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Filing: Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~$515M in a new share sale; Biren's Hong Kong-listed stock is down 50%+ from a June peak but up ~70% YTD (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago Hong Kong AI Shanghai

Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $40B (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago Google Startup AI

Keyu Tian, a former ByteDance intern, raised ~$30M from 5Y and IDG for his unnamed AI lab that focuses on building world models, at a $200M post-money valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago AI IDG

Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are “chilling those who remain at OpenAI” (www.wsj.com)
23 days ago AI

Sources: Broadcom has been working to arrange more than $50B in financing for OpenAI's custom AI chip; Oracle is in talks on financing for a big chip purchase (www.wsj.com)
23 days ago AI Oracle

Sources: former White House AI adviser Sriram Krishnan is raising a ~$500M fund to back growth- and later-stage US AI companies, prioritizing national security (www.theinformation.com)
23 days ago AI

Meta rolls out AI tools to find ads that secretly lead users to CSAM and says it took action against 33.2M pieces of child exploitation content in H1 2026 (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago AI

Musician sent to prison for $10 million streaming fraud using AI bots (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
23 days ago AI

PoeLLM malware infects exposed AI servers in cryptomining attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
23 days ago AI

Healthleap, which makes AI screening software to identify patients at risk of undiagnosed illnesses, raised $38M across a $30M Series A and an $8M seed (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago AI

Nous Research, which makes the open-source Hermes AI agent that has hit 22M+ downloads since February, raised $90M at a $1.2B valuation to expand to enterprises (www.wsj.com)
23 days ago AI

Google launches SynthID Detector, a website that lets users detect AI-generated image, video, and audio media across dozens of common file formats (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago Google AI

Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs invest $300M and the US invests $500M+ in Zuckerberg-backed Biohub to build open biology datasets for AI training (www.reuters.com)
23 days ago Google AI Zuckerberg

North American startup funding hit $92B in Q3, down 35% QoQ but up 50% YoY, with $61B to AI startups; there were 11 $1B+ acquisitions and IPOs remained quiet (news.crunchbase.com)
23 days ago U.S. IPO Startup AI

Stuut, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise order-to-cash cycles and serves 150+ clients, raised a $52.5M Series B led by Insight, for $93M total funding (siliconangle.com)
23 days ago AI

Google launches Playground, a browser-based, no-code AI game creation platform available to US users aged 18+, powered by Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria (www.theverge.com)
23 days ago Google AI Browser

Sources: Dallas-based Disruptive is targeting up to $10B for a late-stage fund, and has secured $7.5B; founded in 2012, it has backed Groq and Reflection AI (www.wsj.com)
23 days ago AI

PS5 modders using AI tools have rapidly installed emulators, as jailbreaks spread across social media; recent games requiring newer firmware are inaccessible (www.pushsquare.com)
23 days ago AI

Turba Labs, which develops tech for optimizing AI infrastructure by creating digital twins of data centers, emerges from stealth with $52M seed and Series A (www.wsj.com)
23 days ago AI

South Korea Says AI Agents May Have Been Used to Hack the Country's Banks (news.slashdot.org)
23 days ago Korea AI

AI startup acquisitions by other AI startups hit 195 through Sept. 29, up 14% from all of 2025, but number of buyers grew just 2%; OpenAI was the most active (news.crunchbase.com)
23 days ago Startup AI

A US federal court sentences Michael Smith, who pleaded guilty to using bots to stream AI-generated songs, making $8M+ in royalties, to 18 months in prison (www.billboard.com)
23 days ago AI

New York-based Melius, which provides AI tools for generating ad campaigns, images, and videos, raised $25M, including a $20M Series A and a $5M seed (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago AI New York

To face AI intrusion, counting legacy systems will be easy. Fixing them won't (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
24 days ago AI

OpenAI says its internal model produced 372 math results, nearly all from a single prompt handed to a single AI agent; some might have taken multiple attempts (www.scientificamerican.com)
24 days ago AI Mathematics

HubSpot Cuts 660 Jobs In AI Restructuring (slashdot.org)
24 days ago AI

Sources: Waymo increased the size of its inaugural debt raise from $3B+ to $5B, as it grapples with rising AI costs and rapidly expands its robotaxi fleet (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago AI

Meta, Walmart, Stripe, and others publish the Personal Agent Protocol to standardize and secure interactions between AI bots and businesses (www.cnbc.com)
24 days ago AI Walmart

Gold, Credit, Character… and the AI Economy (dailyreckoning.com)
24 days ago AI

Flai, which makes AI tools for car dealerships to manage phone calls, emails, and texts, raised a $27M Series A led by Base10 Partners (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago AI

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