Mistral debuts Large 4 ‘Le Chonk', a 1-trillion parameter text output model with high benchmarks planned for open weights release

Mistral executives said the Le Chonk name deliberately nods to the community that had been rooting for the company to build a ...

ZoomInfo Expands ISO Assurance Program with ISO/IEC 42001 Certification, Validating its Rigorous AI Governance

Independent assessment by Schellman recognizes ZoomInfo’s disciplined approach to governing AI, managing risk and impact, and continually improving it ...

Polygrade Emerges from Stealth With $6.3M to Bring AI-Native Claims Management to the Warranty Industry

Founded by veterans of Sears Home Services and Thumbtack, Polygrade uses AI agents to perform warranty claims work from diagnosis to contractor paymen ...

Siena Raises $17M Series A to Expand Its Agent of Record Platform for Consumer Brands

Funding will expand the shared infrastructure consumer brands use to support, sell to and understand their customers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Octob ...

Microsoft's record Patch Tuesday shows why severity can't decide what gets patched first

Security teams are shifting from severity-first patching to exploitation, exposure and impact as Microsoft’s patch volumes ...

AI infrastructure and compute: 48% of organizations running AI in production name a Google platform as their primary AI platform, more than twice OpenAI's share

VentureBeat survey finds 48% of enterprises running AI in production use Google as their primary platform, surpassing OpenAI and Microsoft Azure.

Agentic orchestration: Model makers are selling their own AI agent platforms, but only 2% of enterprises say the model was the main reason they chose one

VentureBeat survey reveals 78% of enterprises prioritize flexibility, reliability, and control in AI agent platforms over ...

Agentic reliability and evaluations: Fewer enterprises plan to let AI agents ship production changes on automated checks alone — 56% allow it or plan to, down from 75% in July

VentureBeat Intelligence finds 56% of enterprises with AI agents allow production changes on automated checks alone, down from 75% in July, impacting trust in AI evaluations.

Agentic security: Enterprises rely on OpenAI most to secure AI agents, and those that do are nearly three times as likely to say attackers are ahead

OpenAI's guardrails now secure 40% of enterprise AI agents, doubling since July. Yet, 43% of these organizations feel attackers are ahead of their defenses.

Your vibe-coded apps are a ticking time bomb for your business. Here’s how to secure them.

Vibe coding is creating a new security challenge as employees build apps outside IT oversight. Here’s how enterprises can ...

Hirundo Releases Westernized Qwen, Cutting Censored and CCP-Aligned Answers From 89.8% to 2.8% in the Leading Chinese AI Model

Hirundo's research found Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aligned censorship, propaganda or political bias in 89.8% of Qwen's answers on sensitive topics ...

Cohere's North 2 puts AI agents on a budget and gives them a memory

Cohere first announced North in January 2025 as a secure workspace positioned to challenge Microsoft Copilot and Google ...