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AI Weekly Tech — A young team in the Netherlands says its AI-powered property search is taking the guesswork out of buying a home in Morocco. The early-stage startup is currently valued at around €500,000.

Crunchbase News — This week’s list of the largest U.S. startup funding rounds was pretty much all about AI. That includes the biggest financing — a $1 billion round for Instinct, a developer of AI assistants for everyday tasks — as well as most of the rest of the Top 10.

OpenAI — Learn how startups can choose GPT-6 models, tune reasoning effort, improve prompts and skills, coordinate tools, and prepare workflows for production.

Wired — For years these billionaires gushed obsessively about AI. But they meekly went along when Trump canceled the term.

TechCrunch — Today is the last day to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. From October 13–15, 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders will arrive at San Francisco’s Moscone West looking for companies, products, ideas, and people worth…

EU-Startups — Kuro Technology, a Berlin-based ConTech startup that builds AI software to help general contractors, has raised €10 million in a funding round. The round was led by UVC Partners, a Munich- and Berlin-based venture capital firm with more than €800 million…

EU-Startups — Good Tape, the Copenhagen-based AI transcription company, has raised €600k from Nordic Makers, an investment group founded by former unicorn founders that invests its own capital in early-stage Nordic startups, with an average ticket size of €500k. Zendesk…

EU-Startups — Manchester-based Revnu, an AI platform helping business find customers and build their sales pipeline, has raised €2.6 million ($3 million) in order to build their team, accelerate its growth in the UK and US, and support expansion into further…

TechCrunch Startups — The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a bet that consumers will increasingly use agents instead of downloading apps.

TechCrunch Startups — Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.

TechCrunch Startups — The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.

Ars Technica — OpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip.

Hugging Face —

Ars Technica — The deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion.

Crunchbase News — Although Oura has postponed its planned offering that could have raised as much as $2.2 billion, Anthropic is still making a move toward the public markets along with AI cloud provider Nscale and other companies lining up potential fourth-quarter listings.

Ars Technica — The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm.

MIT Technology Review — Listen to the session or watch below The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a…

OpenAI — OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support.

Google DeepMind — AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.

Google DeepMind — Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations