Here is the rundown.
💰 1. Reflex: Reflex reportedly raised $14M in a Series A led by Standard Capital with Databricks Ventures participating, bringing its total funding to $19M (reported).
https://www.techbuzz.ai/newsletters/signalpulse-weekly-signals-startups-deals-to-watch-alert-564f-post-cc42d8b2-8747-4b58-8ea0-d563cb814a15
🔬 2. Kakeya conjecture: OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly claim to have solved the 27‑year‑old Kakeya conjecture, releasing the result after expert advice recommended publishing it as‑is (reported).
https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-cracks-27-year-old-pillar-computer-science-openai-and-anthropic-claim
🚀 3. GPT-6.1 Terra: OpenAI announced GPT-6.1 Terra, a visual‑reasoning model that scored 51 on AAII v5 and is offered via ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API with standard prices of $1‑$5 per million output (announced).
https://patmcguinness.substack.com/p/ai-week-in-review-261031
💰 4. Anthropic: Anthropic reportedly filed for an IPO, a corporate event documented in a federal registration statement (reported).
https://medium.com/@Reiki32/what-a-week-of-ai-announcements-here-is-everything-you-need-to-know-61b6691a60bd
🔐 5. New York’s RAISE Act: The RAISE Act, pre‑filed in New York, expands the definition of a critical safety incident to include model evasion of developer controls and adds state access to unredacted model copies (announced).
https://www.transparencycoalition.ai/news/raise-act-part-2-pre-filed-in-new-york-state-legislature
🛠️ 6. Mellea Legal Requirements Checker (Mellea-LRC): The researchers announced Mellea‑LRC, an open‑source tool that flags AI‑generated hallucinated legal citations and includes a new validation dataset on Hugging Face for benchmarking (announced).
https://www.newswise.com/articles/researchers-create-tool-to-detect-ai-hallucinated-legal-citations
🔐 7. Humans First: The Humans First AI safety group reportedly urged tighter vetting of foreign AI workers and stronger guardrails, warning that unchecked expansion and lack of federal oversight could pose national security risks.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6407671409112
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