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AI

• Synthesia raised $180M at $2.1B valuation for AI video avatars, serving 60,000 enterprises
• AI startups are driving stable venture funding in France, representing 27% of total funding
• Agentic AI is helping cybersecurity teams respond faster to threats, with attacks now taking just 2 minutes to breach
• Companies like Thoras are using AI to optimize cloud costs while maintaining reliability
• Education is being transformed with AI teachers, promising 2.4x better academic growth

AI

• UK government announces AI initiatives worth £14bn across multiple projects
• New AI hub in Liverpool to create 1,000 jobs over 3 years
• Kyndryl, world’s largest IT infrastructure provider, to establish presence in Liverpool
• Devon receiving £1m for AI-powered traffic safety system on A361
• AI cameras in Devon pilot caught 1,800 potential offenses in August

AI

• OpenAI appointed BlackRock executive Bayo Ogunlesi to its board
• The company removed “politically unbiased” language from its policy documents
• Their AI model ‘o1’ displays unexpected multilingual reasoning behavior
• CEO Sam Altman denied sexual abuse allegations from his sister
• OpenAI is expanding into robotics with new hiring initiatives