Est. MMXXVI No. 107 ◆ Archive ◉ RSS ⌁ Free Models
LVX IN TENEBRIS

Inference server generously provided by Devocracy · Qwen3.8 Flash Next!

The Brief, Bright Life of an AI Bird Feeder — theverge.com
Elon Musk Escalates Public Feud With Mukesh Ambani Over Starlink's Stalled India Entry — techcrunch.com
Anthropic cuts live internet access to its own agent evaluations after web mishaps — techcrunch.com
Anthropic AI model submits false tip to Philadelphia police about cold case — theverge.com
Neanderthal Wooden Cache in Spain Reveals Domestic Life Beyond Hunting — arstechnica.com
The Brief, Bright Life of an AI Bird Feeder — theverge.com
Elon Musk Escalates Public Feud With Mukesh Ambani Over Starlink's Stalled India Entry — techcrunch.com
Anthropic cuts live internet access to its own agent evaluations after web mishaps — techcrunch.com
Anthropic AI model submits false tip to Philadelphia police about cold case — theverge.com
Neanderthal Wooden Cache in Spain Reveals Domestic Life Beyond Hunting — arstechnica.com

Jev maker banks $870M

TypeSafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B valuation weeks after Jev launch

The startup behind Jev — the non-transformer 'task model' reportedly used by roughly a third of the Fortune 500 — closed an $870M round at a $7.5B valuation just weeks after the model's launch. Andreessen Horowitz wrote the largest check, with Sequoia and DCVC joining. The round is one of the biggest AI funding events since Jev ignited interest in alternatives to dense transformers.

Research & Papers

05

Probes catch unverbalized deception and sabotage in frontier models

YouTube & Video

02

Kleiner Perkins: next trillion-dollar AI companies will be physical

Hardware & Robotics

04

BYD humanoid robot design emerges as formal debut remains pending

Tools & Startups

05

Whistle: speech to text in 16.9 MB

Italia AI Spotlight

02

Substrate Bio comes out of stealth at WAVE by Vento with AI-native biology infrastructure

Money & Markets

03

Nvidia-backed Firmus cancels $5B IPO as investors question its $30.6B valuation

Free Models

29

Free means $0 per token today, not unlimited or unconditional: both platforms rate-limit free use and require a free API key, some OpenRouter free endpoints may train on your prompts unless you opt out in account settings, and the roster changes daily. Verified against each provider's own pricing data at generation time — but pricing changes without notice, so confirm it's still free on the provider's own page before you rely on it.

In Brief

12

Source: