BIGGEST AI RAISES THIS WEEK
- OpenAI $11B
- Mirendil $1B · Series A
- Mercor $750M · Series D
- Fractile $720M · Series CThrive Capital, Founders Fund
- UFORCE $700M · Series A
- Agile Robots $500M · Series F
TOP INVESTORS · 30 DAYS
- Y Combinator 4 deals · $133.9M in rounds
- General Catalyst 3 deals · $300M in rounds
- Heartcore 3 deals · $24.4M in rounds
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 2 deals · $265M in rounds
BITCOIN, ETHEREUM, STABLECOINS AND THE RULES
BTC $64,736 ▼3.0%ETH $1,815 ▼3.8%SOL $71.24 ▼5.3%XRP $0.97 ▼2.2%24 hr · CoinGecko
Solana’s “retired” validators still vote with 15% of active stakeXRP crashes to its lowest since November 2024 as money leaves cryptoA forced Bitcoin Lightning exit can be cheap and still leave you waiting daysBitcoin’s oil relief has a catch: more oil at sea, less on landKava Lend loses roughly $3.8 million to hack, sending KAVA token down nearly 40%More crypto news →Louisiana AG calls CFTC chair an ‘obsequious standard bearer’ for prediction markets following agency lawsuitBitcoin ETFs lose $1 billion for the second week in a row as crypto funds, except one, continue bleedingEthereum scaling project MegaETH slashes staff by 20% as it pursues AI businessWhat Is Canton Network? The Privacy Blockchain Built for Wall StreetKazakhstan plans tokenized government bonds in first quarter after $22 million note saleDOTS · MUSE · GROK BOT · INSTINCT · GEMINI SPARK · OPENCLAW
MUSE I tested Meta Muse and ChatGPT Dots, and here's the one I'm sticking withMUSE Meta’s Muse Now Sends Most AI Agent Requests One Security Firm SeesDOTS ChatGPT Wallet lets OpenAI’s Dots agents make purchases for youCLAUDE Claude’s Duet agent is a little neurotic and surprisingly helpfulGROK BOT xAI prioritizes AI coding tools and its Grok Bot agent productMore AI agent news →MUSE What is Meta Muse, and when could it come to India?GROK BOT Grok Bot Did a Week of Painful Work in 5 Minutes for Elon Musk’s MotherGROK 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 escapeAG TECH, FOOD AND THE MONEY BEHIND THEM
AI AI isn’t replacing farmworkers; it’s upgrading their jobsTrade tensions, El Niño and other forces could make or break agtech adoption in 202721st.Bio Files for EU Approval of Animal-Free Whey Protein, Calls for Faster RegulationFUNDING Agrifood Signals: Applied Carbon nabs $72m for biochar, redalpine & Just Climate close fundsFUNDING Amyris bets on sweet proteins with Oobli acquisitionMore farm & food news →Oobli: US Sweet Protein Startup Acquired by Precision Fermentation Player AmyrisAI USDA rolls out AI tool to catch crop report errorsAI 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%THE WEEK'S AI WRITING, ONE POST PER WRITER
NOTABLE ESSAYS
- ReflectionsSam Altman · Jan 2025IN TODAY'S NEWS: OPENAI
- Open Source AI Is the Path ForwardMark Zuckerberg · Jul 2024IN TODAY'S NEWS: OPEN MODELS
- Software 2.0Andrej Karpathy · Nov 2017IN TODAY'S NEWS: AI AND CODING
MEDICINE, WELLNESS, HOSPITALS AND THE FDA
Patient comfort with AI’s clinical decisions tied to provider oversight: GallupHow AI Is Helping Care Teams Get Patients the Right Care, SoonerDespite concerns, AI becomes daily fixture in physician workflowsIs AI Really Saving Hospitals Money? A New Study Raises Questions About the Cost of AI-Driven CareSTAT+: New documents raise more questions about Medicare’s AI prior-authorization experimentMore AI in health →Oura makes bet on AI in healthcare with $625M Counsel Health buySTAT+: Why this former ER doc thinks giving AI less information is sometimes betterSTAT+: MDCalc launches a ‘rumble strip’ for doctors using generative AI toolsSTAT+: Men’s use of chatbots for therapy, and earnings season highlightsNew Campaign Wants AI Applications To Look Beyond SpeedAI LABS
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Production MLOps at GS Caltex with Amazon SageMaker Canvas, part 1 Architecture patterns for fast session startup on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime Advancing science & engineering with Antigravity’s /teamwork Build a Robot Pick-and-Place Simulation with SimReady Assets XYBench: Helping with the problem behind the questionIntroducing ChatGPT Wallet How Amplitude ships product improvements in 1–2 days with OpenAI LLMON: An LLM-Native Markup Language, now in Granite 4.1 3B and 8B More AI labs news →Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen Gondola doubles revenue as its team builds more with Codex
