BIGGEST AI RAISES THIS WEEK
- OpenAI $11B
- Zipline $1.5B
- Mercor $750M · Series D
- CesiumAstro $730M · Series D
- Fractile $720M · Series CThrive Capital, Founders Fund
- Torus $500MMagnetar
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 $73,718 ▼0.1%ETH $2,052 ▼0.6%SOL $83.17 ▼0.1%XRP $1.05 ▼1.1%24 hr · CoinGecko
BitMine posts $2.8B quarterly profit driven by Ethereum gains, but yearly net loss surpasses $6B‘Milestone quarter’: Solana Company reports Q3 revenue growth driven by staking rewardsBitcoin whales stack coins while ETF investors dump millions dailySuiet wallet to shut down in latest exit from Sui ecosystemBitcoin faces $70,000 test as $14.2 billion stablecoin contraction exposes demand weaknessMore crypto news →Here’s what happened in crypto todayUncalled US House races could send more crypto allies to CongressStablecoin Drain, ETF Outflows Leave Bitcoin 'Running on Empty'Bitcoin Short-Term Holders Send $3.6 Billion in BTC to Exchanges at a LossDOTS · MUSE · GROK BOT · INSTINCT · GEMINI SPARK · OPENCLAW
MUSE United Airlines Blocks AI Agents Like Muse and Instinct From Booking FlightsMUSE Siri AI could become more like Meta’s Muse and ChatGPT Dots in the near futureMUSE United is the latest to block AI agents like Muse. These stocks have a mini relief rally.GROK BOT Grok Bot 1.0 Launches With Proactive AI Teammates for Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Video CallsOPENCLAW I locked down my OpenClaw agent with Claude Code – then dared it to escapeMore AI agent news →GROK BOT Grok Bot 1.0 launches with Slack integration and video call supportGROK BOT Grok Bot 1.0 Is Here: Your Questions AnsweredDOTS ChatGPT dots now let users pick which local computer runs a taskDOTS I tested OpenAI’s Dot and Anthropic’s Duet for weeks – and all I got was one helpful notificationDOTS Apple’s agentic Siri could rival ChatGPT Dots and Meta’s Muse by 2027AG TECH, FOOD AND THE MONEY BEHIND THEM
AI AI is taking over R&D: What this means for the food industryROBOTS Fira USA: from autonomous narrow-track tractors to 15-metre-wide spot sprayersROBOTS Study: Small field robots could cut onion growing costs by 75%ROBOTS Robots in the Orchard: Why Fruit Thinning Is the Next Big Test for Agricultural AutomationFUNDING South Korea’s SeaWith to Build $15M Cultivated Meat Facility in Food Tech HubMore farm & food news →ROBOTS Naïo extends robot Oz with new plug-planting implementAI Beyond Crop Scouting: How AI-Powered Drones Could Reshape Precision AgricultureFUNDING India’s AltM Nabs $10.3M to Upcycle Agricultural Waste Into Fossil-Free Cosmetics, Textiles & MoreROBOTS 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
- Abundant IntelligenceSam Altman · Sep 2025IN TODAY'S NEWS: DATA CENTERS
- The Urgency of InterpretabilityDario Amodei · Apr 2025IN TODAY'S NEWS: AI SAFETY
- Software 2.0Andrej Karpathy · Nov 2017IN TODAY'S NEWS: AI AND CODING
MEDICINE, WELLNESS, HOSPITALS AND THE FDA
Oura makes bet on AI in healthcare with $625M Counsel Health buySTAT+: Why this former ER doc thinks giving AI less information is sometimes betterGoogle Cloud debuts Gemini for healthcareSTAT+: MDCalc launches a ‘rumble strip’ for doctors using generative AI toolsSTAT+: Men’s use of chatbots for therapy, and earnings season highlightsMore AI in health →7 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 sickerAI 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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Build autonomous AI agents with Amazon Bedrock and Spring AI Semantic diffing of formal policies with anti-unification Using wearables to enable cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) risk profiling for personalized coaching AlphaGenome 2: Deciphering how cells read DNA to better understand disease ChatGPT Plus for veterans and servicemembersBotPsy: On-Device Personal Assistant with a Sub-Billion-Parameter Agentic Language Model How AI Helps Recyclers Turn Mixed Waste Into Reusable Material JioStar’s chief architect on AI discovery at 500M-user scale More AI labs news →Token Pooling-Aware Training for Multi-Vector Embedding Models Gemini 4 Carbon is now available
