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- Cal AI hit $30M revenue in two years via influencer seeding before a March MyFitnessPal acquisition, per TechCrunch
ReportedTechCrunchOct 16Part of Cal AIBusiness & funding - Anthropic opens applications for STEM and Conceptual Reasoning Fellowships starting January 2027, deadline October 28
OfficialAnthropicOct 16Business & funding - OpenAI pledges $5 million to a Simons Foundation program helping mathematicians study and extend AI-produced results
OfficialOpenAIOct 16Business & funding - Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by Anthropic's Mythos and other AI models, per CNBC
ReportedCNBCOct 16Business & funding - NVIDIA joins the EU's AI in Science Enablers Initiative with open models, DLI courseware and AI-factory compute access
OfficialNVIDIA BlogOct 15Business & funding - Ramp AI Index: Anthropic reaches 43.8% of US businesses in September versus OpenAI's 40.6%
OfficialRampOct 15Business & funding - Anthropic tells prospective investors third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion and was profitable on an adjusted basis, per Reuters
ReportedReuters (via The Hindu BusinessLine)Oct 15Part of Anthropic IPOBusiness & funding - OpenAI says Block's security team uses Daybreak to triage every alert and propose patches, turning weeks of work into hours
- McKinsey will have some entry-level candidates spend 10 minutes with an AI-simulated client during interviews, per The Wall Street Journal
ReportedThe VergeOct 15Business & funding - Baseten adds Runway as a Model Labs partner, letting enterprises deploy Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 on single-tenant Dedicated Inference
OfficialBasetenOct 15Business & funding - ElevenLabs says its own ElevenAgents support agent resolves over 22,000 tickets a month and 65% of tickets end to end
OfficialElevenLabsOct 15Part of ElevenLabsBusiness & funding - Google Workspace says Amplifon analyzes frontline customer feedback with Gemini Notebook and Gemini, saving store teams hours of manual work
OfficialX @GoogleWorkspaceOct 15Part of Google GeminiBusiness & funding - NVIDIA commits to an investment in Prima Mente, deepening their partnership on neurodegenerative disease research
OfficialX @PrimaMenteOct 15Part of Prima MenteBusiness & funding - Tamnoon details Tami, its agent on Amazon Bedrock that investigates and remediates cloud security findings
OfficialAWS Machine Learning BlogOct 15Part of TamiBusiness & funding - Jensen Huang says Nvidia will announce $2 billion in new European investments within a week and takes stakes in four French startups, per Bloomberg
ReportedBloomberg (via Irish Independent)Oct 15Part of NVIDIABusiness & funding - Zenzap raises $44M from Bessemer, Lightspeed and others for an AI workplace chat app pitched as a WhatsApp replacement, per TechCrunch
ReportedTechCrunchOct 15Part of ZenzapBusiness & funding - Indian startup Scimplify raises $25M led by Hitachi Ventures for AI-run specialty chemicals production, per TechCrunch
ReportedTechCrunchOct 14Part of ScimplifyBusiness & funding - Anthropic opens a Singapore office, its fifth in Asia-Pacific, and signs an AI safety MOU with Singapore's digital ministry
OfficialAnthropicOct 14Business & funding - NVIDIA says European cities are deploying agents and digital twins built on Cosmos, Nemotron and Omniverse to run city operations
OfficialNVIDIA BlogOct 14Part of NVIDIABusiness & funding - NVIDIA commits $250 million in compute over five years to UK agentic AI safety research and joins the Earthshot Prize
OfficialNVIDIA BlogOct 14Part of NVIDIABusiness & funding