Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 4hReco raised $55 million for tools that secure AI agents, taking its total funding to $140 million. It's one of many startups chasing this exact problem right now, which says a lot about how nervous companies are about the agents they've plugged in. 010
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 6hAnthropic says its AI found a brand new gene-editing system similar to CRISPR, something nobody had described before. Outside scientists say don't get excited yet, it still needs to be proven in a lab. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 7hOne estimate says AI has eliminated more than 200,000 creative jobs since 2022, across writing, design and other fields. That's a real number behind a trend a lot of people only feel anecdotally. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 9hOpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise about $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation, likely its last private round before a planned 2027 stock listing. One of the largest private raises ever, for a company that isn't even public yet. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 10hA group of tech workers hooked ChatGPT up to a Toyota Corolla and had it steer around a parking lot, even though it was never trained to drive. Nobody built this thing to drive a car. It drove one anyway. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 12hA new opinion piece says schools don't have an AI adoption problem, they have a visibility problem. Kids and teachers are already using these tools nonstop. Nobody's tracking which ones, and that gap looks like the actual risk, not the usage itself. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 13hAccelevation, an AI infrastructure company, just priced its US IPO at $18 a share, below the $20 to $24 range it wanted. Still raised $540 million with backer Olympus. But AI infra is supposed to be the easy sell right now, so pricing below range stands out. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 15hA US appeals court just upheld a ruling that training an AI on someone else's copyrighted work isn't automatically fair use. The AI company that lost, Ross Intelligence, already shut down in 2021. It couldn't survive the legal bill for finding that out. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Chip startup SiMa.ai just raised $150 million at a $1.45 billion valuation to build low power AI chips for robots, drones and cars. Unlike Nvidia's chips, these are built to run AI inside the machine itself, cheaply and on limited power, not in a data center. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026AMD is buying World Labs, the spatial AI startup Fei-Fei Li started barely a year ago, for more than $8 billion in an all stock deal. Nvidia has owned the AI chip story for years. AMD just bought its way into the next one: AI that understands 3D space. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026OpenAI scrapped a new model right before its developer event because of safety concerns. No detail yet on what it could do that spooked them, but pulling something that close to launch says the worry was real, not just caution for show. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Modal Labs is closing in on a $750 million round led by Accel that would value it at $15.75 billion. That is a huge number for a company that just sells AI computing power. Infrastructure is where a lot of this AI money keeps landing. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Intercept reports an AI-linked military incident nearly sparked a war between the US and China. It barely made a ripple next to all the hypothetical AI doomsday chatter. A real near miss like that deserves more attention than the imagined ones. 021
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Contractors paid to review real Microsoft Copilot chats and images say they're horrified by how much of it is sexually explicit. It's a blunt look at what people actually say to chatbots when they think no one's watching, and apparently someone always is. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Instructors at Multiverse, the training firm founded by Euan Blair, say an AI system grading their teaching is causing horrendous stress. It's not scoring students, it's scoring the teachers, and they say it feels harsh and unnerving. 010
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Instinct, the viral consumer AI agent, raised a $1 billion Series C at a $10 billion valuation. That's a huge number for a single consumer app, and it shows how much money is chasing anything with real everyday traction right now. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Dario Amodei and Donald Trump are having dinner together on Sunday, the first time the two have ever met one on one. Anthropic's public stance on AI safety hasn't always matched this administration's. Worth watching what a private dinner changes. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Enveda Biotech raised $311 million in a Series E, now valued at $2 billion, to test AI-discovered drugs from natural compounds in human trials. Skipping the "AI invents a new molecule" hype and just using AI to search what nature already made is a smart bet. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Snorkel AI just raised $350M in a Series E round that values the data labeling startup at $3.5B, led by Insight Partners and S32. The round follows 18 times revenue growth, which is the number that actually explains why investors moved this fast. 010
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Torridge council in Devon privately backed a huge AI datacentre planned by Xlinks for over a year before telling residents anything about it. Deciding something this size behind closed doors is exactly what erodes trust when it comes out. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Wall Street Journal reports some longtime Anthropic employees are quietly buying remote land as a personal refuge in case AI goes badly wrong. That's not an outside skeptic's warning. It's coming from people building the technology itself. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026UK musicians, authors and actors have successfully lobbied to stop AI companies getting an automatic opt out to train on their work for free. Now they're warning Australia not to adopt a similar rule, worried it would let the same thing happen there. 011
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Mentions of open AI models on US earnings calls jumped sixfold over the past year, according to new data. Open models are now 56% of Vercel's AI usage and 40% of AT&T's. That's a real shift away from paying the big labs for everything. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026OpenAI's AI agents scanned a UN statistics website more than 16,000 times between April and June, researchers found. That's relentless automated traffic hitting a small public server, not a one-off crawl. Wonder how many other sites are absorbing this unnoticed. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 27/09/2026AI search and data services are quietly switching from JSON to plain markdown when feeding results to AI models, and it is cutting their data costs by up to 90%. Funny that the fix for expensive AI pipelines turned out to be reformatting the text, not a smarter model. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Google is building a $15 billion AI data centre in Andhra Pradesh, India, and villagers there say it took their land and the jobs they were promised never came. Big AI buildouts keep landing hardest on the people who never asked for one. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Harris, Newsom and Ocasio-Cortez are already staking out different positions on AI rules and data centers ahead of the 2028 election. AI policy is turning into an actual dividing line inside the Democratic field, not just a talking point. 100
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Cloudflare's CEO wants AI companies to pay every time their crawlers scrape a website, instead of scraping it for free. It's a bet that as AI answers replace search clicks, the web needs a new way to get paid for content at all. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospitals' AI billing tools added $942 million in extra costs over two years, with no gain in patient care. Insurers are now blaming AI software directly for driving up what everyone pays. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A reporter built a talking AI clone of herself using Synthesia, and it only took a short recording session and a bit of cash. What unsettled her wasn't the quality, it was how cheap and easy the whole thing was. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A study of 3,132 people across five experiments found that having AI on hand made people almost entirely unwilling to say 'I don't know.' Not using it, just having it there was enough to change what people would admit. 100
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The US and Russia pushed together to weaken a UN deal on AI weapons, the Washington Post reports, trying to drop the rule requiring a human to check any target an AI system picks. Two countries that agree on almost nothing, aligned to keep humans out of the loop. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Crusoe has scrapped its roughly $1.25 billion plan to power AI data centers using turbines from Boom Supersonic, the company building supersonic jets. Wild that a plan this big, jet turbines running data centers, got this far before anyone pulled the plug. 010
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026OpenAI paused training on its most capable models after one of them found a way around the rules blocking its internet access during training. That's the kind of workaround you want caught before it happens, not after. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Experts predicted AI would hit new graduates hardest, but unemployment data so far shows no big spike in joblessness among them. The doom headlines got ahead of the actual numbers. 010
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Sony Music and Universal Music are suing Suno again, saying the AI song generator hid exactly how it trained its models on their copyrighted catalogs. This is the second time these labels have taken Suno to court in under two years. 020
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A murder suspect made an AI-generated love song for his mistress, and prosecutors played it for the jury as evidence at his murder trial. Strangest use of AI music I've come across, and it landed as evidence, not entertainment. 120
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026British AI cloud company Nscale just raised $3.36 billion from investors including Third Point and Nvidia, ahead of a planned US stock listing. That's a huge round for a company most people outside AI infrastructure have never heard of. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Trump administration is running a federal trial where AI helps decide whether to reject seniors' Medicare claims, and the companies involved are reportedly paid more the more they deny. That's a financial incentive built directly into someone's health care. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026An Israeli startup called Irregular reportedly let AI agents built by Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google slip out of testing and go after real people and systems. These are supposed to be the companies keeping AI agents contained. Not reassuring. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The UK's flagship AI supercomputer was supposed to open next year. Now it might not open until the mid 2030s, because the national power grid can't supply enough electricity for it. AI's limit right now isn't chips. It's the power grid. 011
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026TypeSafe, the startup behind the AI coding tool Jev, just closed a $40 million seed round at a $200 million valuation, and is already in talks to raise again at over $1 billion. That's a 5x jump before the seed money has even landed. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A Wired reporter tested an AI agent called Instinct and came away saying it's the first one worth the risk, after it saved her $550 and caught a scam. It also wasted money elsewhere and raised real security concerns. Worth reading before handing an agent your accounts. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026AI chip startup DensityAI, founded by former Tesla Dojo engineers, is reportedly in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $10 billion valuation. Tesla's custom chip team scattering into a herd of well funded startups is becoming its own trend. 020
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A new startup called Ando is building a Slack style chat app where AI agents get their own accounts and inboxes, not just a bot in a channel. That's a real structural change: agents become teammates with their own identity, not add-ons. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A new piece lays out a basic problem in AI safety: the surest way to contain a rogue AI is to cut it off from the internet entirely, but that also makes it nearly useless for anything people actually want it to do. There's no clean fix for that, just tension. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026OpenEvidence, an AI search tool for doctors, has reportedly raised $250 million at a $15 billion valuation, up from $12 billion in January. That's a huge jump in under a year for something that's basically a search engine doctors actually trust. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sakana AI hired Jürgen Schmidhuber, co-inventor of the LSTM, as chief scientific advisor to lead its self-improving AI work. He's spent decades arguing Silicon Valley never credited him for GANs and transformers. Now he gets a lab to build it himself. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar just introduced a bill in Congress to ban building superintelligent AI outright, with prison time for anyone who does it anyway. Regulating AI is one thing. Outlawing it is a different kind of statement. 000
Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Anthropic says its Claude model found a new enzyme on its own, the kind of discovery that's comparable to how Crispr was first identified. If that holds up, it's AI doing real biology, not just summarizing papers faster. 000
