A look at Beijing-based Neolix, which operates the world's largest robovan fleet at 27K, as Shenzhen tests nighttime parcel deliveries by driverless vehicles (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: A look at Beijing-based Neolix, which operates the world's largest robovan fleet at 27K, as Shenzhen tests nighttime parcel deliveries by driverless vehicles  —  Autonomous vehicle companies believe there's a huge market opportunity in delivering after dark, if the technical challenges can be overcome.

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Rein Security, which develops runtime tools to secure enterprise AI agents and stop adversarial AI agents, raised a $25M Series A, taking total funding to $35M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech: Rein Security, which develops runtime tools to secure enterprise AI agents and stop adversarial AI agents, raised a $25M Series A, taking total funding to $35M  —  The Israeli startup says its revenue has grown eightfold since January and its platform is now securing thousands of agents that execute millions of actions.

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Multiply Labs, which develops robotic systems to automate pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, raised a $75M Series B led by Patrick Soon-Shiong's NantWorks (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Multiply Labs, which develops robotic systems to automate pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, raised a $75M Series B led by Patrick Soon-Shiong's NantWorks  —  Multiply Labs Inc., a startup that develops automation equipment for drugmakers, has raised $75 million in funding.

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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 (Achint Srivastava/Command Line)

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  —  Decision models are quickly emerging as an important new category in AI.  Unlike LLMs, which are designed to generate text …

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General Medicine, an online storefront for medical care founded by PillPack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, raised a $120M Series B led by a16z (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare)

Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare: General Medicine, an online storefront for medical care founded by PillPack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, raised a $120M Series B led by a16z  —  General Medicine Andreessen Horowitz Mercy Health Eli Lilly  —  Artificial intelligence is making healthcare advice easier to access …

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After 20+ major Japanese companies reported cyber attacks in recent weeks, Japan's NCSH chief says the country is in "a state of emergency in cyber space" (Financial Times)

Financial Times: After 20+ major Japanese companies reported cyber attacks in recent weeks, Japan's NCSH chief says the country is in “a state of emergency in cyber space”  —  Dozens of targets including car rental operators, barbecue chains and rail group JR East disclose data leaks

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"Super Intelligence systems" are black boxes that shouldn't be trusted by companies, and strong deterministic systems are needed around their deployment (Satya Nadella/@satyanadella)

Satya Nadella / @satyanadella: “Super Intelligence systems” are black boxes that shouldn't be trusted by companies, and strong deterministic systems are needed around their deployment  —  As traditional software systems were being deployed across the economy over the last few decades, we had the tools …

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RSS Hunter • Yesterday

Hundreds of AI-decompiled or vibe-coded clones of games appeared in recent weeks, ported to run in browsers; some big titles like GTA: Vice City, Halo play well (Lewis Parker/Kotaku)

Lewis Parker / Kotaku: Hundreds of AI-decompiled or vibe-coded clones of games appeared in recent weeks, ported to run in browsers; some big titles like GTA: Vice City, Halo play well  —  Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: CE, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Skate 3 and many more titles have been decompiled and ported to web browsers overnight

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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 (Financial Times)

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 administration hopes the company will rival cheap Chinese alternatives such as DeepSeek

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IDC: Shenzhen-based DJI and Insta360, accounting for 73% and 20% of global smart camera market in Q2, are vying for the top spot as GoPro's share drops to 3% (William Langley/Financial Times)

William Langley / Financial Times: IDC: Shenzhen-based DJI and Insta360, accounting for 73% and 20% of global smart camera market in Q2, are vying for the top spot as GoPro's share drops to 3%  —  DJI and Insta360 engaged in ‘civil war’ to become world's top smart camera maker  —  The decline of action camera pioneer GoPro …

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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 (CBS News)

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, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary …

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A profile of Zach Frankel, a secretive and unusually hands-on solo investor who wrote the first checks to startups like Ramp, Cognition, and Applied Compute (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)

Jemima McEvoy / The Information: A profile of Zach Frankel, a secretive and unusually hands-on solo investor who wrote the first checks to startups like Ramp, Cognition, and Applied Compute  —  Last month, Zach Dell, son of billionaire Michael Dell and cofounder of Base Power, a billion-dollar battery startup …

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How Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown used GOP ties to end a June standoff over model safety and win over Musk, brokering a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: How Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown used GOP ties to end a June standoff over model safety and win over Musk, brokering a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal  —  Tom Brown is leveraging his Republican ties and business savvy to win over Washington and secure the computing power Anthropic needs

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Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more (Adam Morgan/Wired)

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 major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy …

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A look at Walmart's troubled push to automate its ~200 US warehouses, as it and partners like Symbotic face technical setbacks; Walmart owns 12.6% of Symbotic (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)

Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: A look at Walmart's troubled push to automate its ~200 US warehouses, as it and partners like Symbotic face technical setbacks; Walmart owns 12.6% of Symbotic  —  Machines programmed to sort merchandise in warehouses hit kinks with cardboard boxes and turkeys; automation push reaches ‘peak complexity’

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Current and former employees say TikTok US still coordinates closely with the global TikTok org, and US staff continue to use ByteDance's internal chat app Lark (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/Politico)

Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / Politico: Current and former employees say TikTok US still coordinates closely with the global TikTok org, and US staff continue to use ByteDance's internal chat app Lark  —  In the months before TikTok finalized a deal to sell its U.S. operations to a group of investors friendly to President Donald Trump …

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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 (Bloomberg)

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 between artificial intelligence leaders OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, investors have run into a problem …

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Laptop production share outside China is expected to fall from 24% in 2025 to 21% in 2026 as PC makers rethink shifting production amid soaring component costs (TrendForce)

TrendForce: Laptop production share outside China is expected to fall from 24% in 2025 to 21% in 2026 as PC makers rethink shifting production amid soaring component costs  —  TrendForce's latest notebook industry research reveals that the primary risk facing the market in 2027 is expected to shift …

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Chip design software leader Synopsys says it is exploring partnerships with Chinese AI labs to develop AI-powered chip design tools for the Chinese market (Yifan Yu/Nikkei Asia)

Yifan Yu / Nikkei Asia: Chip design software leader Synopsys says it is exploring partnerships with Chinese AI labs to develop AI-powered chip design tools for the Chinese market  —  PALO ALTO, California — Chip design software leader Synopsys says it is looking to help Chinese companies develop chips faster …

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Sources detail how Firmus' IPO collapsed in 48 hours after US fund managers deemed its $30B valuation too rich for a company with just $51M in FY 2026 revenue (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources detail how Firmus' IPO collapsed in 48 hours after US fund managers deemed its $30B valuation too rich for a company with just $51M in FY 2026 revenue  —  Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 17.94% Playback Rate  —  This is a modal window.  —  Unmute  —  In 48 hours, Firmus Grid Ltd. went …

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Circana: US Xbox unit sales fell 33% YoY to an all-time low in 2026 through August, while PS5 sales fell 25%, as both consoles hit record high average prices (Kaan Serin/Eurogamer.net)

Kaan Serin / Eurogamer.net: Circana: US Xbox unit sales fell 33% YoY to an all-time low in 2026 through August, while PS5 sales fell 25%, as both consoles hit record high average prices  —  “Price sensitivity is becoming a real problem.”  —  Follow Grand Theft Auto VI … PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles …

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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 (New York Times)

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 Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip.  The incidents led the White House …

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Cloudflare acquires Deno, co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, which had developed an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers and had raised $26M (Paul Sawers/The New Stack)

Paul Sawers / The New Stack: Cloudflare acquires Deno, co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, which had developed an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers and had raised $26M  —  Cloudflare is buying the startup co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, a longtime competitor that recently built its own open-source version …

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A US Senate investigation led by Senators Warren, Van Hollen, and Blumenthal says some hyperscalers misled the public about AI data centers' costs and benefits (Nik Popli/Time)

Nik Popli / Time: A US Senate investigation led by Senators Warren, Van Hollen, and Blumenthal says some hyperscalers misled the public about AI data centers' costs and benefits  —  Nik Popli … As the world's biggest technology companies race to build data centers across the country to power an AI boom …

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Anthropic says it is barring live internet access for internal evals until monitoring is reliable, after its agents exploited websites and bypassed restrictions (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Anthropic says it is barring live internet access for internal evals until monitoring is reliable, after its agents exploited websites and bypassed restrictions  —  Anthropic said its models exploited websites on the internet, including some run by U.S. government agencies …

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Cloudflare debuts Clef-omni, an open-weight decision model supporting audio and video input alongside text and image, and cuts Clef-flash's price below Jev's (Cloudflare)

Cloudflare: Cloudflare debuts Clef-omni, an open-weight decision model supporting audio and video input alongside text and image, and cuts Clef-flash's price below Jev's  —  Following last week's release of Clef and Clef-flash, Cloudflare's open-weight decision models, we decided to bring forth more gifts.

