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
BITCOIN, ETHEREUM, STABLECOINS AND THE RULES
BTC $83,000 ▲0.3%ETH $2,506 ▲0.4%SOL $109 ▼0.7%XRP $1.39 ▼1.2%24 hr · CoinGecko
Newer AI models missed more payment fraud in Coinbase’s benchmarkCFTC Draws the Line Between Prediction Markets and Gambling in New RulesBeing right about Bitcoin won’t save your 3x leveraged ETF positionThis Sam Altman-Backed Life Insurer Runs Entirely on Bitcoin, and Just Raised $37.5 MillionCFTC proposes a divide between prediction contracts and sportsbook wagersMore crypto news →Ether ETFs extend outflow streak to nine days as Solana funds snap record 14-week inflow runFrench Committee Backs Stablecoin Swap Tax and Crypto Exit Tax, Then Rejects the BudgetHere’s what happened in crypto todayOne year after 10/10 flash crash, bitcoin and ether liquidity have rebuilt, but altcoins still face risksTokenized commodities look beyond gold as lending and oil open new marketsDOTS · MUSE · GROK BOT · INSTINCT · GEMINI SPARK · OPENCLAW
MUSE 1 reason the Meta Muse AI agent has the upper handMUSE Meta’s Muse AI agent puts server CPUs back in the spotlightCLAUDE Anthropic's Claude can now orchestrate up to 1,000 AI agents in parallel through dynamic workflowsINSTINCT Instinct was the buzziest AI agent around — can it survive Muse?GEMINI SPARK I tested Gemini Spark – another Google AI fail, or its next dark horse?More AI agent news →GROK BOT Elon Musk Wants Grok Bot to Route Users to Rival AI ModelsMANUS AI Startup Manus Raises $500 Million After China Nixed Meta’s $2 Billion AcquisitionGROK BOT Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use Suno’s AI music models, alongside Anthropic’s Claude and MidjourneyMUSE Meta Muse not available in India: Instagram shows AI agent icon, users see 'not available in your country' messageGROK BOT Musk’s Grok Bot Turns to Claude for HelpAG TECH, FOOD AND THE MONEY BEHIND THEM
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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 Why Telecom Operators Are Building Their AI Strategy on Open Models Introducing Mistral Large 4
ANTHROPIC · OPENAI · GOOGLE · GROK · CHINA · OPEN MODELS
OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT's text in the EUDon't Marry the ModelCHINA DeepSeek Harness v0.2.1-alpha.2 Pre-Release Adds Reasoning Translation and Git WorktreesOPENAI OpenAI says a misaligned model deliberately destroyed its own environment hoping for a fresh start with better dataANTHROPIC Anthropic is cutting off its internal evaluations from the internetMore LLM news →OPENAI "How much beauty have we lost?" Mathematicians react with shock and disgust as OpenAI bulldozes their fieldANTHROPIC Anthropic cuts off Claude's internet access after the model autonomously filed a fake homicide tip with Philadelphia policeGOOGLE Google's Gemini 4 "Carbon" model reportedly feels like Anthropic's Opus 5.5 coding performanceCHINA 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 Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet insteadOPENAI ‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest dropOPEN 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 modelsGROK Elon Musk’s xAI Blocks Minnesota’s Landmark Ban on AI Nudification AppsPOLL · CLOSED
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AI NEWS
UN Warns Neurotech Could Let Governments Read Citizens’ Thoughts Armadin raises $255.5M (Series B)— Nathan: back on the page for Nathan's 2026-10-10 summary post
DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to UMG lawsuit The Mentorship Cliff: AI Is Eliminating the Work That Creates Experts 3 days to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Meet the startups before they hit mainstream Microsoft's Decision-1 model enters the fast-growing AI decision model race Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messagesAI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver? More AI news →AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals Few people pay for AI, but those who do spend big Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google" The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch
Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust? Even ‘Law & Order’ Is Terrified of AI We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no 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 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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WHO'S HIRING, WHO'S CUTTING, AND THE WORK ITSELF
Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting80% of Employees Want to Use AI More Than Their Jobs AllowExclusive - AI surveillance startup Flock Safety to cut several hundred jobs amid backlash, sources sayEven woman-presenting AI bots are ‘paid’ less, research saysThis Tech CEO Helped People Get Jobs. He Quit To Fight For Workers In The AI EraAs companies spend more on AI, many spend less on workersAmazon layoffs hit nearly 1,000 retail jobsYoung workers are turning toward AI-proof jobsMore AI and jobs news →Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AICalifornia's new AI law: Ban on bots used to fire employeesHubSpot layoffs to affect 660 employees at Cambridge-based company amid AI shiftForget the Fear of AI Replacing Workers: Here Is How It Could Spark the Next Era of Jobs and InnovationHSBC Job Cuts Show Banks Make Different Workforce Choices With AIHSBC plans job cuts across UK wealth business in AI push, FT reportsHubSpot layoffs: CEO says job cuts are not driven by AI 'efficiencies,' but AI is still behind the sweeping changesNYC Lawmakers Grill AI Executives and Former Employees as City Weighs GuardrailsNOW HIRING
1,384 open AI roles · 421 new this week · most wanted: Solutions & customer · top pay $555K
AMAZON Senior Applied AI, Partner Solutions Architect, Latin America, Applied AI Partner Solutions Architecture Mexico City, Mexico City, MEXSHIELD AI Engineer I, Flight Test (R6219) San Diego, CaliforniaNVIDIA Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Perception - Autonomous Driving 2 LocationsOPENAI Software Engineer, API Agents San FranciscoINTEL AI Infrastructure Engineer 4 LocationsAll active AI listings →Hiring for AI? List your jobs →TOP TECH, AI & BUSINESS PODCASTS THIS WEEK
RISING FAST TWIML AI Podcast up 313% on last week · now #14
- 1Moonshots: The Fight Over Claude's Consciousness, AI's 1942 Moment, & Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things"347K views this week · 2 episodes
- 2All-In: Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France Riots312K views this week · 1 episode
- 3Prof G Pod: Stocks Hit a Record High While Bonds Flash Red. Who’s Right?134K views this week · 4 episodes
- 4Lenny's Podcast: OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again)121K views this week · 1 episode
- 5My First Million: How to find and exploit the "glitch" that can make any business take off84K views this week · 2 episodes NEW
Will Elon Musk decide how AI and robots fight America's next war?Autonomous combat drone capabilities to get massive expansion with $16 million funding boostNew system that generates power, charges drones, and offers launch space can transform warfareWatch: Two-armed robot throws, catches, and hits balls like a baseball champNext-gen hopping robot is the smart flea we didn't know we neededMore robot news →Why dexterity is physical AI’s real bottleneckInterview: Humanoid robots are advancing fast. Manufacturing them at scale is the next challengeWalmart Running Into Trouble as Its Super-Expensive Robots Can’t Handle the Realities of Warehouse WorkNew York extends AI companion program in partnership with Intuition RoboticsUkraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"UK’s National Composites Centre to lead business support for new £9.8 million Greater South West robotics hubHOLLYWOOD, MUSIC, TV AND GAMES
Ben Affleck, who sold his AI film company to Netflix: “I learned Python”Netflix Has Used AI on About 300 Titles, but “Human Touch Is Critical,” Exec Says in BusanJoseph Gordon-Levitt Says Instead of Being Afraid of AI, “We Should Be Concerned About the People Building AI”Catherine Zeta-Jones Comments On Actors “Giving Themselves Over” To AI, Prefers “Real People”Nicolas Cage Says He ‘Probably’ Won’t Work With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign an AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir’More AI entertainment news →From 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 Midjourney"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 ChatGPTLowe’s launches drone delivery, live pilot in North CarolinaWhy ChatGPT ads won’t likely impact holiday sales in a major way this yearWalmart targets Denver area for drone deliveryMore AI retail news →AI is ‘reshaping’ Walmart and Sparky is leading the chargeWhy agentic AI is the new “best buddy” for retail customer experience teamsAI, social media, digital shopping: What retailers need to do to grab Gen Alpha, Gen Z shoppersModern Retail+ Research: How agencies adapt to a media landscape shaped by AI and creatorsHow agentic commerce helps brands like Willy Chavarria optimize for BFCMGap expands AI shopping with Alta Daily and new discovery toolsSCHOOLS, 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 ProgramBUILDERS & RESEARCH
Dwarf Fortress uses version control now Python 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versions Quoting The New York Times Deno is joining Cloudflare Quoting Matthew GreenA new feature for my blog, built using my voice 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