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Aaron Holmes / The Information: A profile of Microsoft EVP of Copilot Charles Lamanna, a potential Satya Nadella successor; a source says Microsoft is on track to pay Anthropic $2B+ per year — In the
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: An interview with ex-DeepMind scientist David Silver on his startup Ineffable, building an AI “super learner” using RL as an alternative path to LLMs, and more — Th
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils its third-gen in-house AI chip, the Maia 300, built on TSMC's N2P process node and aimed at serving as its “primary AI inference system” — The new Maia 300 ch
Bloomberg: Sources: DeepSeek agrees to lead robotic AI startup Winverse AI's seed funding round of tens of millions of dollars, valuing the startup at ~$400M post-money — DeepSeek aims to lead the fir
Tony Diver / Telegraph: Sources: the US restores the UK AISI's access to the latest US models for safety testing, after ordering OpenAI and Anthropic to stop sharing models last month — US had blocked
Achint Srivastava / Command Line: Microsoft unveils Microsoft-Decision-1, a fast decision-scoring model trained on Qwen3.5-9B, and says it will soon rebase it on MAI, OpenAI, and other models — Decisi
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: PitchBook: robotics and physical AI companies have raised ~$48B YTD, as they gather training data from people completing tasks in factories, offices, and homes — ‘
CBS News: Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on the Iran school strike and AI targeting, the DOD dropping Anthropic, AI liability, effective altruism, and more — The following is the full transcript o
Alex Heath / Sources: Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says AI companies are “starting to do phones” and asking Qualcomm to support running 100B-parameter local LLMs continuously by 2028 — Cristiano Amon o
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at ~7B; Anthropic had decided against acquiring Decart for ~6B in September — San Francisco comp
CBS News: A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access — A cadre of elite techies, fin
Bloomberg: A look at differing revenue calculations of Anthropic and OpenAI, as Anthropic books gross sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI records only its net share — When measuring the race be
Adam Morgan / Wired: Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more — Workers at three m
New York Times: Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed — The Philadelphia Polic
Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny — Donald Trump's administ
Emily Forlini / Fortune: Anthropic is setting up a “presidential engagement” program for the 2028 US elections that will offer AI policy education to candidates in both parties — Anthropic is setting
Bloomberg: Jev developer TypeSafe AI raised ~870M led by a16z at a 7.5B valuation with Sequoia and angel investors also participating; ~33% of the Fortune 500 use Jev — TypeSafe AI, the startup behind
Tobias Mann / The Register: Nvidia commits $1B over five years to build out the US' “capacity for super intelligence R&D” in fields like quantum computing, healthcare, and energy security — Commitment
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Sabi, which is building a baseball cap that uses 100K non-contact neuro-sensors to convert neural signals into text prompts for AI systems, raised a $50M seed — Palo Alto-b
Eli Tan / New York Times: Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's decision to launch Muse despite safety concerns, after seeing that AI startup Instinct's similar agent product gained traction — Meta had del
Maria Curi / Axios: Sources: top execs at Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt following a catastrophic AI event — - The first example of significan
Brenda Goh / Reuters: The Chinese developer of ARTEX says they have converted the AI agent into a closed-source project after CrowdStrike said it was used to hack South Korean banks — The Chinese deve
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: Warehouse robotics startup Ultra raised a 12M seed and a 50M Series A, and expands its deal with Physical Intelligence to supply AI software for its robots — Finance edito
Cade Metz / New York Times: A look at Emeryville, CA-based Atomic Machines, which is training AI on materials and designs to revamp how microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are built — Atomic Machine
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: AI hardware startup Natura unveils Interface, a 99 smart ring that connects to AI agents and apps, including Claude, ChatGPT, Muse, Grok Bot, and Instinct — Meet Interface, a
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: AI retail trading agent startup Catalyst raised a $30M seed led by Sequoia and says a pilot generated hundreds of millions in trading volume over two weeks — Justin Zheng is
Ashley Campion / CrowdStrike: Analysis: the hacker who targeted South Korean banks is likely Chinese-speaking, financially motivated, and used LLMs and open-source Chinese agentic tool ARTEX — CrowdSt
Anthropic: Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, a free opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects; its AI-generated reports are sent without human review — We're launching OSS Scanner,
Sam Sabin / Axios: Anthropic launches the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program to provide AI models, threat research, and on-site support, starting with CrowdStrike and others — Anthropic is launch
Hayden Field / The Verge: Anthropic updates its usage policy to ban “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude; ending chats is “the primary enforcement mechanism” — The usage po
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Arena, which develops the popular AI model leaderboard, raised 200M at a 3.1B valuation, up from 1.7B in January, and launches an Alignment Index — Arena Intelligence Inc., th
Financial Times: Docs: OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was nearing 50B at the end of September, well below the 70B reported by the media based on investor docs — AI giant recently told in
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Google Cloud unveils a universal Gemini agent to handle multi-day enterprise workflows in Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack that supports several AI models — Google is un
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google debuts Google AI Edge Foresight, a local macOS note-taking app for meetings that uses its 740M-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 model and Gemma 4 assistant — Earlier in April
Anniek Bao / CNBC: Manus' parent Butterfly Effect says it raised 500M+, led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, in its first funding since Meta was forced to unwind its Manus buyout — AI agent startup Ma
CNBC: Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave, and other AI stocks fell after a report that OpenAI's annualized revenue at September's end was $20B less than previously reported — Shares of Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeav
Bloomberg: Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $40B — Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug di
Bloomberg: USV raised 900M, including a 500M early-stage fund, up from $275M in 2024, cuts general partnership to four investors, and aims to lead more AI rounds — New York City-based venture firm Uni
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: AI startup acquisitions by AI startups hit 195 through September 29, up 14% from all of 2025, but the number of buyers grew just 2%; OpenAI was the most active — So
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Anthropic cuts Sonnet 5.5 cache read price from 0.20 to 0.10 and adds monthly API credits: 100 for Max 5x, 200 for Max 20x, up to 500 shared by Team users — The model start
Anthropic: Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, the first Haiku model with effort controls, for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summary and classification requests — Introducing Claude Haiku 5.
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: Anthropic prices Haiku 5.5 at 0.10/1M input and 0.50/1M output tokens for requests up to 100K tokens, and 0.50 and 2.50 above, vs. 1 and 5 for Haiku 4.5 — Anthropic
Grace Kay / The Information: Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use the “best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno” — Elon Musk announced on Tuesday night that Spac
Jay Peters / The Verge: Google launches Playground, a browser-based, no-code AI game creation platform available to US users aged 18+, powered by Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria — Google Playground is
Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are “chilling those who remain at OpenAI” — I
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Mecka, which collects human motion data to train humanoid robots, raised a $60M Series B led by Sequoia, with participation from Nvidia, M12, and others — Mecka AI, a start
Krystal Hu / Reuters: Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs invest 300M and the US invests 500M+ in Zuckerberg-backed Biohub to build open biology datasets for AI training — The US government and
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Microsoft opens preorders for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, with 128GB of unified memory to run local models with 120B+ parameters, shipping in November — Microso
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: Nous Research, which makes the open-source Hermes AI agent that has hit 22M+ downloads since February, raised 90M at a 1.2B valuation to expand to enterprises —
OpenAI: OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, a new feature that includes graphics and interactive elements like charts, buttons, and forms in answers — Last month we introduced the f
@openai: OpenAI says GPT-6 in ChatGPT's Chat tab is powered by GPT-6 Sol for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers and GPT-6 Luna for Free and Go tiers — GPT-6 with Intelligent UI rolls out global
Reuters: OpenAI's first report on teen ChatGPT use says teens spend under 15 minutes a day on average on the chatbot, with less than 2% using it for 3+ hours straight — Teens spend under 15 minutes a
Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: OpenRouter: the share of business spending between OpenAI and Anthropic models was roughly even in September, vs. Anthropic commanding a 75% share in January — Bo
The Information: Source: Nvidia considered a last-minute OpenRouter bid, telling its leadership it was prepared to make a generous offer, but OpenRouter didn't want to wait — This July, Nvidia caught
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Broadcom has been working to arrange more than $50B in financing for OpenAI's custom AI chip; Oracle is in talks on financing for a big chip purchase — Apollo, Blackstone
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Stuut, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise order-to-cash cycles and serves 150+ clients, raised a 52.5M Series B led by Insight, for 93M total funding — Artificia
Olivia Moore / Andreessen Horowitz: A look at consumer AI trends: ChatGPT has 3x more US subscribers than Claude or Gemini, the top 1% of spenders drive 19.5% of spend, and AI agents gain traction — T
Lee Harris / Financial Times: Analysis: insurers brace for multimillion-dollar claims caused by rogue AI agents, amid concern that Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and others could be held liable — Insurers
Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Anthropic expands its Claude Startups program with 45K in discounts and credits via the Claude Startup Stack, a 1,000 API credit, and a year of Claude Team — Anthropic on Tuesday