Business & Funding
260 signals across 121 briefings.
2026-10-01
- 🟡Investors thought they were buying pre-IPO OpenAI and SpaceX shares. Their cash went to strip clubs, Bloomingdale’s, and shopping on Amazon, SEC alleges
- 🟡New AI models used to arrive every 10 weeks, now it’s every 21 days, so much for slowing down.
- 🟢I keep hearing AI experts say that electricians, plumbers, construction workers, gardeners, etc. will be some of the safest and best-paid jobs in an AI-driven future...is this real?
2026-09-29
- 🔴AI could force 11 million US workers into new careers by 2035
- 🔴Lovable's Annualized Revenue Crosses $600M As Vibe Coding Takes Off (2 Minute Read)
- 🔴$5T Opportunity: AI Roll Ups (21 Minute Read)
- 🔴AI For Boston College's Investment Committee (15 Minute Read)
- 🔴Gusto's Cofounder Says AI Made Your Revenue Worth Less To An Acquirer And Your Speed Worth More (3 Minute Read)
- 🟡Worst Dev Day.
2026-09-28
- 🔴The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support
- 🔴Faster Rates for Federated Variational Inequalities
- 🔴Zuckerberg's ‘Tamagotchi-Like' AI Could Be Meta's Ipod Moment (6 Minute Read)
- 🔴Putting The User Back Into AI Evaluation (10 Minute Read)
- 🔴TypeSafe AI, the startup behind System One model Jev, is reportedly in talks to raise over $1B at a $10B+ valuation, just a week after its $40M seed round.
2026-09-22
- 🔴It’s easy to understand what’s happening here, a region of atmosphere becomes “ice supersaturated”,2and a tiny bit of exhaust seeds water vapor that instantly crystallizes. The scale here is astoundin
- 🔴House China Committee Raises Security Concerns Over Airwallex As Company Pushes Back (3 Minute Read)
- 🔴Anthropic Delays IPO Staging To November Amid AI Fears (2 Minute Read)
- 🟢Are LARGE corporations like SunStrong using AI for customer support emails?
2026-09-15
- 🔴No IPO for OpenAI in 2026. Sam told Fortune’s Alyson Shontell it would be “ill-timed” given the work ahead on alignment, control and safety.
- 🔴Today, we start a new series about one of the hottest topics in AI: recursive self improvement. Throughout the next few weeks, we will deep dive into the top research
2026-09-14
- 🔴Thinking Machines co-founder Andrew Tulloch is moving from Meta to Anthropic, months after initially rejecting Mark Zuckerberg's reported $1.5B package and then signing on anyway at an undisclosed compensation.
- 🔴OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune that the company won’t IPO in 2026, saying right now would be an “ill-advised moment” to go public, given the AI safety concerns.
- 🟡ARR August Discussion [D]
- 🟢AI 2027 author Daniel Kokotajlo tweets message from current OpenAI capabilities researcher, Dan Selsam, on AI risk. Gives some insight into why some AI researchers may be freaking out: increasing model situational awareness during alignment evaluations
2026-09-13
- 🔴Read our last AI newsletter: OAI’s secret model settles a $1M math problem
- 🟡Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
- 🟡@demishassabis: With AlphaFold we mapped the protein universe - now with AlphaGenome Atlas we’re charting the human genome. It can predict the impact of all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA variants, helping scie
- 🟡I trained an 825k-parameter model to generate drawing programs that execute exactly on an RP2040 [P]
2026-09-10
- 🔴Expanding AI access and cyber defense for federal, state, local, and tribal governments
- 🟡@elonmusk: RT @barisakis: Privileged to be a major investor in @boringcompany Series D and to have helped scale the team for 5 years. Vegas Loop prov…
- 🟡Tibo pauses new $200 Pro subscriptions due to unprecedented demand
- 🟢Artificial Analysis is not "broken", and they prove it.
2026-09-08
- 🔴Funding grants for new research into AI and teen development
- 🔴‘world radio’ - an old ipod interface that plays radio stations live from around the world. Not sure what I was going to do here but it works pretty well (some rough edges like the top button wtf?! 😂
- 🔴If the Licensee or any of its affiliates operates a Model as a Service business, and the aggregate revenue of the Licensee and its affiliates exceeds 10 billion US dollars (or the equivalent in other
- 🔴The $3.4M Disney Auction Is A Reminder Of What AI Concept Art Takes From Us (2 Minute Read)
- 🟡AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome
2026-09-05
- 🔴New Google AI Model Said To Narrow Gap On Coding Ability (4 Minute Read)
- 🔴The Amazon Developer Global Hackathon: Win up to $40k building apps across Fire TV, Alexa+, Ring, and Bee wearable AI. Register now and explore multiple categories and mini challenges for your projects.
- 🔴Dyson rolled out CameraJet, a $499 electric toothbrush that uses an AI camera to find gaps between your teeth, automatically trigger a jet spray, and improve brushing.
