BIGGEST AI RAISES THIS WEEK
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
- High-Tech Gründerfonds 2 deals · $5.2M in rounds
DOTS · MUSE · GROK BOT · INSTINCT · GEMINI SPARK · OPENCLAW
CLAUDE Anthropic's Claude can now orchestrate up to 1,000 AI agents in parallel through dynamic workflowsMUSE If your friends use Meta Muse, there’s a file with your personal information being builtINSTINCT Instinct was the buzziest AI agent around — can it survive Muse?MANUS Manus Raises More Than $500 Million After Unwinding Meta AcquisitionINSTINCT Can Instinct, the hottest AI agent, withstand the challenge from Muse?More AI agent news →INSTINCT Is AI agent Instinct safe? Why privacy fears surround the iMessage botMUSE The math for making Meta Muse AI profitable doesn’t make senseGEMINI SPARK I tested Gemini Spark – another Google AI fail, or its next dark horse?GEMINI SPARK I started automating my routine with Gemini Spark; now I can't go backGROK BOT Elon Musk Wants Grok Bot to Route Users to Rival AI ModelsAG TECH, FOOD AND THE MONEY BEHIND THEM
Hokkaido farmer uses ChatGPT and Codex to automate his greenhouse vents and run a 100-hectare farmFUNDING USDA Announces $180 Million to Fund Seed ResearchROBOTS US spray drone market “very much in flux” as firms attempt to navigate evolving landscape, says ASDCROBOTS Kubota and Kilter expand AX-1 robot distribution across EuropeFUNDING Female-Founded Bare Beans Bags $2.8M & Launches Ready-to-Eat LegumesMore farm & food news →FUNDING AgriFood Signals: Edonia raises funds to scale spirulina protein, AI agents for restaurants, PepsiCo does VRAI AI’s booming, but execute it right to win – Agrifood expertsFUNDING Myca raises $1.3m pre-seed to put AI agents in charge of agribusiness field operationsROBOTS Teams signing up for fifth Farm Robotics ChallengeFUNDING 🎥 Where are foodtech investors looking next after the boom and bust?ROBOTS Croptimal launches mounted selection robot for seed potato productionAI LABS
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ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in September 2026 How Postman runs Agent Mode for 40 million developers on Amazon Bedrock Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 SolInto the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents Pay-per-inference for AI agents: How BlockRun and Incarna use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex More AI labs news →Pollo AI turns creative ideas into campaigns with OpenAI LegalOn halves Codex costs while maintaining development speed
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 →Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations The model that didn't exist, so you made it yourself Does better work always mean better workers? NVIDIA, Microsoft Kick Off a New Beginning for Windows PCs With RTX Spark and AI Agents Multimodal open d1 decision models for the edge
Introducing Falcon ASR EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model Unlocking Earth AI’s planetary geospatial foundation models for global public health Introducing Mistral Large 4 Open and Emergent Problems in Agentic Privacy and Security: A Contextual Angle
From Scan to Treatment Plan, AI Helps Close Breast Cancer’s Deadliest Gaps
ANTHROPIC · OPENAI · GOOGLE · GROK · CHINA · OPEN MODELS
Don't Marry the ModelCHINA Huawei Goes Deep, Alibaba Broad, ByteDance Focused, Tencent Clever: The Fight to Own the AI PhoneCHINA Lenovo's TianxiCode Agent and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Top SWE-bench-Live Lite at 71%, VerifiedANTHROPIC An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia policeOPENAI ‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest dropMore LLM news →OPENAI OpenAI revenue keeps surging as company seeks $30 billion in fresh capitalOPENAI OpenAI's safety crisis keeps getting worse and the company keeps making it worseCHINA ByteDance researchers identify cause of inconsistent long-context retrieval in DeepSeek modelsOPEN Ecosia switches from Mistral to open-weight AI models including Qwen, GLM and KimiGOOGLE Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businessesOPEN Mistral says "Le Chonk" can challenge the best AI modelsOPEN Why Telecom Operators Are Building Their AI Strategy on Open ModelsPOLL
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AI NEWS
UN Warns Neurotech Could Let Governments Read Citizens’ Thoughts
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AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software The Mentorship Cliff: AI Is Eliminating the Work That Creates Experts Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AIAnthropic launches a free AI scanner for open-source projects Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust? More AI news →Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card Danu Robotics’ fight to build a better recycling robot We can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we?
