BIGGEST AI RAISES THIS WEEK
- OpenAI $11B
- Zipline $1.5B
- Fal $1.3B · Series FGlade Brook, Coatue
- Mercor $750M
- CesiumAstro $730M · Series D
- Path Robotics $300M · Series E
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
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 2 deals · $265M in rounds
BITCOIN, ETHEREUM, STABLECOINS AND THE RULES
BTC $73,779 ▼0.9%ETH $2,065 ▼2.2%SOL $83.27 ▼2.9%XRP $1.06 ▼2.9%24 hr · CoinGecko
Solana perp volume explodes 65% amid shrinking spot activityLNbits rushes emergency patch after reported Bitcoin wallet theftsBitcoin devs merge 3 new BIPs, and transaction fees could plummetCFTC warns Kalshi of imminent charges over notification of contracts: PoliticoGlobal banks commit $270M to stablecoin venture targeting 2027 launchMore crypto news →Bitcoin Miner HIVE Eyes $45 Million in Annual Revenue From AI DealForward Industries grows SOL treasury to 8.7 million as token hits nearly three-month lowTrump Media Posts $410 Million Profit. Bitcoin Gains Did the Heavy LiftingTrump Media posts $410M profit, but crypto hides an operating lossFormer NYSE president says stock issuers hold the key to tokenization as Bullish builds its platformDOTS · MUSE · GROK BOT · INSTINCT · GEMINI SPARK · OPENCLAW
MUSE Meta’s AI agent Muse lands on Apple Watch and Android Wear OSINSTINCT Spectro Cloud Launches AMD Instinct™ Coder 355, Powered by Dell PowerEdge, for Local-First AI Coding at ScaleMUSE Meta Muse AI Agent India Pricing Surfaces Ahead of LaunchDOTS ChatGPT dots now let users pick which local computer runs a taskMUSE Meta launches Muse Ember, a small AI model built for the repetitive work agents actually doMore AI agent news →OPENCLAW Over 575 malicious OpenClaw skills delivered malware to Windows and macOSDOTS I tested OpenAI’s Dot and Anthropic’s Duet for weeks – and all I got was one helpful notificationDOTS Apple Plans To Turn Siri Into An AI Agent To Take On ChatGPT Dots, Meta Muse: ReportGROK BOT Musk Admits Grok Bot Economics Are Unsustainable — Just 3 Days After Saying 'No Need to Save'GROK BOT Grok Bot Usage Limits Draw Complaints as Musk Vows to InvestigateAG TECH, FOOD AND THE MONEY BEHIND THEM
FUNDING South Korea’s SeaWith to Build $15M Cultivated Meat Facility in Food Tech HubSpray Logics: how a wildlife saving innovation led to protecting crops and fruitsEurope’s soil health gets a boost with new digital tools for farmersROBOTS Naïo extends robot Oz with new plug-planting implementSolar Foods Inches Closer to EU Approval of Solein Gas ProteinMore farm & food news →FUNDING India’s AltM Nabs $10.3M to Upcycle Agricultural Waste Into Fossil-Free Cosmetics, Textiles & MoreAI The food safety deadline that doubles as an AI foundationROBOTS Finite Robotics to solve labour and knowledge gap in apple thinningROBOTS Who is to blame if an agricultural robot kills someone?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 Urgency of InterpretabilityDario Amodei · Apr 2025IN TODAY'S NEWS: AI SAFETY
MEDICINE, WELLNESS, HOSPITALS AND THE FDA
STAT+: Men’s use of chatbots for therapy, and earnings season highlightsSTAT+: Oura to acquire Counsel Health for $625 million, placing a big bet on AI care7 healthcare experts on adopting AI toolsNew Campaign Wants AI Applications To Look Beyond SpeedOpinion: AI’s health advice can be accurate and still make us sickerMore AI in health →Hospitals write off $132B as AI fails to move the needle with financesAWS pledges $100M in cloud, AI credits to close health equity gapsAI chatbots aren’t therapists. But can they finally get men to open up?Missing the Point: Isolation Alone Will Not Build AI SafetyAI LABS
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How AI Helps Recyclers Turn Mixed Waste Into Reusable Material Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro on Amazon Bedrock Build a daily dependency watcher with LangGraph and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore web search The agent evaluation playbook: Built-in, DeepEval, and AutoEval on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations Introducing AlphaProof Code: a breakthrough in verifying complex software at depthHelping caregivers use AI in everyday life Work at the Frontier: AI’s effect on freelance work Decision Models in Hugging Face More AI labs news →Exploring the world's languages with Language Explorer Gemini Robotics 2.5 accelerates real-world general dexterity
ChatGPT Enterprise now available in AWS Marketplace Nemotron-Personas-Finance-Japan: A Synthetic Dataset Capturing Japan's Demographics and Financial Context Control Room: A central system to track and stop model workloads across our research infrastructure Your Experts Have Partners. There's HOPE for Keeping Them Together CodeRabbit scales agentic software development and ships 20x more