- 🟡Trump Says AI Will Create 'Millions and Millions' of Jobs as He Defends Data Centre Boom
2026-09-01
- 🔴Back from a long weekend at home with my parents but before I went I started scraping data… The UK’s councils (like US states) publish their spend data (for the most part). So I’ve scraped 105 Million
- 🔴Users are also complaining about Anthropic’s sneaky marketing on the“5x” and “20x” planswhere the 5x and 20x limits apply to the 5-hour limit on the $100 and $200 plans vs the total usage multiples ar
- 🔴How Datadog Saves Over $1 Million Each Month By Optimizing AI Usage (1 Minute Read)
- 🔴Owner.Com Did An AI Rebuild To Accelerate Past $100M Arr. The 7 Top Lessons, And What It Takes To Copy Them (5 Minute Read)
- 🟡So much for Fable 5.1 being cheaper. Its cost per task is higher than Fable 5 at $3.69
- 🟢Altman says faster AI self-improvement would push OpenAI's IPO further out
2026-08-31
- 🔴Import AI reader giveaway! Upcoming event: Fiction and the Future with Robin SloanI’ll be chatting with my chumRobin Sloanon the evening of Monday September 14 in San Francisco. We’ll be talking about
- 🔴Why this matters - humans are much worse than AI systems at coordinating:The whole reason this attack is such a wakeup call is that it demonstrates a culture of emergent cooperation among AI systems -
- 🔴Hugging Face Is Selling A Cute $399 Open Source Duck Robot, Microduck (3 Minute Read)
- 🔴Small Models Have Arrived (4 Minute Read)
2026-08-25
- 🔴Uber hit with a near-$1B GDPR fine after algorithms suspended drivers without human review
- 🔴Deepgramjust dropped Flux TTS, text-to-speech built for live conversation. It responds in as low as 80ms, carries context across turns, and handles interruptions natively.Spin up a stream and test it
- 🟡Travel and stay accommodation for EMNLP [D]
2026-08-17
- 🔴OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project
- 🔴Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
- 🔴Along the way we’re still in for a ton of action in open-weight models, as releasing access to intelligence is one of the strongest business strategies available. This additional type of player, who m
- 🔴GTM ENGINEER, APPLIED AI AT TLDR ($175-205K BASE + $40-60K BONUS, FULLY REMOTE)
- 🔴OPENAI'S REVENUE RUN RATE TOPS $40 BILLION AHEAD OF IPO (2 MINUTE READ)
- 🟡Chinese robot dogs tackle fires and toxic leaks to protect rescuers
- 🟡@gdb: Pinned: defenders can see the future, and have a narrow window to uplevel their cybersecurity practices now. key is to uplevel fundamentals and apply the best AI tools. what we’re doing at OpenAI, and
- 🟡We’ve got a workshop on production retrieval-augmented generation with open models, benchmarked end to end, thought it’d be relevant here [D]
2026-08-15
- 🔴OpenAI talent exodus raises 'huge red flag' ahead of IPO
- 🔴AI coding startup Lovable secured $400M in new funding that values the company at $13.3B, more than doubling its valuation from its previous December raise.
- 🟡Alibaba AI Models Hit 3 Billion Downloads, Passing Meta, Google
- 🟡Crazyyy Jesus ai hallucination
2026-08-04
- 🔴U.S company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own | $100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones U.S-developed AI capabilities.
- 🟡Every form of distillation in this series so far has quietly preserved one thing: teacher and student spoke the same dialect. A small transformer learned from a big transformer. The student was a comp
- 🟡LARRY ELLISON BET IT ALL ON THE AI BOOM. WILL HE BE THE FACE OF THE AI BUBBLE? (47 MINUTE READ)
- 🟡FORWARD DEPLOYED EXECUTIVES: THE NEXT BILLION-DOLLAR AI UNBLOCK (13 MINUTE READ)
- 🟢Missed EMNLP commitment deadline, what can be done? [D]
2026-07-27
- 🔴Speech-to-text API pricing: the number I care about is cost per useful live call, not $/minute.
- 🟡GOOGLE CLOUD REVENUE JUMPS 82% ON ENTERPRISE AI DEMAND (4 MINUTE READ)
- 🟡GH-ESD: Grounded Hypothesis-Driven Error Slice Discovery for Instance-Level Vision Tasks
- 🟢Recent project I worked on: End to End Edge ML platform [D]
2026-07-10
- 🟡Elon Musk’s xAI officially rebranded to SpaceXAI, following the company’s February merger that valued the AI lab at $250B.
- 🟡@OpenAI: As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen our safeguards for advanced AI capabilities in biology, we’re evolving our Bio Bug Bounty into an ongoing private program, known as the OpenAI Bio Bug Boun
2026-07-07
- 🔴Beijing IS NOT looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models (Debunking the Reuters report)
- 🟡TIME-SERIES LLMS, EXPLAINED WITH T0-ALPHA (13 MINUTE READ)
- 🟡Oasis introduced Oasis 1, a $289 smart ring that allows users to dictate to AI using Whispr Flow and control apps or devices with a built-in trackpad.
2026-06-29
- 🟡APPLE RAISES PRICES ON MACS, IPADS BY $200 OR MORE ON SOME MODELS (5 MINUTE READ)
- 🟡OPENAI LEANS TOWARD WAITING UNTIL NEXT YEAR FOR IPO (8 MINUTE READ)
- 🟡AI economy banked $110B last year
- 🟡The Rundown: New Exponential View research, analyzing data from various sources, shows that the generative AI industry hit $110B in revenues last year and is on track to touch $175B, scaling 3x faster than any prior tech
2026-06-22
- 🔴DeepSeek raises $7.4B USD at $60B valuation. Remarkably, Liang Wenfeng invests $3B in DeepSeek himself.
- 🟡Amazon MGM Studios is no longer moving forward with its Sam Altman ‘Artificial’ film after Amazon’s $50B investment in OpenAI, with the nearly completed film now seeking a new distributor.
- 🟡The Atlantic found four song datasets circulating among AI developers featuring millions of tracks, exposing a massive trove of unlicensed music used to train models.
2026-06-20
- 🔴Six months ago I turned down $8,165 for an RTX 6000 PRO. Today the same vendor is selling them for $11,575. Oh, hindsight.
- 🟡Time Series Modeling Needs a Dynamical Systems Perspective [R]
- 🟡I SOLD MY AI STARTUP BEFORE REVENUE: HERE'S WHAT INVESTORS MISSED — AND FOUNDERS SHOULDN'T (5 MINUTE READ)
- 🟡What happens when they stop subsidizing LLM subscriptions?