Brave uncovers a vulnerability in Perplexity Comet's AI assistant that enables malicious prompt injection, allowing attackers to manipulate it into performing unauthorized actions like data exfiltration; mitigations include separating user instructions, checking alignment, requiring interaction for sensitive tasks, and isolating agentic browsing.
Databricks, a data and AI company, secures a staggering $100 billion valuation in its latest funding round, accelerating its AI strategy with Agent Bricks expansion, Lakebase investment, and global growth fueled by investor interest in its AI products powering businesses.
Anthropic unleashes Claude Sonnet 4 with 1 million token context window at higher pricing; Bessemer identifies two AI startup classes: fast 'Supernovas' and sustainable 'Shooting Stars'; security risks emerge in Model Context Protocol adoption, necessitating new threat models.
Grammarly unveils eight AI writing assistants that provide intelligent, tailored support for specific writing challenges, allowing users to maintain control and authenticity while integrating the AI agents directly into their writing process through the new docs surface.
Grammarly unveils 9 AI assistants for comprehensive writing support, offering insights, feedback, citation help, subject expertise, proofreading, plagiarism checking, and AI-generated text detection within its AI-native Docs writing surface, signaling a shift towards a broader AI productivity suite.
A new 'Efficient Agents' AI framework achieves 96.7% of top performance at only 72.6% of the cost, enabling highly scalable deployment by using moderately-priced language models, limiting planning steps, broad simple tool usage, and lean memory management.
Cohere, an AI startup, secures $500 million in funding, valuing it at $6.8 billion, as it appoints Joelle Pineau as Chief AI Officer and plans to advance agentic AI for businesses and governments.
Cohere, an AI startup, secures $500M funding at $6.8B valuation, onboards Joelle Pineau as Chief AI Officer and Francois Chadwick as Chief Financial Officer, partners with Oracle, Dell, RBC, and launches North, an agentic AI platform, propelling enterprise AI adoption.
An AI agent powered by LangGraph navigates SciPy documentation, understanding user queries to recommend relevant statistical tests with Python code snippets.
Pinterest's CEO tempers expectations for AI shopping agents, citing challenges like low-quality AI-generated content and potential user bans due to AI moderation systems, while positioning Pinterest as an 'AI-enabled shopping assistant' that recommends products aligned with users' interests.