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Sources: Dario Amodei spoke with Meta's Alexandr Wang earlier this year, hoping to source more compute; Meta declined the request (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Dario Amodei spoke with Meta's Alexandr Wang earlier this year, hoping to source more compute; Meta declined the request  —  Bitter rivals are forming alliances and executives are having to personally intervene over the scramble for resources to fuel the AI boom

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In PA, FBI agents arrested a co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm specializing in ransomware negotiations, as part of the ShinyHunters investigation (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: In PA, FBI agents arrested a co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm specializing in ransomware negotiations, as part of the ShinyHunters investigation  —  Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection …

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Sources and internal docs: TikTok cut the violations for which an advertiser could be immediately banned from 37 to 13 last fall, leading to a surge in scams (Katharine Schwab/Forbes)

Katharine Schwab / Forbes: Sources and internal docs: TikTok cut the violations for which an advertiser could be immediately banned from 37 to 13 last fall, leading to a surge in scams  —  This voice experience is generated by AI.  Learn more.  —  Last year, TikTok's executives quietly defanged its advertising rules …

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RSS Hunter • Oct 9

Sources: Nuvacore, a six-month-old Sequoia-backed chip startup that's designing a new central processor for data centers, is raising funds at a ~$2.5B valuation (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: Nuvacore, a six-month-old Sequoia-backed chip startup that's designing a new central processor for data centers, is raising funds at a ~$2.5B valuation  —  Six-month-old microchip startup Nuvacore, which does not yet have a product, is raising hundreds of millions of dollars …

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RSS Hunter • Oct 9

Trump admin says it's now mandating AI companies "immediately disclose incidents involving their models" and move swiftly to remedy harm from security incidents (Axios)

Axios: Trump admin says it's now mandating AI companies “immediately disclose incidents involving their models” and move swiftly to remedy harm from security incidents  —  Trump administration officials say they are now mandating that AI companies notify and correct security incidents …

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p29#a261009p29 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

Oxide Computer, which helps companies build their own clouds, raised a $445M Series D led by Eclipse at a $6B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$835M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Chris Metinko / Axios: Oxide Computer, which helps companies build their own clouds, raised a $445M Series D led by Eclipse at a $6B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$835M  —  Oxide Computer Company, which helps companies build their own on-premise integrated cloud computer systems, raised a $445 million Series D led …

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p28#a261009p28 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

A man US authorities called a "fixer", who was charged alongside Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw with smuggling restricted chips to China, pleaded guilty (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: A man US authorities called a “fixer”, who was charged alongside Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw with smuggling restricted chips to China, pleaded guilty  —  A man charged along with Super Micro Computer Inc. co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw of conspiring to send cutting-edge chips …

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p27#a261009p27 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

Sources: top execs at Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt following a catastrophic AI event (Maria Curi/Axios)

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 significant real-world harm caused by unsafe AI would turn an already wary public further against the technology and its leaders …

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p26#a261009p26 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

Sources: as Google prepares to roll out its Gemini 4 Argon, staff are testing a new version internally named Carbon; one staffer says it "feels like Opus 5.5" (Hugh Langley/Business Insider)

Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Sources: as Google prepares to roll out its Gemini 4 Argon, staff are testing a new version internally named Carbon; one staffer says it “feels like Opus 5.5”  —  As Google prepares to roll out its new Gemini 4 ‘Argon’ model to the public, staff inside the company are testing better versions …

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p25#a261009p25 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

Sources: Ramp raised about $1.85B led by Dragoneer and Thrive Capital at a $60B pre-money valuation, up from $44B in June, when it raised $750M (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Sources: Ramp raised about $1.85B led by Dragoneer and Thrive Capital at a $60B pre-money valuation, up from $44B in June, when it raised $750M  —  Fintech startup Ramp has reached a roughly $60 billion valuation with its latest fundraising effort, according to people familiar with the matter.

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p24#a261009p24 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

Verizon closed down 8.75%, its worst day since 2002, while T-Mobile fell 13.27% and AT&T 9.81% after SpaceX announced a nationwide spectrum deal on Thursday (CJ Haddad/CNBC)

CJ Haddad / CNBC: Verizon closed down 8.75%, its worst day since 2002, while T-Mobile fell 13.27% and AT&T 9.81% after SpaceX announced a nationwide spectrum deal on Thursday  —  Telecommunications stocks sold off on Friday after Elon Musk's SpaceX announced an agreement to purchase a nationwide spectrum portfolio …

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p23#a261009p23 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

Philadelphia police say Anthropic informed them on Oct. 7 that one of its models submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder via a public web form on July 18 (6abc)

6abc: Philadelphia police say Anthropic informed them on Oct. 7 that one of its models submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder via a public web form on July 18  —  Watch the 6abc Philadelphia 24/7 stream featuring Action News, AccuWeather and Entertainment  —  ShareFollow 6abc on Google

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RSS Hunter • Oct 9

A record 42 startups became decacorns so far in 2026, beating 2021's 34; PitchBook: the average time to hit $10B dropped to 5.5 years in 2025 vs. 9.4 in 2020 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Lucinda Shen / Axios: A record 42 startups became decacorns so far in 2026, beating 2021's 34; PitchBook: the average time to hit $10B dropped to 5.5 years in 2025 vs. 9.4 in 2020  —  We're in the golden age of decacorns.  — The average time from launch to decacorn has been cut in nearly half, and some decacorns arrive literally overnight.

