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AI Safety and Financing Worries Mount as Nvidia, Meta and Startups Keep Racing Ahead

AI safety and financing concerns are mounting even as Nvidia, Meta and startups like Reflection AI push ahead with new models.

Amazon's Bee AI Wearables, Booking's Vayo AI Travel Startup, and LinkedIn's Seattle Startup List

Booking Holdings is launching Vayo, an AI travel venture based in Seattle led by Mike Fridgen.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Spends Up to 40% of His Time on Company Culture Ahead of Possible $2 Trillion IPO

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he spends a third to 40% of his time making sure the company's culture is good.

How Alexandr Wang Won Mark Zuckerberg's Trust and a $100 Billion-Plus AI Bet at Meta

Mark Zuckerberg tapped Alexandr Wang to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs after a 44-minute call and a memo.

A Third Wave of Philanthropy Is Coming as Anthropic and OpenAI Race Toward IPOs

Anthropic and OpenAI are both racing to IPO in the coming months at estimated valuations of at least $1 trillion each.

RapidCanvas raises $29M Series B to build custom enterprise AI applications

RapidCanvas raised $29 million in a Series B round led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India.

Inrix to sell substantially all assets to Allstate's Arity after 22 years

Bellevue, Wash.-based traffic data company Inrix has agreed to sell substantially all of its assets to Arity.

10KC Co-Founder on Engineering an Exit and Spotting Fake Term Sheets

10KC co-founder David Wilkin said the bootstrapped Toronto startup was two weeks from a sale in 2020 when the deal collapsed.

Modal Labs Leads Week's 10 Biggest Funding Rounds With $750M Series D

Modal Labs raised $750M in a Series D led by Accel at a $15.75B valuation, topping the week's 10 largest US startup rounds. Icon followed with $200M for robotic construction.

Vinci4D raises $250M Series B to bring physics models to chip design

Vinci4D closed a $250 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation, co-led by Advent International.

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Elorian releases Glimpse, a visual reasoning model trained on a few hundred GPUs

Elorian released its first model, Glimpse, as a research preview with API access and a waitlist-only chat interface. Glimpse uses a visual scratch space to crop.

Vinci pushes chip design boundaries with physics AI

Vinci4D Inc. is applying physics AI to semiconductor engineering.

Tressfecta builds Plait Pilot to ease hair braiding for stylists

Tressfecta is building Plait Pilot, a device that separates hair from packs before braiding begins.

Nvidia Robotics Veteran Amulya Vishwanath Launches Techable VC to Back Physical AI

Amulya Vishwanath, who led product marketing for Nvidia's robotics platforms for seven years.

Nvidia robotics alum Amulya Vishwanath says robotics is still in its "Lego era"

Amulya Vishwanath, who led product marketing for Nvidia's robotics platforms for seven years.

Bolt Graphics Seeks $100M at $700M Valuation for Zeus GPU to Challenge Nvidia and AMD

Bolt Graphics is seeking about $100M at a roughly $700M valuation for its Zeus GPU.

European Startup Funding Rounds Tracked This Week (Oct. 12 - Oct. 16)

EU-Startups tracked European startup funding rounds for the week of Oct. 12 to Oct. 16.

Stuut raises $52.5M Series B led by Insight Partners for order-to-cash AI

Stuut raised a $52.5M Series B led by Insight Partners, with Andreessen Horowitz.

AI safety worries multiply as Anthropic, OpenAI and Nvidia keep racing ahead

AI safety concerns are mounting as multiple states sue OpenAI over harms to children and 400 scientists call for global oversight. Anthropic told investors its revenue grew 45% sequentially to $16.8B in Q3, though that marked a slowdown ahead of its IPO. Meta released 816B-parameter Muse Spark and Muse Wonder models, while Nvidia expanded its Nemotron LLM family.

Oxford spin-out OMass Therapeutics raises €275M Series C

OMass Therapeutics, a University of Oxford spin-out developing small-molecule drugs.

DJ Reinier Zonneveld launches AI music startup GasLab with $1M pre-seed

DJ and producer Reinier Zonneveld launched GasLab, a generative AI music platform.

ID Finance lands €545M, UK launches refugee-focused VC fund, and the race to save EU Inc

ID Finance raised €545M in debt and equity, CMR Surgical secured £300M, and EZO raised €150M in debt financing. The UK launched a refugee-focused venture fund with an initial £300.

Veritas expands its anti-counterfeit chip to jewelry, trophies, and fragrance bottles

Veritas launched a second-generation anti-counterfeit chip that works on metal surfaces and can be scanned through glass.

Maritime Launch Services Conditionally Approved to List on Toronto Stock Exchange

Maritime Launch Services has been conditionally approved to list its shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol $MAXQ.

Does a Robot Cost $2 or $35 an Hour? Physical AI's Trillion-Dollar Market Hinges on Utilization

Robot hourly costs range from $2 (Roland Berger) to $10-$12 (JPMorgan) to over $35 in early industrial deployments.

Anthropic IPO Could Be the Biggest Ever, Backer Says, as Enterprise AI Spending Explains the Valuation

A longtime Anthropic investor expects its IPO to price around $1.8 trillion and trade at $2.3 trillion to $2.4 trillion.

Indonesia's Danantara Pledges $5 Billion to Homegrown Companies Amid Market Uncertainty

Indonesia's sovereign wealth fund Danantara plans to invest $5 billion in Indonesian businesses over the next six to nine months.

Intuit acquires a16z-backed UK fintech Sequence in reported $200M deal

Intuit has acquired Sequence, a London- and New York-based fintech that uses AI to automate business billing.

Neonomics raises €3.56M from existing shareholders after halving operating costs

Norwegian open finance platform Neonomics raised €3.55 million ($4 million) from existing shareholders.

Microbiotica raises €42M Series C for inflammatory bowel disease treatment

British clinical-stage biopharma company Microbiotica announced the first close of a €42 million Series C round led by British Business Bank.

Asia Startup Funding Hits Near-Record $38.5B in Q3, Driven by AI

Asia's startup funding reached $38.5 billion in Q3, the second-highest quarterly tally on record.

Jensen Huang on Rogue AI Agents and AI Doomers

Jensen Huang told Fortune that recent AI agent incidents, including OpenAI agents attacking Hugging Face.

Inside the $52 billion hole CoreWeave needs to climb out of

CoreWeave is carrying a $52 billion debt burden that Fortune examines in depth. The report questions whether the company can handle all that debt, suggesting it may be able to.

Alef Aeronautics Flies Electric Car Over Tesla Roadster on 1,000th Flight

Alef Aeronautics flew its electric flying car over Tesla's new Roadster on its 1.

AWS to Test European Sovereign Cloud Independence by Cutting Global Network on 24 October 2026

AWS will disconnect its European Sovereign Cloud in Brandenburg, Germany, from the AWS Global Network backbone for several hours on 24 October 2026.

Aerium raises $2.5M USD seed to bring AI agents to industrial manufacturers

Toronto-based Aerium, founded last year by two former McKinsey analysts.

London's Unravel Health raises €2.96M for at-home hormone testing device

London-based Unravel Health raised €2.96 million led by Conduit EIS Impact Fund and Wrightwood.

CoreWeave investor explains how the loss-making AI neocloud plans to repay its debt

Neostellar Capital's Evan Schlossman argues CoreWeave can service its $52 billion in debt and lease commitments because $103.7 billion of remaining performance obligations.

Nvidia Backs 9 European and UK Startups in One Week

Nvidia announced planned minority investments in nine European startups, four in France and five in the UK.

Dublin-based LearnUpon raises €44.5M to scale agentic learning platform

Dublin-based LearnUpon has secured a €44.5 million ($50 million) growth financing facility from London-based Claret Capital Partners. The debt structure lets LearnUpon avoid equity dilution, and the company says the money will go toward its new Agentic Learning Platform, international expansion, and strategic acquisitions. LearnUpon, founded in 2012, previously acquired Berlin-born Courseau, which rebranded as CreateUpon in May.