BIGGEST AI RAISES THIS WEEK
- Armadin $255.5M · Series B
- Valon $150M · Series D
- Supabase $150MGIC
- Forus $150M
- Volantis $88M · Series ALachy Groom, Abstract Ventures
- Flow Engineering $50M · Series BAntonio Gracias, Gavin Baker
TOP INVESTORS · 30 DAYS
- Abstract Ventures 2 deals · $110M in rounds
- GIC 1 deal · $150M in rounds
- Lachy Groom 1 deal · $88M in rounds
- Antonio Gracias 1 deal · $50M in rounds
DOTS · MUSE · GROK BOT · INSTINCT · GEMINI SPARK · OPENCLAW
Dot.com domain now redirects to Musk's Grok BotINSTINCT Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an accountINSTINCT Instinct launches AI agent joining group chats with non-Instinct usersOPENCLAW OpenClaw formerly Clawdbot links to iMessage and WhatsApp amid scamsMUSE Meta Insiders Convinced Muse Is Going to End Up Leaking the Bank Accounts and Email Archives They’re Vacuuming Up From UsersMUSE Meta's Muse is already pulling one CEO's purchases away from AmazonINSTINCT Instinct adds AI agent support for group chats with friends without accountsMUSE I Used Meta’s Muse Agent as My Personal Shopper. It Upcharged Me for No ReasonDOTS What Are OpenAI Dots And Do You Need Them?DOTS OpenAI Dots vs Meta Muse: Why Dots Cost $100 a MonthAG TECH, FOOD AND THE MONEY BEHIND THEM
AI Wageningen University & Research Opens AI-Enabled Facility to Bring Future Foods to MarketFUNDING China’s alternative protein investment offers lessons for the UKROBOTS Can second-hand robots make autonomous farming affordable for smaller growers?FUNDING Is a second-hand field robot a viable investment?AI Bonsai Robotics uses AI simulation to train field robots before deploymentROBOTS RMH is working on autonomous electric feeding robotFUNDING Silicon Valley veterans bring tech innovation to agriculture through global investmentFUNDING Hormel’s $1B Brakebush deal would nearly triple chicken’s share of its protein portfolioROBOTS How Boston Dynamics’ robot dog is helping food factories run smarterFUNDING Greenforce Poaches Vegan Egg Maker Neggst Ahead of Acquisition by Livekindly CollectiveAI LABS
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Introducing GLM 5.3 on Amazon Bedrock New agent skill: Amazon SageMaker optimized generative AI inference for your coding agent Our approach to EU text provenance rules From Scan to Treatment Plan, AI Helps Close Breast Cancer’s Deadliest Gaps Building advertising for the way people use AIThe Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed. A model guide for the GPT-6 family Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta Toward provably private learning from federated data NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB Gives Developers More Ways to Build and Scale Local AI
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ANTHROPIC · OPENAI · GOOGLE · GROK · CHINA · OPEN MODELS
OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT's text in the EUCHINA Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute costOPENAI Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outageANTHROPIC Meta and Microsoft pull back from Claude as Anthropic transforms from partner into competitorOPENAI OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and CodexANTHROPIC Supercharge regulated workloads with Claude Code and Amazon BedrockANTHROPIC Anthropic is quietly becoming America's biggest corporate donor ahead of its mega IPOCHINA Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’CHINA DeepSeek Harness v0.2.1-alpha.1 Adds Experimental Claude Code Mods Compatibility LayerPOLL
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Denmark population registry data breach affects 8.8 million people All the drama around AI’s takeover of mathematics Most Americans want AI development to slow down or stop entirely, new poll finds
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MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of AI Is Producing More Than Humans Can Process This startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27 TikTok rolls out an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkoutReka AI's omni-model Rho-1 handles text, images, video, and robot control in a single model OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT text in the EU but makes it optional for API users worldwide Hot Girl Hotline is like ‘Dear Abby’ for the AI era OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide HackerRank’s AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become
Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge OpenAI launches visual ads that appear alongside image generation results Open or closed AI? How founders are choosing what to build on at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, an open-weight model that makes the case for European AI sovereignty AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough? EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break The Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open
Trump’s Crazy AI Rebrand Was a Loyalty Test for Tech Execs—and It Worked
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Government Officials Order the Robot Cage Fights to Stop, Organizers SayTeradyne invests in Bright Machines to bring robotics to AI infrastructure manufacturingDepartment of War drafts EV battery factory into military drone duty with $75M grantEncy Software and Estun launch technology partnership for integrated robot programmingJapanese nursing home operator Charm Care invests in humanoid company Donut RoboticsSafeWorld emerges from stealth with $12.2 million to develop robot safety simulation technologyReka AI's omni-model Rho-1 handles text, images, video, and robot control in a single modelFCC robot restrictions could accelerate shift to local AITesla reveals early Robotaxi charging strategy, showing scrappy DNATesla Robotaxi expands hours, Musk explains why it’s been a challengeElon Musk Admits Why Tesla Robotaxis Can’t Be Trusted at NightBUILDERS & RESEARCH
Fine-Grained Emotion Classification from Mobile App Reviews: An Empirical Study with Large Language Models Same Output, Different Gold: Measuring How Reference Choice Moves a Multilingual Benchmark Score The Score Is Not the Structure: Brain Alignment and Cross-Lingual Transfer OncoNoteBERT: A Foundation Representation Model for Natural Language Processing of Real-World Outpatient Oncology Notes SYNLAT: Syntax-Aligned Text-Latent Compression for Chain-of-Thought ReasoningQuoting Felix Rieseberg Qwen3.8 27B addition in words We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything September sponsors-only newsletter Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works Rex's Dino Store From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4 Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow
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