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London-based Nous has raised $17m to take its household AI agent outside the UK and add new features. Heartcore Capital and existing seed backer Mosaic Ventures provided the money. Chalfen Ventures, Joyance Partners and Bain Future Back Ventures joined too.
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Spain’s main opposition party has posted a campaign video built with AI deepfakes. In it, likenesses of people linked to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists appear to confess to wrongdoing.
Microsoft Teams is adding AI-powered phishing detection to help keep you safe from threats.
Agentic LLM systems have moved from linear prompt chains to graph-based workflows and, more recently, code-executing harnesses. Chains are simple but fragile, graphs add branching, retries, and validation, and code harnesses verify outputs through execution.
AI is accelerating finance, but real progress depends on human judgement guiding every decision.
Texas has taken OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, to court. The state accuses them of misleading Texans about ChatGPT and of failing to protect the young people who use it. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the 67-page petition in Collin County District Court on 23 October.
Aiven hopes to do for LLMs what it does for databases
Most AI assistants live in a chat window. Stockholm-based Strawberry wants them to work where people already do their jobs: inside the browser, with access to the tabs, tools, and accounts they use every day.
SpaceX has secured $40 billion in debt financing to buy graphics processing units (GPUs), the chips used to run AI systems, Elon Musk said in a post on X on Sunday. Pretty much.
Instacart is exploring a sale and has held at least preliminary talks with DoorDash and Uber. Valida Pau, Jessica E. Lessin and Cory Weinberg reported this for The Information on 23 October, citing people familiar with the matter.
Google has changed its privacy policy so that Gmail, Drive and Google Photos content can shape your ads. That applies if you connect those apps to Google services that show ads. The new version of the Google privacy policy took effect on 16 October.
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