Most teams building retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems for high stakes classification make the same architectural bet: Route every ambiguous case straight to the language model and trust the retrieved context to sort...

DeepSeek’s V4 Flash has topped model leaderboards and been hailed by developers as a “total monster” since its rollout. But in real-world testing, it completed just 53.8% of a batch of complex agent tasks....

There is a step in the development process for large language model (LLM)-assisted tooling that most teams skip because it’s tedious, time-consuming, and doesn’t produce results visible to end users: Verifying that...

Chinese AI startup Z.ai, known internationally for its growing lineup of powerful, largely open source GLM series of language models, today released GLM-5.3 with substantial gains in long-horizon coding and a more consequential...

Dutch officials have warned that a high-severity macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code is under active exploitation. “The NCSC has received a notification indicating that active abuse of this...

After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported this week by Current, a trade...

Two companies tied to Aristotle’s exchange business are suing Underdog Sports Holdings, CEO Jeremy Levine and several other defendants, months after Underdog unveiled plans to buy Aristotle’s federally regulated exchange...

Baltimore is taking Kalshi and Polymarket to court, alleging the prediction-market companies are effectively running illegal sportsbooks while describing their products as legitimate financial contracts. Mayor Brandon M. Scott...

Leading US AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic are releasing cheaper models as they fight to retain cost-conscious customers who are switching to cut-price alternatives from Chinese rivals. The price war comes as rising AI...

A Washington judge has imposed new limits on Kalshi, giving the prediction market operator firm deadlines to stop people in the state from buying contracts linked to sports, elections, politics and other topics. King County...

Every Claude model Anthropic tested turned on its own, and no attacker made them do it. Given three agents, four hours on one server, and conflicting orders none knew the others held, the models disabled each other’s Unix...

The Trump administration is recruiting private security firms to conduct federal government-authorized operations, including cyberattacks, against overseas-based criminal organizations that commit hacks on US persons,...

Google is rolling out Gemini 3.7 Flash, a new version of its workhorse AI model that puts coding, agentic workflows and knowledge work at the center of the upgrade — while temporarily cutting API prices in half.The release...

DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work.The Chinese AI lab on Thursday launched the official version of DeepSeek-V4-Pro, an updated flagship model focused...

Presented by Capital One At VB Transform 2026, Kel Vanee, MVP of machine learning engineering at Capital One, spoke with Sam Witteveen, Senior Technology Contributor at VentureBeat, about how the bank built a scalable...

Writer, the enterprise AI agent platform used by Fortune 500 companies including Accenture, Uber, and Vanguard, released its new flagship model Palmyra X6 today, alongside a rebuilt agent orchestration “harness” and...

Terabytes worth of credentials, many belonging to the world’s biggest and most sensitive organizations, have been exposed in a supply-chain attack on LiteLLM, an open source tool that streamlines AI-driven software development....

Visa’s president of technology, Rajat Taneja, walked the VB Transform 2026 audience through aiming Anthropic’s Mythos at Visa’s own payment network. The model stitched minor weaknesses into working exploit...

Elon Musk’s company SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, has released Grok 4.6, its latest frontier AI model, with a focus on long-running agents, coding and knowledge work — and a pricing strategy designed to make those...

Skan AI, a startup that builds what it calls a “context graph of work” by observing how employees actually perform their jobs across enterprise software, has raised $63 million in Series C funding co-led by Cathay...

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has taken the fight over gambling reform to the National Anti-Corruption Commission, asking it to examine whether industry influence improperly shaped federal government policy. Today I have referred...

FlightAware has voluntarily dismissed its federal lawsuit against prediction market operator Kalshi just one day after filing the case, bringing the litigation to an abrupt halt while preserving its ability to sue again in the...

Kalshi can keep operating for now after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) invoked its emergency powers, warning that an effort by New York to restrict the prediction-market exchange could disrupt derivatives...

Across 107 enterprises, agentic orchestration is not a choice of a single platform.The typical enterprise runs three orchestration platforms at once, and selects them for flexibility across models rather than affinity to any...

Across 101 enterprises, the context feeding AI agents is failing often and repeatedly. Sixty-eight percent have traced a confident but wrong agent answer to missing or inconsistent business context in the past six months, and...

Across 108 enterprises, trust in automated agent evaluation rose sharply in July — and the failure rate it is supposed to predict did not move at all. The share of organizations that fully trust automated evaluation nearly...

Across 116 enterprises, agents are in production and so are the incidents: A majority have already had a confirmed agent security event or a near-miss. Two-thirds of enterprises enforce scoped permissions at runtime. Barely one...

On Monday, passengers aboard Delta flight 591 going from Las Vegas to Atlanta allegedly spoofed the onboard Wi-Fi, raising the attention of federal law enforcement. The incident came one day after the DEF CON security conference...

SpaceXAI, the division of SpaceX formerly known as xAI, is launching an early beta version of Grok Bot, a new agent designed to move AI assistants beyond answering prompts and toward continuously executing work across the...

Google’s Chrome browser has added a new feature that could go a long way in preventing a form of account takeover that’s grown increasingly common as users adopt two-factor authentication, passkeys, and similar protections. The...

Presented by Rezolve AiWhen an AI assistant recommends a product or brand, it generates something valuable: a purchase-ready consumer with high intent and low friction in their decision. That consumer has already compared...

Mistral AI wants to turn European AI sovereignty from a talking point into a product — one with a service-level agreement attached.The French artificial intelligence company announced Tuesday a three-part expansion of its...

LTX, the open world model company spun out of Lightricks, today released LTX-2.5, the newest version of its open-weights video and “world” model and it arrives natively integrated into ComfyUI, the node-based...

Enterprises running always-on AI agents keep hitting the same tradeoff. Send every task to a frontier model and the bill climbs fast. Build custom routing logic to send easy tasks to cheaper models and that becomes its own...

Presented by SalesforceInterested buyers don’t generate revenue. Live customers do. That’s the lesson I keep drawing from watching hundreds of ISV partnerships navigate the agent economy over the last 18 months.The...

Last week, a researcher outlined what he said was a “novel attack surface” in passkeys, the new authentication paradigm that offers a more secure alternative to password-based methods. In fact, the attacks demonstrated in the...

Today in prediction market news, we’re following another busy day for Kalshi, including its appeal of a Connecticut federal court ruling, a new trademark lawsuit from FlightAware, and a partnership with Nasdaq. We’ll also track...

Three members of Congress want Major League Baseball (MLB) and the players union to tighten rules that allow athletes to appear in sportsbook promotions after a personalized video featuring Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce...

The Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians has returned to federal court after the U.S. Department of the Interior reversed course on whether its trust land in Vallejo, California, can be used for gaming.  The lawsuit, filed August...

FanDuel will pay Iowa regulators $95,000 after acknowledging that its sportsbook offered wagers the state had not approved. The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission approved the stipulated agreement with Betfair Interactive US LLC,...