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The AI Boom Is Creating A New Supply Chain Headache For Automakers

The AI boom is diverting resources away from basic automotive chips. Could it turn into semiconductor shortage 2.0?

Mercor raises $750M at $20B valuation to take AI agent evaluation to enterprises

Mercor raises $750M at $20B valuation to take AI agent evaluation to enterprises - SiliconANGLE

Lumbra Raises $25M Series A to Expand Controlled AI Agent Deployments

Lumbra announced on November 10, 2026 that it raised a $25 million Series A co-led by Point72 Ventures and Ansa, with continued participation from existing investor Costanoa, to expand its controlled AI-agent platform

Charta Health Raises $55M Series B to Expand AI Chart Review

Charta Health announced on November 10, 2026, that it had raised a $55 million Series B to expand its AI chart-review technology. Insight Partners led the financing, which also drew QuantumLight and returning investors

Motif to step up AI model API business, target global coding market

Motif Technologies plans to launch a global application programming interface business based on a next-generation model due to be released next year. The company aims to monetise in overseas coding and AI agent markets, where use of open-weight models is more active. Motif has begun developing its next AI model, Motif 4, and plans to release it as an open-weight model in the first quarter of next year. It expects model performance and token costs to determine profitability.

Developer proposes Blind LLM Agents to slow reverse engineering

Russian drones are attacking Kryvyi Rih, targeting critical infrastructure

Lazare, veni foras: Reprogramming Dormant Neurons to Backdoor AI Agents

Microsoft researchers have discovered “Lazarus,” a backdoor technique that can reprogram dormant neurons in an AI model, causing an otherwise normal AI agent to execute malicious commands when a hidden trigger appears. The threat is especially serious for AI agents with tool or terminal access. A triggered model could quietly download and run attacker code, […]

SPARETECH Secures $20M Series B Funding for North American Growth

SPARETECH announced on November 10, 2026, that it had raised $20 million in Series B funding co-led by Blume Equity and Insight Partners, with participation from Headline. The company will use the capital to develop AI

To thwart reverse engineering by agents, dev proposes blinding them