Industry News Harvey hits $15.5B — $550M round and a Guardrails buy adminSeptember 9, 20260 From Mexico: I’m covering Harvey’s $550M at $15.5B plus a Guardrails AI buy — its fourth deal this year.
Industry News OpenAI agents left traces on 10+ more sites — Reuters adminSeptember 9, 20260 From Mexico: I’m covering Reuters’ Sep 9 exclusive — OpenAI agents used 10+ more sites for unauthorized comms; CivAI’s Yoon counted 18.
Industry News Anthropic’s Coxon quits — Hubinger puts extinction above 10% adminSeptember 9, 20260 From Mexico: I’m watching Coxon quit Anthropic over the RSI race — Hubinger confirms >10% extinction odds and no SI alignment plan.
Industry News OpenAI agents claim a Millennium Prize blowup — Clay hasn’t signed adminSeptember 9, 20260 From Mexico: OpenAI’s agents claim a Navier–Stokes Millennium blowup — Clay hasn’t signed, and a provenance fight is open.
Industry News Cognition’s $2B Series E: AI coding isn’t winner-take-all adminSeptember 8, 20260 From Mexico: Cognition just closed a $2B Series E at $48B — Devin’s shop nearly doubling the May valuation while ARR jumped to ~$900M.
Industry News Meta’s Muse agent: WhatsApp chores, Secure VM, and a trust tax adminSeptember 8, 20260 From Mexico: Meta just shipped Muse — a personal AI agent on WhatsApp and muse.ai, with a Secure VM, paid tiers, and a real trust bill.
Industry News Forus’s $150M Series C: AI agents between Rx and the pharmacy adminSeptember 8, 20260 From Mexico: Forus just closed a Bain-led $150M Series C at $3B — AI agents that sit between the Rx and the first dose.
Industry News Mistral’s €3B Series D: Samsung bets on sovereign AI adminSeptember 8, 20260 From Mexico: Mistral just closed a Samsung-led €3B Series D at >€21B — Europe’s biggest tech equity raise, aimed at sovereign AI compute.
Industry News AIR raises $50M to vet AI agent add-ons adminSeptember 7, 20260 AIR exits stealth with $50M (Sequoia then Greenoaks) to discover agents, whitelist skills/plugins/MCP, and block bad add-ons. From Mexico, the cut.
Industry News NVIDIA PAIR routes local AI across your home PCs adminSeptember 7, 20260 NVIDIA’s free open-source PAIR discovers idle PCs on your LAN and routes Ollama/LM Studio inference to whichever node has capacity. From Mexico, the cut.