Archive - Venture Daily Digest

☕ Sam Altman says OpenAI is open to slowing AI development.

Anthropic says Chinese AI labs harvested Claude at massive scale & Nvidia says revenue could grow 70% next year.

Sep 11

☕ AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August & Google mapped a fruit fly's brain.

U.S. accuses Chinese AI firms of copying American models.

Sep 10

☕ Anthropic researcher quits over ‘out-of-control’ AI fears & Meta launches its new personal AI agent.

Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from paid subscribers.

Sep 9

☕ OpenAI’s chief scientist is calling for the AI race to slow down & CD sales are making an unexpected comeback.

China is preparing humanoid robots for military use.

Sep 8

☕ Top 1% drive 80% of OpenAI revenue & Claude proves Fermat's theorem.

Travis Kalanick’s Atoms is moving into robotaxis & Microsoft unveils Project Zenith.

Sep 7

☕ OpenAI launches its powerful (and controversial) new model & Accel to lead a $1B round into Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines.

Meta offers 95% AI discounts in exchange for training data

Sep 4

☕ Google launches an AI-powered Canva rival & a16z raised another $1.75B for its fifth growth fund.

AI data center boom is creating winners beyond Nvidia.

Sep 3

☕ Anthropic resumes cyber tests & AI labs are buying tens of thousands of Macs to train agents.

Anthropic launches cheaper, less restrictive Fable 5.1.

Sep 2

☕ a16z raised $1.1 billion for its new Machine Age Fund.

ChatGPT’s ads business reached a $1B annual run rate & Apple enters a new era under CEO John Ternus.

Sep 1

August 2026

☕ Nvidia’s AI advantage is expanding beyond GPUs.

South Korea bets on national AI access, robotics splits along geopolitical lines, and startups raise $354M+.

Aug 31

☕ Anthropic introduces a framework that lets AI agents control real-world machines & Apple’s first foldable iPhone could ship 10 million…

Meta pays $16.7B in teen addiction case & Stripe and Advent reportedly drop $53B pursuit of PayPal.

Aug 28

☕ Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B & Thinking Machines Lab co-founder joins Google DeepMind.

Zuckerberg's plan to replace thousands of Meta workers with AI fell apart & Bill Gates proposes ‘Human Reserved’ jobs.

Aug 27

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