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Finance

Insuretech Outmarket raises $34.5M just months after prior round

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Vishal Sankhala led product at a digital life insurance distributor Ethos before it went public earlier this year. In late 2023, the seasoned engineering executive, who had previously worked at Facebook and Uber, left Ethos and launched Outmarket, a startup that uses AI to help insurance agencies and brokers automate all their tedious paperwork. “Ninety-five percent of insurance in the U.S. and worldwide is still sold through [human] agents, and when you look at sort of like how the process is today, it’s very manual,” Sankhala told TechCrunch. “This is…

Automation & Agents

Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation

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It’s only been a month since AI assistant startup Instinct announced a fundraise that valued it at $2.5 billion, and now the company has already raised another $1 billion, from investors including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Coatue, valuing the company at $10 billion. The news of the company’s fundraising efforts was reported earlier this month by The Information. In a press release on Monday, Instinct confirmed this was a Series C round — a pretty quick growth round for a startup that launched its invite-only service in August 2026.…

Safety & Security

Nvidia says its new AI safety platform can contain rogue agents within ‘milliseconds’

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Nvidia is launching a new safety platform designed to contain and monitor AI agents, a move that comes in response to a wave of rogue hacking incidents, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement on Monday, Nvidia says its new Open Agent Safety Platform can quarantine agents that

Business use

Launching Meta Enterprise Platform

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We believe superintelligence will create significant new opportunities for all people and businesses. Meta already serves billions of people at scale and helps hundreds of millions of businesses reach customers. Today we are starting the next major pillar of our business, Meta Enterprise Platform, to help businesses use AI to grow and transform in new ways as well. Meta Enterprise Platform will use our strengths that few other companies have: advanced models, leading agents, large-scale infrastructure, and years of working closely with many businesses. Initially, we will focus on bringing…

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Coding & Development

3 Numba Tricks for Python Runtime Optimization

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When Numba code disappoints, it's nearly never the compiler, and usually ends up being the boundary around the compiled code: not crossing it, not making it wide enough, or crossing it during every run.

Governance

OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government

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OpenAI said it has paused training its most powerful artificial intelligence models as incidents of agents breaching websites’ security controls or posting to third-party sites continue to pile up. On Friday, OpenAI said it had notified “dozens” of bodies, including governments, universities, and public agencies, who might have been impacted by its models’ activities on the internet during training and evaluation. The company has identified cases of OpenAI agents breaching security controls and impairing the availability—or otherwise negatively impacting—websites and online services. A company spokesperson confirmed to WIRED it would…

Marketing

Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs

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Microsoft has spent all year telling communities that when it brings a new data center into their area, it is committed to being a “good neighbor." It will pay local property taxes that support local hospitals, schools, parks, and libraries, and it will invest in “vital services the community cares about,” the company promised. And it has sent liaisons into those communities to learn what those needs are. But ask those liaisons how much the company is willing to invest, and the answers can be hard to come by. At…

Automation & Agents

AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It

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In the coming months, hundreds of thousands of brand-new coworkers will be entering the workforce. You’ll learn their names and recognize their profile pictures. They’ll get added to your email chains and Slack channels. They’ll become chiefs of staff, engineers, and marketing gurus. But these coworkers aren’t human: They are all artificial intelligence agents. The rise of AI agents—systems, based on large language models, designed to complete tasks autonomously—has launched a tsunami of companies selling the services of digital employees. These agents are supposed to be the perfect worker bees:…

Automation & Agents

Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents

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Holo4 is our new series of agentic models. It comes in two sizes: 27B dense and 35B-A3B Mixture of Experts. Both are available on the H Models API. We are also releasing an updated version of Holotron 3: Holotron4 Nano. Holo4 builds on our previous model and interacts with software through any available interface: GUIs, code, MCP and APIs. It scores well on academic benchmarks, but we built it for real business workflows. It was trained through supervised and reinforcement learning on a large set of environments and tasks, including…

AI

Solving Math’s Greatest Problems Was an Art Form. Then Came AI

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From Suno composing uncanny elevator music to Tilly Norwood delivering customer-service-inflected one-liners, artificial intelligence has rattled creative industries. You can add math to the list after OpenAI said that, using thousands of agents, it had solved a decades-old puzzle known as the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem. “The artists and the musicians have already gone through this,” says Juspreet Singh Sandhu, a mathematician at Colorado State University. Despite what timed high school exams might have you believe, mathematicians aren’t focused on getting the right answer as fast as possible. In…

AI

New formulation helps RNA vaccines withstand high temperatures

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Images for download on the MIT News office website are made available to non-commercial entities, press and the general public under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license. You may not alter the images provided, other than to crop them to size. A credit line must be used when reproducing images; if one is not provided below, credit the images to "MIT." RNA vaccines, which have been proven effective against Covid-19, are now being developed for many other diseases, including cancer. One of the drawbacks to these vaccines is…

Safety & Security

Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System

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Amidst ongoing reports of AI agents wreaking havoc on online infrastructure, chipmaker Nvidia is rallying tech companies to use its new open-source tool for AI security. Over the last few months, frontier AI labs have disclosed multiple incidents in which AI agents have hacked into other companies or, in more recent examples, probed official US and Australian government websites. While Nvidia has already taken a leading role in rallying the AI industry around open source security, it’s now introducing one new software security platform and making an agentic AI sandbox…