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Archgen launches AI agent that finds and fixes chip design problems on its own

Archgen Labs launches an AI agent that autonomously reads chip design error reports and applies fixes, cutting out tedious manual EDA work.

Meet RobotX AI, the Irvine Startup That Integrates Robots Into Real-World Jobs

This Irvine robotics startup combines hardware, integration, and physical AI development to help businesses and schools

How TD SYNNEX Is Preparing Employees To Work Alongside AI Agents

Meituan releases LongCat 2.5 with open MIT weights and 1.6 trillion parameters

Google Merges Maps Platform with AI Studio for Devs

Developers can now build location-aware AI apps with integrated Maps API access

Google Rejiggers TPU Accelerators For Broader AI Inference Work

So it is with two new TPU accelerators that Google will be rolling out next year for its eponymous cloud and maybe even for some of its handful of direct customers who can get their hands on iron based on Google's homegrown compute engines for their own datacenters.

Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution

At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna.

Vanta Signs Deal to Acquire AI Security Firm Pillar Security

Pillar Security announced on November 9, 2026 that Vanta had signed a definitive agreement to acquire the AI security company. The planned deal would connect Pillar's agent testing and runtime protection with Vanta's

Do AI agents have minds? A philosopher explains

In the past few months, partly autonomous or "agentic" artificial intelligence (AI) systems have racked up some astonishing feats, from hacking tech startups to solving some of the world's most famous open mathematical questions.

Microsoft AI Chief Mustafa Suleyman: Agents Could Deserve Rights if Evidence Emerges

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said in a Nov. 1 post on social platform X that artificial intelligence agents could eventually deserve rights if