CarbonAI raises $12M to automate commercial real estate underwriting with AI agents
CarbonAI raises $12M to automate commercial real estate underwriting with AI agents

CarbonAI has raised $12M led by Cowboy Ventures for AI agents that handle underwriting, due diligence and post-close monitoring on commercial real estate loans. The EU AI Act treats consumer credit decisions as high-risk but not corporate lending, a li…

Google launches Universal Cart in the US, with checkout built into Search and the Gemini app
Google launches Universal Cart in the US, with checkout built into Search and the Gemini app

Google launched Universal Cart in the US on Wednesday, a cart that sits inside Search and the Gemini app, holds products from multiple retailers and takes the payment through Google Pay. Its own roadmap names Canada, Australia and the UK for expansion,…

Nvidia’s new Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is another step forward for US open-weight AI

Nvidia’s new models join a wave of open-weight releases from US labs on the heels of the Hugging Face hack.

Amazon relaunches Bee with two recording devices and a $12 monthly plan
Amazon relaunches Bee with two recording devices and a $12 monthly plan

Amazon has launched the $74.99 Bee Frontier wristband and the $99.99 Bee Eclipse phone attachment, and put the companion software behind an $11.99 monthly subscription. Neither device is on sale in Europe, where recording another person’s private speec…

Tech Race Summit participants warn of obstacles to turning AI pilots into profits [Sponsored]

Early in his talk, Georgios Chatzimilioudis, a Solutions Engineer at Oracle, asked the audience to raise a hand if they expected their business to use more AI in three years than today. Hands went up….

Nebius says struck deals with UK AI labs, welcomes non-compete changes

European AI infrastructure company Nebius says it has struck deals with a number of early-stage UK AI labs as it looks to accelerate its compute and infrastructure offering in the UK.Nebius, which is …

Unsupervised AI agent deletes TV show’s entire edit weeks before release; program can’t air

The Challenge Sweden’s season 2 edit was deleted by an AI agent put on the production server. The program director blames “the human factor” instead of AI.

Glean CEO Arvind Jain says he wants Glean to be easy to replace
Glean CEO Arvind Jain says he wants Glean to be easy to replace

Glean has no plans to raise more money and no concrete plans to go public, founder and chief executive Arvind Jain told TNW. The enterprise AI company could list if it wanted to, he said, and it is getting its internal processes ready. But the AI indus…

Bank of America CEO says 1,000 contractors are fixing AI-exposed flaws
Bank of America CEO says 1,000 contractors are fixing AI-exposed flaws

Bank of America brought in about 1,000 outside contractors in the second quarter to repair software weaknesses exposed by AI models, chief executive Brian Moynihan said on 14 October. One of those models, he said, was Anthropic’s Mythos. Moynihan discl…

British Business Bank invests £180M across AI and deeptech funds

The British Business Bank has today announced it is investing £180m across six AI and deeptech VC funds, as investors continue to pile into the two hot sectors.The state-owned investor is investing £3…