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Gemini 4 Carbon is now available (opens blog.google)

Google's announcement of Gemini 4 Carbon, released the day after Anthropic's Fable 5.2.

Industrial automation startup Path Robotics raises $300M in funding (opens siliconangle.com)

Path automates industrial welding; Georgian led, joined by a consortium including Yamaha Motor's venture arm.

Mercor raises $750M at $20B valuation to take AI agent evaluation to enterprises (opens siliconangle.com)

Mercor supplies human experts to train and evaluate AI models, drawing on a network of more than 5 million domain experts.

Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share to reach an implied valuation of $1.404 trillion (opens techcrunch.com)

The range of $70 to $78 per share implies up to $1.404T fully diluted; SiliconANGLE puts the fundraising goal at $64B.

Sources: Anthropic's bankers are weighing plans to raise its IPO price following heavy demand, which could increase the valuation target to $1.5T or more (opens ft.com)

Sources: Anthropic's bankers are weighing plans to raise its IPO price following heavy demand, which could increase the valuation target to $1.5T or more — Claude maker's listing price expected to rise after strong demand from investors — Anthropic's bankers are weighing plans to increase …

Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider (opens strandsagents.com)

Strands (AWS) says Amazon replaced Sonnet 4.6 with its Strands Decider in an agent workflow and saved millions; 689 points and 242 comments on HN.

Coframe, which uses AI to make websites that test and personalize themselves for each visitor, raised a $25M Series A, bringing its total funding to $35M (opens businessinsider.com)

Vinod Khosla is doubling down on the bet that one-size-fits-all websites are numbered.

OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder (opens techcrunch.com)

Odessia was founded by Sonder's Francis Davidson; OpenAI has not said what it plans for travel.

Proximal Ventures raises debut fund to back startups bringing AI to drug development (opens techcrunch.com)

Former SignalFire investor Sahir Raoof's first fund targets AI in pharma.

S-1: Nvidia plans to invest ~$10B in Anthropic after its IPO, or ~10% of the total new cash Anthropic is expected to raise in November (opens nytimes.com)

S-1: Nvidia plans to invest ~$10B in Anthropic after its IPO, or ~10% of the total new cash Anthropic is expected to raise in November, including in its IPO — Nvidia planned to invest $10 billion in Anthropic alongside its initial public offering, the largest of the new financial commitments from…

Oura to acquire AI-native primary care startup Counsel Health for $625M (opens techcrunch.com)

Oura buys Counsel Health for $625M weeks after postponing its own IPO; Oura added Counsel's AI chatbot to its app earlier this year.

An analysis of the tech job market in late 2026: product managers seem to be benefiting most in the AI era, demand for engineers is plateauing (opens lennysnewsletter.com)

An analysis of the tech job market in late 2026: product managers seem to be benefiting most in the AI era, demand for engineers is plateauing, and more — PMs are winning, engineers are plateauing, designers are hurting, and the biggest AI hiring boom isn't in software

CoreWeave arrests stock slide after posting a strong earnings beat and raising its full-year guidance (opens siliconangle.com)

A revenue beat and raised full-year guidance, days after CNBC reported CoreWeave's bond yield topped 16% on AI credit stress.

AI-driven managed security startup Daylight raises $80M on 40-fold revenue growth (opens siliconangle.com)

The WSJ says Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the Series B at a ~$400M valuation; Daylight says revenue grew more than 40-fold in a year.

Show HN: Aircad – Professional drafting and 3D modeling in the browser (opens aircad.com)

Browser CAD with NURBS solid modeling and AI integration, from a Show HN.

Fireworks AI security breach impacts Notion and their customers (opens notion.com)

Notion's own incident notice on a breach at AI vendor Fireworks that affected Notion and its customers.

OpenAI rolls out new business profiles, making ChatGPT just a little bit more like Google (opens techcrunch.com)

Businesses in ChatGPT (beta) lets businesses claim verified profiles and see how often ChatGPT mentions them; US e-commerce and online-service firms can launch their own agents.

Investing in General Translation (opens a16z.news)

a16z's own announcement that it is leading General Translation's Series A.

Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks (opens techcrunch.com)

Anthropic also announced Claude Whiteboards, Sheets and Data the same day; Claude Meetings drafts plans and timelines as participants talk.

Source: OpenAI told investors on Tuesday that its revenue jumped 50% to around $10B in Q3, up from 17% growth in Q2 (opens theinformation.com)

The WSJ, citing leaked documents, says the adjusted operating margin improved from -150% to -109% over the same period.

Graphon Labs raises $35m to give AI agents a memory that lasts (opens thenextweb.com)

Graphon builds memory for AI agents by mapping connections across docs, videos and images; RRE led.

AI hardware startup Nominal triples valuation to $3B in 8 months (opens techcrunch.com)

Nominal sells an AI platform for hardware engineering and names Anduril as a major customer; the round triples its valuation to $3B in 8 months.

Zendesk moves to pay-per-result AI pricing with its new Outcome AI Platform (opens thenextweb.com)

Zendesk will charge for problems solved rather than per seat, one of the first large SaaS vendors to move its AI to outcome pricing.

Gritt and MasTec bring bolt-on construction robots to solar sites (opens thenextweb.com)

MasTec will deploy Gritt's bolt-on robotic attachments on utility-scale solar sites in several US states after live-site tests.

Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 (opens anthropic.com)

Anthropic's launch page for its two most capable models, released on the day its IPO roadshow began.

Filing: Anthropic now aims to raise up to $69.3B in its IPO (opens reuters.com)

Reuters saw emails to bankers with details of the IPO filing that Anthropic sent and then retracted; TechCrunch says the valuation range is expected this week.

Muse Ember: Our smallest, most efficient model (opens research.meta.ai)

Meta's entry-level model, described by SiliconANGLE as costing significantly less than the competition and the first trained using Muse Wonder.

A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code (opens reddit.com)

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xq2n3t/a_...

Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators (opens github.com)

A GitHub write-up claims Gemini sends personal Drive files and emails to human annotators; Google has not confirmed the claim in the source.

Nominal raises $240M at $3B, tripling its value since March (opens thenextweb.com)

Lightspeed led and Insight co-led; TechCrunch notes Nominal claims Anduril as a major customer and that the valuation tripled in eight months.

I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists (opens matteoraso.github.io)

ArchGen Labs | Building skyscrapers for semiconductor chips (opens ycombinator.com)

AI-powered chip design tools for the next generation of 3D semiconductors.

Ordo Labs: The AI-native OS for regulated labs (opens ycombinator.com)

We help the labs behind your medicines deliver study results 10x faster.

Telamont — Sentry for errors in construction documents (opens ycombinator.com)

AI that catches errors between construction drawings, specs and contracts

Apple is now offering additional AI access via one-time $50 "intelligence usage packs" when monthly usage caps are met (opens 9to5mac.com)

Apple is now offering additional AI access via one-time $50 “intelligence usage packs” when monthly usage caps are met, starting in its Creator Studio apps — Apple has said it will eventually charge for expanded usage of select AI features. Now the first 'intelligence usage packs …

Kuken Industries searches 70 years of drawings in minutes (opens openai.com)

A Japanese cooling-tower maker searches 70 years of drawings with the OpenAI API; engineers find a repair drawing in 4.5 minutes instead of nearly an hour.

AI infrastructure provider Fireworks says hackers accessed some customers' datasets, incomplete model weights, and billing information (opens forbes.com)

AI infrastructure provider Fireworks says hackers accessed some customers' datasets, incomplete model weights, and billing information over the past month — Two customers told Forbes they had already substantially moved their business off Fireworks' systems, with one describing a series …

Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget (opens stork.ai)

What Frontier Labs Buy: A Data Deep Dive with Handshake AI — Garrett Lord & Team (opens latent.space)

Handshake went from launch to $1B in a year selling specialized data to frontier labs; examples across finance, bio and alignment.

Baidu says its AI research agent sped up its next ERNIE model (opens thenextweb.com)

Baidu unveiled ERNIE Evolve, an AI system that runs its own experiments to improve AI code. Baidu says it sped up its in-development ERNIE-5.5-Flash model by 33.7% on GPUs and more than sixfold on Kunlunxin chips. All figures are Baidu’s own.