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Deepseek's AI model draws CATL, Tencent funding ahead of 2027 IPO target
Deepseek is closing in on at least $12 billion in fresh funding, according to Bloomberg, a number that dwarfs the Chinese AI startup's original target of $7.5 billion at a $75 billion valuation.
DeepSeek of the West' Model Launch Includes 5-Day Agent Building Course
Reflection AI raised almost $5 billion and hit a $25 billion valuation without ever putting out a public model. That changes today.
Cohere’s North 2 AI Control Room Works With Any Model
Cohere rebuilt its enterprise platform around a single idea: let AI agents run the work, not just answer questions.
Anthropic Spent USD 660 Million on Donations in Six Months
Anthropic shared financial documents with potential investors ahead of a planned IPO, and The Information got a look at them. The numbers show a company giving away money at a scale no other American corporation matches right now.
MCP Agent Protocol Raises Chain-of-Trust Security Risk
Google has one. So does JP Morgan Chase. Rapid7, Weviate, and France's interministerial digital directorate do too.
Wikimedia Links May Outage to 'Rogue' OpenAI Bots
The Wikimedia Foundation says it has found "rogue" AI agents operated by OpenAI poking around its platforms, and it thinks the activity may have played a role in a partial outage back in May.
Reflection AI's Beam Model Matches Chinese Rivals at Lower Compute Cost
Reflection AI came out Monday with Beam, the Brooklyn startup's first frontier open-weight model, and the pitch is blunt: it matches the top Chinese open models on reasoning benchmarks while costing far less to run.
Meta, Microsoft slash Claude spending as user base halves
Microsoft had been on pace to spend more than $1 billion a year on Anthropic's Claude, according to The Information. That number is now shrinking fast.
Instinct's AI Agent Enters Group Chats, Bypassing Account Requirement
Instinct, the AI agent startup now valued at $10 billion after its latest funding round, announced Monday that it's bringing its agent into group chats, and friends don't need an Instinct account to join in.
Sam Altman says AI risks are worth the benefits
Sam Altman isn't promising a clean rollout for artificial intelligence, and he isn't pretending otherwise.
OpenAI Tests Visual Ads on Image Results, Labels Them Clearly
OpenAI will start showing display ads next to images that ChatGPT generates, the company said, marking its latest push into advertising since introducing the format earlier this year. The ads go live later this month, limited to the U.S.
OpenAI Safety Insider Describes 'Broken' Culture
David Robinson spent three and a half years at OpenAI writing the documents meant to catch problems before they became disasters.
The Download: AI’s Popularity Paradox and EmTech Future 2026
Will Douglas Heaven has a theory about why people keep using a technology they claim to despise, and it started with a conversation he had over the summer with the CEO of Springboards, a startup building a large language model meant to generate a...
Chinese AI Models Echo State Views, Dodge Sensitive Topics
Ask a Chinese AI model about Tiananmen Square, Taiwan, or Xinjiang, and the odds of getting a straight answer are low.
Uber's AI Agents Shift From Pull to Push With New Voice Assistant
Three companies rolled out AI agents in September that don't wait to be asked. Meta's Muse launched September 8, handling bookings and emails while the app sits closed, checking in on its own through WhatsApp.
Jev Hits Record Adoption on Vercel AI Gateway
TypeSafe AI's Jev became the fastest-adopted model on Vercel's AI Gateway since the platform started tracking usage, according to the company's own numbers.
Shivon Zilis Comments on Split From Elon Musk
Shivon Zilis found out the way a lot of exes do now: an unfollow notification. On Thursday, the Neuralink executive and mother of four of Elon Musk's children confirmed on X that she and Musk had split, quote-tweeting a post from "Big Tech Alert,"...
Suno AI music generator adds integrated speech to its tracks
Suno built its reputation on turning text prompts into full songs, drums, vocals, mixing, all of it. Now the company wants to handle something plainer: just a voice, talking.
AI Agents Store Team Workflows and Meeting Summaries
Good morning, and welcome to our 6,908 new readers. Tavus just gave people one more reason to second-guess what's on the other end of a video call.
OpenAI's Altman Says New Agent Is a Premium Product
Sam Altman stood onstage at OpenAI's annual DevDay and introduced Dots, a blobby, big-eyed AI agent powered by GPT-6 Astra that he said was "inspired by the cool agents that we all watched in movies growing up." The pitch was clear from the staging...
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