mounting scrutiny and lawsuits over chatbot safety, though it continued releasing updates and new products in recent mont...
Google Play lets users run private AI-built apps
October 13, 2026: Google Play lets users run private AI-built apps - Google is introducing a feature that lets users run privately built apps on Android via Google Play without publishing them publicly. Created using Google AI Studio, these personal apps won't appear in search or listings and are visible only to their creator. The feature launches in the U.S. for use...
Scuba Raises $34M to Centralize Business Context Data
October 13, 2026: Scuba Raises $34M to Centralize Business Context Data - Scuba, officially Flashback AI Inc., has launched with $34 million raised across two rounds led by Accel and IVP, with participation from BoxGroup, Conviction, Homebrew, and Scribble Ventures. The startup, founded by former Slack CPO Noah Desai Weiss and ex-Browser Company engineering head Dolapo Fa...
Trellix launches AI security ops for private cloud
October 13, 2026: Trellix launches AI security ops for private cloud - Trellix has launched Trellix Wise for Private Cloud, enabling enterprises to run its AI security operations engine entirely within their own environments. The product addresses concerns about sending sensitive telemetry to public clouds, unpredictable token costs, and lack of decision transparency. ...
xMEMS mass-produces solid-state chips for AI cooling
October 13, 2026: xMEMS mass-produces solid-state chips for AI cooling - xMEMS Labs has begun mass production of its XMC-2400 and XMC-4800 solid-state cooling chips, targeting AI glasses, smartphones, and data center components. The chips use a vibrating silicon membrane, derived from the company's speaker technology, to move air through narrow channels without any spinn...
Intel, Broadcom CEOs cite capital as AI constraint
October 13, 2026: Intel, Broadcom CEOs cite capital as AI constraint - At a financial conference in Singapore, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and Broadcom CEO Hock Tan identified capital access as a key challenge for the AI industry. Hock Tan predicted chip supply shortages would ease by 2028 or 2029 but warned the gap between computing demand and supply could persist into 2030....
Apple Launches HomeView Smart Display Device
October 13, 2026: Apple Launches HomeView Smart Display Device - Apple has unveiled the HomeView, its first smart display, featuring a small vibrant screen atop a speaker base. The device supports video calls, photo display, and Siri-powered voice assistance. Its square shape is more compact than rivals like Google's Nest Hub Max or Amazon's Echo Show 11, making ...
Meta Launches Muse Wonder in Agentic AI Push
October 13, 2026: Meta Launches Muse Wonder in Agentic AI Push - Meta is launching two new AI models, including one named Muse Wonder, as part of a broader push into agentic AI. The move follows significant investment in AI infrastructure and recruitment of top researchers, as the company works to close the gap with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic.
Apple launches smart display, HomePod, TV upgrades
October 13, 2026: Apple launches smart display, HomePod, TV upgrades - Apple unveiled a new smart display called HomeView, a HomePod mini 2 speaker, and an upgraded Apple TV 4K set-top box. HomeView comes in wall-mounted and tabletop editions, features facial recognition for up to six users, and auto-adjusts brightness. HomePod mini 2 runs on an Apple S10 chip and supp...
OpenAI Engineer Arrested for Hidden Recording Device
October 13, 2026: OpenAI Engineer Arrested for Hidden Recording Device - An OpenAI engineer, identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national, was arrested after the company discovered a sophisticated recording device hidden in one of its conference rooms. The Department of Justice charged Alfozan with using or endeavoring to use a device to intercept oral...
Meta launches Muse Wonder AI models for agents
October 12, 2026: Meta launches Muse Wonder AI models for agents - Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its most capable AI models yet, designed for personal and professional agent tasks including insurance claims, coding, law, finance, and health. Two new features, Active Memory and Active Focus, carry context across conversations and help the model rec...
Former Plaud Exec Raises $26M for Always-On AI
October 12, 2026: Former Plaud Exec Raises $26M for Always-On AI - Peter Mo, a former Plaud executive, has raised $26 million for Ambi, an AI app that listens to users throughout the day to provide real-time suggestions and insights. Backed by Luminous Ventures and Huaqin, Ambi is launching on iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch, with a hardware device also planned. The a...
BotMan AI maps legacy code with knowledge graphs
October 12, 2026: BotMan AI maps legacy code with knowledge graphs - BotMan AI uses an AI-powered migration pipeline that maps an application's dependencies, business logic and data models into a knowledge graph, enabling autonomous re-architecture of legacy systems built on platforms like Delphi, Visual Basic and Oracle Forms. Founder and CTO Alejandro D'Andrea says...
Microsoft President Backs UK to Lead AI Regulation
October 12, 2026: Microsoft President Backs UK to Lead AI Regulation - Microsoft president Brad Smith is urging urgent AI regulation, arguing consumer products like milk and washing machines face more oversight than AI companies. Speaking on a BBC podcast, Smith called AI a weapon and tool threatening global cybersecurity and said the moment has arrived for global safe...
Cisco Unveils New Silicon and Optics for AI Networks
October 12, 2026: Cisco Unveils New Silicon and Optics for AI Networks - Cisco unveiled new silicon chips and optical networking systems at the Open Compute Project Global Summit, targeting the growing demands of AI workloads. Key announcements include the Silicon One G300 chip now shipping at volume, the new 51.2-terabit Silicon One G302 switch due before year-end, and ...
Amazon in $7B talks to acquire AI startup Decart
October 12, 2026: Amazon in $7B talks to acquire AI startup Decart - Amazon is reportedly in talks to acquire AI startup Decart.ai in a deal worth up to $7 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Decart, founded in 2023 by Israeli engineers, developed DOS software that compresses AI model optimization from months to weeks, enabling workloads to shift across di...
Meta launches first frontier models, Muse Wonder
October 12, 2026: Meta launches first frontier models, Muse Wonder - Meta's Superintelligence Lab released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier models, claiming benchmark scores comparable to Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra. The models emphasize long-term memory through a property Meta calls active memory, outscoring rivals on the MemoryBench benchmark. Won...
Honeyjar Uses AI to Scale PR Expertise
October 12, 2026: Honeyjar Uses AI to Scale PR Expertise - Honeyjar, founded by PR veterans Michelle Masek and Nadia Jamshidi, uses AI to bring senior-level communications expertise to founders, marketers, investors, and others without dedicated PR support. The platform automates tasks like writing announcements, finding journalists, and identifying speakin...
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