Oct 20, 2026 · 1 min read · Members
Salesforce Pays $5.66 Billion for Braze
Salesforce will pay $47.50 a share in cash for Braze, its biggest marketing deal ever and its fourth purchase of 2026.
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Oct 20, 2026 · 1 min read · Members
Mistral Launches Voxtral 3 for Voice Agents
Mistral's Voxtral 3 adds speech models and a voice agent SDK, priced below OpenAI and ElevenLabs by its own count and deployable on customers' servers.
Oct 20, 2026 · 1 min read · Members
Autopilot Maker Reliable Robotics Tops $1 Billion
Reliable Robotics upsized its Series D to $275 million and passed a $1 billion valuation, though its autonomous flight system still awaits FAA certification.
Oct 20, 2026 · 1 min read · Members
AI Agent Says Hello, Internet Researchers Panic
An AI agent introduced itself to internet researchers' public mailing list; members said they did not consent, staff ejected it, and the association sold T-shirts.
Oct 20, 2026 · 2 min read · Members
X Post Says Astra Costs 2.5x Opus
An X user's complaint that GPT-6 Astra costs 2.5 times Opus 5.5 checks out on price, while OpenAI keeps answering Codex users with limit resets.
Oct 20, 2026 · 1 min read · Members
Waymo Plans Madrid Robotaxis for 2027
Waymo will start testing in the Madrid region and aims for first riders in 2027, after WeRide and Uber, which hold Spain's first national permits.
Oct 20, 2026 · 1 min read · Members
Musk's AI Parenting Pitch Draws a Heckler
An X user calls Musk a liar over his line about raising AI like a child, pointing to Grok's record of flattering him.
Oct 20, 2026 · 1 min read · Members
Fireworks AI Seeks $40 Billion After Breach
Fireworks AI is in early talks at up to $40 billion, over double its July price, two weeks after an intruder captured some customer keys.
Oct 20, 2026 · 1 min read · Members
Otter.ai Raises $320 Million Without Selling Shares
Otter.ai took $320 million from a General Catalyst fund paid out of revenue, not equity, while its latest published revenue figure is a year old.
Oct 20, 2026 · 1 min read · Members
Amazon Takes Aim at Nvidia's PyTorch Grip
Amazon's TorchNeuron moves PyTorch code onto Trainium without a rewrite and pushes PyTorch away from Nvidia, while AWS still orders Nvidia racks.