BIGGEST AI RAISES THIS WEEK
- OpenAI $11B
- Zipline $1.5B
- Fal $1.3B · Series FGlade Brook, Coatue
- CesiumAstro $730M · Series D
- Applied Compute $350MNvidia Corp
- Sand.ai $200M · Series A
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 $75,837 ▲0.0%ETH $2,236 ▼0.2%SOL $89.22 ▼0.8%XRP $1.16 ▲0.5%24 hr · CoinGecko
Binance CFO steps down nine days after record hack; co-CEO says transition was planned six months agoBinance users in some European countries told to pull crypto before fees kick in, with accounts closing by year endHigher wages don’t have to mean higher inflation. That could matter for BitcoinU.S. Treasury moves to cut off crypto exchange MEXC over $16 billion in alleged illicit flowsBitcoin traders could mistake this Binance data change for a rush to sellMore crypto news →Gnosis Pay breach exposes card numbers, home addresses and linked crypto walletsBitcoin ETFs flip negative for 2026 after $1.28 billion outflow week, worst since JuneWall Street can stop a tokenized share, but can it stop a stock perp?Here’s what happened in crypto todayBitcoin holders have received eCash — What can you do with it?DOTS · MUSE · GROK BOT · INSTINCT · GEMINI SPARK · OPENCLAW
DOTS OpenAI’s Dots agents can read your email for 2FA codes but hesitate to enter themMUSE Meta introduces Spaces, a new way to collaborate with your Muse agentMUSE Meta Muse Models Bring Active Memory to All Meta AI UsersOPENCLAW I tried OpenClaw and Perplexity Computer, but ChatGPT Dots finally feels like a personal assistantGROK BOT Grok Bot users hit weekly limits as Musk says serving costs ran too highMore AI agent news →MUSE Meta Muse upgrade lets you talk to your AI agent in real timeINSTINCT 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 Grok Bot Throttled After xAI Costs Outpaced Subscription RevenueAG 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?THE 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
- The Future Is for EveryoneMark Zuckerberg · Aug 2026
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 ToyBlocks: A controlled world for robot learning and evaluation Partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systemsMeasuring how AI agents handle everyday wet-lab science Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard Vera Delivers the Best of Both Worlds: Highest Throughput and Fastest Agents More AI labs news →Cult.fit builds operational muscle with Codex Into the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents
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 Tencent Upgrades WorkRally With Three Video Models and Expands Beyond Animated Short DramasANTHROPIC Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub filesCHINA State propaganda in some Chinese AI models is only "a thin layer" that fine-tuning can strip awayANTHROPIC Why a new report on Anthropic automating AI development is alarming researchersGOOGLE Google's AI detects high blood pressure from a regular smartwatch without a cuffMore LLM news →OPENAI OpenAI valued at $1.25 trillion, as rival Anthropic nears its IPOOPENAI OpenAI reportedly raises an additional $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuationCHINA Free Chinese AI Models Are Getting Scary Good at HackingGOOGLE Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiableOPEN New NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Open Models for Interactive World SimulationGOOGLE Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clipsOPEN The Wizard of Open Weights: Chris Alexiuk Makes AI Easy With Open ModelsGROK Trump Asked Grok AI About Invading Venezuela. Democrats Want His Chat HistoryNEW 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
ADOBE Patchy: A Free Photoshop Alternative for Windows, Mac, and LinuxTHE BIG APPS Axon Enterprise vs. Figma: Do Tasers or Cloud Services Make for a Better Stock Buy for 2027?MICROSOFT I started using OpenCode with VS Code, and now I can't imagine coding any other wayGOOGLE iPhone 13 Mini-Sized Enough Phone Features Replaceable Battery, Android 17 and $399 Price TagGOOGLE Unclickbait – Replace clickbait YouTube thumbnailsMore David and Goliath stories →MICROSOFT VS Code running inside a terminal? Unraveling the mechanics of the new tool 'terminal-code'ADOBE 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 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 meAI NEWS
