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The FTC wants answers from OpenAI and Anthropic on AI safety
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The demands went out Wednesday, October 14, according to a person familiar with the matter cited by Axios. Each runs more than 50 pages and asks for documents on security incidents and safeguarding practices, plus marketing materials and privacy policy records.
Varonis Systems Acquisition · acquired by Proofpoint · val. $6.3B · ~$750M LTM revenue (implied)
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Anduril Industries Employee tender offer (reported) · val. $90B
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Modal Series D · led by Accel · val. $15.8B · $1B+ annualized revenue
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Sequence Acquisition (reported price) · acquired by Intuit · val. $200M · ~$8M ARR (est.)
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Salience Labs Series B · led by Bullhound Capital
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Jev 1.14 ⚡, Grok Voice 3 🎙️, RSI 🔁. TLDR AI 10/15
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Jev 1.14 ⚡, Grok Voice 3 🎙️, RSI 🔁
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PLUS: Anthropic's $16.8B quarter
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Rogue AI agents sit for their first interview
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Crossing the Threshold: How OpenAI and Anthropic Approach Autonomy and Safety in Financial Agents
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At AI Engineer New York, frontier labs and financial firms explored how to give agents useful autonomy while keeping consequential decisions under control.
∇ Guide: 3D Gaussian Splatting: How do robots remember what's no longer in view?
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Revolutionizing Cybersecurity and AI-Driven Science with OpenAI President Greg Brockman
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Technology has always been the fundamental driver of improvement for human quality of life. And with the recent rollout of advanced frontier models, like OpenAI’s GPT-6, humanity c
Lab-in-the-Loop at Compute Speed — Ian Quigley, Leash Bio
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A few years ago I stumbled upon Leash Bio’s Substack , and was hooked. Be it their Kaggle competition that showed that no, we really haven’t solved protein-ligand binding , or thei
What Gemini 4 Argon Is Actually Good For
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Google’s newest model is here, with mixed coding reviews, impressive visual demos, and a surprising strength in writing. NLW explores where Gemini 4 Argon could fit into your workf

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