Business

Meta's new terms may allow AI training on news sites from Oct. 30: Meta's new terms may let it crawl and scrape sites 'associated' with businesses that use its platforms, including news publishers, per Nieman Lab. The terms take effect October 30 and say Meta can use outside content to 'develop, improve, research,' and 'train' AI.

Tech Policy • The Verge AI

C1.ai • acquisition

Workday agrees to acquire C1.ai, formerly ConductorOne, which has raised $111M: Workday has agreed to acquire C1.ai, formerly ConductorOne, which makes enterprise software for managing human and AI agent identities. C1.ai has raised $111M, according to Portland Business Journal.

RapidCanvas • Series B

RapidCanvas raises nearly $29M Series B to help businesses build custom AI tools: RapidCanvas raised nearly $29M in Series B funding led by Vertex Ventures and Hitachi Ventures, CEO Rahul Pangam tells Axios. The Austin-based company uses agents to help businesses build and deploy custom AI applications.

OpenAI fires three researchers for leaking confidential data: OpenAI has parted ways with three researchers who allegedly leaked confidential information to an outside AI safety organization. A fourth researcher has also departed the company's safety team amid the shake-up.

Business • The Decoder