RapidCanvas buys Entytle to sell AI agents to industrial manufacturers
RapidCanvas buys Entytle to sell AI agents to industrial manufacturers

Austin-based RapidCanvas has bought Entytle, whose AI helps industrial equipment makers such as Baker Hughes and Veolia find parts and service sales across machines already in use. Terms were not disclosed. The deal follows RapidCanvas’s $29M Series B …

Physical Intelligence in talks at a $20bn valuation, Bloomberg reports
Physical Intelligence in talks at a $20bn valuation, Bloomberg reports

Robotics AI startup Physical Intelligence is in talks to raise money at a valuation of about $20bn. It builds AI software that lets robots handle real-world tasks. Rebecca Torrence and Natasha Mascarenhas reported the talks for Bloomberg on Tuesday, ci…

Waymo for Business now sends robotaxi receipts straight to Ramp
Waymo for Business now sends robotaxi receipts straight to Ramp

Waymo’s business riders no longer have to file their robotaxi receipts by hand. Waymo for Business now works with Ramp, the corporate card and expense software company, Waymo said in a blog post on Wednesday, 28 October. When an employee takes a Waymo …

Anthropic’s IPO filing leaves Ben Mann out of its founder voting group
Anthropic’s IPO filing leaves Ben Mann out of its founder voting group

Anthropic’s IPO filing leaves Ben Mann, who co-leads its Labs team, out of the founder group that will control the company after it lists. A footnote on page 248 of the S-1 prospectus, filed on 26 October, says Mann is “often referred to as a co-founde…

CISA confirms attackers are exploiting both PHP2Shell flaws
CISA confirms attackers are exploiting both PHP2Shell flaws

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has put both PHP2Shell flaws in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. It made the change on Monday, according to its alert. Federal civilian agencies have until Thursday, 29 Octobe…

Hackers hired a man to walk into a US law firm, CrowdStrike says
Hackers hired a man to walk into a US law firm, CrowdStrike says

CrowdStrike calls CHATTY SPIDER the dominant threat to US law firms. The cybercrime group grew its activity 129% in the first eight months of 2026, compared with all of 2024. Law firms made up nearly 90% of its victims, according to CrowdStrike’s new r…

Polymarket faces new CFTC probe over US users on offshore platform
Polymarket faces new CFTC probe over US users on offshore platform

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is again looking into whether Polymarket broke a 2022 deal to keep US users off its offshore platform. Reuters reported the news, citing two people familiar with the matter. According to Reuters, the p…

US Federal Election Commission filing system down before midterms
US Federal Election Commission filing system down before midterms

The US Federal Election Commission (FEC) has taken its electronic filing system offline following an attempted cyberattack, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing an internal email. The disruption comes a week before the November 3 midterm elections and h…

AI disinformation is outpacing platform moderation before US midterms
AI disinformation is outpacing platform moderation before US midterms

AI-generated election misinformation is spreading across social media ahead of the US midterm elections, and experts warn that much of it may be escaping detection as platforms scale back human moderation and rely more heavily on automated systems. AI …

Anduril and Qualcomm to build laptops in the US for government use
Anduril and Qualcomm to build laptops in the US for government use

Defence company Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm plan to make laptops in the US, the two companies announced today. The new product line, called BlueChip, is aimed at government, defence, emergency services and other critical users. The first laptop will…