a16z’s Olivia Moore on the state of consumer AI Trump’s attempt to rename AI is looking awfully artificial Even ‘Law & Order’ Is Terrified of AI OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers Anthropic's Claude Science creates the first complete ultraviolet map of the sky
We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no OpenAI uncovers Russian and Iranian influence ops that planted fake stories in real news outlets Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate
Nvidia's big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots Tristan Harris’ Tech Nonprofit Is Laying Off Most Staff and Going ‘Founder-Led’ AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes
“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
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TOP TECH, AI & BUSINESS PODCASTS THIS WEEK
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- 1Moonshots: The Fight Over Claude's Consciousness, AI's 1942 Moment, & Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things"541K views this week · 3 episodes
- 2Prof G Pod: Stocks Hit a Record High While Bonds Flash Red. Who’s Right?117K views this week · 4 episodes ▲1
- 3Lenny's Podcast: OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again)114K views this week · 1 episode ▲1
- 4My First Million: How to find and exploit the "glitch" that can make any business take off79K views this week · 2 episodes NEW
- 5a16z Podcast: Former Intel CEO: Why This is the Best Time to Build Hardware73K views this week · 5 episodes
UK’s National Composites Centre to lead business support for new £9.8 million Greater South West robotics hubKingston University chosen to lead UK’s first waste and recycling robotics hubTesla Basically Just Admitted It Was Misleading Customers, Renames Full Self-Driving to “Tesla Assisted Driving” In EuropeWhy humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization testBoston Dynamics gives more insight into its redesigned humanoid handMore robot news →Danu Robotics’ fight to build a better recycling robotTesla drops ‘Full Self-Driving’ name in Europe after Germany pushbackGroceryshop 2026 shows that retail robots are ready to scale, use AIRobot Talk Episode 165 – Robots behind the research, with Kushant PatelHOLLYWOOD, MUSIC, TV AND GAMES
Ben Affleck, who sold his AI film company to Netflix: “I learned Python”ACFM Chief Ellen YD Kim Talks AI Development; Korean Recovery; Market Spotlights On Thailand & JapanFrom Sony Music’s 260,000 deepfake takedowns to Suno’s live music expansion… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpSuno hires Ticketmaster’s Michael Chua to lead its live music team, including SongkickElon Musk says Grok Bot will use Suno’s AI music models, alongside Anthropic’s Claude and MidjourneyMore AI entertainment news →"A creative idea can save more money than AI can right now" – Glen Schofield on his retirement, Callisto Protocol's development, and the state of AAAWizards of the Coast union expands, demands company stop pushing generative AIUnity unveils a web-based AI game creation platformONLINE AND BRICK-AND-MORTAR
Home Depot and Lowe's share a common goal for their AI assistants, but their strategies divergeVirtual try on launches on ChatGPTa16z’s Olivia Moore on the state of consumer AILowe’s launches drone delivery, live pilot in North CarolinaWhy ChatGPT ads won’t likely impact holiday sales in a major way this yearMore AI retail news →Walmart targets Denver area for drone deliveryAI is ‘reshaping’ Walmart and Sparky is leading the chargeAI, social media, digital shopping: What retailers need to do to grab Gen Alpha, Gen Z shoppersWhy agentic AI is the new “best buddy” for retail customer experience teamsModern Retail+ Research: How agencies adapt to a media landscape shaped by AI and creatorsHow agentic commerce helps brands like Willy Chavarria optimize for BFCMSCHOOLS, TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND CAMPUSES
After yearslong transition to digital tests, state officials weigh return to paper exams for NYCMamdani’s school device ban has its first exception: virtual tutoringOpinion: AI & Back-to-School Night: Anxious Parents, Nervous Teachers and Chill CoachesThe AI Invasion Has Come for MathematicsAI forces coding program to revamp how it prepares Philadelphia students for tech jobsMore AI education news →Despite Rise of AI, More Skilled Trades Training Needed, Industry Leaders SayWhat role could AI play in reimagining assessment?Supporting Career and Technical Education Programs With the Right TechnologyHow Coding Can Cultivate Deep Civic EngagementCyberattack Hits South Carolina School Choice ProgramWHO'S HIRING, WHO'S CUTTING, AND THE WORK ITSELF
Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are RevoltingEven woman-presenting AI bots are ‘paid’ less, research saysTristan Harris’ Tech Nonprofit Is Laying Off Most Staff and Going ‘Founder-Led’As companies spend more on AI, many spend less on workersYoung workers are turning toward AI-proof jobsMore AI and jobs news →Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AINOW HIRING
NVIDIA Senior Deep Learning Software Engineer, Inference and Model Optimization 2 LocationsCOHERE Design Engineer United StatesINTEL AI Infrastructure Engineer 4 LocationsAll active AI listings →BUILDERS & RESEARCH
Quoting The New York Times Deno is joining Cloudflare Quoting Matthew Green A new feature for my blog, built using my voice ttok 1.0ttok 0.4 Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization More builders & research →I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM
Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI Claude Haiku 5.5 GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth