BotCity, a platform that governs Python-based automations and AI agents, has raised $12 million in funding. The round was led by Dan Scholnick from Four Rivers, with participation from Y Combinator, Astella, Firestreak Ventures, Upload Ventures, Scale Up by Endeavor, and Sagol Holdings. The company also brought on prominent angel investors including Lew Cirne, founder

The buzz around OpenAI’s latest release, Sora 2, is no surprise—it’s not every day that a piece of software blurs the line between movie magic and personal storytelling. Imagine feeding an idea into an app and not only getting a fully rendered scene but stepping into it yourself, complete with synchronized audio. Sounds like something

The European Central Bank has placed a hefty wager on artificial intelligence, handing Portuguese firm Feedzai a contract worth up to €237 million to safeguard the upcoming digital euro from fraud. According to Reuters, the deal spans four years and ropes in PwC as a subcontractor. Their mission? Build AI models that flag dodgy transactions

Google is rolling out a new AI-powered defense for Drive on desktop, designed to spot ransomware attacks before they spread like wildfire. As The Verge reports, the system uses models trained on millions of real-world ransomware samples, pausing suspicious sync activity and giving users the chance to roll back to safer versions of their files.

The music industry is about to get a major remix. According to the Financial Times, several top record labels are on the brink of signing groundbreaking agreements with AI companies, giving tech firms access to music catalogues while ensuring artists and rights holders get paid. This could be the blueprint for how creative industries manage

Every creative person has had that moment: staring at the page, the cursor blinking like it’s mocking you, and your brain feels as empty as a fridge at midnight. Enter the Uncensored AI Prompt Generator—a tool that doesn’t care about traditional guardrails or stiff, formulaic outputs. Instead, it opens doors you didn’t even know were

Software supply chain security provider Chainguard has unveiled Chainguard Libraries for JavaScript, described as a collection of trusted builds of thousands of common malware-resistant JavaScript dependencies. The libraries, which are built from source on SLSA L2  (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts) infrastructure, were introduced on September 25. By securely building each library and its dependencies

Microsoft has introduced the Microsoft Agent Framework, an open-source SDK and runtime for building, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows, with full framework support for .NET and Python. Introduced October 1 and available on GitHub, the Agent Framework is designed to let developers build everything from simple chat agents to complex multi-agent workflows

According to a report from VMware, nearly half of IT leaders believe more than 25% of their cloud spending is wasted, and almost one-third claim the waste exceeds 50%. These numbers are astonishing, not just for the financial toll but for what they reveal about the broader cultural and operational challenges within enterprise IT. At

I was driving through Austin, Texas, recently and I saw a Waymo vehicle. These are autonomous vehicles that—in principle, at least—drive themselves. The Waymo Driver boasts a variety of whirling gadgets that detect the surrounding environment and guide the vehicle. But when I pulled up alongside, I saw there was a human in the driver’s seat. This