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OpenAI buys camera startup Glass Imaging for over $300m, WSJ reports
OpenAI
Waymo opens driverless rides in Las Vegas, its fourth new US city this month
Ecosystems
Apple releases iOS 27 and Siri AI, but you’ll have to join a waitlist
Apple
Voicemod launches Key Pocket, bringing voice changing to phones and consoles
Artificial Intelligence
Temporal raises $550m at $12.55bn to keep AI agents from failing
Investors and funding
Sony, Universal and Warner back a new pact against streaming fraud
Music
OpenAI’s top strategist calls the state-by-state route reverse federalism. Its president helps fund a super PAC trying to preempt the states.
Government and policy
Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t wait for Congress to slow down AI
OpenAI
Bubblemaps moves onchain forensics from post-mortem to pre-trade
Contributed
Anthropic expects a second straight quarter of adjusted operating profit
Anthropic
More than 70 UK lawmakers ask Burnham to back a superintelligence ban
Government and policy
AWS cannot restore its Bahrain region or one UAE zone six months after the strikes
Amazon

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Startups and technology

OPENAI

OpenAI buys camera startup Glass Imaging for over $300m, WSJ reports

OpenAI has bought Glass Imaging, a startup whose AI software improves smartphone cameras, in a deal valuing it at more than $300m, the WSJ reports. The price is over three times last year’s valuation. Two former Apple engineers founded the Los Altos company.

Investors and funding

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INVESTORS AND FUNDING

Temporal raises $550m at $12.55bn to keep AI agents from failing

Temporal has raised $550m at a $12.55bn valuation, more than double February’s figure and above the $12bn talked about in August. Its open-source software keeps applications, including AI agents, running when something fails. Revenue run rate has passed $250m, it says.

Corporates and innovation

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BUSINESS

Automattic says Mullenweg is CEO again, three days after removing him

Automattic's board put Matt Mullenweg on paid leave on Wednesday and made its CFO interim chief executive. By Saturday the company said Mullenweg is chairman and CEO with the board's full support. It has not explained either decision. He calls it his fifth coup attempt.