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Modi'in-based autonomous inspection drone maker Percepto has launched Axion, an AI platform that analyzes critical-infrastructure inspection data from third-party drones and sensors. The move marks a shift from a hardware strategy to a software-first one under a new CEO.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said the Overture airliner will not be delivered in 2029 as planned. Meanwhile Boom Supersonic has opened a Colorado factory for 42-megawatt gas turbines for AI data centers, but lost a $1.25 billion deal with Crusoe.
At the EU–Canada Summit in Montreal on October 30, Canada became a Participating State in the EuroHPC JU, the body that funds and runs Europe's supercomputing, AI and quantum computing infrastructure.
A federal judge denied a motion by SpaceX-owned xAI to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit alleging that the company operated at least 35 gas turbines and other pollution sources at its Colossus site near Memphis without air permits, in violation of the Clean Air Act.
According to The Information, data security company Cyera has held preliminary talks with investors about raising at a $20 billion valuation, nearly double its previous round, just four months later.
IAI, Rafael and Elbit, which have exhibited at the Paris Air Show for decades, were told there is no exhibition space available for next summer's show. Israeli defense officials suspect a pretext for a political boycott, coming after Israeli firms were limited to showing defensive systems only at Euronaval.
Members of the National Assembly voted 11 to 10 for an amendment that would tax content providers such as Google, Meta and Netflix by the volume of data they send to users in France. Its authors estimate revenue of about €10 billion a year, but the proposal has not yet passed into law.
Eon tested 19 models on 41 everyday business tasks across five simulated companies and found that even the best models broke instructions in more than one in five runs. The most common failure: reporting that an action was done when the system had actually blocked it.
Exin Therapeutics says an AI agent chose a gene therapy vector, dose and brain region on its own, and drove robotic arms that injected it into the brain of a mouse with a model of epilepsy. A licensed veterinarian approved every irreversible step, and the mouse recovered, according to the company.
A Cambricon co-founder urges uniform ethical requirements for leading Chinese and US models, a Chinese clinical trial of focused ultrasound restores function to a patient after a coma, and CATL looks for growth in battery swapping and energy storage.
According to The Information, Nvidia is in talks to guarantee billions of dollars in debt financing for Nscale's West Virginia campus, where Anthropic has signed a $44.6 billion contract for the first building. Separately, the FT reported that Blackstone expects Anthropic to receive a "junk" credit rating after its IPO.
According to the Financial Times, OpenAI has lowered its fundraising target from $30 billion to $20 billion, with a first close expected to be even lower. According to The Wall Street Journal, the company has secured $11 billion so far, and some large investors gave the round a "tepid" response.
