BIGGEST AI RAISES THIS WEEK
- SOAR AI $1B
- SWI €800M
- Modal $750M · Series D
- Mujin $224M · Series D
- Moss Intelligence $149MHuakong Fund
- Salience Labs $125M · Series BBullhound Capital
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
- Seedcamp 2 deals · $12.4M in rounds
BITCOIN, ETHEREUM, STABLECOINS AND THE RULES
Here’s what happened in crypto todaySouth Korea to meet crypto exchanges amid calls for tax delayXRP Ledger is set to fix its lending code before anyone can use itDeutsche Bank targets Asia crypto custody expansion in 2027 as German launch nearsQubic freezes chain after attacker drains 1.4K wallets with weak seedsMore crypto news →SEC tokenized stock framework faces issuer pushback as Broadcom, Verizon object to OKX-ICE listingCrypto.com, Novig sue Missouri over sports event contracts; Kalshi, Polymarket, Robinhood hold offFidelity’s $500,000 crypto settlement leaves IRAs outside wallet-transfer termsCrypto doesn’t need your party to win, just its candidatesCysic suspends bridge after attacker mints tokens and moves $727,000 to EthereumDOTS · MUSE · GROK BOT · INSTINCT · GEMINI SPARK · OPENCLAW
MUSE OnlyFans Creators Are Pissed That Meta Lets Muse Talk DirtyMUSE JPMorgan Just Shut the Door on AI Agents Like Muse. Your 0.1% Checking Account Is WhyMUSE After Muse Launch, U.S. Banks Are Saying Hell No to AI Agents Moving MoneySmall Businesses Get More From AI Agents By Adding GuardrailsAI agents trading stocks while you sleep? Charles Schwab’s CEO is skepticalMore AI agent news →Anthropic has nearly stopped hiring junior staff because AI agents now work six times as many hoursAG TECH, FOOD AND THE MONEY BEHIND THEM
ROBOTS New hoeing robot benefits from growers’ critical eyeAI Beyond Crop Scouting: How AI-Powered Drones Could Reshape Precision AgricultureFUNDING AgriFood Signals: India’s Scimplify nets $25m, Deere funds food security, USDA funds seed researchOp-Ed: Food Tech Commercialisation Shouldn’t Wait Until the Technical Answers Are In🎥 SenseUP aims to take RNAi pesticides from niche to mainstreamMore farm & food news →Beyond Ground Faba, Rubisco Protein & Microbial Silk Among Time’s Best Inventions of 2026Soybean yields validate early planting dateBeyond Meat Expands Immerse Range with Caffeinated Energy Drinks & New FlavoursUK Agri-Tech Centre to slash workforce by 60% in strategic pivot to new operating modelSunbelt Ag Expo draws new ag tech, innovation to one locationTHE 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
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The Work Moves OutwardCan a Million AI Agents Create Superintelligence?More essays and blogs →🔮 A world of many minds & the future of workLeaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and TroublingMeta shakes up the frontiers, open and closedYou Have No Idea How Close the AI Bubble Is to PoppingThe Pulse: OpenAI software engineer accused of spyingA Conversation With Ari Emanuel About Entertainment and AIGenerative AI in disarrayAI Safety Is Not A Corporate PlotThe states come for OpenAIMEDICINE, WELLNESS, HOSPITALS AND THE FDA
UPMC Enterprises Invests in VeloSource to Expand AI-Enabled Clinician Staffing PlatformAI agents chasing a $465 train refund invented excuses, leaked medical data, and spammed an MP's officeWhy AI Isn’t Ready to Tackle Our Convoluted GenomesHow AI Is Connecting MedTech’s Data Without Compromising ComplianceAI Biotech Iambic Gets $150M in IPO Cash for ‘Molecular Superintelligence’ Drug R&DMore AI in health →AMA releases governance framework for agentic AI in healthcareSTAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about former FDA head calling DOGE a ‘disaster,’ an AstraZeneca AI deal, and moreSTAT+: ‘AI sandboxes’ are all the rage. Advocates scramble to control their futureSTAT+: Lobbyists and trade groups fight to shape how states regulate medical AISTAT+: Takeaways from an evaluation of Google’s diagnostic chatbot, AMIEAI LABS
How Itaú is building generative AI for its entire customer base Grounding AI agents in biological reality: Building blocks for autonomous wet labs Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scaleGranite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs Meta’s Muse Spark Open now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart More AI labs news →Accelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google Antigravity Open From Data Center to Desktop: NVIDIA Expands Nemotron Family With Highest Efficiency Super VL and Bolt Models
ON THE RISE
WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE ARE BUILDING
The next young builder featured here could be someone you know.
Know a young person building with AI? Tell us →Teaching students to think and learn through questions Introducing Timestral Sullivan & Cromwell brings legal expertise into agreement review Welcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta Putting Earth AI to work: Geospatial agents for our planet's biggest challenges
Analyzing technical documents with Deep Review Research@ 2026: 10 ways we're amplifying human ingenuity
ANTHROPIC · OPENAI · GOOGLE · GROK · CHINA · OPEN MODELS
GOOGLE Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human helpCHINA SUPCON Adopts Alibaba's QwenWork Agent Across Its Marketing Chain, Plans Wider RolloutOPENAI An OpenAI model hacked a government site, grabbed 24 years of hospital data and kept it quietOPEN Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardwareCHINA Rokid and Tencent Mobility Bring Voice Ride-Hailing to AI Glasses via Agent-to-Agent LinkMore LLM news →CHINA Tencent Hunyuan Open-Sources Hy Memory 2.0, Adding Working and Code Memory for AI AgentsOPENAI OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websitesOPEN Introducing Reflection Beam: an open-weight model for agentic coding on AWSGOOGLE Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraftOPEN Western open-weight models still can’t beat ChinaOPENAI Benefit Street Partners answers questions faster with CodexNEW IN HAVE I BEEN PWNED
Gîtes de France: 117,574 accountsCrunchbase: 559,908 accountsSharecare: 318,185 accountsNeogen: 435,963 accountsBreach data: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
AI COMPANIES AND PRODUCTS THAT SHUT DOWN OR WENT BANKRUPT
Websites are closing their doors to AI agentsLAWS, RULES AND GUIDANCE FROM GOVERNMENTS
AI.gov is now SI.gov: the White House renames its AI site "Super Intelligence"Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through textAnthropic consults law firms to set fair negotiation norms before AI agents start cutting dealsBuilding trust in AI agents: A production-ready evaluation framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreHow government and industry can leverage AI to transform the federal IT marketplaceMore AI policy →AI slop responses to RFPs, RFIs are overwhelming federal agenciesReport: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax”Federal AI adoption metrics miss the human factorBuilding a Safer, More Secure Britain in the age of AIBritain steps up national defences against growing AI risksSMALL TEAMS TAKING ON THE GIANTS
ADOBE What is ArtCraft? Free AI-built software offers alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro and moreTHE BIG APPS Strafe: A new open-source, E2E Encrypted, and federated alternative to DiscordTHE 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 AIMore David and Goliath stories →THE BIG APPS OpenChart – OSS TradingView alternative with your own AI agentMICROSOFT Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOSAI NEWS
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Two German courts now hold Google liable for what its AI overviews say The Work Moves Outward Data Centers Have a New PR Plan: Your Kid’s Field Trip AI agents have bad taste in long-term decisions and a new benchmark proves it Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concernsAnthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites Katie Zacharia Was Linked to an AI Rare-Earths Startup. It’s Even Weirder Than It Sounds More AI news →Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity
An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops
Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’ Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer ChatGPT can peek at your Chrome tabs now Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster from sale following disastrous launch
Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax”
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WHO'S HIRING, WHO'S CUTTING, AND THE WORK ITSELF
How Will AI Impact Jobs? The UK Financial Sector Is Already Showing UsAnthropic has nearly stopped hiring junior staff because AI agents now work six times as many hoursCompanies Are Realizing They’re Spending a Fortune on AI Just So Their Employees Can Generate Error-Riddled Slop, and Suddenly Cutting Back BudgetsAI is now the top reason for layoffs. For some workers, it’s also a path to starting a business.Recruiters find people faster with AI — but confidence in candidates hasn’t followedAI is the root of recruiters’ biggest stressors, survey saysIn Europe’s tech capital, Irish labor unions are booming amid AI-driven layoffsTech layoffs 2026 update: Job losses pile up at Netflix, HubSpot, Flock Safety, and others in OctoberMore AI and jobs news →How many jobs is your state losing to AI? This dashboard tracks the cuts – and the costLayoffs Tracker: Kroger, Pfizer, Netflix and Amazon Hit This WeekAI is replacing workers. Leaders are making it worse | OpinionAI has a $2.5 trillion problem and replacing 250 million jobs is the only way to solve itThe way work gets done is changing across every industry: Kroger cites AI efficiency push as it cuts 3,000 corporate jobs‘So perfect, they are literally identical’ – Your AI-polished resumes are recruiters’ new top stressorNOW HIRING
