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 $64,791 ▼1.3%ETH $1,820 ▼0.7%SOL $71.41 ▼1.1%XRP $0.96 ▲0.6%24 hr · CoinGecko
Did prediction markets call the U.S. midterm election?: State of CryptoTether wants its gold token to rival ETFsHow $10,000 in stablecoins would have gained €420 without earning interestHow Wall Street Is Racing to Claim the Onchain DollarBitcoin now looks cheap by one measure after $1 billion in ETF outflowsMore crypto news →Enterprise blockchain is going to come back from the deadBitcoin ETFs Lose $2.1 Billion in November as Outflow Streak Hits Seven DaysHere’s what happened in crypto todayBitcoin falls to four-month low near $62K as crypto selloff deepensXRP crashes to its lowest since November 2024 as money leaves cryptoDOTS · MUSE · GROK BOT · INSTINCT · GEMINI SPARK · OPENCLAW
Uber's Secure AI Framework Governs Autonomous AI Agents Across Their LifecycleSlashVibe is an open-source workspace for AI agents, built to run your own codeMUSE I tested Meta Muse and ChatGPT Dots, and here's the one I'm sticking withDOTS ChatGPT Wallet lets OpenAI’s Dots agents make purchases for youCLAUDE Claude’s Duet agent is a little neurotic and surprisingly helpfulMore AI agent news →MUSE What is Meta Muse, and when could it come to India?MUSE Meta’s Muse AI agent can now make phone calls for US usersOPENCLAW I locked down my OpenClaw agent with Claude Code – then dared it to escapeDOTS I tested OpenAI’s Dot and Anthropic’s Duet for weeks – and all I got was one helpful notificationAG 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 AmyrisHow meat delivery companies use innovation to keep beef prices downAI USDA rolls out AI tool to catch crop report errorsBlitz Electric Weeder uses electricity and camera technology to control weedsClaas scoops up 2 awards at TOTY 2027, AgXeed wins again with AgBotTHE WEEK'S AI WRITING, ONE POST PER WRITER
NOTABLE ESSAYS
- Software 2.0Andrej Karpathy · Nov 2017IN TODAY'S NEWS: AI AND CODING
- ReflectionsSam Altman · Jan 2025IN TODAY'S NEWS: OPENAI
- Open Source AI Is the Path ForwardMark Zuckerberg · Jul 2024
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 toolsNew 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
EUROPE Firm linked to Jensen Huang's ex-lover reportedly brokered nearly $12 billion in Nvidia chip orders for China The DecoderAn overview of Jensen Huang’s messy days The VergeAsian 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 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 Learning
ANTHROPIC · OPENAI · GOOGLE · GROK · CHINA · OPEN MODELS
CHINA Huawei Details Kirin 9050's Balong AI Modem, Claiming Four-SIM Three-Standby and Faster UplinkANTHROPIC Anthropic CEO Amodei admits "there's a huge uncertainty in what's going to happen next year" days before a record IPOGOOGLE Gemini 4 Carbon takes the MathArena crown but costs 15 times more than GPT-6.1 SolANTHROPIC Anthropic says outdated prompting habits are slowing down Claude Opus 5.5OPENAI The OpenAI board member who fired Sam Altman says we still can’t trust AI CEOsMore LLM news →CHINA 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 RequestGROK SpaceXAI cuts about 60 Grok Imagine staff to push coding tools and agentsOPENAI OpenAI board member worries an AI "takeover" of society could be months awayOPEN llama.cpp v1.0.0 : A stronger foundation for the local AI ecosystemGROK 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)
AI COMPANIES AND PRODUCTS THAT SHUT DOWN OR WENT BANKRUPT
Entire US Airspace Shut Down Days After the FAA Rolled Out an AI Air Traffic Tool. Was It a Coincidence?LAWS, RULES AND HOW GOVERNMENTS USE AI
Export-banned Nvidia chips are behind China’s most powerful AI models — uh-oh, Jensen!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
GOOGLE I tested Dia browser – it beats Chrome’s built-in Gemini tool in one big wayMICROSOFT I replaced GitHub with a free, self-hosted alternative. Here's what I gained and lostADOBE 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 backMore David and Goliath stories →ADOBE The best Adobe Illustrator alternatives for all budgets and skill levelsGOOGLE I replaced Notion with TickTick on my Google Pixel to get faster daily task managementAI NEWS
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AI DJs Completely Kill My Groove The Work Moves Outward This AI Tamagotchi Turns Everyday Objects Into Needy Virtual Pets Meituan releases a 1.6-trillion-parameter agent model that never touched an Nvidia GPU The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make itBeware the New AI-Fueled Ransomware Boom No Pilots. Few Air Traffic Controllers. What Could Go Wrong? Amazon has a plan to index the world’s online shopping data More AI news →FAA 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 The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline 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
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WHO'S HIRING, WHO'S CUTTING, AND THE WORK ITSELF
Entrepreneur may be the best 'everyday job' of the AI future, says VC investor Alexa von TobelI helped grow a steel company from $750 million to $12 billion. CEOs should use AI before they grade employees on itThe $100,000+ AI Job Surging In Hiring Demand Right NowWhat job apocalypse? AI could add almost 2 million new jobs on net by 2030.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 scrutinyMore AI and jobs news →‘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 ProviderAI-related job creation to outpace losses by 2030, says GartnerFinance Jobs Training AI (Remote)People can’t stop trolling AI job ‘interviewers’NOW HIRING
1,396 open AI roles · 423 new this week · most wanted: Solutions & customer · top pay $850K
AMAZON Machine Learning Engineer, CreativeFlux, AI Studios New York, New York, USAPERPLEXITY Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agent Engine) San FranciscoBANK OF AMERICA Senior Engineer - AI & Intelligent Automation Platforms 2 LocationsOPENAI Certification Architect San FranciscoCAPITAL ONE Manager, Data Scientist - Optimization & Experimentation 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 379% on last week · now #13
- 1All-In: Jensen OUT as Nvidia CEO: "Spy" Scandal, Export Restrictions, Market Impact971K views this week · 2 episodes
- 2Hard Fork: Inside the Downfall of the Most Powerful Man in A.I.640K views this week · 2 episodes ▲2
- 3Moonshots: Jensen’s Departure, NVIDIA’s Succession Plan, AI Doomer Response, and Demis Talks RSI461K views this week · 2 episodes
- 4Prof G Pod: Jensen Huang Bet Nvidia on China. Now What?440K views this week · 5 episodes ▼2
- 5TBPN: Tech World Debates Jensen’s Exit206K views this week · 12 episodes NEW
DHL Supply Chain pilots adaptive robotics and AI orchestration in warehouse operationsGoogle DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics 2.5 with improved dexterity and industrial capabilitiesAvride reaches one million robot deliveries as network expands across USHigh altitude, bitter cold, zero drivers: autonomous trucks take on Tibetan mineTesla Cybercab orders open at $29,990 + $299/mo, only in Robotaxi zonesMore robot news →Build a Robot Pick-and-Place Simulation with SimReady AssetsSix AGIBOT G2 Robots Complete 1,730 Tasks in 24-Hour Shanghai Convenience Store TrialHow Rhoda AI is using video data to create generalized AI models for robotsRobot Talk Episode 170 – Robots in the real world, with Daniela ShchegelskayaNarwal builds robot vacuums to serve regional needsHOLLYWOOD, MUSIC, TV AND GAMES
‘Behemoth!’s Humanity Gave Pedro Pascal “Tremendous Amount Of Hope” Amid AI Boom, Tony Gilroy Wants To “Blow Up AI Centers… At The Voting Box”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 moreMore 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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