Holiday Extras is rethinking what it can build with Codex Supporting research on AI and children’s safety Using wearables to enable cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) risk profiling for personalized coaching AlphaGenome 2: Deciphering how cells read DNA to better understand disease How AI Helps Recyclers Turn Mixed Waste Into Reusable Material
Gemini 4 Carbon is now available NVIDIA Expands Open Source Commitment With OpenShell Contribution and New AI Infrastructure Introducing AlphaProof Code: a breakthrough in verifying complex software at depth Opening the datasets behind our AI weather models
Asian governments react to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s exit TechCrunchJensen Huang and the decline of the visionary showman founder CEO The VergeINDIA Nvidia scandal looms over US-China AI talks Economic TimesINDIA Jensen Huang exit and US scrutiny imperil $3 billion in Chinese AI projects reliant on Nvidia Economic TimesJensen Huang’s departure blasts big hole in AI startup funding, VCs and founders say TechCrunchRoute coding agent requests to the right model on Amazon Bedrock with NVIDIA NeMo Switchyard AWS Machine LearningExport-banned Nvidia chips are behind China’s most powerful AI models — uh-oh, Jensen! TechCrunchJensen Huang and the End of the Founder Fairy Tale Wired
ANTHROPIC · OPENAI · GOOGLE · GROK · CHINA · OPEN MODELS
OPENAI The OpenAI board member who fired Sam Altman says we still can’t trust AI CEOsANTHROPIC The Claude DelusionGROK SpaceXAI cuts about 60 Grok Imagine staff to push coding tools and agentsCHINA The Endless Frontier Open-Sources Fx-Bio-1031, a Qwen-Based Model That Runs Bioinformatics AnalysesCHINA Tencent Hunyuan's Hy Realtime Voice Model Decides When to Search and Can Sing on RequestMore LLM news →OPENAI OpenAI rebuilt AI shopping from scratch with ChatGPT WalletOPEN llama.cpp v1.0.0 : A stronger foundation for the local AI ecosystemCHINA ByteDance’s AI chip chief has submitted his resignation, report saysGROK Elon Musk’s AI Group Guts Grok Video Generation TeamGOOGLE Google rolls out Gemini 4 Hydrogen, finally replacing 3.8 FlashGOOGLE Google faces calls for AI moratoriums in schools after Gemini pilot backlashNEW IN HAVE I BEEN PWNED
CastleRAT: 179,745 accountsYouHack: 7,160,849 accountsСберСпасибо (SberSpasibo): 3,288,711 accountsHarvard: 850,537 accountsBreach data: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
LAWS, RULES AND HOW GOVERNMENTS USE AI
Prohibited AI Practices under the AI ActUnited Kingdom-Norway Joint Statement of intent on Artificial IntelligenceGilbert + Tobin rethinks the business of law with AISovereign AI and British Business Bank invest in British firm developing the next generation of AI hardwareSMALL TEAMS TAKING ON THE GIANTS
ADOBE Accenture vs. Adobe: Which Technology Stock Is a Better Buy for 2027?OPENAI Canva Craft vs ChatGPT: I tested both free AI image generators with 5 prompts to see which is betterADOBE I ditched Adobe Acrobat for a self-hosted alternative and I won't be going backGOOGLE I replaced Notion with TickTick on my Google Pixel to get faster daily task managementTHE BIG APPS After a month with 4 Notion alternatives, only one beat Notion on databasesAI NEWS
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Beware the New AI-Fueled Ransomware Boom The Work Moves Outward Anthropic can already retrain Mythos with "a fraction of the compute originally needed," says former researcher Coxon No Pilots. Few Air Traffic Controllers. What Could Go Wrong? Amazon has a plan to index the world’s online shopping dataFAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace AI agent startup LangChain hits $3B valuation Microsoft 365 Crawls Back to Life After a 24-Hour Outage More AI news →OpenAI board member worries an AI "takeover" of society could be months away The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline
What’s really at stake in the Jensen Huang saga ElevenLabs’ new app combines meeting note-taking and dictation for teams Nvidia privately confirmed it could track chips to fight smuggling, even as industry publicly questioned feasibility Ars Live: What drone attacks on data centers mean for modern life in the cloud Google pushes privacy angle as Gemini-powered smartglasses debut starting at $395
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WHO'S HIRING, WHO'S CUTTING, AND THE WORK ITSELF
Anthropic upgrades Claude Code Projects to run parallel AI workersJob applicants say they are using AI to discover, investigate companiesWeek in review: Can AI root out manager bias?Microsoft’s massive outage puts its AI-driven layoffs under scrutiny‘They’ve cut all entry-level jobs’: unlikely seaside town on frontline of AI threatAI-Driven Tech Layoffs Could Trigger a 1.6 Million Job RecessionSpaceX Commits $74B To New AI Campuses While Musk Eyes Hiring Former Nvidia CEO, Starship Readies Flight 15Ellavox Is Now Ellaworx AI - Reflecting Growth from Voice AI Specialists to Enterprise AI Workforce ProviderMore AI and jobs news →AI-related job creation to outpace losses by 2030, says GartnerFinance Jobs Training AI (Remote)People can’t stop trolling AI job ‘interviewers’Australian companies face 'AI washing' claims after wave of job cuts, offshoringMost 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 LeadersDoes anyone feel safe from layoffs right now?Managing AI Agents Like Employees: 6 Processes To RethinkNOW HIRING
1,398 open AI roles · 420 new this week · most wanted: Solutions & customer · top pay $850K
SALESFORCE Talent Advisor, AI Labs Canada - TorontoPERPLEXITY Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agent Engine) San FranciscoADOBE 2027 Intern - Research Scientist LondonANTHROPIC Engineering Manager, Billing Platform San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WABANK OF AMERICA Senior Engineer - AI & Intelligent Automation Platforms 2 LocationsAll active AI listings →Hiring for AI? List your jobs →SCHOOLS, TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND CAMPUSES
AI tools might help teachers. Students? Not so much, research review finds‘AI Slop’ Papers Published Under Prominent Academics’ NamesGoogle faces calls for AI moratoriums in schools after Gemini pilot backlashAfter 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 UseMore AI education news →How K-12 IT teams can improve incident response times and neutralize cyber threatsMajority of students report misusing tech during school hoursTEACHER 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.TOP TECH, AI & BUSINESS PODCASTS THIS WEEK
RISING FAST The Cognitive Revolution up 460% on last week · now #14
- 1All-In: Jensen OUT as Nvidia CEO: "Spy" Scandal, Export Restrictions, Market Impact820K views this week · 2 episodes
- 2Hard Fork: Inside the Downfall of the Most Powerful Man in A.I.625K views this week · 2 episodes NEW
- 3Moonshots: Jensen’s Departure, NVIDIA’s Succession Plan, AI Doomer Response, and Demis Talks RSI426K views this week · 2 episodes
- 4Prof G Pod: Jensen Huang Bet Nvidia on China. Now What?398K views this week · 5 episodes ▼2
- 5TBPN: Tech World Debates Jensen’s Exit199K views this week · 12 episodes NEW
US’ top rival’s jet drone that can strike beyond 500 miles intercepted using Western air defenseGermany moves to replace Chinese drones with European-made military alternativesOpenAI reassigns robotics researchers to other teams as general-purpose models might make specialized robotics AI unnecessaryRunway's open-source Praxis-1 turns video AI into a robot controllerHumble Robotics raises $51 million to expand autonomous electric freight operationsMore robot news →Wing invests $125 million in US drone manufacturing to support nationwide expansionZipline raises an unbelievable $1.5 billion to build nationwide drone delivery networkTesla Cybercab orders open at $29,990 + $299/mo, only in Robotaxi zonesBuild a Robot Pick-and-Place Simulation with SimReady AssetsSix AGIBOT G2 Robots Complete 1,730 Tasks in 24-Hour Shanghai Convenience Store TrialHOLLYWOOD, MUSIC, TV AND GAMES
Reservoir expands copyright lawsuits against Suno and Anthropic to more than 2,500 songs combinedHow to protect your IP against the army of AI clonesCD Projekt Red used AI to alter the voice of Geralt's original Polish actor in Witcher 3: Songs of the Past"It's a wild situation" – An investor and publisher perspective on the rise of AI copycats, the discoverability crisis, and moreThis Startup Is Betting on AI Microdramas to Get More Black Stories in HollywoodMore AI entertainment news →beatBread forms advisory board including executives from Meta and SunoONLINE AND BRICK-AND-MORTAR
Asics uses AI-powered drones to recover misplaced inventory 60% fasterWalmart more than doubles planned drone delivery sitesTarget has an AI chief. Does every retailer need one?Hiring AI search help for a U.S. beauty launchBUILDERS & RESEARCH
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