Dario Amodei asks UN Security Council to back a ban on AI bioweapons
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Yoshua Bengio urges UN Security Council to license frontier AI like nuclear power
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Numeral raises $100m Series C for AI sales tax compliance
Numeral, a San Francisco startup that automates sales tax compliance with AI, has raised a $100m Series C led by Insight Partners. The round takes its total to $157m. Numeral says transaction volume on its platform grew 327% in a year, as California moves to extend sales tax to software.
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ByteDance brought in nearly 75% of Nscale’s 2025 sales, the FT reports
Nscale's IPO filing leaves out its biggest customer. The Financial Times reports it was ByteDance, whose Singapore unit Spring brought in nearly three quarters of Nscale's 2025 sales. A loan exhibit shows the contract covered 2,304 Nvidia B200 chips in Norway.
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UiPath’s Dines says AI needs a manual and launches Cartographer to write it
Daniel Dines told UiPath's FUSION conference that LLMs cannot bear consequences, learn on the job or be exact. His answer is UiPath Cartographer, which builds a manual of how a company's work actually runs. Customers from SMBC, Medline and Mayo Clinic joined him on stage.
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Yoshua Bengio urges UN Security Council to license frontier AI like nuclear power
The co-chair of the UN’s scientific panel on AI says the labs chose their race and can slow down.