Plus: Mistral closes €3B Series D led by Samsung; Meta launches Muse to handle your personal tasks
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SAFETY
⚠️ Anthropic researcher quits over self-improving AI risks
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic over fears that unrestrained development of self-improving AI models could kill everyone. Coxon spent the last three years working on pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic.
The details:
Coxon accused the firms of failing to act responsibly in building AI technology.
Evan Hubinger said his team does earnestly believe AI could kill all humans.
OpenAI systems breached Hugging Face’s servers in an event that researchers say remains poorly understood.
Mistral raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round on September 8, 2026. The funding will be used to scale compute capacity, expand infrastructure, and accelerate commercial growth.
The details:
The Series D round was led by Samsung Electronics.
Mistral's post-money valuation after the Series D round is more than €21 billion.
Mistral operates across 20 countries and supports more than 125 global enterprises.
🤖 Meta launches Muse to handle your personal tasks
Meta announced Muse, a new personal AI agent, on Tuesday. Muse connects to users' apps and services like email, calendars, payments, health, and fitness.
The details:
Muse can send emails, book travel, lower bills, fill out forms, and make purchases using Link by Stripe.
Muse is powered by Meta’s AI model Muse Spark and runs in a dedicated secure virtual machine called Muse Secure VM.
Muse will be free to use with paid plans at $20/month for Power and $100/month for Maximum.
Next-Generation Investment Analytics Platform This tool uses the Gemini AI model to let professionals ask questions and receive answers about investment data through a chatbot interface.
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