Mistral debuts Large 4 ‘Le Chonk', a 1-trillion parameter text output model with high benchmarks planned for open weights release

Mistral executives said the Le Chonk name deliberately nods to the community that had been rooting for the company to build a ...

Polygrade Emerges from Stealth With $6.3M to Bring AI-Native Claims Management to the Warranty Industry

Founded by veterans of Sears Home Services and Thumbtack, Polygrade uses AI agents to perform warranty claims work from diagnosis to contractor paymen ...

Siena Raises $17M Series A to Expand Its Agent of Record Platform for Consumer Brands

Funding will expand the shared infrastructure consumer brands use to support, sell to and understand their customers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Octob ...

AI infrastructure and compute: 48% of organizations running AI in production name a Google platform as their primary AI platform, more than twice OpenAI's share

VentureBeat survey finds 48% of enterprises running AI in production use Google as their primary platform, surpassing OpenAI and Microsoft Azure.

Agentic orchestration: Model makers are selling their own AI agent platforms, but only 2% of enterprises say the model was the main reason they chose one

VentureBeat survey reveals 78% of enterprises prioritize flexibility, reliability, and control in AI agent platforms over ...

Agentic reliability and evaluations: Fewer enterprises plan to let AI agents ship production changes on automated checks alone — 56% allow it or plan to, down from 75% in July

VentureBeat Intelligence finds 56% of enterprises with AI agents allow production changes on automated checks alone, down from 75% in July, impacting trust in AI evaluations.

Microsoft's record Patch Tuesday shows why severity can't decide what gets patched first

Security teams are shifting from severity-first patching to exploitation, exposure and impact as Microsoft’s patch volumes ...

Agentic security: Enterprises rely on OpenAI most to secure AI agents, and those that do are nearly three times as likely to say attackers are ahead

OpenAI's guardrails now secure 40% of enterprise AI agents, doubling since July. Yet, 43% of these organizations feel attackers are ahead of their defenses.

Hirundo Releases Westernized Qwen, Cutting Censored and CCP-Aligned Answers From 89.8% to 2.8% in the Leading Chinese AI Model

Hirundo's research found Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aligned censorship, propaganda or political bias in 89.8% of Qwen's answers on sensitive topics ...

I2Pure Expands Leadership and Scientific Team with Three Key Hires in Production, Quality Engineering, and Biomaterials Science

I2Pure’s Manufacturing and Research Capabilities Strengthened by Key Additions to Team: Christopher Wilkes – VP, Production & Supply Chain; Nichole Co ...

ZoomInfo Positioned as a Leader in 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Unified Revenue Orchestration Platforms

IDC MarketScape recognizes ZoomInfo’s strengths in complete workflow orchestration, sales engagement orchestration, and fully integrated conversationa ...

Cohere's North 2 puts AI agents on a budget and gives them a memory

Cohere first announced North in January 2025 as a secure workspace positioned to challenge Microsoft Copilot and Google ...