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p21#a261009p21 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

Vesta, which uses AI agents to automate much of the loan origination process, raised $30M led by Conversion, bringing its total funding to $85M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Vesta, which uses AI agents to automate much of the loan origination process, raised $30M led by Conversion, bringing its total funding to $85M  —  Vesta, an AI-native software startup that helps lenders originate mortgages, announced on Thursday that it raised a $30 million round led by Conversion Capital.

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p20#a261009p20 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

Blockchain.com seeks CFTC approval to offer event contracts and cryptocurrency derivatives in the US; it already offers some prediction markets internationally (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)

Davis Giangiulio / CNBC: Blockchain.com seeks CFTC approval to offer event contracts and cryptocurrency derivatives in the US; it already offers some prediction markets internationally  —  Blockchain.com, a digital asset platform, wants to get in on the prediction market boom in the U.S.

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p19#a261009p19 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe after pushback from Germany, whose transport minister will now back its EU-wide approval (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe after pushback from Germany, whose transport minister will now back its EU-wide approval  —  Tesla has changed the name of its advanced driver assistance system in Europe after pushback from Germany's transportation ministry.

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p18#a261009p18 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

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 (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

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 editor Jeff John Roberts here.  The explosive growth of the robotics industry in recent years is reflected in new technology feats …

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RSS Hunter • Oct 9

NY AG announces an up-to-$35M settlement with ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky that permanently bars him from the securities, commodities, and crypto industries (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: NY AG announces an up-to-$35M settlement with ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky that permanently bars him from the securities, commodities, and crypto industries  —  New York Attorney General Letitia James said Friday she secured up to $35 million from former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky …

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p16#a261009p16 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

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 (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

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-based Sabi is betting its cap, outfitted with 100,000 sensors, will enable people to talk to their AI agents just by thinking.

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p15#a261009p15 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

Analysis of 857 releases from nine Chinese AI labs from 2021 to September 2026: just 3.6% included safety results from the developer and only 1.1% did at launch (SemiAnalysis)

SemiAnalysis: Analysis of 857 releases from nine Chinese AI labs from 2021 to September 2026: just 3.6% included safety results from the developer and only 1.1% did at launch  —  AI safety is on fire.  On 12 September 2026, Dario Amodei published an essay arguing that frontier labs must deliberately slow …

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p14#a261009p14 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

Jev developer TypeSafe AI raised a $870M Series A led by a16z at a $7.5B valuation with Sequoia and others participating, says ~33% of the Fortune 500 use Jev (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Jev developer TypeSafe AI raised a $870M Series A led by a16z at a $7.5B valuation with Sequoia and others participating, says ~33% of the Fortune 500 use Jev  —  TypeSafe AI, the startup behind Jev, a new artificial intelligence model that went viral after it launched only a few weeks ago …

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p13#a261009p13 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

The UK plans to curb non-compete rules that force employees to wait before moving jobs or starting companies, an issue that has drawn complaints from startups (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Shona Ghosh / Bloomberg: The UK plans to curb non-compete rules that force employees to wait before moving jobs or starting companies, an issue that has drawn complaints from startups  —  The UK is set to curb hiring restrictions that force employees to wait before moving jobs or starting companies …

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p12#a261009p12 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

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 (Brenda Goh/Reuters)

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 developer of ARTEX said they have converted the AI agent to a closed-source project after cybersecurity firms identified …

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p11#a261009p11 techmeme.com

RSS Hunter • Oct 9

Meanwhile, a Sam Altman-backed bitcoin life insurance provider, raised $37.5M led by Bain Capital, sources say at a $350M valuation, up from $190M in April 2025 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Meanwhile, a Sam Altman-backed bitcoin life insurance provider, raised $37.5M led by Bain Capital, sources say at a $350M valuation, up from $190M in April 2025  —  Meanwhile, a Sam Altman-backed company offering life insurance in bitcoin, raised $37.5 million in funding, CEO Zac Townsend tells Axios exclusively.

https://www.techmeme.com/261009/p10#a261009p10 techmeme.com

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