BIGGEST AI RAISES THIS WEEK
- Zipline $1.5B
- Fal $1.3B · Series FGlade Brook, Coatue
- CesiumAstro $730M · Series D
- 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 $75,803 ▲0.1%ETH $2,241 ▲0.4%SOL $89.86 ▲0.5%XRP $1.15 ▼4.2%24 hr · CoinGecko
Zero-click iOS exploits drain $4M USDT from active TRON walletsSamsung teams with Stripe to bring USDC to 82M phonesBitcoin and USDT attract modest premiums in Paraguay as millions face banking crisisHere’s what happened in crypto todayTreasury Cuts Crypto Exchange MEXC Off From US Financial SystemMore crypto news →Gnosis Pay breach exposes card details, personal data and crypto wallet informationUS Treasury walks back crypto surveillance ‘travel rule’ proposalBinance hack is ‘cyber war,’ TRM Labs executive saysGreece Passes Crypto Tax Law With 10% Gains Levy, 15% on Staking and DeFiApple, Meta reject OKX–ICE tokenized stock plans, leaving crypto firms as the ones to watchDOTS · MUSE · GROK BOT · INSTINCT · GEMINI SPARK · OPENCLAW
MUSE Meta introduces Spaces, a new way to collaborate with your Muse agentOPENCLAW I tried OpenClaw and Perplexity Computer, but ChatGPT Dots finally feels like a personal assistantMUSE Meta Muse upgrade lets you talk to your AI agent in real timeMUSE Meta's former security chief Alex Stamos says giving Muse AI your passwords and finances is "totally insane"GROK BOT Grok Bot users hit weekly limits as Musk says serving costs ran too highMore AI agent news →INSTINCT The 24-year-old founder of Instinct says people are quick to trust AI with their moneyGROK BOT Grok Bot has become what all Personal Agents imagine themselves to beDOTS ChatGPT Dots are getting smarter, and you won't have to lift a fingerGROK BOT What Using Grok Bot For Two Weeks Taught Me About AI, Job Automation And Interest RatesINSTINCT Instinct fixes WhatsApp disruption: What happened, what does its personal AI agent do?AG TECH, FOOD AND THE MONEY BEHIND THEM
AI Can drones and AI make farmers more money?AI AI in greenhouse horticulture: making smart use of dataROBOTS Earth Rover sells first 10 light-weeding robotsSabanto links autonomy to Precision Planting’s 20|20 for unmanned plantingA 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 RoastTHE WEEK'S AI WRITING, ONE POST PER WRITER
NOTABLE ESSAYS
- AI 2027Kokotajlo, Alexander, et al. · Apr 2025IN TODAY'S NEWS: THE AI RACE
- Policy on the AI ExponentialDario Amodei · Jun 2026IN TODAY'S NEWS: AI LAWS
- Abundant IntelligenceSam Altman · Sep 2025IN TODAY'S NEWS: DATA CENTERS
MEDICINE, WELLNESS, HOSPITALS AND THE FDA
The Big Challenge for AI in Healthcare Comes After ApprovalDebunked Episode 31: CVS Health Restructure, AI ROI Report Findings, FTC Warning LettersOpinion: AI depends on medical records that don’t always tell the full truth about womenMayo Clinic Platform launches AI tool to streamline clinical decision-makingAI Didn’t Reduce Clinician Burden — It Just Moved ItMore AI in health →STAT+: As more doctors consult chatbots, health systems can block them — or buy inSTAT+: What the midterms could mean for the future of health AISTAT+: The biotech startups skipping AI for drug discoveryAI LABS
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SageMaker Inference now supports Multi-Instance GPU to maximize GPU utilization for model endpoints Taxonomy of agentic primitives in Amazon Quick Serverless MCP server for AI agent data lake access on Amazon ECS Fargate Measuring how AI agents handle everyday wet-lab science Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR LeaderboardVera Delivers the Best of Both Worlds: Highest Throughput and Fastest Agents Cult.fit builds operational muscle with Codex Into the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents More AI labs news →Australian universities are creating AI-native graduates Detecting signs of hypertension using wearable sensors
More 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 Setting a new standard for responsible AI infrastructure A Closer Look at Phonon TTS. Launching High-Quality On-Device Speech That Tops the Benchmarks.
Agile Deliberation: How AI helps humans define the gray areas Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity
ANTHROPIC · OPENAI · GOOGLE · GROK · CHINA · OPEN MODELS
CHINA Free Chinese AI Models Are Getting Scary Good at HackingANTHROPIC Ramp data shows AI spending stalling just as Anthropic nears its IPOANTHROPIC METR finds Anthropic may have crossed its own AI acceleration warning threshold back in JulyOPEN Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight modelsANTHROPIC Anthropic's $1.5 trillion IPO hits resistance as investors balk at valuationMore LLM news →OPENAI Partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systemsCHINA Tencent expands Hy4 inference capacity tenfold as WorkBuddy demand surgesGOOGLE Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiableOPEN New NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Open Models for Interactive World SimulationGOOGLE Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash stretches AI video clips to 15 seconds and cuts pricing by 30 percentCHINA 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 clipsOPEN The Wizard of Open Weights: Chris Alexiuk Makes AI Easy With Open ModelsNEW 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
Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production as Elon Musk focuses on robotics and AILAWS, RULES AND GUIDANCE FROM GOVERNMENTS
Medical Devices; Hematology and Pathology Devices; Classification of the Digital Cervical Cytology Slide Imaging System With Artificial Intelligence AlgorithmStronger laws for police using facial recognition technologySMALL 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'GOOGLE Unclickbait – Replace clickbait YouTube thumbnailsADOBE A free Photoshop alternative turned out to be a copy of an indie project, and now I check this before installing any open-source appADOBE AI-Generated Software Clones Are Challenging Adobe Subscription ModelMore David and Goliath stories →ADOBE AI built a Photoshop clone in 24 hours. Is this piracy, plagiarism, or progress?GOOGLE I saved money by replacing 6 paid subscription Android apps with open source alternativesATLASSIAN I replaced Notion, Miro, and Trello with one open-source app that surprised meTHE BIG APPS I ditched Figma for a free open-source clone, and it covers everything I actually use it forAI NEWS
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Ripple-65B Preview delivers strong agentic coding results as a fully Apache 2.0 open US model The Work Moves Outward Hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools found publicly exposed to the web How a Blue Wave midterm might reshape the AI industry “Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update.After the midterms, is the AI industry in for a rough two years? AI is the new dating dealbreaker Perplexity now has its own always-on AI agent More AI news →Big Tech lost big in the 2026 election How Akai and Moog are embracing vibe-coded mods
Could potential AI clones of GTA VI force a quicker official port? AI Companies Really, Really Want to Buy Your Work Files and Emails Frontier Radar #5: If AGI is so close, why is everyone leaving? The neolabs and their bets Amazon will let you text Alexa your shopping list Underdog shows off a 32MB speech model in new demo
I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future. Ads in Chatbots Have Arrived. Here’s What’s Working—and What’s Not Reddit Founder Says Building Social Media Apps Is ‘Not Cool Anymore’ 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
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
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WHO'S HIRING, WHO'S CUTTING, AND THE WORK ITSELF
When AI should—and shouldn’t—handle hiringThe AI boom isn't wiping out white-collar workers — but it's changing the skills you need to get aheadAI Agents Are Joining the Workforce - Living Security Says Preemptive Security Starts With Human and Agent Risk VisibilityAI Didn’t Fix Hiring. It Built a Bigger Black Hole | OpinionApple is reportedly slashing AI budgets. Here’s why employees are worried.Fearing AI disruption, white-collar workers are quitting their jobsUS Stock Futures Mixed After AI Sell-Off as Investors Await Jobs Report: Dow Jones, S&P, Nasdaq, Wall StreetTech selloff wipes out hedge fund gains, prompting risk cuts and layoffsMore AI and jobs news →The jobs said to be most threatened by AI are actually increasingAustralian universities are creating AI-native graduates‘AI rebounding’ could cost companiesHoliday hiring and AI in focus with October jobs report on deck92% of staff can reskill for AI, HR says – but half of companies still hire outsideAI's Workforce Gap And The Lessons We Keep ForgettingGoogle Joins The Surge Of Tech LayoffsHow Friday’s jobs report could be a tiebreaker for Wall Street’s AI tradeNOW HIRING
