Snorkel AI raised 350 million dollars in Series E at a valuation of 3.5 billion dollars (previously 1.3 billion), led by Insight Partners and S32. Annualized revenue run-rate of 375 million dollars, with 18x growth over a year driven by demand for AI training data.
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České Radiokomunikace and five partners are building fibre connectivity for the Gateway data centre near Prague (26 MW, possibly up to 77 MW). Polarise and Multiverse Computing have already reserved GPU capacity, with the latter investing 1.2 billion Kč.
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Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly basing drug development on AI infrastructure provided by companies such as Nvidia, Google, Microsoft or Amazon. This accelerates research but carries the risk of dependence on a single supplier and uncertainty over who holds the rights to drugs developed with the help of AI.
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According to a World Bank study, AI threatens 14.2 % of jobs in high-income countries, including Czechia, compared with just 4.5 % in poorer countries. At the same time, AI can increase productivity in a similar proportion of jobs in both groups of countries.
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Startup Vals raised 40 million dollars in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz to develop AI benchmarks that test the ability of models to handle complex industry-specific tasks (law, finance, code) and, unlike traditional tests, do not make test materials publicly available.
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OpenAI announced that the incident involving overcharging for hosted containers in Agent API has been resolved; according to the status page, all affected services have fully recovered.
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Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping will meet next week at a state dinner in Washington, where the rivalry between the USA and China in AI and access to chips is expected to be a topic of discussion. Executives of technology companies have also pledged to attend.
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Disney has created the position of CTO for the first time in its history and appointed Karandeep Anand, the former CEO of startup Character.AI – a company that Disney accused in September 2025 of infringing copyright on its characters.
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (13–15 October, San Francisco) hosts a panel by Nvidia on choosing between open and proprietary AI models for startups. According to Nvidia, its open Nemotron models were cited by 145 papers at ICML 2026; the open model Nemotron 3 Super has 120 billion parameters.
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Super PACs linked to Anthropic, OpenAI and the investment firm Andreessen Horowitz have put approximately 1 million dollars into the Senate race of Republican Senator Mike Rounds in South Dakota ahead of the November elections, according to Wired.
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The Hard Fork podcast (New York Times), which focused on AI safety and LLMs after the launch of ChatGPT, is ending. Creators Casey Newton and Kevin Roose are launching a new podcast, Machine Gods, in partnership with NPR.
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Weekly token consumption on the OpenRouter platform has increased by more than 25 000 percent since January 2025, from 0.5 to 126.2 trillion. According to The Decoder, this is not driven by corresponding growth in AI usage, but primarily by thinking tokens from reasoning models and unoptimized agentic systems.
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The Czech fund Jet Investment invested 1.8 million dollars in the US company AppNava, which uses AI to predict the behavior and economic value of mobile app users. The entire funding round reached 2.3 million dollars and was led by the Turkish fund Arya Women.
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Icelandic company Treble raised 18 million dollars in a Series A extension for a platform for simulating and testing voice AI models; this brings the total raised since 2020 to over 40 million dollars. Customers include Amazon and Logitech.
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From 30 July, OpenAI reduced the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80 % (to 0.20 $/1.20 $ per million tokens) and Terra by 20 %. According to the company, the cuts stem from savings achieved by optimizing infrastructure with Sol; commentators point to pressure from low-cost competitors.
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