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DeepSeek Raises Nearly $16 billion in Second Funding Round

DeepSeek has closed its second funding round, raising 106 billion yuan ($15.9 billion) in one of the biggest-ever fundraising deals in China’s AI sector, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The amount is more than double DeepSeek’s original fundraising target of 50 billion...

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Capital and consolidation are reshaping which teams control important pieces of the AI stack.

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Exclusive: Physical AI Startup Tractian Becomes a Unicorn

Tractian, a 7-year-old physical AI startup based in Atlanta, Georgia, has raised $130 million at a valuation of $1.4 billion in a Series D funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. Tractian provides sensors to assess the condition of machines, predicting how long it will take for them to fail and...

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Google To Pay Homes and Businesses To Curb Energy Usage

Google said it is partnering with energy company Voltus to pay homes and businesses to curb electricity use during peak hours, in the latest effort to mitigate the data center boom’s impact on power demand. The companies on Thursday announced what they call a 1-gigawatt “virtual power plant,”...

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OpenAI Had Numerous Vulnerabilities Its AI Could Exploit, Evaluators Find

OpenAI’s systems had multiple vulnerabilities that would allow AI agents to circumvent monitoring and take arbitrary unauthorized actions, evaluators from AI safety nonprofits METR and Redwood Research found during a three-week pilot with OpenAI from late July to early August. The nonprofits...

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NVIDIA’s Powerful B300 Chips Spotted on Chinese State-Owned Network

Israeli security firm Lava said it found 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 chips through monitoring systems linked to the network of China Telecom, a state-owned telecommunications company. The B300 is one of Nvidia’s most powerful data-center chips and is barred from being sold to China by...

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Quota reset Codex

Codex usage reset

@thsottiaux stated that a reset took place alongside Day 18 updates covering Decisions API and Codex.

observed applies that’s a reset

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  • @thsottiaux — Day 18/ Decisions API is GA, OpenResponses joined the Linux Foundation, we shipped some performance improvements and Uber is going all-in on codex & work. But yes… that’s a reset!

Dev tool Artificial Analysis

Artificial Analysis launches Coding Agent Index v2.0

@artificialanlys launched Coding Agent Index v2.0, replacing DeepSWE with FrontierCode v1.1 and revising SWE-Atlas-QnA grading with Claude Opus 5.5 leading.

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  • @artificialanlys — Announcing Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v2.0: FrontierCode v1.1 from Cognition replaces DeepSWE, SWE-Atlas-QnA grading is revised, and Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code leads at 61.7 Today we

Model release Perplexity Decision Model

Perplexity Decision Model runs locally on Mac

@aravsrinivas states that the Perplexity Decision Model can now run fully locally on Mac as an open-weight, compact model.

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  • @aravsrinivas — You can now run the Perplexity Decision Model fully locally on your Mac, without any data leaving your machine. The power of open-weight and compact models!

Dev tool Claude

Claude API and Managed Agents available on Google Cloud

Access to the full Claude API is now available from Google Cloud accounts, including Claude Managed Agents, code execution, Opus 5.5 fast mode, and new features as they launch.

observed applies now

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  • @claudedevs — We’ve added a new way to access Claude on Google Cloud. You can now use the full Claude API from your Google Cloud account, including Claude Managed Agents, code execution, Opus 5.5 fast mode, and new

Dev tool Claude Code

Anthropic donates Agent Skills from Claude Code to the Agentic AI Foundation

Anthropic donated Agent Skills, originally developed as an experiment in Claude Code, to the Agentic AI Foundation alongside MCP.

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  • @bcherny — Agent Skills started as an experiment in Claude Code. Many across the industry have come to adopt it, so we at Anthropic found it more fitting to donate it to the @AgenticAIFdn, next to MCP.

Dev tool Hermes Agent

Official MeshyAI 3D modeling plugin released for Hermes Agent Desktop

An official MeshyAI plugin is available for Hermes Agent, integrating 3D model generation for characters, armor, figurines, and practical utilities directly into the Desktop application.

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  • @teknium — Check out the new official @MeshyAI plugin for Hermes Agent! Make any 3D model you want, from character to dragon to armor for your games to figurines and practical utilities to 3D print - fully
  • @nousresearch — Hermes Agent now has an official plugin for @MeshyAI. Ask Hermes to make a 70m poly treasure chest for Godot, or to turn a photo of a mug into a model you can print, and it does the job through

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Quick takes

Security scrutiny is growing alongside agent deployment, with evaluators reporting monitoring bypasses and unauthorized actions during a pilot assessment.Simulation libraries and sim-to-real training workflows are building shared infrastructure for robotics and AI factory development.Frontier AI labs are securing tens of billions in private capital, with OpenAI negotiating up to thirty billion dollars and DeepSeek raising fifteen billion dollars to finance long-term compute infrastructure.Independent evaluations of commercial AI infrastructure indicate persistent safety challenges, as external red-teaming pilots uncovered vulnerabilities enabling autonomous agents to bypass internal monitoring systems.Enterprise software providers are moving to capture value from third-party automation tools by levying platform fees on corporate customers that connect external AI models to core operational workflows.Physical AI and robotics workflows are shifting toward simulation-to-reality pipelines, using open libraries of simulation-ready three-dimensional assets to train autonomous robots before physical deployment.Voice synthesis is evolving from basic dictation into full-stack agent development kits, offering multi-lingual real-time speech, emotional expression, and direct tool calling across localized environments.Late-stage capital deployment into frontier AI developers is reaching tens of billions in private rounds, spanning planned pre-IPO financing for OpenAI and major fundraising expansions for China-based DeepSeek.

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AI pulse 27/100

AI-linked equities are under pressure, with Advanced Micro Devices -8.10%, Arm Holdings plc -7.28%, Meta Platforms -6.98% driving the tracked basket lower.

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AMD Advanced Micro Devices -8.10%
ARM Arm Holdings plc -7.28%
META Meta Platforms -6.98%
SMCI Super Micro Computer -5.20%

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