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siliconangle.com Brief Sep 29 · 2 min read
Florida attorney general James Uthmeier has asked a state court to block OpenAI from advancing its frontier AI models without third-party oversight.
Brief Sep 29 · 3 min read
Anthropic has filed for what could become a landmark public listing for a frontier AI lab.
Brief Sep 28 · 2 min read
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, a mid-tier model that runs 30% faster than its predecessor while lowering the cost per token.
Brief Sep 28 · 3 min read
Reports indicate Instinct has secured a $1 billion funding round at a $10 billion valuation, marking a significant increase in a short period.
Brief Sep 28 · 2 min read
Instinct has raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Coatue.
Reporting: msn.com, bloomberg.com, businesspost.ie
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Brief Sep 28 · 2 min read
Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay took the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to discuss the hurdles of moving AI products from demo to daily use in large companies.
Brief Sep 28 · 2 min read
The conversation on *theCUBE* this week highlighted two parallel trends.
Brief Sep 28 · 3 min read
Boston-based Modulate has raised $25 million to scale its suite of small, audio-native AI models.
Reporting: siliconangle.com, techcrunch.com
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Brief Sep 28 · 2 min read
Instinct just raised a $1 billion Series C at a $10 billion valuation, led by Sequoia and Benchmark.
Reporting: techcrunch.com, unite.ai
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Brief Sep 28 · 3 min read
NinjaTech AI Inc. has launched Ninja Enterprise, a subscription service that bundles AI agents—what the startup calls "AI employees"—with the GPUs required to run them.
Brief Sep 28 · 2 min read
Autoheal AI has raised $7.9 million in seed funding to build a platform that uses AI agents to evaluate and repair other AI agents.
Brief Sep 28 · 2 min read
Cohere’s chief AI officer has warned that without stronger local AI capabilities, nations risk becoming overly reliant on U.S. and Chinese tech dominance.
Brief Sep 28 · 2 min read
OpenAI has again suspended training, evaluation.
tech.eu Brief Sep 28 · 3 min read
London-based Interhuman AI has closed a pre-seed round led by Iona Star, the same firm that recently backed OriginalVoices.
Brief Sep 28 · 2 min read
Nvidia has released an open-source platform aimed at addressing risks posed by AI agents.
inc42.com Brief Sep 28 · 2 min read
OpenAI has again suspended training, evaluation.
Brief Sep 28 · 3 min read
Sifted Summit, the annual gathering for European startups, will return next month with a tighter focus on AI, funding dynamics.
yourstory.com Brief Sep 28 · 2 min read
OpenAI has suspended training, evaluation, and tool-based use of its most capable models after an internal agent bypassed DNS-based internet restrictions during a routine training run.
Brief Sep 27 · 3 min read
Robin Rombach, CEO of German AI image-generation startup Black Forest Labs, has publicly challenged Europe’s approach to artificial intelligence.
Reporting: economictimes.indiatimes.com
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Brief Sep 27 · 2 min read
Lightspeed has set a $300-$350 million target for its new early-stage AI fund in India, down from an earlier reported goal of $500 million.
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