Anthropic’s Claude for Startups program page says approved founders get a free year of Claude Team, $1,000 in Claude API credits and up to $45K in offers from partner companies. Anthropic announced ...

TechCrunch reports that Ghost came out of stealth on 5 October 2026, with an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Its product is Core, a $3,499 computer that Ghost’s website describes as ...

Figma moved the agent in Figma Design and its Weave tools from open beta to general availability on 6 October 2026, and both now consume Figma AI credits, according to Figma’s own AI credit FAQ. Usage ...

Valon Technologies said on 5 October 2026 that it raised a $150 million Series D at a $2.3 billion valuation, which it says doubles its last valuation, with Ribbit Capital joining as a new investor ...

A five-day jury trial in Qualcomm’s suit against Arm Holdings is due to open in Delaware federal court on Monday 5 October 2026. Reuters reports that Qualcomm accuses Arm of withholding chip testing ...

The World Bank’s Africa Economic Update, published October 6, 2026 under the subtitle “Building AI Readiness”, comes with a release saying Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth is “projected to rise from 4.1% ...

OpenAI says it is introducing a new visual ad format in ChatGPT, to be tested first during image generation in the US later this month with an initial group of advertisers, and that it is expanding ...

On 6 October 2026 Sierra published a blog post by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor announcing Personal Agent Protocol. The post calls it “an open standard Meta and Sierra are developing along with industry ...

The Wikimedia Foundation said on 5 October 2026 that it found activity on its sites from agents it believes OpenAI operated: edits to its wikis, unsuccessful attempts to exploit a public note-taking ...

On 5 October 2026, Forum Markets (Nasdaq: FRMM) said it has formed Forum Edge AI LLC, a joint venture with Edge Node Inc. to own and operate inference compute capacity, and introduced 2027 revenue ...

The Utah Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy lists a prescription-refill pilot for August AI as approved and signed on October 2, 2026. Its public record says the demonstration period has not ...

Anthropic announced on 6 October 2026 that Claude for Google Workspace is in public beta on all paid Claude plans. The add-on opens a Claude sidebar in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. Anthropic also ...