This week in AI: $102B across 12 deals · OpenAI's safety-report lead David Robinson quits, call
12 deals worth $131B, 12 stories, 5 new members and what's coming up.
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All news →Reflection AI unveils Beam, a 501B open-weight MoE built to take on China's open models
Reflection AI announced Beam, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 501B total and 23B active parameters, pretrained on 23.8T tokens and then reinforcement-trained with 100M+ rollouts on 10,500 Nvidia GB300 GPUs.
- Anthropic commits $100M to train 10,000 'Frontier Deployed Engineers' by end of 2027
- OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text for EU users with 'textGrain'; API developers can opt in worldwide
- Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
- South Korea proposes 4.7 trillion won (about $3.5B) for a homegrown frontier AI model program
- Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
- Schneider Electric buys PTC for $22.6B in cash, its largest deal ever, to build an industrial software and AI arm
- ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
- AI Companies Are Parasites
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Prime Inference 📈, agent population 📈, Claude academy 🎓 — TLDR AI 10/05
Prime Inference 📈, agent population 📈, Claude academy 🎓
FLUX 3 Image gets broader rollout
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😺 Trump named an AI czar
PLUS: OpenAI's legal risks and China's 3% AI gap
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An OpenAI safety insider calls the culture 'broken'
OpenAI safety lead David Robinson just quit after 3.5 years at the company, announcing his exit with an essay in The Atlantic that called OAI's culture…
😺 a16z: Only 2% disclose tracked AI metrics
PLUS: OpenAI’s cyber hire, Amazon’s $1B+ pledge, and Suno Speech.
Sunday Special: Starship enters orbit for the first time
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The Sequence Radar - Issue 944 — Last Week in AI: Last Week in AI: OpenAI Connects the Dots, Gemini Levels Up, and Agents Cash In
Inside OpenAI’s DevDay releases, Gemini 4 Argon, Meta’s enterprise ambitions, AMD’s World Labs deal, and Instinct’s billion-dollar round.
🔮 The transition is hiding in plain sight #604
AI consciousness, electrification’s hidden progress, and the coming agentic bank run++
Peter Norvig on AI’s Future and the Limits of Trust
we discuss AI agents, world models, education, recursive self-improvement, and why he worries about trusting AI’s leaders with so much power.
Robotics Special: Figure decommissions the F.02 in bizarre fashion
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How OpenAI uses ChatGPT Sites (live at DevDay!) | Kath Korevec (Product Lead)
Kath Korevec is a member of the Product staff at OpenAI working on Codex, and she spent over a year building and using ChatGPT Sites internally before its public launch. She’s been
How to Choose Your Personal AI Agent
Dots, Muse, GrokBot, OpenClaw and more are competing to become your personal AI agent. But which one is right for you? NLW breaks down the trade-offs that matter most, from work ve
One Brain, Any Body: Google DeepMind's Keerthana on Gemini Robotics 2, Cross-Embodiment & Humanoids
Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Research Lead for Gemini Robotics at Google DeepMind, returns to discuss the release of Gemini Robotics 2, whole-body intelligence, and the pursuit of gen
What the Best Business AI Users Are Doing Different
What separates businesses getting real returns from AI from those still experimenting? New KPMG research reveals how leading organizations are scaling agents, managing multiple mod
⚡️ Which GPU Clouds Are Actually Good? | ClusterMAX 3.0
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A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous?
“It’s going to be gnarly for a little while.”
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Perplexity · Perplexity for Startups: 3 months of Enterprise Pro (up to 50 seats) + $5,000 in Sonar API credits ($11,000 value)
Three months of Perplexity Enterprise Pro for your whole team (up to 50 seats: frontier models, deep research, file search, team workspaces) plus $5,000 of cred
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