AISLE would become Cohere Cyber, a new security unit. No price was disclosed and the deal has not closed.
Canadian AI company Cohere signed a letter of intent on 15 October 2026 to acquire AISLE, a start-up that uses AI to find software vulnerabilities.
Safety & TrustMicrosoft AI said on 15 October 2026 that it has finished pre-training MAI-Base-2, a mixture-of-experts model with 2.8 trillion total and 80 billion active parameters.
Models & LaunchesChinese AI lab DeepSeek is raising about 100 billion yuan (roughly $14 billion) at a valuation of about 500 billion yuan, financial magazine Caijing reported on 14 October 2026, citing multiple sources.
Business & Funding · Based on an unconfirmed reportThe US Federal Reserve’s Beige Book, published on 14 October 2026, says some firms in five of its 12 districts reduced staffing through attrition, delayed hiring or expected to create fewer jobs after investing in AI.
Business & Funding · Based on an unconfirmed reportGitHub made two AI security features generally available on 15 October 2026.
Tools & Apps
The in-house foundation model is still being post-trained. Microsoft plans to license its weights to trusted partners through…
xAI says the speech-to-speech model answers in under a second and tops an Artificial Analysis ranking. Its own figures show it…
Four GPT-4-series model versions, including their mini variants and fine-tuned copies, are affected. OpenAI had already retired…
Its Intent Intelligence framework records a customer’s approved instructions, such as brand and budget, before an agent can pay…
The start-up monitors the AI tools, plug-ins and agents employees use, and can step in mid-task when an agent asks for more…
The civil investigative demands, a kind of subpoena, follow an FTC probe confirmed in September. Axios reports they seek records…
Attorneys general in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate lawsuits on 14…
The court partly granted Apple’s request for fast-tracked evidence, citing a risk that device data could be lost. OpenAI says the…
The model reads text, images, documents and video and is built to be post-trained for specific business tasks. Nvidia also…
The model has a 1-million-token context window and is free for many developers under Meta’s new Muse Model License. Meta’s own…
The chip-equipment maker raised its 2026 sales outlook to €44–45 billion and is looking at adding capacity beyond the 30% rise…
Reuters, citing an IDC report, says Nvidia shipped 678,000 AI accelerators in China in January to June, down 44%, while Huawei…
The Japanese automation company says OnLogic will keep running as an independent business. The deal is expected to close around…
About 1,500 people, mostly US employees, are being notified because a small amount of personal data was stored in the code by…
The company says it blocks new accounts from editing Claude’s earlier reasoning and has banned tens of thousands of accounts. It…
In tests, one open-weight model spread itself across eight emulated devices in four of five runs. The authors stress the setup…
Caijing reports investors including Tencent, CATL and SMIC are backing a round that values the Chinese AI lab at about 500…
The October report says most districts saw little net change in jobs. Minneapolis contacts said AI was not causing layoffs but…
The $49.75-a-share offer is 52% above Varonis’s price before sale rumours began in June. The deal needs shareholder and…
AI Scan checks pull requests in languages GitHub’s CodeQL does not cover, such as PHP, Bash and Terraform. Agentic Autofix drafts…
The model generates and edits images from text and up to 10 reference pictures. It is free for commercial use by individuals and…
Scion is internal and not open source. A developer who helped build Meta’s Mononoke says Anthropic’s design write-up closely…
A study of more than 700 companies found code output rose after AI agents arrived, but completed tasks did not, and code reviews…
In MASS, one open model plays solver, workflow designer and judge, then is fine-tuned on its best results. The authors report…
The Noida-based IT services company will build industry solutions on Claude, Cowork and Claude Code, and its software arm will…