This week in AI: $87.6B across 12 deals · Amazon reportedly in talks to buy real-time video mod
12 deals worth $87.6B, 12 stories, 8 new members and what's coming up.
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All news →Nvidia reportedly in talks to buy Reflection AI or deepen its $800M stake in the open-weights lab
The Financial Times reported on Saturday, in a story Reuters relayed but could not verify, that Nvidia is negotiating either a larger investment in Reflection AI or an outright purchase. Options reportedly include hiring the staff and licensing the technology
- OpenAI discloses a grader model that faked scores, then tried to wreck its own sandbox to force a reset
- Anthropic ships Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million input tokens, a 90% cut from Haiku 4.5 on short prompts
- Reflection AI unveils Beam, a 501B open-weight MoE built to take on China's open models
- ChatGPT moves every tier to GPT-6 and adds Intelligent UI, answers built from live interactive components
- OpenAI opens its Decisions API to all developers, charging only for input tokens on GPT-6 Luna
- Anthropic reportedly signs undisclosed multiyear cloud deal with former bitcoin miner IREN
- Dario Amodei reportedly asked Meta's Alexandr Wang for compute this year, and Meta said no
- Musk says SpaceX's Grok Bot will hand tasks to Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno when they do better
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New AI startup aims to build "previously unbuildable" products
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😸 White House orders AI incident reporting
PLUS: Tesla's FSD rename and an AI film's XPRIZE win
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This AI factory builds tiny machines from code
Jeff Holden's Atomic Machines raises $250M to build tiny machines from code using an AI-guided factory. Plus: turn one product photo into three matching ads.
😺 Google tested AMIE with 98 patients
PLUS: Physicians monitored every AMIE chat and could step in.
Sunday Special: Scientists are alarmed by a Russian lab death
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The Sequence Radar - Issue 948: Last Week in AI: Billions in Funding, Hundreds of Papers, One Big Leap?
Reflection and Mistral expand the model race, TypeSafe and Arena raise the stakes, and OpenAI puts mathematical discovery under scrutiny.
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Microsoft's Jacob Andreou on AI's product gap
How Microsoft rebuilt the new Copilot with capabilities to address a growing gap in AI
🔮 AI & Math 2.0, Pakistan’s solar hedge & who controls computing++
The essential view of how technology changes the world.
LLM Benchmarks in 2026: Complete Guide with Papers
A practical 2026 guide to LLM benchmarks for reasoning, coding, math, factuality, multimodal understanding, and agents—with papers and limitations.
Building AI for Reliable Execution: Lessons From Industrial Robotics
Inside Standard Bots’ AI stack, pretrained models learn factory tasks from demonstrations and improve through corrections from real deployments.
The 5 Debates Shaping AI
Can AI revenue justify the infrastructure spending? Is AI a mass market or a power-user market? Do businesses want AI they control or simply cheaper models? Who should regulate it?
How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning
Goodfire researcher Eric Bigelow joins the show to investigate how large language models arrive at decisions at the level of mechanistic interpretability. Drawing on his research i
Why AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub
From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding , Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build
What Happens When AI Solves Your Life’s Work
OpenAI’s latest mathematical results are forcing researchers to confront what happens when AI can tackle problems that once defined entire careers. With hundreds of proposed proofs
Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals
“For Anthropic, it was part research and part evangelism.”
Beam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin
Is the future of frontier AI open or closed? ReflectionAI co-founder and CEO Misha Laskin joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the launch of Beam, the company’s 500 billion para
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