Introducing AlphaProof Code: a breakthrough in verifying complex software at depth Helping caregivers use AI in everyday life Work at the Frontier: AI’s effect on freelance work Pay for Hugging Face Hub with your Google Cloud Account Decision Models in Hugging Face
Exploring the world's languages with Language Explorer Gemini Robotics 2.5 accelerates real-world general dexterity
EUROPE Anthropic says AI is eroding Nvidia's CUDA lead, cutting an AMD chip switch from months to three days The DecoderThe US is winning the AI race. Jensen Huang could have blown it The VergeNVIDIA Expands Open Source Commitment With OpenShell Donation and New AI Infrastructure NVIDIAPractice 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 Tencent Launches Yuanbao Search, a Standalone AI Search Product at so.qq.comCHINA Alibaba Opens Qwen4-Max Preview on Token Plan, With a 1M-Token Context Until November 25OPENAI OpenAI Codex on Amazon BedrockGOOGLE Gemini Decisions APIGOOGLE Google joins the decision-model wave with Gemini Decision 1, scoring 1,000 questions in a single passMore LLM news →ANTHROPIC Taiwan’s chipmaking giant TSMC to invest $1B in Anthropic, OpenAIOPENAI OpenAI’s quarterly revenue reportedly crosses $10B for the first timeANTHROPIC Anthropic's IPO roadshow videoGOOGLE Google DeepMind just mathematically verified key parts of SignalCHINA US data brokers are selling half a billion dollars in RL training environments to Chinese AI labsGROK Grok-built apps exposed patient data, plaintext passwords, and SpaceXSI's own sales pipelineOPENAI Enterprise sales push OpenAI's quarterly revenue to $10 billion, though it still trails AnthropicGROK Elon Musk's Grok Build coding agent is leaking a serious amount of confidential dataGROK Grok Build coding agent leaks oodles of confidential info, some belonging to SpaceXSINEW IN HAVE I BEEN PWNED
YouHack: 7,160,849 accountsСберСпасибо (SberSpasibo): 3,288,711 accountsHarvard: 850,537 accountsAfD: 345,439 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 HOW GOVERNMENTS USE AI
Sovereign AI and British Business Bank invest in British firm developing the next generation of AI hardwareClosing 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 AlgorithmSMALL TEAMS TAKING ON THE GIANTS
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 TagAI NEWS
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Meta is losing its longtime head of infrastructure The Work Moves Outward How backlash and red tape continue to slow data centers post-Blue Wave CoreWeave turns to customer prepayments, shorter contracts to fund AI growth US corporate AI spending hits a new high in October, but growth slows to 1.65 percentWith $720M round, Britain’s Fractile gets a leg up in the race for AI chips A Startup Wants to Fight AI Bioweapons With AI The AO3 Shutdown Is Pitting Fanfic Readers Against Authors More AI news →Google’s Tabletop AI experiment lets you build custom collaboration apps Helsing built an AI system that prepares targets for weapons systems and says every decision will carry a human name
Databricks’ new AI agent tells CEO Ali Ghodsi the unvarnished truth Google’s AlphaGenome 2 zooms in on the cellular roots of disease Plurai wants to help AI agents work better using the same approach that helped get self-driving cars to roads Adobe’s AI experiments let you walk around in photos and interview your characters DeepL wants real-time translation to finally capture sarcasm and mood shifts
Ring cameras go mobile as Amazon debuts AI-powered security drone and robot What happens to mathematics when AI becomes an oracle? 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 The backlash about data centers might really just be about electricity
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WHO'S HIRING, WHO'S CUTTING, AND THE WORK ITSELF