1,335 open AI roles · 439 new this week · most wanted: Solutions & customer · top pay $850K
SALESFORCE Research Scientist - Salesforce AI Research 2 LocationsHARVEY Legal Engineer Manager MadridAMAZON Research Scientist II, Grocery ECO Bengaluru, Karnataka, INDDATABRICKS Senior Solutions Architect - Lakebase Stockholm, SwedenCAPITAL ONE AI Engineer 5 (AI Foundations: Evaluations and Agentic Workflows) 5 LocationsAll active AI listings →Hiring for AI? List your jobs →SCHOOLS, TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND CAMPUSES
How to navigate AI adoption — with faculty and student inputGoogle will turn off its search engine for schools by default. Is it an AI ‘ultimatum’?Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiableNational AI Research Report Covers How Tools Are Used in ClassroomsHow K–12 Districts Can Use Student Voices To Guide Ed Tech PurchasesMore AI education news →Australian universities are creating AI-native graduatesWriting 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-RateFinding Our Way Forward: The Struggle and Promise of AI LiteracyTOP TECH, AI & BUSINESS PODCASTS THIS WEEK
RISING FAST Hard Fork up 362% on last week · now #9
- 1Moonshots: Big Tech’s $3T AI Bet, Claude Writes 90% of Anthropic’s Code, AIs Editing AI Brains575K views this week · 2 episodes ▲2
- 2Prof G Pod: The Blue Tsunami Was Young Men: A 38-Point Swing536K views this week · 6 episodes ▼1
- 3All-In: All-In Podcast REACTS to Democrat Sweep!458K views this week · 1 episode ▲1
- 4My First Million: These AI-proof businesses can make you $10M/year111K views this week · 2 episodes NEW
- 5a16z Podcast: Inside Salesforce’s Acquisition Strategy for the AI Era109K views this week · 6 episodes NEW
Delivery Robot Causes Car Accident With Nine InjuriesHow Point One turned GPS accuracy into a robotics platformBoston Dynamics built Stretch Gen 2 for reliable, consistent performanceIndustry experts discuss China blocking SoftBank acquisition of ABB RoboticsToyBlocks: A controlled world for robot learning and evaluationMore robot news →Physicl raises $10M to make the digital world real enough for robotsI watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.Serve Robotics launches new business to become the AWS for robotsPudu Robotics unveils ‘One Brain, Multiple Embodiments’ strategy and showcases full portfolio in European firstAgility Robotics' Nasdaq debut invites scrutiny of humanoid robot marketHOLLYWOOD, MUSIC, TV AND GAMES
Rotor Videos opens Artist Unlimited to any artist from $9.99 a month, with unlimited release visuals and a library of 17M+, non-AI-generated clipsUnity reports "strongest ever" Q3 results driven by its AI-powered ad network VectorONLINE AND BRICK-AND-MORTAR
Reformation implements new AI planning tool, helping in-stock ratesWalmart, Zipline reach agreement to add 300 drone delivery sitesMost online shoppers want a human, not a chatbot when needing helpShoppers will let AI browse, but they still want their hand on the walletKroger taps RFID, computer vision data to boost inventory managementMore AI retail news →VenHub deploying autonomous store at Las Vegas apartment complexHow Stitch Fix is using AI and customer feedback to build its private brandsBUILDERS & RESEARCH
Quoting Nilay Patel AI for scientific discovery: How researchers use Claude 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 DialogueHuman-like cross-language generalisation in deep neural speaker embeddings and its acoustic foundations Same Origin, Different Verdicts: Text Production Conditions Confound Machine-Generated Text Detection in Russian Claude Code sends your email address to websites More builders & research →Quoting Paul Ford datasette-llm 0.1a10
Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts) 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
Claude Opus 5.5 Can Draw Permit-Level Architectural Drawings