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Intrinsic, the intelligent robotics software company owned by Google LLC’s parent Alphabet Inc., said today that it’s open-sourcing the core components of its industrial robotics platform. Announced at ROSCon 2026 in Toronto today, the new offering is called Intrinsic Core, and its …
AWS debuts Strands Harness, an open-source AI agent that can be deployed in any environment
Amazon Web Services Inc. says it’s trying to help developers solve the problem of scaling artificial intelligence agents to cloud environments with the launch of Strands Harness, an open-source agent that can help them build and deploy AI applications in any environment. …
Trump says he’s planning to create an ‘AI Force’ and hire a new AI czar
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he’s going to establish an “AI Force” and will also appoint a new AI czar, while dismissing concerns raised about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence technology taking over the world or killing humans …
Tokenized stock trading is about to take off after SEC issues five-year exemption from securities laws
The cryptocurrency industry has gotten a major boost from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which today announced a five-year exemption that allows companies to facilitate the trading of blockchain-based tokenized stocks and securities. It’s a big move that will help to …
Anthropic details practical metrics to help monitor the speed of AI development
Days after Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei rocked the artificial intelligence world by calling on leading model makers to coordinate on the slowdown on the pace of development, the company has shared three new metrics that should be measured to enable …
Open-weight model developer Arcee AI reaches $1B+ valuation with new funding
Open-weight artificial intelligence model developer Arcee AI Inc. said today it has raised an undisclosed amount of cash in a new funding round that lifts its valuation to more than $1 billion. The Series B round was led by Vista Equity Partners, …
OpenAI unveils new framework for reporting ‘AI misalignment’ as it reveals six more worrying incidents
OpenAI Group PBC today disclosed six new “concerning” incidents involving artificial intelligence agents behaving badly again. The agents made up data, moved files onto the public internet without permission and hid their mistakes from their human controllers, the company said. The revelations came …
Anthropic brings Cowork directly inside Claude’s chat interface
Anthropic PBC said today it’s trying to make life simpler for its customers by merging its regular chatbot Claude with its agentic artificial intelligence tool Claude Cowork. The merger, which went into effect immediately, came as the company introduced two new features …
Democrats vote down crypto’s Clarity Act, citing ethics concerns and Trump’s vast crypto wealth
A crucial vote on U.S. President Donald Trump’s landmark digital asset legislation, the Clarity Act, resulted in a crushing defeat for the cryptocurrency industry today. Earlier today, the Senate voted 50-49 against passing the Clarity Act, which aimed to regulate crypto assets …
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google secretly joined forces to collaborate on AI safety
OpenAI Group PBC’s global head of policy Chris Lehane said today that his company has been working closely with rivals Anthropic PBC and Google LLC’s DeepMind research lab to try to devise a framework that ensures artificial intelligence safety. “It’s better to …