The Top Open AI Models Are Chinese. Arcee AI Thinks That’s A Problem.

The American startup is pitching investors on a $1 billion+ valuation to train a model over a trillion parameters, aiming to reclaim the open-weight lead from Chinese labs like Moonshot and DeepSeek.

Vibe Coding Startup Cognition Mints A New AI Billionaire

Steven Hao, the $10 billion startup’s CTO, is the latest AI founder to join the three comma club, with an estimated net worth of $1.3 billion.

The FBI Is Using Facial Recognition To Identify ICE Protestors In Social Media Videos

The FBI has charged multiple people with crimes like vandalism after determining their identities using the controversial technology, according to court records.

Reed Jobs Lost His Father Steve To Cancer. Now His Cancer VC Firm Has Raised $200 Million.

Yosemite, which funds startups and researchers focused on the disease, is targeting a total of $350 million for its second fund from high-powered investors like pharma giant Amgen and hospital Memorial Sloan Kettering.

How Portable Ultrasounds Keep Astronauts Healthy

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at how a new discovery could lead to unsinkable ships, the billions invested in AI “neolabs” and more.

OpenAI Wants To Create Biometric Social Network To Kill X’s Bot Problem

OpenAI is quietly building a social network and considering using biometric verification like World’s eyeball scanning orb or Apple’s Face ID to ensure its users are people, not bots.

‘Hundreds’ Of Gatik Robot Delivery Trucks Headed For U.S. Roads

The autonomous tech startup says it has $600 million of contracts running over the next five years to haul goods from warehouses to stores.

The Health Risks Of Winter Storms

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the health risks of winter storms, a new Korean weight loss drug billionaire, a biotech using AI for rare diseases, and more.

Robot Trucker Waabi Wades Into Robotaxi Battle With Billion Dollar Raise

CEO Raquel Urtasan says the funds, including $250 million from Uber, will help get 25,000 robotaxis on Uber’s platform and launch trucking operations with Volvo.

The Men Making Millions Selling Pepper Spray To ICE

Safariland, owned by billionaire Warren Kanders, remains the number one supplier of pepper spray and tear gas to ICE and CBP, via a large federal distributor run by a MAGA-aligned former Marine.