The US is winning the AI race. Jensen Huang could have blown it The VergeEUROPE Nvidia's model GR00T 2 watches humans on video, then imagines itself as the robot The DecoderNVIDIA Expands Open Source Commitment With OpenShell Donation and New AI Infrastructure NVIDIAJensen Huang Hired a PR Firm Known for Handling Sex Scandals Last Year WiredPractice Makes Precise: At CoRL, NVIDIA and Partners Reveal How Robots Rehearse Delicate Work in Simulation NVIDIANVIDIA Announces New Planned Investments in Korean Startups at the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum NVIDIA
ANTHROPIC · OPENAI · GOOGLE · GROK · CHINA · OPEN MODELS
CHINA MiniMax Opens Weights for H3-Image, a 16-Megapixel Text-to-Image and Editing Model Run in Six StepsCHINA Huawei's openJiuwen Unveils TTSE, an Agent Framework That Splits Environment Facts From TipsANTHROPIC Anthropic tiptoes into MS Office territoryOPENAI OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a business directory with AI agents that handle customer questionsANTHROPIC All 7 Anthropic founders will each cash out about $250M in IPOMore LLM news →ANTHROPIC Anthropic turns Claude into a full workspace with Plugins, spreadsheets, whiteboards, and soon Meeting notesGOOGLE Gemini 4 Carbon arrives just in time to feel like yesterday's news in the fastest model cycle yetGOOGLE Gemini 4 Carbon is now availableGOOGLE Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon with agent ‘swarm’ featureOPEN Cyberattacks threaten to make open source AI a little less open, Hugging Face exec warnsCHINA Alibaba's Qianwen Office 2.0 Brings AI Agents Into Team Workspaces and Event-Triggered TasksOPEN Pay for Hugging Face Hub with your Google Cloud AccountNEW IN HAVE I BEEN PWNED
СберСпасибо (SberSpasibo): 3,288,711 accountsHarvard: 850,537 accountsAfD: 345,439 accountsAssurance Retraite: 70,372 accountsBreach data: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
AI COMPANIES AND PRODUCTS THAT SHUT DOWN OR WENT BANKRUPT
Eight countries and top AI labs agree to shutdown mechanisms in new Paris declarationAI firms eye Weil amid law firm's wind-downLAWS, RULES AND HOW GOVERNMENTS USE AI
AI Can (Mostly) Solve Cyber Regulatory Harmonization and EfficiencyClosing the AI guidance gap in educationNancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AINew York’s RAISE Act 2.0 would expand AI oversight, according to safety expertMedical Devices; Hematology and Pathology Devices; Classification of the Digital Cervical Cytology Slide Imaging System With Artificial Intelligence AlgorithmMore AI policy & government →Stronger laws for police using facial recognition technologySMALL TEAMS TAKING ON THE GIANTS
ADOBE The best Adobe Illustrator alternatives for all budgets and skill levelsMICROSOFT I tried replacing Microsoft 365 with a vibe-coded app and a popular FOSS toolkit, and only one stuckMICROSOFT 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'AI NEWS
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What happens to mathematics when AI becomes an oracle? The Work Moves Outward PSI is trying to make a business out of AI-driven scientific discovery OpenAI rolls out new business profiles, making ChatGPT just a little bit more like Google ChatGPT is getting verified AI ‘Business Agents’The indie game community is in disarray over AI and Big Walk Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks Anthropic has its own AI-powered office suite now More AI news →Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2.5 scores 96 percent sorting metal parts in a Mercedes-Benz assembly pilot Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized chips
DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak" Anthropic's Fable 5.2 completes 41 percent of real freelance jobs, up from 2.5 percent a year ago Ukraine’s fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand Tear Down Those Guardrails! Meet the Renegades Freeing Chatbots From Corporate Enslavers The AI Safety Debate Has Lost the Plot. We Asked 10 Experts What the Real Nightmares Are
Security Flaws Across UK Government Sites Exposed ‘God-Tier’ Information A New AI Tool From Google DeepMind Proved the Signal Protocol Is Secure The backlash about data centers might really just be about electricity Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHub Innovating with AI in the special chemicals industry
I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.
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WHO'S HIRING, WHO'S CUTTING, AND THE WORK ITSELF
AI leadership training tools are most effective when paired with managerial supportMost solopreneurs turn to AI before hiring others, data suggests. Here’s whyVisier Reveals Definitive 2027 Workforce Trends as AI Hype Gives Way to a New Reality for Business LeadersCompanies Are Buying AI Tools, but Employees Aren’t Using Them to Transform WorkManaging AI Agents Like Employees: 6 Processes To RethinkPayscale's AI Workforce Impact Report: AI Is Boosting Productivity, but Employers Struggle to Put a Price on ItQantas to Cut 850 Jobs After Tech Deal With AccentureQantas to cut 850 Australian jobs and outsource work to India under AI-driven overhaulMore AI and jobs news →AI-Driven Tech Layoffs Could Trigger a 1.6 Million Job RecessionMore Gen Zs are Ditching Entry-Level Jobs to Start Businesses Relying Heavily on AIWhite-Collar Hiring Hit Its Fastest Pace Since 2022 Despite AI Job FearsPwC plans to certify workers in critical thinking as AI changes their jobsIs AI taking white-collar jobs? What the latest numbers tell usThe AI boom isn't wiping out white-collar workers — but it's changing the skills you need to get aheadAI Didn’t Fix Hiring. It Built a Bigger Black Hole | OpinionFearing AI disruption, white-collar workers are quitting their jobsNOW HIRING
1,380 open AI roles · 438 new this week · most wanted: Solutions & customer · top pay $850K
CAPITAL ONE Senior Associate, Data Scientist - Consumer Credit Risk Models and Data McLean, VACURSOR Sr. Software Engineer, Pretraining Data Palo Alto, CACITI AI Engineer – Global Rates, APAC Local Markets Sales & Trading Singapore SingaporeOPENAI Manager, Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - Singapore SingaporeHOME DEPOT Senior Director, Technology – Cybersecurity Strategy, Architecture & AI Transformation (Remote) GEORGIA - VIRTUAL - GA01All active AI listings →Hiring for AI? List your jobs →SCHOOLS, TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND CAMPUSES
Memphis parents complained of a school laptop shortage. Now MSCS wants to buy 25,000 more.The Surprising Place Young People Get Emotional Support? AINational AI Research Report Covers How Tools Are Used in ClassroomsOpinion: What AI Can’t Teach, National Service CanAI Needn’t be Trustworthy, Teens Say. It Just Has to be Less Risky Than PeopleMore AI education news →Anthropic enters student AI privacy agreement with teachers unionsWhen AI Becomes a Student’s ConfidantAfter a Cyber Incident, IREs Get K–12 Schools Back on TrackEmployers want AI skills. Here’s how colleges are adding them without new hires.TOP TECH, AI & BUSINESS PODCASTS THIS WEEK
RISING FAST Hard Fork up 800% on last week · now #4
- 1All-In: Freedom vs. Safety: Axon CEO Rick Smith on the Future of Policing899K views this week · 2 episodes
- 2Moonshots: Anthropic’s IPO in Question, Midterms Hit AI, Nasdaq Drops 5%, and RSI Accelerates479K views this week · 2 episodes ▲1
- 3Prof G Pod: Your Parents’ Wealth Now Matters More Than Your Salary — With Eliza Filby402K views this week · 5 episodes ▼1
- 4Hard Fork: Everything You Need to Know About the Jensen Huang Spy Story292K views this week · 2 episodes NEW
- 5Dwarkesh Podcast: Which AI is the best liar?155K views this week · 1 episode NEW
Watch BYD’s robotic charging arm plug itself in and charge EVs in 5 minutes [Video]Google’s Gemini Robotics 2.5 scores 96% in factory trial after tackling 200 tasksDynamic Creatures partners with Sixth Wall Studio to bring Hasbro characters to life with robotsGritt and MasTec partner to bring physical AI to solar construction sitesChina blocks SoftBank’s $5.4 billion takeover of ABB RoboticsMore robot news →Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2.5 scores 96 percent sorting metal parts in a Mercedes-Benz assembly pilotWhy predictive maintenance matters more as factories add robotsOversonic Robotics takes RoBee R20 humanoid robot to Munich and LisbonHOLLYWOOD, MUSIC, TV AND GAMES
Anthropic Sets IPO Range Valuing Company At Up To $1.4 Trillion, Says AI May Pose “Existential Risks To Humanity”Elvis Presley rightsholders sue Suno, alleging its AI imitates the King’s voice. Eight Mile Style has filed a separate suit over 269 Eminem songs.House House clarifies use of AI tools in Big Walk's "final stage of development"6 Hours of YouTube and 85 handtyped pages of notes on LLM Inference – Start hereONLINE AND BRICK-AND-MORTAR
eBay appears to have shut the door on third-party AI agentsWalmart, Zipline teaming up to launch 300 additional drone deliveryLevi’s claymation holiday campaign celebrates handmade craft amid AI bloatWHSmith deploying Wildix AI platformBUILDERS & RESEARCH
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llm-gemini 0.36 Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data Life on Claude Nine Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2BIBIMBAP: A Benchmark for Instructional BIM-Based Automated Programming How Many Examples, and Which Ones? A Study of In-Context Learning for Natural Language Inference DramaGrow: A Regime-Aware Benchmark for Auditing LLM Judges of Multi-Episode Drama More builders & research →Rethinking Supervision Targets for Multimodal LLM Unlearning: Less Private Information, Reduced Distribution Shift Topic-Aware Multi-Task Mental Health Classification with Active Learning-Based Stepwise Relabeling for Social Media Conversations
Yonkers Rises llm-anthropic 0.31 Locating the source of a mysterious beep with Claude Claude Fable 5.2 scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, highest so far Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2
Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders