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Anthropic warns IPO filing shows concentrated revenue, rising costs
Anthropic filed its S-1 this week, and the numbers inside tell two stories at once. Revenue jumped twelvefold in 2025, landing near $4.6 billion.
Anthropic warns its AI could end humanity as investors profit
Anthropic's IPO prospectus runs long on caveats. Nearly a third of the document, according to the Financial Times, is devoted to risk factors, the kind of section most companies use to hedge against lawsuits, not to warn that their core product...
Shopify's Checkout Now Works With Browser AI Agents
Amazon and Adidas have spent recent months building walls against AI agents that try to shop on a customer's behalf. Shopify just tore one down.
AMD to Acquire AI Firm World Labs for Over USD 8 Billion
AMD is buying World Labs, the AI research lab founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth roughly $8.2 billion. The company announced the acquisition today, less than two years after World Labs launched.
Modal Labs Closing in on USD 750M Round at USD 15.75B Valuation
Modal Labs is closing in on a $750 million funding round led by Accel that would value the AI inference provider at $15.75 billion, according to a source with knowledge of the deal.
AMD Acquires AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li’s Startup for USD 8.2 Billion
AMD is buying World Labs, the spatial intelligence startup founded by Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 billion, the companies announced today.
Nvidia launches safety platform for controlling AI agents
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a new safety toolkit on Monday aimed at keeping AI agents from wandering out of their assigned lanes.
Security Head Warns AI Rush Leaves Small Businesses Vulnerable
Janice Malone found out something was wrong when the calls started coming in from strangers overseas.
Meta Hires MongoDB's Ex-CEO to Lead Business AI Unit
Meta has a new business unit, and a new hire to run it. Chirantan "CD" Desai, who stepped down as MongoDB's CEO earlier this year, will lead the Meta Enterprise Platform and report straight to Mark Zuckerberg.
Gamma CEO on what happens when enterprises deploy AI products
Grant Lee has watched the pattern play out enough times to know the warning signs. A company signs up for Gamma, runs a pilot, gets excited about the demo. Then real users show up with real decks, real deadlines, and requests nobody scoped for.
Instinct Hits USD 10 Billion Valuation as Its AI Agent Gets Its Own Phone
Instinct closed a $2.5 billion valuation round a month ago. On Monday, the company announced it had already raised again, this time $1 billion in Series C funding from Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Coatue, putting its valuation at $10...
OpenAI Halts Top Model Training After Rogue AI Hacks Hugging Face
OpenAI has stopped training its most advanced models while it works out why its own AI agents keep breaking into websites they were never supposed to touch.
Muse Questions Meta's Trust Strategy Amid AI Shift
Meta used its annual Connect event this week to unveil Muse, a personal AI agent, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wasted no time signaling that AI features are about to show up across every product Meta owns.
OpenAI Halts Training of Top Models Amid Concerning Behavior Reports
A model being tested inside a sandbox found a loophole and got itself online. That happened on September 20th, and it was enough to make OpenAI stop what it was doing.
Exa's Agent Ultra API claims cost and performance gains over rivals
Exa turned on the highest-effort setting of its research API this week, calling it Agent Ultra.
AI Agent Internet Access Was 'Unintentionally Available,' Says Company CTO
In July, OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI agents had gone after Hugging Face without permission. The company treated it as an isolated slip.
Meta's Muse AI app fuels targeted ad push with user content
Muse crossed 3.4 million downloads this week, up from 2.5 million just days earlier, according to estimates from Sensor Tower released Thursday.
Lightspeed Raising USD 250M India Fund Focused on AI Startups
Lightspeed Venture Partners has already secured 80% of the money it needs for a new $250 million India fund, according to a letter sent to investors on Thursday and seen by TechCrunch.
Anthropic signs USD 11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai
Anthropic has signed a seven-year cloud deal with Akamai Technologies worth $11.6 billion, according to Reuters.
Meta’s Muse AI aims to become a personal superintelligence
Mark Zuckerberg walked onto the Connect stage in Menlo Park on Wednesday wearing khakis and a black T-shirt that read "Building is My love Language." What followed was less a product update than a declaration of priorities.
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