Companies dole out mega paydays and luxury trips to compete for AI talentPeople can’t stop trolling AI job ‘interviewers’Australian companies face 'AI washing' claims after wave of job cuts, offshoringAI leadership training tools are most effective when paired with managerial supportMost solopreneurs turn to AI before hiring others, data suggests. Here’s whyThe AI hiring dilemma that could reshape the future of workVisier 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 workMore AI and jobs news →Managing AI Agents Like Employees: 6 Processes To RethinkAI’s Unexpected Impact on the Job MarketAs AI reshapes the workforce, boards face a governance challenge, says Deloitte Global SurveyAI-Driven Tech Layoffs Could Trigger a 1.6 Million Job RecessionCorporate Can Sugarcoat Layoffs All It Wants—Here’s How to Protect Your CareerWhite-Collar Hiring Hit Its Fastest Pace Since 2022 Despite AI Job FearsIs AI taking white-collar jobs? What the latest numbers tell usAmerica's newest small business owners with no employees are off to a hot start in AI eraNOW HIRING
1,372 open AI roles · 442 new this week · most wanted: Solutions & customer · top pay $850K
AMAZON Software Development Engineer, AWS Agentic AI Haifa, Haifa, ISRHARVEY Head of Legal Engineering, APAC SydneyADOBE 2027 University Graduate - Data Scientist San JoseANTHROPIC International Infrastructure Accounting Dublin, IECITI AI Engineer – Global Rates, APAC Local Markets Sales & Trading Singapore SingaporeAll active AI listings →Hiring for AI? List your jobs →SCHOOLS, TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND CAMPUSES
After Google warns schools about disabling AI feature, Chicago protesters say ‘we don’t want your Gemini’Classroom Technology Use: Separating Educational Screen Time From Personal UseHow K-12 IT teams can improve incident response times and neutralize cyber threatsMajority of students report misusing tech during school hoursRansomware Gang Says It Hacked Vanderbilt UniversityMore AI education news →TEACHER VOICE: The future of personalized learning cannot be built on technology aloneThe Day the Take-Home Essay Died: How I Stopped Grading AI and Started Designing Real LearningMemphis 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 ClassroomsTOP TECH, AI & BUSINESS PODCASTS THIS WEEK
RISING FAST Hard Fork up 994% on last week · now #2
- 1All-In: Freedom vs. Safety: Axon CEO Rick Smith on the Future of Policing975K views this week · 2 episodes
- 2Hard Fork: Everything You Need to Know About the Jensen Huang Spy Story395K views this week · 2 episodes NEW
- 3Prof G Pod: UCSF Psychologist: “Nobody’s Upset or Irritated. They’re Traumatized.”385K views this week · 5 episodes ▼1
- 4Moonshots: Jensen’s Spy Probe, Anthropic’s Debut Week, and Elon’s 30M Robot Workforce285K views this week · 2 episodes ▼1
- 5Dwarkesh Podcast: Which AI is the best liar?159K views this week · 1 episode NEW
China’s new military drone uses dart-like injections to treat wounded troops remotelyESTUN Robotics integrates RoboDK simulation software to accelerate European expansionCainiao introduces upgraded climbing robot with four-side retrieval and denser storageAgility Robotics completes merger and secures $465 million in capital ahead of Nasdaq listingI Saw the Future of Robotics in a Virtual Duck That Chases My CatMore robot news →Segway MUXI cargo e-bike $200 off in expanded Black Friday sale + Navimow robot deals, Anker eufy S340 4-cam kit $580, moreTesla overtakes Waymo in Texas as Robotaxi fleet performs shock flipPlurai wants to help AI agents work better using the same approach that helped get self-driving cars to roadsAI100 report released: embodied AI highlighted as grand challengeServe Robotics opens robot delivery network for others to build onHOLLYWOOD, MUSIC, TV AND GAMES
Elvis Presley Enterprises is putting Tennessee’s ELVIS Act to the test in its voice-imitation lawsuit against SunoBig Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning.TimeOmni-o1: Bidirectionally Coupling Time Series Foundation Models and LLMs for Multimodal Reasoning and ForecastingHouse House clarifies use of AI tools in Big Walk's "final stage of development"ONLINE AND BRICK-AND-MORTAR
Walmart, Zipline teaming up to launch 300 additional drone deliveryWHSmith deploying Wildix AI platformBUILDERS & RESEARCH
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