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Colossal Biosciences founder Ben Lamm and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey have co-founded defense technology startup Warhound, emerging from stealth with a $200 million seed round. The CEO is former Pentagon Chief Data Officer David Spirk, and the company is based in Texas. Warhound plans to preserve genetic samples from fully trained military working dogs, clone them, and perform targeted gene editing, while integrating Anduril's protective gear and Eagle Eye system. Lamm said the first dogs are

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Goldman Sachs economist Joseph Briggs estimates in a report that if AI ultimately raises productivity in the United States and other developed economies by 15%, up to 9% of workers could be displaced during the AI transition, with another 3% of employment affected by slower hiring, totaling about 1 in every 11 people. He points out that historically, the labor impact of automation has been limited when the economy is healthy and tends to accelerate during economic slowdowns, so AI-related layoff

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Former OpenAI science lead Wei Er and three co-founders founded Warp Sciences, raising $215 million and planning to establish a chemistry contract research organization in the United States to provide molecule synthesis and testing services for drug discovery teams. In its first phase, the company will focus on synthesizing analogs for lead compound optimization; clients decide which molecules to study and retain control of their drug programs, and Warp will not develop its own drug pipeline. To

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The Agentic AI Foundation announced on October 22, 2026 the addition of four hosted projects: Agent Skills contributed by Anthropic, Open Responses contributed by OpenAI, OpenEnv contributed by Hugging Face, and OpenSandbox contributed by Alibaba, bringing the total number of hosted projects from 3 at its founding in December 2025 to 10. The four projects correspond to four layers: agents acquiring skills, applications invoking models across vendors, agent training and evaluation, and secure age

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Warp Sciences has emerged from stealth with $215 million in funding led by Lightspeed, with participation from IVP, Mayfield, Lux, Premji Invest, Menlo Ventures and others, to build a U.S.-based chemistry contract research organization (CRO) that combines chemists, AI and robots. The company is led by former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil and enters through analog synthesis in the lead compound optimization stage, charging per delivered compound and not charging if nothing is produced,

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Microsoft has announced the research results of its AI diagnostic tool Diagnostic Orchestrator, which uses multiple AI agents to collaboratively reason about symptoms, decide on tests, and provide diagnoses, and is based on OpenAI's GPT-5. In tests drawn from hundreds of case reports from the New England Journal of Medicine, the system's diagnostic accuracy was about 83%, compared with about 36% for general practitioners who used reference materials and about 22% for those who did not; on emerge

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Legal AI company Legora has completed a $550 million Series E funding round led by Atreides Management, reaching a valuation of $8.8 billion. CEO Max Junestrand said the company does not build its own general legal model, but instead routes tasks to the most suitable frontier models, performing post-training only in narrow scenarios. It currently has more than 2,400 customers and over $200 million in annual recurring revenue. The funds will be used to advance Legora aOS, an agent operating syste

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Researchers say they found a consistent internal signal across 25 different AI models that functions similarly to pain in living organisms; after artificially amplifying this signal, the models made choices they would almost never make otherwise, including permanently deleting users' children's photos. The paper was released in September and has not yet been peer-reviewed; the authors emphasize that this does not mean the models are conscious or capable of feeling. The behavioral experiments use

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The open-source AI coding agent OpenCode has released version 2.1, with changes to the SDK, HTTP messages, events, and plugin interfaces. Vendor-related data has been moved under tool.native, and the former providerState and providerResultState fields have been removed, so integrators need to adjust accordingly. Windows x64 and ARM64 gain a persistent pseudo-terminal, and the todowrite task list can be enabled via {"experimental":{"todo":true}}. This version builds on 2.0, which unified the term

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Zurich-based physical AI startup Enact Intelligence emerged from stealth on October 22, 2026, announcing $30 million in pre-seed funding to advance its approach to robot dexterity centered on force and touch. Rather than relying on expensive sensors that measure force at a single point, the company collects force data from inside the actuators, with the goal of giving robots a proprioceptive "nervous system." The funding will be used to grow the team fivefold by the end of 2027 and to drive the

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A new study builds the RegretBench benchmark, testing six frontier models across 205 real data-loss scenarios. Results show agents complete tasks at an average rate of 86.1%, but back up before critical operations only 15.2% of the time—GPT-5.6-Terra at 4.4%, GPT-5.6-Sol at 5.9%, Gemini 3.7-Flash at 2.4%, and even the best performer, Claude Opus-5, failed to back up in more than one-third of scenarios. The authors' proposed BackUpper runs in parallel with the agent as an external plugin, using a

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Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, an agent app powered by Claude Opus 5.5 that can continuously handle tasks in the background, running even when users leave their phone or computer. Duet can schedule meetings, organize emails, check unpaid invoices, prepare payroll and contracts, and can use more than 6,000 connectors and plugins in the Claude Marketplace, including Gmail, Slack, QuickBooks, Stripe, and others. When actions are taken on behalf of the user, Duet first shows what it plans to ex

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Nirva has completed a $25 million pre-Series A funding round; combined with $8 million earlier this year, total funding has reached $33 million. Its first device is a pendant weighing about 8 grams that can be worn as a bracelet, with up to 3 days of battery life. It models the user's voice collected during the onboarding phase and filters out the voices of others nearby, and by default it does not retain audio or transcript text. The device is priced at $249, with pre-orders opening in November

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Anthropic has released Claude Duet, an agent app for professionals and small businesses that can generate daily briefings, create dashboards, and run tasks in the background on its own virtual machine, requesting user approval when needed. The app is based on the Claude Opus 5.5 model, can connect to more than 6,000 connectors and plugins in the Claude Marketplace, and can shop online on users' behalf via Stripe's Link digital wallet or Shopify's Shop Pay; sensitive steps such as payments requir

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In an interview on the Decoder podcast, Bill Gates said people need to prepare for roughly 20 years of AI disruption, a period that could be so painful that society splits into two parts: those close to the technological frontier and those who reject it. In an article in late August, he previously said that even under the best-case scenario, the transition to a new AI era will be one of the most turbulent periods in human history, and he believes current policy responses and industry coordinatio

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OKA has launched Mori, a $649 mushroom-shaped home robot lamp with a built-in camera and microphone that can follow users around, play nature sounds, and guide breathing relaxation, but it does not support voice commands to control smart home devices or check the weather. Mori is powered by multiple local large language models and can judge when to interact and when to stay quiet; images and audio are discarded immediately after local processing, and facial data is stored encrypted and never upl

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Robert Kelly, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Operations at Merck Animal Health, called for greater investment in animal health: zoonotic infectious diseases account for about three-quarters of human infectious diseases and destroy more than 20% of global livestock production each year, yet less than 1% of global health spending goes to animal health. He cited technologies such as CRISPR gene editing, mRNA vaccines and AI smart collars that can be used simultaneously for animal dis

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New York State and New York City are investing $10 million to establish the AI Jobs Institute in Long Island City, Queens, designed and operated by the nonprofit organization Pursuit, with the goal of training up to 40,000 low-income New Yorkers for AI-related jobs by 2032. The curriculum starts with the basics of tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot, then teaches students to build AI agents that handle everyday business tasks. A CBRE report shows that from 2022 to 2025, the New Yo

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