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
- Seedcamp 4 deals · $19.7M in rounds
- Y Combinator 3 deals · $92.9M in rounds
- Heartcore 3 deals · $24.4M in rounds
- EQT Ventures 2 deals · $137M in rounds
BITCOIN, ETHEREUM, STABLECOINS AND THE RULES
BTC $74,880 ▼1.3%ETH $2,141 ▼4.3%SOL $87.46 ▼2.0%XRP $1.11 ▼4.2%24 hr · CoinGecko
Bitcoin drops, then pops as Nvidia cheating scandal and failed Iran talks trigger volatilityVitalik ‘pivots’ ETH to store of value, crypto suffers after US midterms: Hodler’s DigestXRP could double while this yield strategy leaves you far behindThe catch in recovering a hacked crypto wallet: the thief may still have a keyWhat the election results mean for crypto: State of CryptoMore crypto news →Stablecoin growth has stalled. The payments boom hasn'tWeb3Auth says it frontran hackers by moving $5.6 million out of exposed Keplr walletsThe diesel problem that could spoil Bitcoin’s hopes for cheaper moneyVitalik Buterin says ETH should be valued as a store of value, not a fee-burning tokenThis Bitcoin Developer’s Idea Would Make Quantum Attacks a Losing BetDOTS · MUSE · GROK BOT · INSTINCT · GEMINI SPARK · OPENCLAW
DOTS Your iPhone's Siri could soon work like ChatGPT Dots, if Apple's CEO gets his wayGROK BOT Grok Bot Usage Limits Draw Complaints as Musk Vows to InvestigateDOTS OpenAI’s Dots agents can read your email for 2FA codes but hesitate to enter themMUSE Lisa Su: Meta’s Muse Drew “Over 10 Million People” in 45 Days. Can Meta Charge Them?MUSE Meta introduces Spaces, a new way to collaborate with your Muse agentMore AI agent news →MUSE Meta Muse Models Bring Active Memory to All Meta AI UsersGROK BOT Grok Bot users hit weekly limits as Musk says serving costs ran too highINSTINCT 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 fingerAG TECH, FOOD AND THE MONEY BEHIND THEM
AI Can drones and AI make farmers more money?Sabanto links autonomy to Precision Planting’s 20|20 for unmanned plantingA cybersecurity checklist for the animal protein industryAs Texas Goes Blue, Will Cultivated Meat Get A Reprieve?THE WEEK'S AI WRITING, ONE POST PER WRITER
NOTABLE ESSAYS
- The Bitter LessonRich Sutton · 2019IN THE NEWS
- Abundant IntelligenceSam Altman · Sep 2025IN TODAY'S NEWS: DATA CENTERS
- Software 2.0Andrej Karpathy · Nov 2017IN TODAY'S NEWS: AI AND CODING
MEDICINE, WELLNESS, HOSPITALS AND THE FDA
Missing the Point: Isolation Alone Will Not Build AI SafetySTAT+: Why the latest heart drug failures should make us all more skeptical of AI hypeThe 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 womenMore AI in health →Mayo Clinic Platform launches AI tool to streamline clinical decision-makingSTAT+: 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 Measuring how AI agents handle everyday wet-lab scienceEgyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard Vera Delivers the Best of Both Worlds: Highest Throughput and Fastest Agents Cult.fit builds operational muscle with Codex More AI labs news →Into the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents 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
ANTHROPIC · OPENAI · GOOGLE · GROK · CHINA · OPEN MODELS
CHINA China Mobile Cloud and Zhipu Plan GLM Integration, Coding Products and Token ResearchANTHROPIC Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and tradersANTHROPIC Goodbye Claude, hello PiCHINA Tencent Upgrades WorkRally With Three Video Models and Expands Beyond Animated Short DramasCHINA State propaganda in some Chinese AI models is only "a thin layer" that fine-tuning can strip awayMore 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 valuationOPENAI Partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systemsGOOGLE 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
MICROSOFT I tried replacing Microsoft 365 with a vibe-coded app and a popular FOSS toolkit, and only one stuckTHE BIG APPS I tried 5 open-source Canva alternatives for a month, and only one stuckMICROSOFT I replaced my most expensive Windows apps without spending a dimeTHE BIG APPS Axon Enterprise vs. Figma: Do Tasers or Cloud Services Make for a Better Stock Buy for 2027?GOOGLE iPhone 13 Mini-Sized Enough Phone Features Replaceable Battery, Android 17 and $399 Price TagMore David and Goliath stories →MICROSOFT VS Code running inside a terminal? Unraveling the mechanics of the new tool 'terminal-code'GOOGLE Unclickbait – Replace clickbait YouTube thumbnailsGOOGLE I saved money by replacing 6 paid subscription Android apps with open source alternativesAI NEWS
