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AvaWatz has been awarded prime contractor status on the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s $151 billion, 10-year SHIELD modernization program, positioning it to compete for task orders supporting national defense across multiple domains.
Magnet Defense LLC has introduced the M48, an AI-powered unmanned surface vessel designed for long-range, autonomous maritime operations. The vessel has completed over 32,000 nautical miles and 390 days at sea during testing.
OpenAI-backed biotech firm Chai Discovery has raised $130 million in Series B funding at a $1.3 billion valuation, led by General Catalyst and Oak HC/FT. The company’s Chai-2 platform uses AI to design new antibodies from scratch, improving success rates in drug discovery.
Merriam-Webster has chosen 'slop' as its 2025 Word of the Year, defining it as low-quality digital content produced by artificial intelligence. The term reflects the widespread presence of AI-generated media across the internet.
Lightspeed Venture Partners has raised $9 billion across six funds, marking the largest fundraising in its 25-year history. The venture firm plans to use the capital to expand investments in AI and high-growth technology companies.
OpenAI has released its Circuit-Sparsity toolkit and model, offering open-source tools for studying interpretable circuits in sparse Transformer models. The 0.4B parameter model is available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license.
MetaMetrics has named Nadja Young as its first Chief Brand Officer, joining CEO Chris Minnich to lead a new phase of growth focused on literacy and numeracy measurement worldwide.
MeetKai and the Government of Pakistan, through state-owned AXI Systems, have partnered to create the country’s first national AI platform built on local data and languages, governed under Pakistan’s own laws.
NVIDIA has unveiled the Nemotron 3 family of open AI models designed to improve efficiency and scalability in multi-agent systems. The lineup includes Nano, Super, and Ultra models built on a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture, with Nemotron 3 Nano available now and larger versions expected in 2026.
Moonlake AI has announced its Generative Game Engine, a system designed to create programmable, persistent, and controllable world changes for real-time interactive content. The engine enters beta in Q1 2026.
Intel is negotiating to acquire AI chipmaker SambaNova Systems for about $1.6 billion including debt, with a potential deal expected as soon as next month. SambaNova, founded by Stanford professors, designs custom AI chips and was valued at $5 billion in 2021.
Disney will invest $1 billion in OpenAI and allow over 200 of its characters to appear in Sora-generated videos under a three-year licensing agreement, with user-created clips to be streamed on Disney+.
OpenAI has launched GPT-5.2, its latest AI model available to ChatGPT paid users and through its API. The model comes in three versions—Instant, Thinking, and Pro—offering improvements in reasoning, coding, and long-context understanding, as the company refocuses on core products amid competition from Google and Anthropic.
Token Security has launched AI Privilege Guardian, a free tool designed to help organizations define and right-size permissions for AI agents, ensuring adherence to least-privilege principles.
Tel Aviv-based startup Shapes has raised $24 million in Seed and Series A funding to expand its AI-native PeopleOS, a system designed to unify HR, IT, and finance operations into a single adaptive platform.
Netwrix's 2025 Cybersecurity Trends Report shows that over one-third of organizations have changed their security strategies to address AI-driven attacks, with rising adoption of AI tools for defense and compliance.
Quadric has appointed Ravi Chakaravarthy as Vice President of Software Engineering to lead development of its embedded AI software stack for the Chimera processor IP. Chakaravarthy previously led AI software development at AMD and has extensive experience in machine learning technologies.
AI-driven law enforcement platform eSleuth has appointed Smita Nair as Senior Vice President of Software Engineering. Nair will lead the company's engineering organization and oversee the expansion of its AI-powered investigative tools.
OpenText, Capgemini, and Sogeti have released the World Quality Report 2025, showing that while 89% of organizations are piloting or deploying generative AI in quality engineering, only 15% have reached enterprise-wide implementation due to integration, privacy, and skill challenges.
Synopsys has introduced a simulation-driven framework for real-time optimization of manufacturing processes, demonstrated at Microsoft Ignite. The system integrates NVIDIA Omniverse, Microsoft Azure, and GPU-accelerated Synopsys physics to enable near real-time digital twin simulations.
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