BIGGEST AI RAISES THIS WEEK
- Armadin $255.5M · Series B
- Valon $150M · Series D
- Supabase $150MGIC
- Volantis $88M · Series ALachy Groom, Abstract Ventures
- Multiply Labs $75M · Series B
- Flow Engineering $50M · Series BAntonio Gracias, Gavin Baker
TOP INVESTORS · 30 DAYS
- Abstract Ventures 2 deals · $110M in rounds
- Forgepoint Capital International 2 deals · $78.5M in rounds
- Motive Partners 2 deals · $43.6M in rounds
- GIC 1 deal · $150M in rounds
DOTS · MUSE · GROK BOT · INSTINCT · GEMINI SPARK · OPENCLAW
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Dot.com domain now redirects to Musk's Grok BotMeta’s agent Muse may be spying on you whether you use it or notMUSE Meta’s Muse AI building dossiers on users? What we knowOPENCLAW OpenClaw project hits over 148,000 GitHub stars amid security concernsMUSE Meta’s Muse AI Agent Is Building a Dossier On YouINSTINCT Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an accountMUSE Meta Insiders Convinced Muse Is Going to End Up Leaking the Bank Accounts and Email Archives They’re Vacuuming Up From UsersGROK BOT Dot.com domain quietly redirects to Elon Musk’s Grok BotGROK BOT Grok Bot Tutorial Adds 20 LessonsDOTS OpenAI’s Dot agent is enterprise software that can also order your dinnerDOTS OpenAI Dots vs Meta Muse vs Grok Bot: Three Always-On Agents Built for Three Different JobsAG TECH, FOOD AND THE MONEY BEHIND THEM
ROBOTS 🎥 Can Picker AgRobotics’ Dr Octopus-style arms finally crack autonomous fruit harvesting?FUNDING FDA Investigation Found Cyclospora at Taylor Farms’ Mexico FacilityAI Scientists Are Using Darwinian Evolution & AI to Create Next-Gen Sustainable ProteinsFUNDING USDA supply shocker knocks corn off $5 perch — for nowAI Wageningen University & Research Opens AI-Enabled Facility to Bring Future Foods to MarketROBOTS 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 robotStudy Shows Longevity-Boosting Potential of BMC Ingredients’s Rhiza MycoproteinAI LABS
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EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model Building a context-aware AI assistant on AgentCore and OpenClaw Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership to turn enterprise knowledge into action Responsible AI governance: How AWS positions customers to align with ISO/IEC 42005:2025 Best practices for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod administration and governanceUnlocking Earth AI’s planetary geospatial foundation models for global public health Why Telecom Operators Are Building Their AI Strategy on Open Models Introducing Mistral Large 4 How Jump Trading is scaling quant research with ChatGPT Sharing AI progress in mathematics
ON THE RISE
WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE ARE BUILDING
From ISEF finalist to Midjourney founder: David Holz reflects on creativity, entrepreneurship and the role of AIKnow a young person building with AI? Tell us →Advancing computer use with Ironclad Falcon-Emirati: When an LLM Learns the Dialect, the Culture, and the Nuance Open and Emergent Problems in Agentic Privacy and Security: A Contextual Angle 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 AI The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed. 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
ANTHROPIC · OPENAI · GOOGLE · GROK · CHINA · OPEN MODELS
OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT's text in the EUDon't Marry the ModelOPENAI OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projectsANTHROPIC Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in creditsGOOGLE Google is about to remove free access to Gemini Flash and ProCHINA CATL and Tencent back Deepseek's ballooning funding round as the AI startup eyes a 2027 IPOGOOGLE Gemini Call for Me might tell your mom you’re running lateCHINA Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute costPOLL
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AI NEWS
Meet the 23-year-old dropout behind Instinct, the AI agent now valued at $10 billion
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The 'Terminator scenario': How realistic is the AI apocalypse?
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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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Italian PM files to trademark her voice against AI threats
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How AI decision models could change content moderation You Built the Product. Who's Building the Company? AI computing startup Lambda to raise $4B ahead of planned IPO The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in Google claims EmbeddingGemma 2 outperforms rival embedding models twice its sizeGoogle's new image model Nano Banana 2.1 generates better images for less money ‘Artificial’ Roasts AI’s Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy Microsoft publishes Nobel economist's bearish AI forecast of just 1.5% GDP growth over a decade
OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’ Insurers brace for millions in claims as AI agents spin out of control LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature
Mistral Large 4 is Europe's trillion-parameter answer to US models that refuse security work Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic Amazon Alexa Plus keeps creepily singing ‘lalala’ for minutes on end Kevin Roose Didn’t Use AI to Write His Book About AI
MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of This startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27 Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge 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 Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
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Einride, EASE Logistics launch driverless electric trucks in MarysvilleBoeing tests software that connects Super Hornet fighters with MQ-25A drone tankersHow Robotic-Assisted Surgery is Changing Post-Surgical Recovery TimesBoston Dynamics appoints former Amazon exec Rohit Prasad as new CEOPegasus 1.6 brings video understanding to physical AI, says TwelveLabsNew humanoid robot built in five months remotely handles bombs, hazardous energy jobsSovereign AI, same landlord — thoughts on the physical AI raceFive things that are keeping Tesla Full Self-Driving supervisedVideo: Dexterous robot hand learns the delicate art of silk embroideryMinerva Humanoids Secures $10M Pre-Seed Funding to Advance Humanoid Robotics for Hazardous WorkKodiak and IKEA to launch driverless freight operations in TexasBUILDERS & RESEARCH
Zero-Shot Visualization: Exploring Text Corpora with User-Prompted Axes Capacity, Responsiveness and Alignment: What Makes a Latent Structure Actionable Tree Navigation Without LLM Summaries: A Matched-Cost Study of Hierarchical Retrieval for Long-Document QA Component and Dimension Sparsity in Transformer Refusal Mechanisms Stabilizing language models under continual learning via condition-anchored distillationQuoting Victoria Kim llm-openai-decisions 0.1a0 llm-mistral 0.16 EmbeddingGemma 2 Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk