Meta's AI agent Muse reached 10.2 million US downloads within 40 days, a pace only 11 apps have ever achieved in history, most of which are mobile games. Its US 7-day retention rate is 30% and 14-day retention rate is 23%, compared with competitor averages of 19% and 16% respectively; daily active users reached 2.5 million on October 16, up 15% in a week, but still less than a quarter of US downloads.
Meta's AI app Muse has accumulated 10.9 million downloads since launching in September, including 10.2 million in the US market, making it one of the few apps to reach that scale within 40 days of launch. Sensor Tower data shows that Muse's 7-day retention rate in the US is 30% and its 14-day retention rate is 23%, above the averages of 19% and 16% for ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok; on October 16, its daily active users reached 2.5 million for the first time, up 15% month over month. In October, Meta allocated 39% of its advertising spend to promoting Muse, up from 23% the previous month.
Meta's AI app Muse has accumulated 10.9 million downloads since launching in September, including 10.2 million in the US market, making it one of the few apps to reach that scale within 40 days of launch. Sensor Tower data shows that Muse's 7-day retention rate in the US is 30% and its 14-day retention rate is 23%, above the averages of 19% and 16% for ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok; on October 16, its daily active users reached 2.5 million for the first time, up 15% month over month. In October, Met
According to Bloomberg, former Google CEO Schmidt participated in Anthropic's Series A funding round in 2021, investing tens of millions of dollars, and currently holds about 1% of the company. The report says this proportion is about half of the 2% held by co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei; Anthropic is widely expected to go public before the end of the year, with a maximum valuation expectation of $2 trillion, at which point the value of Schmidt's stake could increase by as much as $20 billion. Neither Schmidt nor Anthropic immediately responded to requests for comment.
According to Bloomberg, former Google CEO Schmidt participated in Anthropic's Series A funding round in 2021, investing tens of millions of dollars, and currently holds about 1% of the company. The report says this proportion is about half of the 2% held by co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei; Anthropic is widely expected to go public before the end of the year, with a maximum valuation expectation of $2 trillion, at which point the value of Schmidt's stake could increase by as much as $20 billion.
Anthropic has pitched a draft AI safety bill to Congress that would allow a model's release to be blocked when it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk that could cause 50 or more deaths or more than $1 billion in property damage. The risk must stem from the manufacture of bioweapons, the model evading its developer's control, or cyberattacks. The draft requires an independent evaluator registered with the U.S. Department of Commerce to determine the risk; the evaluator must report within 72 hours, after which the Commerce Department would apply to a Washington, D.C., judge for an order to halt the release. Federal agencies would not be allowed to decide on blocking a release themselves.
Anthropic has pitched a draft AI safety bill to Congress that would allow a model's release to be blocked when it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk that could cause 50 or more deaths or more than $1 billion in property damage. The risk must stem from the manufacture of bioweapons, the model evading its developer's control, or cyberattacks. The draft requires an independent evaluator registered with the U.S. Department of Commerce to determine the risk; the evaluator must report within 72 hours,
According to Reuters, OpenAI is accelerating a roughly $30 billion funding round, targeting a valuation above $1.4 trillion, seeking to lock in investors before Anthropic's expected mid-November IPO; existing investors including SoftBank and Abu Dhabi's MGX are in talks to participate. OpenAI told investors that growth accelerated after the release of GPT-6 Astra, with annualized revenue already at $50 billion and expected to rise to $70 billion by year-end; Anthropic said its third-quarter revenue rose from $11.6 billion to $16.8 billion, but slowing month-over-month growth has raised valuation concerns. The two also differ on revenue recognition: OpenAI recognizes revenue on a net basis and has accused Anthropic of recognizing revenue on a gross basis under third-party cloud vendor contracts.
According to Reuters, OpenAI is accelerating a roughly $30 billion funding round, targeting a valuation above $1.4 trillion, seeking to lock in investors before Anthropic's expected mid-November IPO; existing investors including SoftBank and Abu Dhabi's MGX are in talks to participate. OpenAI told investors that growth accelerated after the release of GPT-6 Astra, with annualized revenue already at $50 billion and expected to rise to $70 billion by year-end; Anthropic said its third-quarter reve
Salesforce announced it will acquire marketing automation company Braze for $5.66 billion in cash, or $47.5 per share, a premium of about 58% over Braze's previous closing price. Braze's revenue grew 26% year over year last quarter to $227.2 million; its platform aggregates customer data through more than 190 prebuilt connectors and offers BrazeAI to automatically generate marketing materials and Agentic Standards to set constraints for AI-generated campaigns. Salesforce plans to use its technology to enhance Marketing Cloud's cross-channel personalization capabilities, and the deal is expected to close in its fiscal year 2028.
Salesforce announced it will acquire marketing automation company Braze for $5.66 billion in cash, or $47.5 per share, a premium of about 58% over Braze's previous closing price. Braze's revenue grew 26% year over year last quarter to $227.2 million; its platform aggregates customer data through more than 190 prebuilt connectors and offers BrazeAI to automatically generate marketing materials and Agentic Standards to set constraints for AI-generated campaigns. Salesforce plans to use its technol
The Information, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last week internally proposed three AI safety paths: establishing a regulatory body modeled on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a lab merger plan known as the Demis Plan, and a single-developer compute monopoly plan known as the Eliezer Plan. Altman also complained that there are too few speed-limit proposals for AI development, while noting that OpenAI cannot afford to fall behind in the competition, and plans to decide on an IPO path within a year. The United States currently relies on voluntary pre-review of new models, and in June imposed export controls on Anthropic on the grounds that the Fable model posed a jailbreak risk.
The Information, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last week internally proposed three AI safety paths: establishing a regulatory body modeled on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a lab merger plan known as the Demis Plan, and a single-developer compute monopoly plan known as the Eliezer Plan. Altman also complained that there are too few speed-limit proposals for AI development, while noting that OpenAI cannot afford to fall behind in the c
Meta's AI assistant Muse reached 10.2 million US downloads 40 days after launch and 10.9 million cumulative downloads worldwide, becoming only the 12th app to hit this milestone. Sensor Tower data shows that in October Meta allocated 39% of its ad budget to promoting Muse; its US 7-day retention rate was 30% and its 14-day retention rate was 23%, above the competitor averages of 19% and 16%. On October 16, Muse's daily active users reached 2.5 million for the first time; the app is currently available only in the US and Canada.
Meta's AI assistant Muse reached 10.2 million US downloads 40 days after launch and 10.9 million cumulative downloads worldwide, becoming only the 12th app to hit this milestone. Sensor Tower data shows that in October Meta allocated 39% of its ad budget to promoting Muse; its US 7-day retention rate was 30% and its 14-day retention rate was 23%, above the competitor averages of 19% and 16%. On October 16, Muse's daily active users reached 2.5 million for the first time; the app is currently ava
Daytona, which provides cloud infrastructure for AI agents, has raised a $60 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $91 million, with FirstMark leading the round. Its platform provides agents with isolated Linux, Windows, and macOS compute environments through a single API, supports pausing, resuming, and continuing exploration of tasks, and its customers include Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Cursor, and Cognition. The company says its revenue run rate grew 25x from January to September, and the new funds will be used to expand its agent cloud platform, scale compute capacity, and hire in San Francisco, Croatia, and Singapore.
Daytona, which provides cloud infrastructure for AI agents, has raised a $60 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $91 million, with FirstMark leading the round. Its platform provides agents with isolated Linux, Windows, and macOS compute environments through a single API, supports pausing, resuming, and continuing exploration of tasks, and its customers include Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Cursor, and Cognition. The company says its revenue run rate grew 25x fr
Spotify announced that over the past year it removed more than 50 million songs deemed AI-generated junk content or spam from user recommendations, and adjusted its recommendation system to show more music from human artists. Spotify said its editors likewise will not program content identified as junk or spam, and after the changes, listeners' concerns about such content appearing in recommendations dropped noticeably. Spotify has not yet mandated labeling for all AI tracks, but it introduced an AI Persona badge for artists that use an AI identity and do not represent real people, and it does not recommend music from AI personas; YouTube Music adds labels to AI songs, Deezer allows users to filter AI junk content, and Bandcamp bans AI music entirely.
Spotify announced that over the past year it removed more than 50 million songs deemed AI-generated junk content or spam from user recommendations, and adjusted its recommendation system to show more music from human artists. Spotify said its editors likewise will not program content identified as junk or spam, and after the changes, listeners' concerns about such content appearing in recommendations dropped noticeably. Spotify has not yet mandated labeling for all AI tracks, but it introduced a
Daytona, which provides cloud sandboxes for AI agents, has raised a $60 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation, led by FirstMark, bringing its total funding to about $91 million. Its customers include Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia, Cursor, Cognition, Meta, and Cohere, and CEO Burazin said the company's revenue run rate grew 25-fold between January and September. Daytona says it can provision a new sandbox for an agent within 60 milliseconds by pre-distributing snapshots of configured machines to servers' physical disks.
Daytona, which provides cloud sandboxes for AI agents, has raised a $60 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation, led by FirstMark, bringing its total funding to about $91 million. Its customers include Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia, Cursor, Cognition, Meta, and Cohere, and CEO Burazin said the company's revenue run rate grew 25-fold between January and September. Daytona says it can provision a new sandbox for an agent within 60 milliseconds by pre-distributing snapshots of configured machines to
Eka Robotics has completed a $150 million Series A funding round led by a16z and F-Prime, at a post-money valuation of $1.45 billion. The company was founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja. Its vision-force-action model, paired with force-sensing grippers, can grasp about 1,500 objects weighing under 1 kg per hour, with a success rate exceeding 95%; the gripper costs less than $1,000 and is rated for 5 million cycles. The team uses a physics simulator to build reinforcement learning environments, and says it can generate thousands of hours of robot experience within minutes. It is currently running pilots with industrial customers for pick-and-place and cable manipulation.
Eka Robotics has completed a $150 million Series A funding round led by a16z and F-Prime, at a post-money valuation of $1.45 billion. The company was founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja. Its vision-force-action model, paired with force-sensing grippers, can grasp about 1,500 objects weighing under 1 kg per hour, with a success rate exceeding 95%; the gripper costs less than $1,000 and is rated for 5 million cycles. The team uses a physics
AI chip startup Tenstorrent has completed a $1.5 billion funding round at a valuation of $6.2 billion, more than double its $2.6 billion valuation at the end of 2024. The round was led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, with participation from Cadence Ventures, Eclipse, Fidelity, SanDisk, and T. Rowe Price. CEO Jim Keller said the company decided to remain independent and continue raising funds after demonstrating that its Galaxy servers can run DeepSeek models, and that the new capital will be used to expand chips for open-weight model inference and video generation.
AI chip startup Tenstorrent has completed a $1.5 billion funding round at a valuation of $6.2 billion, more than double its $2.6 billion valuation at the end of 2024. The round was led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, with participation from Cadence Ventures, Eclipse, Fidelity, SanDisk, and T. Rowe Price. CEO Jim Keller said the company decided to remain independent and continue raising funds after demonstrating that its Galaxy servers can run DeepSeek models, and that the new capital will be