BIGGEST AI RAISES THIS WEEK
- Kling AI $3B
- Zipline $1.5B
- Fal $1.3B · Series FGlade Brook, Coatue
- Applied Compute $350MNvidia Corp
- Sand.ai $200M · Series A
- Sentra $150MCapital One Ventures
TOP INVESTORS · 30 DAYS
- Y Combinator 4 deals · $154.9M in rounds
- Seedcamp 4 deals · $19.7M in rounds
- Heartcore 3 deals · $24.4M in rounds
- EQT Ventures 2 deals · $137M in rounds
BITCOIN, ETHEREUM, STABLECOINS AND THE RULES
BTC $75,627 ▼5.9%ETH $2,228 ▼7.9%SOL $89.35 ▼6.9%XRP $1.20 ▼8.0%24 hr · CoinGecko
Ark Invest buys more Coinbase as shares plunge 10% in wider market routBitcoin developer proposes ‘landmines’ to make quantum thieves lose their own BTCCore Scientific to quit Bitcoin mining by year-end as AI business surgesHere’s what happened in crypto todayAmerican Bitcoin’s $126M profit masks mining pressure as rivals turn to AIMore crypto news →Solana developers propose major overhaul to address hidden risk that could disrupt its networkMercado Bitcoin Said Its Hack Was Contained, But Blockchain Data Tells a Different StoryZcash Upgrade Could Lock $16 Million in Crypto ForeverSouth Korea wants to delay its 22% crypto tax again and give investors a new break on lossesBitcoin crashes below $76,000 as AI bubble fears wipe $2.5 trillion from Wall StreetDOTS · MUSE · GROK BOT · INSTINCT · GEMINI SPARK · OPENCLAW
MUSE Meta says US users can now video chat with their Muse AI avatarMUSE Muse Realtime Avatar Leaves the Research Post: Inside Meta's US Muse App RolloutMUSE Meta Muse Voice Lets You Talk to Your AI Agent LiveGROK BOT Grok Bot users hit weekly limits as Musk says serving costs ran too highChina Unveils an AI Agent Identity Registry at Wuzhen as 20 Organizations Sign Self-Discipline PactMore AI agent news →GROK BOT Grok Bot has become what all Personal Agents imagine themselves to beGROK BOT What Using Grok Bot For Two Weeks Taught Me About AI, Job Automation And Interest RatesPerplexity launches its own take on AI agents for workNo AI agent scores above 12 percent on SemiAnalysis' new real-world work benchmarkAG TECH, FOOD AND THE MONEY BEHIND THEM
AI AI in greenhouse horticulture: making smart use of dataROBOTS Earth Rover sells first 10 light-weeding robotsROBOTS Exedy Drones enters race to build American-made spray drones amid supply crunchROBOTS Field robot or autonomous tractor? Dutch grower puts both to the testA cybersecurity checklist for the animal protein industryMore farm & food news →As Texas Goes Blue, Will Cultivated Meat Get A Reprieve?Ivy Farm Technologies Gets UK Approval to Sell Cultivated Wagyu Beef for PetsBeware ‘pilots to nowhere’: Aleph Eins Capital on avoiding corporate agtech traps‘Gobble-ish’: Juicy Marbles Takes on Your Thanksgiving Turkey with Plant-Based Granny’s RoastKorean Researchers Create Whole-Cut Hybrid Cultivated Meat with 80% Lower CostTHE WEEK'S AI WRITING, ONE POST PER WRITER
NOTABLE ESSAYS
- Software 2.0Andrej Karpathy · Nov 2017IN TODAY'S NEWS: AI AND CODING
- Abundant IntelligenceSam Altman · Sep 2025IN TODAY'S NEWS: DATA CENTERS
- Policy on the AI ExponentialDario Amodei · Jun 2026IN TODAY'S NEWS: AI LAWS
MEDICINE, WELLNESS, HOSPITALS AND THE FDA
Mayo Clinic Platform launches AI tool to streamline clinical decision-makingAI Didn’t Reduce Clinician Burden — It Just Moved ItThe Dangerous Illusion of the “Two-Week AI Expert”: A Call to Action Against Superficial Medical EducationFinding New Drugs Is Laborious. This AI Startup Is Skipping The Lab WorkSTAT+: What the midterms could mean for the future of health AIMore AI in health →The AI-Native Clinician Is Already Here. Medical Education and Health Systems Need to Catch Up.STAT+: As more doctors consult chatbots, health systems can block them — or buy inPatients want a human in the loop for AI healthcare toolsSTAT+: The biotech startups skipping AI for drug discoveryHow should the FDA regulate generative AI in medtech? Here are 5 takesAI LABS
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Getting started with Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Vera Delivers the Best of Both Worlds: Highest Throughput and Fastest Agents How Amazon Marketplace evaluates content quality with Amazon SageMaker AI Into the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents Detecting signs of hypertension using wearable sensorsMore Performance From Every Byte: How Full-Stack Codesign Solves AI’s Memory Challenge Le Chonk brings the brains. Studio puts it to work. Merge builds product and business tools with OpenAI technology More AI labs news →Setting a new standard for responsible AI infrastructure Flipsnack grows product signups with conversion optimization
Franklin Templeton uses OpenAI to support investment research A Closer Look at Phonon TTS. Launching High-Quality On-Device Speech That Tops the Benchmarks. Use decision models with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations Agile Deliberation: How AI helps humans define the gray areas Dharma Field Extractor: Any Document In, Structured Fields in JSON Out
StateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documents Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity
ANTHROPIC · OPENAI · GOOGLE · GROK · CHINA · OPEN MODELS
ANTHROPIC Claude Code sends your email address to websitesGOOGLE Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiableOPENAI OpenAIs GPT-6 Cyber can both break into systems and propose how to fix themOPENAI Cult.fit builds operational muscle with CodexOPEN New NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Open Models for Interactive World SimulationMore LLM news →GOOGLE Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash stretches AI video clips to 15 seconds and cuts pricing by 30 percentANTHROPIC Claude can now analyze your spending with its new Personal Finance toolANTHROPIC Claude AI can plug directly into your bank accountCHINA Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation modelGOOGLE Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clipsCHINA Tencent releases Hy4 with vision and computer use, claims second place among Chinese AI modelsOPEN The Wizard of Open Weights: Chris Alexiuk Makes AI Easy With Open ModelsCHINA SuperCLUE Office Agent Benchmark Crowns Doubao Work Ahead of Kimi Work and WorkBuddyOPEN Open source AI is booming. Hugging Face explains who profits.NEW IN HAVE I BEEN PWNED
Harvard: 850,537 accountsAfD: 345,439 accountsAssurance Retraite: 70,372 accountsGîtes de France: 117,574 accountsBreach data: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
AI COMPANIES AND PRODUCTS THAT SHUT DOWN OR WENT BANKRUPT
Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting downLAWS, RULES AND GUIDANCE FROM GOVERNMENTS
Scaling Sovereign Wealth: Evaluating Mechanisms for the U.S. Government to Own Parts of AI CompaniesMedical Devices; Hematology and Pathology Devices; Classification of the Digital Cervical Cytology Slide Imaging System With Artificial Intelligence AlgorithmStronger laws for police using facial recognition technologyClaude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boomFaster planning decisions as new rules and AI tackle delaysSMALL TEAMS TAKING ON THE GIANTS
GOOGLE iPhone 13 Mini-Sized Enough Phone Features Replaceable Battery, Android 17 and $399 Price TagMICROSOFT VS Code running inside a terminal? Unraveling the mechanics of the new tool 'terminal-code'ATLASSIAN I replaced Notion, Miro, and Trello with one open-source app that surprised meGOOGLE I replaced Google Maps with this open-source alternative and I barely miss itAI NEWS
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Ads in Chatbots Have Arrived. Here’s What’s Working—and What’s Not The Work Moves Outward Meta warns that election backlash against data centers could make AI expansion harder Muse has a voice mode now ‘Total repudiation’: The blue wave is about to hit AIReddit Founder Says Building Social Media Apps Is ‘Not Cool Anymore’ Axiom Math wants to keep AI slop out of mathematics Dropbox acquires Tigris Data for $350M to bolster its AI infrastructure More AI news →Meta buys AI coding startup Conductor as big tech races to lock in developers Aina’s smart ring has a screen, a joystick, and a mic so you can talk to AI agents
Exclusive: Aina’s Smart Ring Wants to Be a Remote Control for Your AI Agent Agility Robotics' Nasdaq debut invites scrutiny of humanoid robot market AI’s Next Trick? Speaking Dolphin Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech” Texas was the new epicenter of the AI data center buildout. That might be kaput.
Securing the agentic enterprise with data lineage Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check Here’s who is falling in line for Trump’s “Super Intelligence” loyalty test Coming in 2027: Apple’s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lights
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WHO'S HIRING, WHO'S CUTTING, AND THE WORK ITSELF
Australian universities are creating AI-native graduates‘AI rebounding’ could cost companiesHoliday hiring and AI in focus with October jobs report on deckAWS launches agentic AI Kiro bots with memory and support for recurring development jobsCanva Showed Signs of Trouble Before Its First-Ever Mass LayoffYou should expect questions about AI in job interviews, experts say—here's how to prepare92% of staff can reskill for AI, HR says – but half of companies still hire outsideAI's Workforce Gap And The Lessons We Keep ForgettingMore AI and jobs news →Google Confirms Wider Employee Buyouts Amid Heavy AI SpendingHow Friday’s jobs report could be a tiebreaker for Wall Street’s AI tradeCanva’s big layoffs say a lot about the AI design landscape4 Companies Cut 478 Jobs Across Media and Tech, and the Common Thread Was Not AIReplacing Entry-Level Talent With AI Is a Costly Mistake. Here’s What to Do Instead.Am I going to be fired by AI? How corporate America is being seduced by AI and algorithms in the ‘forever layoffs’ eraCanva Announces Layoffs in Restructure Affecting 1,271 WorkersCanva exit package praised as tech company announces layoffsNOW HIRING
1,298 open AI roles · 393 new this week · most wanted: Solutions & customer · top pay $850K
HOME DEPOT DATA SCIENTIST STORE SUPPORT CENTER, ATLANTA - 9090HARVEY Legal Engineer, Mexico MexicoCITI Data & AI Solutions Analyst - Assistant Vice President Gurugram Haryana IndiaOPENAI Technical Program Manager, Compute Infrastructure San FranciscoINTEL AI Software Development Engineer PRC, ShanghaiAll active AI listings →Hiring for AI? List your jobs →SCHOOLS, TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND CAMPUSES
Google will turn off its search engine for schools by default. Is it an AI ‘ultimatum’?National AI Research Report Covers How Tools Are Used in ClassroomsHow K–12 Districts Can Use Student Voices To Guide Ed Tech PurchasesWhat Is the Purpose of College in the Age of AI?AI Article Review ‘Better Than Humans at Their Best’More AI education news →Writing and Updating K–12 AI Use Policies That Meet the MomentRevisiting Summit Learning and the Lessons of an Early Ed Tech ExperimentEdtech stakeholders urge support for E-RateTOP TECH, AI & BUSINESS PODCASTS THIS WEEK
- 1All-In: All-In Podcast REACTS to Democrat Sweep!1.2M views this week · 2 episodes ▲2
- 2Moonshots: Big Tech’s $3T AI Bet, Claude Writes 90% of Anthropic’s Code, AIs Editing AI Brains525K views this week · 2 episodes ▲2
- 3Prof G Pod: David Brooks: Trump Gutted Conservatism and Christianity459K views this week · 6 episodes ▼1
- 4a16z Podcast: How AI Is Turning Figma’s Finance Team Into Builders108K views this week · 6 episodes NEW
- 5My First Million: These AI-proof businesses can make you $10M/year98K views this week · 2 episodes NEW
NVIDIA’s VFlash speeds robot trajectory decoding 12x, cuts prediction errors by 61%72,000-ton British aircraft carrier launches attack drones in historic naval firstHow did Agility Robotics perform on its first day on the stock market?Serve Robotics launches new business to become the AWS for robotsHow Ambi Robotics helps its customers prepare for peak seasonMore robot news →Chinese regulators block SoftBank’s $5.4B acquisition of ABB RoboticsPudu Robotics unveils ‘One Brain, Multiple Embodiments’ strategy and showcases full portfolio in European firstAgility Robotics' Nasdaq debut invites scrutiny of humanoid robot marketRobot moth grows new sensor using its own bloodHOLLYWOOD, MUSIC, TV AND GAMES
Weta FX Partners With TAICCA To Position Taiwan As AI Hub; Invest In Moonshine StudioNile Rodgers Defends AI Use in Music Video: ‘We Created Everything … The AI Did What We Told It to Do’AI Movie ‘Gods Don’t Give Gifts’ Gets Serious with AI-Generated Grimes Cameo, Times Square Marketing Push, Oscar ScreeningsONLINE AND BRICK-AND-MORTAR
Shoppers will let AI browse, but they still want their hand on the walletKroger taps RFID, computer vision data to boost inventory managementAI isn’t the only recommendation aspect in holiday shoppingVenHub deploying autonomous store at Las Vegas apartment complexHow Stitch Fix is using AI and customer feedback to build its private brandsMore AI retail news →Walmart commits $6 billion to Symbotic for its AI and robotics solutionsBUILDERS & RESEARCH
Quoting Paul Ford Discourse Analysis of Legislative Bill Discussions DS@GT ARC at CheckThat! 2026: A Verdict-Anchored Pipeline for Generating Fact-Checking Articles CCDWIKI: Decoupling Case Formulation from Response Generation in Longitudinal CBT Dialogue Human-like cross-language generalisation in deep neural speaker embeddings and its acoustic foundationsSame Origin, Different Verdicts: Text Production Conditions Confound Machine-Generated Text Detection in Russian datasette-llm 0.1a10 Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts) More builders & research →datasette-apps 0.3a0 datasette-agent 0.5a0
llm 0.37.1 Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too Claude Opus 5.5 Can Draw Permit-Level Architectural Drawings