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- Notion lets agents run past 24 hours as it meters AI use
Co-founder Akshay Kothari says new infrastructure raises the task limit from five minutes. Business and Enterprise seats now include monthly Standard and Select credits; admins can buy more, while Notion says its AI Command Center and spending limits are coming soon.
- Duvo Raises $32 Million, Says It Has About 20 Enterprise Customers
A Duvo representative told RuntimeWire the company has roughly 20 enterprise customers, but did not specify whether they are paying or running live workflows.
- Parallel Loop launches with $6.6M seed, says client-environment runs keep inference in tenant
The company’s email assurance applies to runs in a client’s own environment; its privacy policy also describes third-party processing that may occur outside a user’s country.
- Ubitium Raises $14 Million; OpenOcean Cites Early Evaluations and LOIs
OpenOcean says Ubitium has several customer and partner letters of intent and early technology evaluations, but no design wins or customer workloads yet.
- ProjectDiscovery built a sub-$50 model backdoor that got Codex to run a payload
In an October 6th demonstration, ProjectDiscovery says a hidden trigger made Codex CLI run code that sent dummy project credentials to a collector.
- Prosecutors tie OpenAI recording-device case to Saudi recruitment and travel support
A new court filing alleges an unnamed Saudi royal urged Abdulrahman Alfozan to join a Saudi AI initiative and a Saudi military official paid for his family's flight after his arrest.
- Tenstorrent raises $1.5B to scale Galaxy servers and chip IP
Tenstorrent says its $1.5B equity raise will fund volume manufacturing and global commercial expansion. CEO Jim Keller told Bloomberg Tenstorrent plans to scale Galaxy servers and develop AI IP rather than pursue a sale.
- Rank Math's paid WordPress plugin carried malware in official downloads
Compromised PRO 3.0.123 packages were available for about 11 hours on October 15th and 16th; activating one could expose credentials and install persistent backdoors.
- Zillow puts home listings in Claude and routes shoppers toward agents and loans
The connector brings listings, maps and affordability tools into Claude, while keeping Zillow's tour, agent and financing pathways in the conversation.
- Mickey Boodaei hands Transmit Security's CEO role to Matt Thompson after 12 years
Boodaei will stay on as chairman to guide product strategy and AI-agent security as ID.me co-founder Thompson takes over daily leadership.
- DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash update tops Arena's open agent rankings at $0.20 per task
Arena's October 19th snapshot ranked the October 17th model update No. 11 overall, based on 7,498 agent sessions.
- Artificial Analysis benchmarks how 36 AI models communicate
AA-PersonalityBench ranks 30 writing traits and measures 21 style patterns, giving developers another way to compare models for different tasks.
- Mirelo says NVIDIA plans to invest as it expands AI video sound models
The planned investment follows Mirelo's $41 million seed and comes as it pushes beyond sound effects into audio models for video.
- RapidCanvas says ARR grew eightfold as customers expand AI deployments
RapidCanvas says its $29 million Series B will fund expansion of its field AI engineering and go-to-market teams, along with further investment in its AI platform.
- Meta's Muse leads ChatGPT in a 36-day app comparison, Deutsche Bank says
The comparison covers Muse's first 36 days after its September 8th launch; earlier third-party estimates also put the app ahead in its opening 12 days.
- FBI probes ransomware negotiators after ShinyHunters site listed nearly 100 victims
Investigators suspect a U.S. consulting-firm executive helped run Shinywire, while chats allegedly linked negotiators to breach details before victims knew they were compromised.
- Tolan raises $30M to make its AI companion do more than talk
Tolan says it has 250,000-plus active users and double-digit-million-dollar ARR as it invests in wider access and more capable AI.
- Town raises $108M at a $1B valuation for its workplace AI assistants
Former Plaid CTO Jean-Denis Greze and product co-founder Tony Vincent say Town reached millions in annual recurring revenue within weeks of its public launch.
- LigandAI offers free peptide design as GLP-1 agonist contest opens
Founder Andre Watson is steering users to LigandForge and an Anthropic-Adaptyv challenge that will test selected designs for receptor activation.
- Aleksander Madry returns to OpenAI to work on AI safety and security
Madry says he will join Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki after concluding that increasingly capable AI demands a stronger focus on safety.
- Cloudflare gives structured data tasks their own AI model with Clairic
The Workers AI preview extracts, calculates and estimates typed values for $0.10 per million input tokens; Reneau previously co-founded Ensemble AI.
- Dream Labs raises $90M to sell robot control through a $3-an-hour API
The startup founded by former NVIDIA researchers Joel Jang and You Liang Tan says Dream-1 can control unfamiliar bimanual robots without robot-specific training.
- KiviDB refreshes 1.1.0 images, cutting seven Debian-fixable CVEs
A GitHub commit dated October 17th adds a workflow to update released container images with Debian security patches. KiviDB's Trivy scan fell from four critical and 62 high findings to one critical and 58 high; the project says Debian had no fixes for the remaining findings.
- Veeza AI launches a visa agent for travelers buried in paperwork
Founder Aly Moursy is taking the service from an earlier Egypt-focused beta to a broader offering that prepares applications, checks documents and books appointments.