Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe
Apple disclosed to the European Commission that it will make employment offers to certain Huxe AI employees and take a non-exclusive license to Huxe's IP.
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TechCrunch · AIAI Score3636 TechCrunch · AIAI Score3636 Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
A growing wave of AI agents now work through iMessage, SMS, and RCS instead of standalone apps.
The DecoderAI Score6262 Anthropic launches Cyber Mission and a free AI vulnerability scanner for open-source projects
Anthropic launched Cyber Mission, a long-term program to protect critical infrastructure and open-source software from cyberattacks. Its Critical Infrastructure Defense Program (CIDP) gives operators of power grids, water systems and transportation networks access to Claude models, engineers and threat analysis, with CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Deloitte and Rockwell Automation as founding partners. A separate free OSS AI scanner will regularly check open-source projects, automatically flag and explain vulnerabilities and suggest patches; Anthropic expects accuracy above 90 percent but notes reports ship without human review and may contain errors, and maintainers of projects critical to infrastructure or user safety can opt in via GitHub.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score2222 Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed
Ben Affleck went viral this week for explaining neural networks, transformers, tensors.
The Verge · AIAI Score2222 SpaceXAI backs Omarchy with $1.5M in Grok tokens
SpaceXAI is joining the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron and donating $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens to Omarchy.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score6262 Nous Research confirms $1.5B valuation and launches Hermes for Businesses agents
Nous Research raised a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Robot Ventures with participation from Nvidia.
Anthropic NewsFeaturedAI Score6666 Anthropic launches the Anthropic Cyber Mission with the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program and OSS Scanner
Anthropic launched the Anthropic Cyber Mission, a long-term effort to give defenders tools.
Why it matters: Anthropic's own account of how it will put frontier Claude models and engineers behind critical-infrastructure and open-source defenders.
Latent SpaceAI Score5858 Can a Cloud-Native Harness Make Agents Reliable Beyond the Desktop?
Stacklok, founded by Kubernetes creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda.
NVIDIA BlogAI Score2222 Why Telecom Operators Are Building Their AI Strategy on Open Models
NVIDIA's State of AI in Telecommunications report finds 89% of respondents say open source models and software are important to their AI strategy. NVIDIA announced the 30-billion-parameter Nemotron 3 Large Telco Model, fine-tuned by AdaptKey on open source telecom datasets, plus a full fine-tuning recipe via NeMo. SoftBank, AT&T and Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison are using open models for telecom-specific AI.
Latent SpaceAI Score1212 AINews: GPT-6.1 Sol and Sonnet 5.5 reshape the cost-performance frontier
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol at $2/$10 per million input/output tokens.
Latent SpaceAI Score6060 Airbnb CTO Ahmad Al-Dahle on rebuilding Airbnb as an AI-native company
Airbnb CTO Ahmad Al-Dahle, formerly head of generative AI at Meta, described how the company is becoming AI-native.
Mistral AIAI Score4141 Mistral opens Munich hub for Physics AI and Industrial AI
Mistral has opened a new hub in Munich housing research teams focused on Physics AI and Industrial AI.
Import AIAI Score3232 Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop
Michael Levin proposes minds are non-physical patterns from a Platonic space that ingress into bodies.
Mistral AIAI Score5858 Mistral partners with Mozilla to power Firefox Smart Window in France and North America
Mistral announced a partnership with Mozilla under which its models now power Firefox Smart Window (beta).
InterconnectsAI Score3636 Latest open artifacts #24: Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses
Zhipu's GLM-5.3 switched from MIT to a custom license requiring a security review for model-as-a-service providers whose revenue exceeds $10B over 12 months. The roundup also covers Motif-3 (MIT), Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B-A6B), Tencent's Hy4-preview, and Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B under a custom license.
Mistral AIFeaturedAI Score7171 Mistral raises €3B Series D at over €21B valuation, led by Samsung Electronics
Mistral announced a €3 billion Series D at a post-money valuation above €21 billion.
Why it matters: The round's size, lead investor and stated use of funds show how sovereign open-weight AI is being financed in Europe.