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The Browser Company will shut down the Arc browser on December 22, pivoting to the AI browser Dia

The Browser Company announced on October 22, 2026, that the Arc browser will cease service on December 22, 2026; new account registrations are no longer accepted as of today, and users are being guided to migrate to the AI browser Dia. The company said maintaining browser security requires continuous investment and that it can no longer guarantee Arc's security level; its engineering and security teams will shift to Dia, which the company says has surpassed Arc's benchmarks in stability, speed, and security. On migration, Dia can import Arc's passwords, bookmarks, extensions, and browsing history, with Spaces becoming Profiles and Folders becoming Tab Groups; users can also export data through Arc settings before December 22, and December 15 is the last day to request a copy of personal data or deletion.

The Browser Company announces that the Arc browser will be discontinued on December 22, guiding users to switch to Dia

The Browser Company has announced that the Arc browser will be discontinued on December 22 and is inviting users to migrate to its new AI browser, Dia, which currently supports Apple Silicon Macs and Windows 11 PCs. The discontinuation will proceed in stages: starting immediately, new Arc accounts can no longer be registered; on November 23, tab syncing and AI features such as Browse for Me in the iOS and Android versions of Arc will be shut down; and on December 22, the desktop version will stop working and Arc accounts will be deactivated. The company says maintaining two browsers at the same time is untenable from a security standpoint. Dia supports vertical tabs in a sidebar, Spaces (now called Profiles), pinned tabs, folders, and split view, and allows users to import sign-in information, extensions, and other user data when they sign up.

Uber rolls out ChatGPT Work to all 30,000 employees

Uber and OpenAI announced an expanded partnership under which all of Uber's roughly 30,000 employees worldwide will use ChatGPT Work. The product, launched in July this year, is positioned as an enterprise-facing AI agent; Uber had previously piloted it with 1,000 employees across departments including finance, operations and product, where about 80% of early users were not engineers, using it to analyze operational data, localize training materials and build interactive dashboards. Uber did not disclose the cost of the rollout, saying it will track how employees use the tool and their output to guide future AI deployments.

ICRC warns AI is amplifying the devastation of war and calls for limits

Laurent Gisel, head of the ICRC's legal warfare team, told 404 Media during a UN meeting that AI is already selecting targets on the battlefield and causing deaths, and is amplifying destruction, lawbreaking and humanitarian harm. He noted that AI accelerates target generation and the pace of strikes, making it hard for humans to maintain effective control, and argued for prohibiting AI-enabled systems that remove humans from the kill chain as well as autonomous weapons that directly target people. Gisel also mentioned that a draft treaty on autonomous weapons was weakened by Russia and the United States in September this year, and opposed allowing AI into nuclear command and control.

Microsoft report says Storm-0940 used open-source AI agent ARTEX to automate attacks on hundreds of organizations

Microsoft released a report stating that a China-linked actor named Storm-0940 used the open-source AI agent ARTEX to automate attacks on hundreds of organizations across different industries worldwide. ARTEX is released as open source on GitHub and chains together multiple LLM agents, requiring almost no human intervention from reconnaissance to data theft; it logs in using ConnectWise's Microsoft 365 backup and management application key, bypassing user sign-in and MFA, and in several intrusions achieved cloud privileged access from the initial target in under 3 hours. The report also notes that most attack attempts failed, with one password spray recording 151K+ failures and not a single success, and that application sign-in alone does not prove data was stolen.

Code testing startup Blacksmith raises $66 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation

Continuous integration cloud service provider Blacksmith has raised a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Peak XV Partners, Y Combinator and GV, at a company valuation of $1 billion, bringing total funding to $125 million. The company offers CI cloud services on its own servers; more than 10,000 enterprises currently use it, and weekly code checks have grown from about 5 million in early 2026 to about 90 million, while annual recurring revenue grew 17-fold over the same period. CEO Aditya Jayaprakash said AI coding tools have made writing code easy and the bottleneck has shifted to code verification; this round's funds will mainly be used to buy servers to expand the global CI cloud and to grow the team from about 40 people to 75 by the end of the year.

Report says Texas data center expansion could erase decades of air quality improvements

A report by the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) says that if all planned data centers in Texas are connected to the grid and powered under the expected grid structure, fine particulate pollution from the power sector will more than triple within five years, reaching the highest level since 2006; haze-forming NOx emissions will increase by 136%, approaching 2004 levels; and carbon dioxide emissions will be 90% higher than in 2025. The report models three data center energy consumption forecasts and notes that if data centers are paired with self-built renewable energy, NOx emissions could be as much as 10 times lower, but if gas-fired generation is built on-site to avoid grid interconnection queues, pollution could instead be the highest. Texas currently ranks first in the U.S. data center market with 26 GW of under-construction and existing capacity.

