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Photon Raises USD 4.5M to Replace Mobile Apps with AI Agents
Photon buried the mobile app on September 17, literally. The San Francisco startup rented a church, hired speakers, and lowered a coffin stuffed with app icons into the ground as part of what it billed as a developer day.
Ex-Google, SpaceX PM's startup Satlyt raises USD 8M to run AI on orbit
Satlyt, a startup building software to run AI workloads on satellites, has closed an $8 million seed round, founder Rama Afullo told TechCrunch.
Flow Engineering Raises USD 50M at USD 750M Valuation From Valor, Sequoia, Atreides
Flow Engineering closed a $50 million Series B on Wednesday, pushing its valuation to $750 million just over a year after its last raise.
Google's Gemini 4 Initially Restricted to 'Trusted Cyber Defenders
Google unveiled its newest frontier AI model on Tuesday, Gemini 4 Argon, and immediately put a lock on most of it.
Tech CEOs Plan "Mass-Market" AI Agents for Billions
Sam Altman stood on stage at OpenAI's DevDay Tuesday and told 2,500 developers packed into the venue that autonomous agents are about to change how people use computers.
FTC probes OpenAI, Anthropic over consumer protection concerns
The Federal Trade Commission is preparing to send legally binding document demands to OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs, according to government sources cited by the New York Post.
Entrepreneurs Find Instinct's Recommendations Off-Putting
Instinct rolled out a new feature called Instinct Selections on Tuesday night, and by Wednesday morning some of its users were already souring on it.
Meta's Muse AI Agent Exposes Its Filesystem to Users
Meta launched Muse earlier this month as its answer to the AI agent race, promising a bot that could handle emails, online shopping, and small business chores while keeping user data locked down.
Trump, Tech CEOs Sign AI Code of Conduct Calling for Independent Audits
President Trump signed an AI code of conduct at the White House on Wednesday alongside a lineup of tech executives, including Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk.
OpenAI Will Remain Private Until Its AI Is Safer, Altman Says
Sam Altman put a number on nothing Tuesday. Asked at OpenAI's DevDay when the company might finally go public, the CEO gave reporters a condition instead of a date: no IPO until OpenAI can make confident claims about model safety.
xAI's Recent Domain Transfer Fuels OpenAI 'Dots' Troll Speculation
OpenAI rolled out a new AI agent called Dots on Tuesday, complete with a bright, blob-shaped avatar meant to make an always-on assistant feel a little less sterile.
OpenAI's Dots Are GPT-6 Agents That Run From Their Own Cloud Computers
OpenAI used its DevDay keynote to introduce dots, a new class of agent built on GPT-6 Astra that doesn't shut down when you close the app.
OpenAI Launches Dots AI Agents That Learn While They Work
OpenAI used its DevDay keynote on Tuesday to unveil Dots, a new line of always-on AI assistants built to compete directly with Meta's Muse. The timing is not subtle.
OpenAI Announces 1.2 Billion Weekly ChatGPT Users, Launches USD 500 Pro Tier
Sam Altman took the stage in San Francisco on September 29th for OpenAI's annual DevDay, and the numbers alone made the case for why the company still dominates the conversation around AI.
Wabi pivots from app maker to AI-powered messaging tool
Wabi is changing what it wants to be. The startup, which launched by letting anyone type a prompt and get a working app, is retooling itself as an AI messenger, one that still builds interfaces on the fly but wraps them inside a chat experience...
Instinct Founder: Over 50% of Platform Transactions Are Travel Bookings
Noah Shinn built Instinct as an invite-only booking agent, and on a recent podcast with investor Patrick O'Shaughnessy, he put a number on what people are actually using it for.
Meta's Muse AI Shared YouTuber's Address to Stranger
A stranger showed up at Matt Robb's apartment this weekend expecting to buy something off Facebook Marketplace. Robb hadn't agreed to sell anything to him, hadn't set a price, and hadn't given him the address.
House Democrat Presses U.S. Intelligence on Chinese AI Development
Rep. Ro Khanna sent letters this week to Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and three Chinese AI companies, DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI, asking a blunt question: what happens if an AI system slips out of human control.
Reco raises USD 55M to pivot from SaaS mapping to broader AI agent security
Reco just raised $55 million in a Series C led by Adams Street Partners, betting that the market for securing AI agents will keep growing faster than any single vendor can address alone.
Anthropic Warns of AI Risks and Heavy Client Reliance in IPO Filing
Anthropic wants Wall Street to hand it a $2 trillion valuation. Its own paperwork spends pages explaining why that might be a bad idea.
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