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ā¢ Accel is in talks to lead a $1 billion funding round for Thinking Machines Lab, a startup founded by former OpenAI chief Mira Murati. ā¢ The deal would value the company at $40 billion, supported by an annual revenue run rate exceeding $100 million. ā¢ This investment would establish Thinking Machines as one of the world's most valuable AI startups and validate the commercial viability of frontier model development.
buttondown.comā¢ OpenAI launched its GPT-6 "Astra" model on September 6, 2026, but users jailbroke the system within 24 hours. ā¢ Accel is reportedly in talks to lead a $1 billion funding round for Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab at a $40 billion valuation. ā¢ Thinking Machines Lab has reached an annual revenue run rate exceeding $100 million, marking a high growth benchmark for an early-stage startup.
buttondown.comā¢ OpenAI is preparing to launch "Astra," a new model utilizing a "recurrent depth" technique that allows it to reason beyond standard sequential thinking patterns. ā¢ AI safety experts have raised alarms, warning that this novel architecture may be significantly harder to audit and constrain than previous models. ā¢ The company also previewed cybersecurity precautions after Astra demonstrated a strong capability for breaking into computer systems.
buttondown.comā¢ AI model-training startup AfterQuery has become Y Combinator's fastest-ever unicorn, reaching a valuation of $3.2 billion. ā¢ The company's valuation saw a massive 10x increase in just five months, jumping from $300 million following its $30 million Series A round in April. ā¢ Separately, a specialized MiniMax H3 LoRA leaderboard has launched to provide a benchmarking resource for fine-tuned variants of the MiniMax H3 architecture.
buttondown.comā¢ Databricks has closed a landmark $5 billion funding round, bringing the company's valuation to $190 billion. ā¢ Simultaneously, AI tooling company Cognition is reportedly being priced at a potential valuation of $40 billion. ā¢ These massive investments signal that the investor market remains willing to apply extraordinary multiples to AI infrastructure and platform leaders despite mounting industry cost pressures.
buttondown.comā¢ A joint prosecution-police team has requested an arrest warrant for Shincheonji chairman Lee Man-hee. ā¢ The warrant follows allegations that Lee orchestrated the mass enrollment of over 50,000 church members into the People Power Party. ā¢ This legal action highlights concerns over forced political affiliation and the influence of the religious group on South Korean politics.
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