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Plato raises $16M to build fake offices where AI agents learn real jobs

Plato raised a $16M Series A led by Nava Ventures, with Gradient Ventures and Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman joining. It pays professionals to recreate their jobs as simulations where AI labs train and test agents. Total funding is $19M. Plato, a San Francisco startup that builds pretend workplaces where AI agents can practise real […]

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RapidCanvas buys Entytle to sell AI agents to industrial manufacturers

Austin-based RapidCanvas has bought Entytle, whose AI helps industrial equipment makers such as Baker Hughes and Veolia find parts and service sales across machines already in use. Terms were not disclosed. The deal follows RapidCanvas’s $29M Series B this month. RapidCanvas, an Austin firm that builds and runs AI tools for businesses, has bought Entytle, […]

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Physical Intelligence in talks at a $20bn valuation, Bloomberg reports

Robotics AI startup Physical Intelligence is in talks to raise money at a valuation of about $20bn. It builds AI software that lets robots handle real-world tasks. Rebecca Torrence and Natasha Mascarenhas reported the talks for Bloomberg on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The round would raise at least $1bn and nearly double […]

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Oracle will sell Google’s TPUs in its cloud and put ChatGPT in its apps

Oracle will rent out Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs) in its cloud from 2027. That makes it the first hyperscale cloud outside Google to offer the chips. It is also putting OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Codex inside its business software. Oracle announced both deals on Tuesday, 27 October, at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas. New […]

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Claude marketing plugins worth adding to your stack in 2026

Claude marketing plugins extend Claude into workflows for content creation, campaign planning, brand management, reporting, and publishing. The best options connect Claude with the tools and business data marketers already use, so the right Claude marketing plugin choice depends on the job Claude needs to handle.

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Google DeepMind’s Genie 4 builds AI worlds that talk and change on command

Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, a world model that builds photorealistic worlds in real time. They come with sound, and with characters that speak. It opened to trusted testers as a research preview on 27 October, the lab said in a blog post. Users steer a simulation with text prompts as it runs, changing […]

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Machenta raises $40M to teach robots a task from a single demonstration

Machenta, a London robotics startup spun out of Imperial College London, has raised a $40M seed round. It is building an AI model that teaches robots a new task from a single demonstration. Creandum and Union Square Ventures co-led the round, Imperial said on 27 October. The university calls it the largest seed round ever […]

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Anthropic’s IPO filing leaves Ben Mann out of its founder voting group

Anthropic’s IPO filing leaves Ben Mann, who co-leads its Labs team, out of the founder group that will control the company after it lists. A footnote on page 248 of the S-1 prospectus, filed on 26 October, says Mann is “often referred to as a co-founder”. He is not a member of the Founder LLC, […]

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Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives as a seven-minute episode, and critics pan it

Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey has arrived as a seven-minute first episode, not the full-length film he promised. Grok Imagine, the video tool behind it, posted the episode on X on 23 October. Wonder Studios, a London-based startup, made it with the US director Dev Walker. Watch Episode 1 of our Odyssey series made with Grok […]

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Satya Nadella says he was wrong to think AI alignment would come with scale

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella no longer believes AI alignment will come just from making models more capable. He said so on a new episode of the 20VC podcast. Host Harry Stebbings had asked what he had changed his mind about in the past year. “I used to always think that alignment will just fall […]

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