AI news that affects the whole world: the biggest launches, models, deals and rules.
Data security company Sentra has raised $150 million in a Series C round led by Capital One Ventures, to expand software that maps and limits the sensitive company data that staff, apps and AI agents can access.
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Images 2.6, which can turn a prompt or picture into an animated GIF and keep reference images for reuse, plus two new API image models, GPT-Image-2.6 Flare and Sunburst.
Between 14 and 27 October, ten AI companies announced about $2.9 billion in new funding, led by Modal, Bedrock Robotics and Legora; Salesforce and onsemi followed with three AI acquisitions.
Google is launching Guided Learning, Gemini's learning mode, in Google Classroom globally, bringing its capabilities to Google Search, and updating controls for K-12 student accounts.
Apple has opened Siri AI to every developer through a Developer Preview in the iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS 27.3 betas. Apps can plug in through App Intents, and App Store submissions open in the spring.
The Gemini app can now generate, preview and edit documents, PDFs, presentations, spreadsheets and code right in the conversation, for all users in every language it supports.
