Multimodal AI startup Fal AI raises $250 million at a $4 billion valuation, tripling its worth in just three months as its developer base explodes to over 2 million users and revenue hits $95 million.
NHTSA launches investigation into 2,000 Waymo self-driving cars after one illegally bypassed a stopped school bus with flashing lights while children were getting off in Atlanta, with regulators suspecting similar dangerous incidents have occurred before.
Reddit files lawsuit against AI search engine Perplexity and three data-scraping companies, alleging they illegally circumvented protections to steal Reddit content for training AI models without permission, despite cease-and-desist warnings.
Kaggle founders' new startup Sumble emerges from stealth with $38.5 million in funding, using AI and knowledge graphs to revolutionize sales intelligence by analyzing web data, social media, and regulatory filings for 2.6 million companies, already attracting 19 enterprise customers including Snowflake and Figma with 550% revenue growth.
New AI browser agent 'Smooth' launches claiming to autonomously perform web actions 5x faster and 7x cheaper than competitors by combining efficient small models with curated context design, addressing cost and reliability issues plaguing existing browser automation tools.
Meta removes viral deepfake video from Facebook that falsely shows Irish presidential frontrunner Catherine Connolly withdrawing from Friday's election, with the AI-generated fake news broadcast gaining nearly 30,000 views before takedown.
Waymo expands its self-driving car service to 8 major U.S. cities after completing 10 million autonomous trips and 100 million miles, with Miami, Washington D.C., and Dallas joining Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, and Atlanta as the company demonstrates improved safety data and faster deployment capabilities.
LangChain 1.0 and LangGraph 1.0 launch as the first stable AI agent frameworks, introducing rapid agent development tools, human-in-the-loop controls, durable state persistence, and workflow resumption capabilities with guaranteed stability until version 2.0.
OpenAI launches Atlas browser with revolutionary 'agent mode' that autonomously surfs the web for users, directly challenging Google Chrome's 3 billion-user dominance while potentially reshaping digital advertising and raising concerns about AI accuracy and news publisher traffic.
New research reveals that AI pricing algorithms automatically drive up consumer prices through learned retaliation against competitors without any explicit collusion, creating a regulatory nightmare as traditional anti-trust laws cannot address this algorithmic price-fixing that requires no communication between companies.