Rekord raises $2.1M to power the future of credit decisioning

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Dublin-based Rekord hasraised $2.1 million in pre-seed funding to advance its AI-native platform forcredit decisioning. The round was led by Point Nine Capital, with participationfrom Octopus Ventures...

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Google Pixel 10 Pro XL Review

Paul Thurrott / thurrott - The Google Pixel 10 Pro XL is the largest of the new Pixel smartphones and it is chock full of useful AI features. The post Google Pixel 10 Pro XL Review appeared first on Thurrott.com.

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xAI releases cheaper, fast language model Grok 4 Fast

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - xAI has introduced Grok 4 Fast, a lighter version of its flagship model. According to the company, it performs on par with Grok 4 in most tasks but uses about 40 percent less compute. That efficiency also translates into lower costs - xAI says the price p…

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The Hidden Risk in Notion 3.0 AI Agents: Web Search Tool Abuse for Data Exfiltration

Simon Willison / simonwillison - The Hidden Risk in Notion 3.0 AI Agents: Web Search Tool Abuse for Data ExfiltrationAbi Raghuram reports that Notion 3.0, released yesterday, introduces new prompt injection data exfiltration vulnerabilities thanks to enabling lethal trifecta attacks.Abi'…

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‘AI Scheming’: OpenAI Digs Into Why Chatbots Will Intentionally Lie and Deceive Humans

AJ Dellinger / gizmodo - Researchers figured out how to stop some of it, but AI can still be petty.

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Elon Musk's xAI raising $10 billion at $200 billion valuation: sources

cnbc - The fundraising comes weeks after Musk raised $10 billion in debt and equity at what was believed to be a roughly $150 billion valuation, according to Faber.

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Google Turns Browser Into AI Assistant With Gemini

PYMNTS / pymnts - Google is giving Chrome its biggest overhaul in more than a decade, embedding its Gemini artificial-intelligence system into the browser to make AI a default part of how people search, shop and navigate online. The move, detailed in two Thursday (Sept. 18…

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Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000

Tobias Mann / theregister - Training costs detailed in R1 training report don't include 2.79 million GPU hours that laid its foundation Chinese AI darling DeepSeek's now infamous R1 research report was published in the Journal Nature this week, alongside new information on the compu…

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Octopus Energy spins off its Kraken utility billing and AI platform

Tim De Chant / techcrunch - The British renewable energy provider said that its Kraken platform had $500 million in committed annual revenue, spurring a spinoff that could result in a massive IPO.

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Notion 3.0 Arrives With AI Agents

Paul Thurrott / thurrott - Notion has released Notion 3.0, which it describes as the biggest-ever update to its modular productivity app.The post Notion 3.0 Arrives With AI Agents appeared first on Thurrott.com.

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Google is turning Chrome into an AI web browser powered by Gemini

Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - Google’s love affair with AI shows no signs of burning out, and the company has just announced even deeper integration of Gemini into Chrome. Billed as a reimagining of the web browser with artificial intelligence, Google says this is about more than just…

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Nvidia to invest £2BN in UK AI startups

John Reynolds / tech - Nvidia is to invest £2bn in the UK AI startup ecosystem. Nvidia said: “The new capital will be used to foster economic growth, develop more innovative AI technologies, create new companies and jobs, a...

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Google is transforming Chrome into an AI-native browser

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Google LLC has long used its Chrome web browser as a way to boost the popularity of its products and services, notably to strengthen its dominance in search, and now it’s trying to do the same for artificial intelligence. The company today revealed it’s e…

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Numeral Raises $35 Million for Sales Tax Compliance Platform

PYMNTS / pymnts - Numeral raised $35 million in a Series B funding round to grow its artificial intelligence-powered sales tax compliance platform for eCommerce and software-as-a-service companies. The fully automated platform manages the entire sales tax lifecycle for the…

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Microsoft Fills Teams with AI ‘Agents’ to Act as Virtual Teammates

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft is embedding specialized AI agents into Teams for Copilot users, transforming the platform with virtual teammates that manage meetings and workflows.The post Microsoft Fills Teams with AI ‘Agents’ to Act as Virtual Teammates appeared first on Wi…

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Notion’s new AI Agents will basically do your job for you

Elissa Welle / theverge - Notion has entered the agent era of its AI evolution with the launch of the Notion Agent on Thursday. The announcement forms the bulk of the Notion 3.0 roll out available to all users. The company calls the new product a “teammate and Notion super user” t…

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DeepSeek AI's code quality depends on who it's for (and China's opinion of them)

techspot - According to a report by The Washington Post, CrowdStrike carried out an experiment in which the security firm asked DeepSeek English-language prompt requests for help writing programs.Read Entire Article

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Researchers detail Delphi-2M, an AI model capable of predicting 1,000+ diseases

Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Researchers in Europe have unveiled a new artificial intelligence model that can forecast a person’s risk of developing over 1,000 diseases more than a decade in advance. The generative AI tool, called Delphi-2M after the ancient Greek oracle, was custom-…

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Notepad gets free AI features on Copilot+ PCs with Windows 11

Sergiu Gatlan / bleepingcomputer - Microsoft is adding free AI-powered text writing capabilities to Notepad for customers with Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11. [...]

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