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 $83,592 ▼0.4%ETH $2,530 ▼1.3%SOL $108 ▼3.5%XRP $1.37 ▼2.6%24 hr · CoinGecko
Here’s what happened in crypto todayBitcoin whale that sat through the March 2020 crash moves $378 millionBinance VIP head says hedge funds are actively exploring arbitrage opportunities on crypto venuesBlur is shutting down its website, so why are NFT collectors cheering?Tokenized SanDisk bets saw more liquidations than XRP as Asia’s chip rout wipes out $800 millionMore crypto news →Binance to shut down crypto mining pool services in NovemberOnce-largest Ethereum NFT marketplace Blur is shutting down after volumes collapse 99%Bitcoin whale moves $378 million in BTC after six years of dormancy: onchain dataBitcoin slides below $82,000 as crypto liquidations surge past $770 millionGlobal watchdog warns the $300 billion stablecoin market could face bank runs even with full reservesDOTS · MUSE · GROK BOT · INSTINCT · GEMINI SPARK · OPENCLAW
MUSE Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse WonderOPENCLAW NIBVOK Publishes Runtime AI Security Layer for OpenClaw AgentsDOTS I Let Dots, Muse, and Spark Take Over My Daily Chores. Only One AI Passed the TestDOTS OpenAI Dot vs. Meta Muse: How do these AI agents compare?GEMINI SPARK I tested Gemini Spark – another Google AI fail, or its next dark horse?More AI agent news →MUSE Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI FrontierMANUS AI Startup Manus Raises $500 Million After China Nixed Meta’s $2 Billion AcquisitionMANUS Manus parent Butterfly Effect completes more than $500 million funding roundMANUS Manus raises $500M after China blocked Meta acquisitionAG TECH, FOOD AND THE MONEY BEHIND THEM
FUNDING CarbonFarm Gets $7.8M to Expand AI-Assisted Rice Decarbonisation Tech GloballyFUNDING Scottish Govt Pumps $3.3M Into MiAlgae’s Factory to Recycle Whisky Waste Into Algal Omega-3FUNDING 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 EuropeMore farm & food news →Higher Protein, Higher Yield: Ever After Foods, Roslin Technologies Make Cultivated Meat BreakthroughCats Like This Cultivated Meat Treat Just As Much As ChickenJapan Focus: Health, innovation and the forces shaping food and drinkExclusive: Yara Growth Ventures backs soil-sensing startup Stenon as fertilizer prices surgeBetter data leads to better soilTHE WEEK'S AI WRITING, ONE POST PER WRITER
NOTABLE ESSAYS
- The Future Is for EveryoneMark Zuckerberg · Aug 2026
- Policy on the AI ExponentialDario Amodei
- The Adolescence of TechnologyDario Amodei · 2026
AI LABS
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From Earth to Orbit, France’s Ecosystem Delivers Agentic Computing at Scale With NVIDIA Run multi-node inference workloads using Ray LLM Deep Learning Containers OCP Global Summit: Amid Ecosystem Adoption, NVIDIA Opens Vera Rubin Architecture to Help Scale AI Factories Worldwide Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI DaybreakAsana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol Into the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents 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
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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 →ANTHROPIC · OPENAI · GOOGLE · GROK · CHINA · OPEN MODELS
OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT's text in the EUDon't Marry the ModelCHINA Zhipu's GLM-5.3-Highspeed Appears in ZCode Gray Release, With Users Reporting About 490 Tokens/sGROK Elon Musk Bragged About His Grok Lego Star Wars Haul. Then X Users Punked HimOPENAI Accessing OpenAI GPT models on Amazon Bedrock with global cross-Region inference in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and TaiwanMore LLM news →OPEN Deploy decision models with llama.cpp on Amazon SageMaker AIANTHROPIC Anthropic's Andrej Karpathy says "the external world has seen the preview" of what AI can actually doCHINA Huawei Noah's Ark Lab's Memento 3 Agent Clears All 25 ARC-AGI-3 Public Games With a Frozen ModelCHINA Tencent Will Shut Down Its Yuanqi AI Agent Platform on November 9GROK SpaceXAI's Grok: What's free in 2026 and what isn't?OPENAI These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yetANTHROPIC Anthropic is cutting off its internal evaluations from the internetOPENAI ‘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 KimiGROK Elon Musk’s xAI Blocks Minnesota’s Landmark Ban on AI Nudification AppsPOLL · CLOSED
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Sharecare — 318,185 accountsNeogen — 435,963 accountsCyrusOne — 373,460 accountsDouble Counter — 274,922 accountsBreach data: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
LAWS, RULES AND GUIDANCE FROM GOVERNMENTS
Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulationWhite House reverses course and restores UK AI Safety Institute's access to frontier modelsBuilding a Safer, More Secure Britain in the age of AIBritain steps up national defences against growing AI risksOPM launches beta AI chatbot for federal workforce dataMore AI policy →100 new UK jobs created as Kuwait buys British-made AI-enabled air defence systemsThe zero-trust controls federal agencies need for autonomous AIAI NEWS
Armadin raises $255.5M (Series B)— Nathan: back on the page for Nathan's 2026-10-10 summary post
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Sakana AI's self-improving model gets better at solving and judging, but can't catch its own blind spots The Mentorship Cliff: AI Is Eliminating the Work That Creates Experts Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data Meta has some Wonder Full new AI modelsClearing chat history helps AI agents find better solutions Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and comms at every company More AI news →Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation This AI startup says it can generate permit-ready blueprints in minutes Microsoft plans to scale its own Maia AI chips to gigawatt levels by 2027
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts tomorrow: Your final chance to secure up to $100 ticket savings White House reverses course and restores UK AI Safety Institute's access to frontier models Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs Former Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success? Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playground Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’
DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to UMG lawsuit AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google" AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI
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WHO'S HIRING, WHO'S CUTTING, AND THE WORK ITSELF
Factbox: Companies cutting jobs as investments shift toward AIAmazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?Employees are faking using AI at work to impress their bossesA tech CEO who cut his staff from over 1,000 to 120 says AI is boosting the value of 'high-agency' generalistsWorld Bank jobs council urges 'crisis-era' employment support measures as IMF warns of AI 'tsunami'AI is automating coding. So why are software developer job postings on the rise?China Targets AI-Linked Jobs With New Employment InitiativeBook Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are RevoltingMore AI and jobs news →Automation will affect 36 million jobs by 2035—these 10 occupations could be hit hardest, says new reportCalifornia's new AI law: Ban on bots used to fire employeesThe 6 Essential Skills Your Workforce Needs to Keep Pace with AIHubSpot 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: 660 jobs cut in AI restructuringNOW HIRING
1,368 open AI roles · 318 new this week · most wanted: Solutions & customer · top pay $555K
NVIDIA Deep Learning Performance Intern - 2027 China, ShanghaiELEVENLABS Product Engineer - Ads Engine United KingdomAMAZON Senior Applied AI, Partner Solutions Architect, Latin America, Applied AI Partner Solutions Architecture Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, BRAHARVEY Legal Engineer, Custom Solutions LondonCITI Machine Learning with Gen AI Pune Maharashtra IndiaAll active AI listings →Hiring for AI? List your jobs →SMALL TEAMS TAKING ON THE GIANTS
THE BIG APPS Opus 5.5 made a fully featured Figma clone in 3 hours / 8 promptsGOOGLE Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?ADOBE Free open source Adobe Lightroom alternative, completely local with AITHE BIG APPS OpenChart – OSS TradingView alternative with your own AI agentMICROSOFT Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOSTOP TECH, AI & BUSINESS PODCASTS THIS WEEK
RISING FAST TWIML AI Podcast up 13,900% on last week · now #14
- 1All-In: Martin Shkreli: Big Pharma's Blind Spot, Betting Against Quantum & What Prison Taught Him610K views this week · 2 episodes
- 2Moonshots: The Coming Manhattan Project, Fight’s Over Claude's Consciousness & Altman Says "Accept Bad Things"278K views this week · 1 episode
- 3Prof G Pod: Stocks Hit a Record High While Bonds Flash Red. Who’s Right?103K views this week · 3 episodes
- 4a16z Podcast: Recursive Self-Improvement and the Future of AI66K views this week · 4 episodes ▲1
- 5TBPN: Crypto Going Bunker Mode, AI Mathpocalypse, Starbucks Explores Chipotle Takeover58K views this week · 6 episodes NEW
Will Elon Musk decide how AI and robots fight America's next war?Tesla Cybercab and Robotaxi’s real advantage won’t be the ride serviceNew microwave weapon can zap drone swarms without burning through missilesValkyrie combat drone makes first European flight with 3,100-mile range and Mach 0.8SLS PA12 Robot Tooling: A Practical Qualification GuideMore robot news →Why Elon Musk’s target date for buying an Optimus robot is harder than it soundsNHTSA weighs probe into claims Tesla Robotaxis speed in school zonesAmazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?Humanoid robots can sprint and box – but the real test is doing the laundryWater-pumping robot worms its way over rugged coastal terrainWill ‘boring’ robots win in the real world? Why robotic form should follow workflowHOLLYWOOD, MUSIC, TV AND GAMES
Ben Affleck, who sold his AI film company to Netflix: “I learned Python”Epic Games delays Disney game and tells developers to go "AI first"Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii releases game he says he made with AI in about 30 minutesThe happiest man in gaming hates generative AIFrom Sony Music’s 260,000 deepfake takedowns to Suno’s live music expansion… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpONLINE AND BRICK-AND-MORTAR
Home Depot and Lowe's share a common goal for their AI assistants, but their strategies divergeTractor Supply opens Idaho distribution center with automation, dedicated AI teamWhen AI becomes the shopper: Why retailers must rethink customer experienceThe next era of retail tech — with AI at the coreVirtual try on launches on ChatGPTMore AI retail news →Lowe’s launches drone delivery, live pilot in North CarolinaMEDICINE, WELLNESS, HOSPITALS AND THE FDA
Are Hospital Operating Rooms Ready For FDA’s Expectations for Surgical Robots?STAT+: AI for breast cancer risk prediction goes DTC, regulatory cloud over Utah sandbox, and AI psychosisAI Can Flag Cognitive Decline Earlier — Health Systems Still Own What Happens NextSTAT+: Why this startup is taking its AI to predict breast cancer risk directly to patientsTeladoc Health Adds Contactless Vitals and Ambient AI Scribe to Virtual Visit PlatformMore AI in health →STAT+: Why health AI pilots in Utah may be on a collision course with the FDASTAT+: FDA spells out 2027 AI guidance plansSCHOOLS, TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND CAMPUSES
Standardize to sustain: Building a resilient K-12 technology strategy‘Obsolete’ Emergency Phones Illuminate Campus Sexual Assault MythsAI Literacy and the New Admissions DisadvantageAfter yearslong transition to digital tests, state officials weigh return to paper exams for NYCMamdani’s school device ban has its first exception: virtual tutoringMore AI education news →Opinion: AI & Back-to-School Night: Anxious Parents, Nervous Teachers and Chill CoachesAI forces coding program to revamp how it prepares Philadelphia students for tech jobsDespite 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 TechnologyBUILDERS & RESEARCH
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Hello Python 3.15, goodbye 3.10, and now I can use 3.11 web-edit 0.1a0 datasette-ports 0.4 Dwarf Fortress uses version control now Python 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versionsQuoting The New York Times