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The brain-as-computer metaphor shaped modern AI but may be misleading the consciousness debate The Work Moves Outward I Used NYT Cooking’s New AI-Powered Recipe Modifier, and It’s Actually Pretty Good The inventor of the bitter lesson has a bitter lesson for LLM scaling enthusiasts World Models Will Soon Be Inescapable. Here’s What You Need to KnowAI coding agents still need human cleanup on nearly three out of four tasks in a real-world test After the midterms, things are looking rocky for Elon Musk and data centers Megaspeed exec was recruited to spy on Nvidia CEO, according to US intelligence memo More AI news →Anthropic pushes ahead with pre-Thanksgiving IPO despite tech selloff, accepts lower valuation AI auditors catch most agent misbehavior but flood reviewers with false alarms, new study finds
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? Apps for Caregivers Get a Dose of AI, but That Might Not Be Enough Crusoe sells troubled Wyoming data center project to Google
Hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools found publicly exposed to the web Free Chinese AI Models Are Getting Scary Good at Hacking 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. 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
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WHO'S HIRING, WHO'S CUTTING, AND THE WORK ITSELF
AI is speeding up recruitment — and putting agency fees under pressureAmerica's newest small business owners with no employees are off to a hot start in AI eraWhen AI Should—and Shouldn’t—Handle HiringAI 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 StreetAustralian universities are creating AI-native graduatesMore AI and jobs news →‘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 AIAm I going to be fired by AI? How corporate America is being seduced by AI and algorithms in the ‘forever layoffs’ eraNOW HIRING
1,204 open AI roles · 348 new this week · most wanted: Solutions & customer · top pay $850K
CAPITAL ONE Director - AI Engineering Bangalore, InOPENAI Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - Munich Munich, GermanyTRUIST Data Scientist II - Fraud Reporting 4 LocationsXAI AND X Lead Engineer, AI Infrastructure (C++, C) Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WANVIDIA Senior Machine Learning Data Pipeline Engineer US, CA, Santa ClaraAll 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 →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-RateFinding Our Way Forward: The Struggle and Promise of AI LiteracyTOP TECH, AI & BUSINESS PODCASTS THIS WEEK
RISING FAST Hard Fork up 539% on last week · now #4
- 1All-In: Midterm Blood Bath, $4T AI Sell Off, Data Center Freeze, What’s Next for Trump1.2M views this week · 2 episodes ▲2
- 2Prof G Pod: The Blue Tsunami Was Young Men: A 38-Point Swing545K views this week · 5 episodes ▼1
- 3Moonshots: Anthropic’s IPO in Question, Midterms Hit AI, Nasdaq Drops 5%, and RSI Accelerates411K views this week · 2 episodes ▲1
- 4Hard Fork: Why Tech Billionaires Couldn't Buy the 2026 Election159K views this week · 1 episode NEW
- 5Dwarkesh Podcast: Which AI is the best liar?140K views this week · 1 episode NEW
French carmaker Renault wants to get into the military robot businessTesla Robotaxi app update now tells riders if Cybercab is the better choiceRobot integration brings high-precision production to midmarket manufacturersDelivery Robot Causes Car Accident With Nine InjuriesHow Point One turned GPS accuracy into a robotics platformMore robot news →Boston 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 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 robotsHOLLYWOOD, MUSIC, TV AND GAMES
Denis Villeneuve Praises Creative Process Over AI Prompts and Stops Short of Naming New Bond at LACMA Art+Film GalaRotor 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 walletBUILDERS & RESEARCH
parse_number() as a SQLite extension: C vs Rust datasette #3046: Don't serve link: rel=next HTTP headers to Firefox for HTML pages Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files Quoting Nilay Patel AI for scientific discovery: How researchers use ClaudeClaude Code sends your email address to websites Quoting Paul Ford datasette-llm 0.1a10 More builders & research →Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)