The US plans to raise AI-directed cyberattacks with China, Nikkei reports
The US plans to raise AI-directed cyberattacks with China, Nikkei reports

The rogue-agent stories of the past two months have arrived somewhere nobody planned for. They are on the agenda for a meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. The United States will raise AI safety with China when Xi visits the White House on 24 S…

UBS now wants AI skills from its junior bankers, Financial Times reports
UBS now wants AI skills from its junior bankers, Financial Times reports

For two years the AI story in banking has been a headcount story. How many graduates a bank takes, and how many it quietly stops taking. UBS has changed the question. It is no longer asking how many juniors it needs. It is asking what a junior has to b…

Berlin fears France’s Palantir rival is a new dependency, Politico reports
Berlin fears France’s Palantir rival is a new dependency, Politico reports

France and Germany spent the summer agreeing that Europe needs its own battlefield AI. They have not agreed on whose it should be. Internal German government notes seen by Politico Europe show Berlin is wary of Arcadia, the French-built Palantir rival….

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra model autonomously completes Portal in 24 hours — feat cost just $571 in tokens

An AI enthusiast has conducted an experiment where OpenAI’s new GPT-6 Astra played through the entirety of Valve’s Portal 3D puzzler game on its own.

ByteDance is preparing a real-time spatial video model under Zhang Yiming, Bloomberg reports
ByteDance is preparing a real-time spatial video model under Zhang Yiming, Bloomberg reports

ByteDance is preparing an AI model for real-time spatial video generation, with founder Zhang Yiming personally overseeing the work and a launch possible as soon as next month, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter who asked not to…

UN rights chief calls for international red lines on AI, warning of existential risk
UN rights chief calls for international red lines on AI, warning of existential risk

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that advanced artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity. He also called on the countries that host AI development and sit in its supply chains to…

Tech companies are scouting Argentine Patagonia for AI data centres, Reuters reports
Tech companies are scouting Argentine Patagonia for AI data centres, Reuters reports

A stretch of Argentina that mostly exports wind, gas and sheep is being pitched to the companies building AI infrastructure, and some of them are listening. Developers and energy firms are courting hyperscalers for data centre projects across Patagonia…

Fluencify raises $4.3M pre-seed after passing $2M ARR six months from launch
Fluencify raises $4.3M pre-seed after passing $2M ARR six months from launch

Fluencify, a Stockholm company that runs creator marketing campaigns with software agents rather than account managers, has raised an oversubscribed $4.3M pre-seed round led by byFounders. It comes six months after the platform launched, a period in wh…

Maxim Magaziner on building faster, more reliable engineering teams
Maxim Magaziner on building faster, more reliable engineering teams

Software teams are under constant pressure to move faster. Better development tools, stronger testing frameworks, and more mature deployment systems have shortened the distance between an idea and a working product. But faster delivery also raises the …

Cato raises €6M to expand its AI platform for public sector sales

ItalianAI company Cato has raised €6 million in seed funding to expand its platformfor helping businesses find, analyse and compete for public tenders. The roundwas led by Keen Venture Partners, with …