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South Korean authorities are investigating intrusions at seven financial firms after finding traces of an AI based penetration tool. Information leaked from auxiliary systems, but banking services were not affected and no monetary damage was confirmed.
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon told the New York City Council that AI companies are moving too quickly. Representatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta also faced questions about safety risks.
OpenAI and Anthropic told an Australian parliamentary inquiry they would support mandatory reporting of data breaches caused by AI agents. Companies currently decide whether to disclose such incidents.
Sierra is developing an open standard for interactions between personal AI agents and businesses, with an initial specification due later in October 2026.
EmbeddingGemma 2 maps text, images, video frames and audio into one vector space for local search and classification. The 740 million parameter model can run offline on mobile devices and computers.
Mistral AI released Mistral Large 4, a multimodal model with 1 trillion parameters. The company plans to publish its model weights after three weeks of safety testing.
Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion valuation before a planned 2027 IPO. Coatue Management and Blackstone are leading the round.
Musubi released PolicyLM-1.7B, an open weights decision model that applies content policies written in plain English to messages in under 50 milliseconds.
S&P Global has expanded ChatIQ in Capital IQ Pro with conversational research, spreadsheet modeling and presentation tools.
YYForce opened a Singapore center for humanoid robot training, workflow testing, operational data collection and service robot demonstrations.
Plaid introduced AI models that use cash flow and transaction data to assess creditworthiness, detect fraud and predict ACH payment risk.
VeriPIE connects to business systems, forecasts the outcomes and value of different options, and traces supporting figures to their source data.
Maximize Market Research forecasts the global smart refrigerator market will grow from $5.28 billion in 2025 to $14.3 billion by 2034, supported by AI features and connected home adoption.
Prophix and PwC Belgium are combining financial software and advisory services to automate budgeting, reporting, workflows, consolidation, and closing.
Norway's largest bank plans to cut about 400 technology jobs as it expands the use of AI agents for coding, technology development and compliance work.
Amorepacific presented nine studies on skin aging, product testing, and consumer preferences at the IFSCC Congress 2026 in Perth, Australia.
The RD20 Conference will take place in Pretoria from October 19 to 23, opening with a workshop on AI applications in energy.
Telstra has opened a Perth to Sydney route on its Aura fibre network, adding capacity between Western Australia, eastern data centres and international cable systems.
U.S. News & World Report is partnering with and investing in Candid to collect feedback from senior living residents and their families through AI conversations.
Silicon Labs has expanded its developer platform with an AI SDK beta, a hardware configuration agent, an open source community and Databricks integration.
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