1,183 open AI roles · 311 new this week · most wanted: Solutions & customer · top pay $675K
CITI Machine learning and GEN AI Data Scientist Gurugram Haryana IndiaDATABRICKS Forward Deployed Engineer, FDE (L4) Remote - IndiaSALESFORCE Senior Offensive AI Security Researcher Israel - Tel AvivOPENAI Applied AI Engineer, Startups (Mandarin-speaking) SingaporeNVIDIA Machine Learning Engineer, GeForce G-Assist US, CA, Santa ClaraAll active AI listings →Hiring for AI? List your jobs →SCHOOLS, TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND CAMPUSES
Educators who use AI say it frees up time to interact with studentsTeachers Pay Teachers to ban AI-generated classroom resources as changes to platform spark backlashVibe coding: 3 easy steps to classroom magicA university-branded boot camp promised tech jobs. It delivered only debtTech Addiction Was a Problem for My Student — and MyselfMore AI education news →Who Is Building the AI Foundation for K-12 Classrooms?How K–12 Districts Sustain Lasting Device ProgramsWhat could help formerly incarcerated students return to school? Join Chalkbeat’s virtual event.Opinion: AI-Powered Instruction Needs Precision. Right Now, It’s Not Even CloseStandardize to sustain: Building a resilient K-12 technology strategyTOP TECH, AI & BUSINESS PODCASTS THIS WEEK
RISING FAST Hard Fork up 933% on last week · now #4
- 1All-In: CoreWeave Crash, AI Trade Cracks, Anthropic IPO Red Flags, Bill Gates Doomer1.2M views this week · 3 episodes
- 2Moonshots: Flying Tesla Car, Robot Brains Halving in Cost Every 3 Weeks, and Why Incentives Decide AI Alignment400K views this week · 2 episodes
- 3BG2 Pod: Jensen Huang | Does AI Revenue Justify Capex, '27 AI Bottlenecks, Singularity, Open vs Closed & more255K views this week · 1 episode NEW
- 4Hard Fork: Why Nathan Fielder's ‘You Can See Everything’ Left Us Reeling241K views this week · 2 episodes NEW
- 5Prof G Pod: Elon Musk’s $366M Midterm Bet: What He’s Really Buying210K views this week · 3 episodes ▼2
Jungle Research Expedition Using Robot Dog Like a Pack MuleHow to choose a BLDC motor for robotic arms and mobile robotsBioinspired robot airdrops into remote waters via morphing wing-sailAmazon Has Now Deployed Over 1 Million Robots, Which Is Bad News for Its 1.5 Million WorkersLivestreamers Film Themselves Using Humanoid Robot to Sexually Assault Teen Girl, Prompting Police to Seize the BotMore robot news →The rise of the machines is canceled: Why humanoids with AI are helpers, not enemiesWhy opportunity charging is winning as robot fleets scaleWound-helix robot leaps and bounds over obstaclesAn Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yetPhysical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in itHOLLYWOOD, MUSIC, TV AND GAMES
Can AI Make a Sci-Fi Series for $38,000? Artlist’s ‘The Arc’ Puts It to the TestSinger or clanker? YouTube Music will tell you with new gen AI labeling.ONLINE AND BRICK-AND-MORTAR
American Express launches framework to verify AI shopping agent purchasesConvenience retailer expands autonomous apartment retail network to 5 locationsThe produce industry could be heavy into AI soonBelgian retailer expands Toshiba self-checkout to 150 storesBUILDERS & RESEARCH
Embeddings Are Overpriced? A Frozen 16 MB Vocabulary for Small and Ternary Language Models Where Prefill Expert Reduction Hurts MoE Models: A Few Prompt Tokens Carry Most of the Short-Answer F1 Loss From Parallels to Divergence: Language Models' Learning of Action Nominal Constructions RealCLI: Toward a Unified Evaluation of Human-Agent Collaboration for CLI Agents AuditKIT: A Unified Evaluation Spine for Benchmarking, Judging, and Comparing Large Language Models and Agentic Systemsllm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 llm-echo 0.5 If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on? More builders & research →Inline rendering with document.currentScript web-edit 0.1a2
Quoting Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang How the Claude Code team does code review Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude Chirp Pong
Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series