Meta says its AI app Muse has over 10 million users, with shopping among the main uses

Meta said at its third-quarter earnings call that its AI app Muse now has more than 10 million users, with about 25% of registered users using it daily. Zuckerberg said that among active users who shop using the Muse agent, more than a quarter spend an average of over $200 per transaction, and that Muse enables agentic shopping through a Plaid connector. He also said Muse has achieved product-market fit, and that the next step is to scale up, grow revenue, and optimize compute costs, with cost efficiency expected to improve more than 10-fold over the next year.

One-year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1 billion Series A at a $6 billion valuation

One-year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes announced it has raised a $1 billion Series A co-led by Index and Lux, reportedly at a $6 billion valuation. This comes just nine months after its $180 million seed round at a $150 million valuation, quadrupling its valuation. The founding team says its megakernel framework can complete training, inference, and game running in a single kernel, with the goal of enabling models to complete training with less data.

Gartner says AI infrastructure will need $8.5 trillion in revenue by 2030, with a gap of nearly $4.9 trillion

Gartner estimates that data center owners will need to generate a cumulative $8.5 trillion in revenue by 2030 to cover announced capital expenditures and financing costs and achieve a 12% return on investment, but over the same period, enterprise and consumer AI revenue attributable to these data centers will not exceed $3.6 trillion, leaving a gap of about $4.9 trillion. Gartner expects AI infrastructure spending to approach $1 trillion in 2026, with another $6 trillion invested from 2027 to 2030. If the current pace continues, more than $3.5 trillion in AI infrastructure spending could face impairment by 2030. Gartner also predicts that by 2030, cost pressures and the lack of differentiated business models will force more than 80% of neocloud providers to cease independent operations.

Legal AI company Legora completes $550 million Series E funding at an $8.8 billion valuation

Stockholm-based legal AI startup Legora announced the completion of $550 million in late-stage funding at a post-money valuation of $8.8 billion, led by Atreides Management, with new investors including Baron Capital, Capital Group, Fidelity, and J.P. Morgan participating, and existing investors Accel, Benchmark, and Bessemer all following on. After this round, the company has raised a cumulative $866 million, with ARR now exceeding $200 million, having grown from $1 million to $100 million in under 18 months. Legora provides legal AI agents and currently serves more than 140,000 legal professionals across 80 markets and over 2,400 law firms and corporate legal teams; the funds will be used for expansion in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, and to increase investment in its agentic legal operating system aOS.

Meta AI assistant Muse surpasses 10 million US downloads 40 days after launch

Meta's AI assistant Muse reached 10.2 million downloads in the US within 40 days of launch, with 10.9 million cumulative downloads worldwide, becoming only the 12th app to reach that milestone. Sensor Tower data shows that in October Meta allocated 39% of its total advertising budget to promoting Muse, up from 23% the previous month. Muse's 7-day retention rate in the US is 30% and its 14-day retention rate is 23%, higher than the 19% and 16% averages of competitors such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok.

Swedish legal AI company Legora closes $550 million Series E at an $8.8 billion valuation

Swedish legal AI company Legora announced the close of a $550 million Series E round at an $8.8 billion valuation, up from $5.6 billion at its Series D six months earlier. The round was led by new investor Atreides Management, with new investors including Baron Capital, Capital Group, Fidelity, Glade Brook Capital Partners and JP Morgan participating, while existing investors such as Accel, Benchmark and Bessemer Venture Partners continued to follow on. Legora said its technology is shifting from an AI assistant to an AI agent capable of executing multi-step tasks; in-house legal teams accounted for more than 40% of new customers added in the third quarter, the United States has become its largest market, and the new funding will be used for expansion in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific as well as investment in its agent operating system.

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Arda Industries raises $232 million to make production lines easier to adjust with AI

Arda Industries officially launched with $232 million in funding, led by Accel, Altimeter, Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, with participation from XYZ Venture Capital, 8VC, SVAngel and Felicis. The company's co-founder and CEO is Bob McGrew, former Chief Research Officer at OpenAI. Its platform lets users upload product blueprints and then automatically plan production lines, determine which robots to use and generate visual work instructions. Its current customers are concentrated in defense and data center electronics; Anduril uses it to optimize production lines. The company's long-term plan is to enter the consumer electronics market and develop AI agents that can adapt to new equipment within days.