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Arda raises $230M at $1.5B valuation, AI agents for the factory floor

Former OpenAI Research Chief’s Arda Raises $230M at $1.5B Valuation to Bring AI to the Factory Floor

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Google Cloud diagram showing how llm-d 1.0 evolves distributed inference from generic load balancing to cache-aware, multi-tenant production serving

llm-d 1.0 Arrives as a Production-Ready Open-Source Stack for AI Inference

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Frame from VideoGen's official Model 1 launch film showing a mermaid scene

VideoGen Launches Model 1, an AI Video Model That Turns a Prompt Into a 10-Minute Film

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OpenCode logo with news of its API key breach

OpenCode Breach Exposed Provider API Keys; Hackers Ran Up Charges on Users’ AI Accounts

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Otter.ai logo with its $320 million growth financing from General Catalyst

Otter.ai Raises $320 Million From General Catalyst to Build the ‘Voice System of Record’

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Microsoft Guardian Agents security concept

Microsoft Launches Guardian Agents to Police AI Agents as ‘Agentic Insiders’

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Official MiniMax M3.1 Flash launch artwork showing the Space Bunny mascot on a moon surface in front of a glowing orange planet

MiniMax Launches M3.1 Flash, Claiming Near-Triple Inference Speed at 70% Lower Cost

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DeepSeek logo with the V4.1-Flash-1017 open weights release

DeepSeek Releases V4.1-Flash-1017 With Higher Benchmark Scores and MIT-Licensed Weights

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A rider in a cowboy hat on a galloping horse against an orange-red sky — official FLUX 3 Max sample visual from fal

fal Launches FLUX 3 Max Video Model With Black Forest Labs

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OpenAI logo with its reported $30 billion fundraising

OpenAI Races to Raise $30 Billion Ahead of Anthropic’s IPO, Reuters Reports

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Inception's official Mercury 3 announcement artwork

Inception Launches Mercury 3, a Diffusion LLM Running Above 1,000 Tokens per Second

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