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Eugenia Kuyda launched her new startup Wabi, offering a free personal AI assistant based on an idea she had over a decade ago.

Amazon launched a new development tool called TorchNeuron to encourage developers to run AI applications on chips other than Nvidia's, aiming to reduce Nvidia's dominance in the PyTorch ecosystem.

Tenstorrent raised $1.5 billion to continue operating independently after attracting acquisition interest earlier in the year.

T-Mobile reports its emissions are 50% lower than in 2020 and continues to advance sustainability efforts. Deeanne King, Chief People Officer, leads these initiatives while emphasizing the importance of combining sustainability with good business practices.

Town raised $108 million in a Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures, achieving a unicorn valuation four months after launch.

Microsoft introduced new security tools in Microsoft 365 E7 and Project Perception that continuously assess AI agents' risk and can restrict their actions or shut them down to prevent unauthorized behavior.

Amazon launched TorchNeuron, a software tool that allows PyTorch code to run on its Trainium AI chips with minimal changes. The tool is now available as a public beta and open source, aiming to simplify switching from Nvidia's AI chips.

The article critiques enterprise AI companies that raise large funding rounds while relying heavily on manual labor disguised as scalable software. It highlights the unsustainable business model of billing labor-intensive services as recurring software revenue.

Latin American startups raised a combined $1.3 billion in seed- and growth-stage funding in Q3 2026, a 26% increase year over year. Mexico startups raised more venture funding than Brazil in the first three quarters of 2026.

Even Healthcare raised funding in a round led by Khosla Ventures, reaching a $300 million valuation. The company plans to expand its hospital network in India.

Booking Holdings is launching a new Seattle-based AI travel startup called Vayo with a planned $100 million investment. The startup aims to create AI agents specialized in travel planning and management.

Disney has agreed to hire the majority of Character.AI's workforce, with most employees accepting the offer. The deal is a stalking horse bid, meaning another company could present a higher offer.

Benchmark's remaining partners discussed their approach to investing in a competitive market, emphasizing stability and their continued presence in San Francisco.

Booking Holdings is launching a Seattle-based AI travel venture called Vayo with a planned $100 million investment. The company aims to use AI agents to manage personalized trips.

Darko Mesaros, a developer advocate at AWS, has converted his garage into a museum filled with over 1,000 vintage computing devices, repairing and connecting them to modern AI systems.

Inrix, a traffic data company spun out of Microsoft, agreed to sell substantially all of its assets to Arity, a subsidiary of Allstate. The acquisition ends Inrix's 22-year run as an independent company, with terms not disclosed.

Oren Etzioni and Dan Weld define over 35 new and existing phrases related to AI culture and jargon, explaining terms like AI slop, AI slap, and others to describe behaviors and phenomena in the AI era.

Amazon launched new Bee AI devices that record conversations and prompt the wearer for consent, but a former AWS engineer says the consent safeguards do not effectively inform other people being recorded.

Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based foundational model company, raised $3.5 billion in July at a $35 billion valuation. The quarter saw $38.5 billion invested in Asian startups, with a majority going to AI-focused companies.

Modal Labs raised $750 million in a Series D round led by Accel at a $15.75 billion valuation. The company provides cloud infrastructure for AI inference and recently exceeded an annual revenue run rate of $1 billion.

Veritas developed an anti-counterfeit chip to verify goods and is expanding its use to jewelry, trophies, and fragrance bottles to combat increasingly sophisticated counterfeit products.

Tressfecta develops products for textured hair, starting with Plait Pilot, a tool designed to assist hairstylists in the initial step of separating hair before braiding.

Elorian introduced its first AI model, Glimpse, which excels in reasoning with images and outperforms GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning.

Amulya Vishwanath, a former Nvidia robotics marketing lead, discusses the current developmental stage of robotics, emphasizing foundational components are still being developed.