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Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small drops 316 F-bombs across benchmark runs The Work Moves Outward NYT Cooking’s AI assistant saved my weeknight chicken, but almost ruined my cake The US let Nvidia sell chips to an empty office in China AI broke the cybersecurity world. What’s next?Nine AI agents tried autonomous research on open questions from US national labs and none passed the experts' bar Apps for Caregivers Get a Dose of AI, but That Might Not Be Enough Crusoe sells troubled Wyoming data center project to Google More AI news →All the latest updates on AI data centers 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? Could potential AI clones of GTA VI force a quicker official port? AI Companies Really, Really Want to Buy Your Work Files and Emails
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’ 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
Is AI taking white-collar jobs? What the latest numbers tell usWhen 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 | OpinionFearing 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 StreetThe jobs said to be most threatened by AI are actually increasingMore AI and jobs news →Australian 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 trade4 Companies Cut 478 Jobs Across Media and Tech, and the Common Thread Was Not AINOW HIRING
1,239 open AI roles · 403 new this week · most wanted: Solutions & customer · top pay $850K
NVIDIA Senior Machine Learning Data Pipeline Engineer US, CA, Santa ClaraPERPLEXITY Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives) San FranciscoTRUIST Data Scientist II 3 LocationsHARVEY Associate Legal Engineer New YorkPNC Data Scientist Lead - Data, Modeling & Analytics 3 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 512% on last week · now #6
- 1All-In: Midterm Blood Bath, $4T AI Sell Off, Data Center Freeze, What’s Next for Trump801K views this week · 2 episodes ▲2
- 2Prof G Pod: The Blue Tsunami Was Young Men: A 38-Point Swing490K views this week · 5 episodes ▼1
- 3Moonshots: Anthropic’s IPO in Question, Midterms Hit AI, Nasdaq Drops 5%, and RSI Accelerates337K views this week · 2 episodes ▲1
- 4Dwarkesh Podcast: Which AI is the best liar?127K views this week · 1 episode NEW
- 5My First Million: AI proof businesses worth building in 2027120K views this week · 2 episodes
What happens when a drone loses signal? Here’s how its failsafes workTesla Robotaxi app update now tells riders if Cybercab is the better choiceSouth Korea’s new humanoid robot data factory teaches real-world tasksUS Air Force and Secret Service step up efforts to counter growing drone threatsRobot integration brings high-precision production to midmarket manufacturersMore robot news →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 performanceToyBlocks: A controlled world for robot learning and evaluationPhysicl raises $10M to make the digital world real enough for robotsHOLLYWOOD, MUSIC, TV AND GAMES
Christopher Nolan Previews DGA’s Next Phase of AI Protections: ‘It’s Down to the Studios’Camerimage Founder Marek Zydowicz on AI, Aronofsky and Why “Cinematographers Are Artists, Not Technicians”Elvis Presley Rights Owners Sue Suno Over AI Voice Cloning: ‘Elvis’ Identity Was Stolen’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 VectorMore AI entertainment news →Christopher Nolan On DGA “Holding The Studios To Account” In Protecting Copyright From AI, Including Anti-AI Boilerplate In ‘The Odyssey’ONLINE AND BRICK-AND-MORTAR
The gap between open and closed AI models in cyber capabilities keeps shrinkingReformation 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 walletMore AI retail news →Kroger taps RFID, computer vision data to boost inventory managementAI isn’t the only recommendation aspect in holiday shoppingHow Stitch Fix is using AI and customer feedback to build its private brandsBUILDERS & RESEARCH
datasette #3046: Don't serve link: rel=next HTTP headers to Firefox for HTML pages Quoting Nilay Patel AI for scientific discovery: How researchers use Claude Claude Code sends your email address to websites Quoting Paul Forddatasette-llm 0.1a10 Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts) datasette-apps 0.3a0 More builders & research →datasette-agent 0.5a0 Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie