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Today’s brief · Monday, November 2
- AIResearch firm SemiAnalysis launches a hard AI agent test; the best model scores 12%
- Startups & BusinessData analytics firm Hex raises $100M after rebuilding its product for AI agents
- Startups & BusinessHyperbolic, which rents AI computing from smaller cloud firms, raises $30M
In this brief
Week in review
Oct 26 – Nov 1The cost of AI showed up in this week's earnings. Big Tech kept spending heavily while cash flow turned negative and share prices fell, and Anthropic's IPO filing gave the first detailed look inside an AI lab's finances. Crawlers taking content to train AI were another thread, as sites, Reddit and the big AI companies each acted on scraping. On the security side, a record crypto theft and a tampered coding add-on stood out.The stories that mattered, and a review quiz →Earlier briefs
- Sunday, November 1Concept: Discrete cosine transform
- Saturday, October 31Concept: Differential privacy
- Friday, October 30Concept: Audio fingerprinting