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Tuesday 13 October 2026
OpenAI reportedly in talks with startup to bring Sora back to life
Sora, the AI video generation model created by OpenAI, may someday be revived after its services were shut down this year. A startup is reportedly in talks with OpenAI over access...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
DeepSeek expands into embodied AI with early bet on robotics startup Winverse
DeepSeek is expanding its reach beyond digital chatbots into the physical world, agreeing to lead a seed financing round for Winverse AI. According to sources familiar with the matter...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Hamada Labs targets Taiwan, Japan manufacturing with AI platform
South Korean AI startup Hamada Labs is targeting traditional manufacturers and distributors in Taiwan and Japan with its WindyFlo platform, which connects enterprise data and workflows...
Monday 12 October 2026
Moonshot AI's Hong Kong IPO faces a critical ownership dispute ahead of US$50 billion debut
China's Moonshot AI is seeking to settle a shareholder dispute involving claims potentially exceeding US$700 million ahead of a potential US$5 billion Hong Kong initial public offering...
Monday 12 October 2026
Mistral unveils ML4 open-weight model, touts edge over Chinese rivals
French AI startup Mistral has launched a public preview of Mistral Large 4 (ML4), a 1-trillion-parameter AI model whose weights are scheduled for public release in late October 2026,...
Thursday 8 October 2026
LG to test five commercial components in space aboard South Korea's fifth Nuri launch
LG Group is preparing to test five commercial components developed by LG Electronics, LG Innotek, and LG Energy Solution (LGES), including cameras and batteries, aboard a CubeSat carried...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Meta unveils AI agent standard with Walmart, Stripe
Meta has teamed up with Walmart, Stripe, and AI startup Sierra to develop the Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard designed to let AI agents interact with corporate websites and...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Meta wants to set the rules for AI agents doing business
Meta and enterprise AI startup Sierra are leading Walmart, Stripe, Shopify, Genesys, Instinct and Rocket in developing an open standard for personal AI agents, aiming to define how...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
DeepSeek reportedly set to raise more than US$12B ahead of potential IPO
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is poised to raise more than CNY80 billion (approx. US$11.9 billion) in its latest funding round, as it builds capital ahead of a potential domestic initial...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Chicony pushes into robotics data systems as revenue declines
Chicony Electronics said it has entered the supply chain of a US robotics startup, expanding into embodied AI and physical AI as it seeks higher-value markets. The move could strengthen...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Column: Robots have learned to move. They haven't learned to think
At IROS 2026, one of the world's top robotics conferences, held in Pittsburgh at the end of September, a robot startup's booth featured a dual-arm robot catching, in midair, sticks...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, pitching an efficient US open model against Chinese rivals
Reflection AI, the Nvidia-backed startup that has cast itself as a US counterweight to China's open-model developers, has unveiled Beam, its first open-weight model, which it says...
Monday 5 October 2026
Z.ai GLM-5.3 security draws scrutiny as Anthropic flags weak defenses
Anthropic has warned that GLM-5.3, the latest model from Chinese AI startup Z.ai, approached Claude Mythos Preview on an exploit-development benchmark but lacks sufficient safety protections,...
Friday 2 October 2026
Anthropic aims for mid-November IPO as it juggles relationship with Trump administration
Anthropic is reportedly eyeing an IPO as early as mid-November that could become the biggest IPO to date. The AI startup's run-up to the listing coincides with a shaky relationship...
Friday 2 October 2026
Inside Volantis's photonic bid to break AI's memory wall after US$88 million raise
Semiconductor startup Volantis has raised US$88 million in Series A funding to develop an AI inference architecture that uses photonic interconnect technology to address memory bottlenecks...