Money and rules catch up with AI

The week at a glance

This archive covers the three editions from October 30 through November 1. The week was about the money and the rules catching up with the technology. OpenAI trimmed its next funding round to $20 billion as investors questioned AI spending, while China's Kling AI closed a ~$3 billion round for video generation. The major labs agreed to honor one shared robots.txt switch letting websites opt out of AI training, OpenAI added teen protections with promised public safety reports and expanded monitoring for misaligned behavior, and Canada announced up to C$1.6 billion for homegrown Cohere. On the product side, Mistral released its largest model's weights, Anthropic renamed Claude's plans, DeepSeek open-sourced a prototype agent that manages other agents, and Google's research satellite answered its first prompt from orbit.

Key stories of the week

1. OpenAI trims its fundraising target to $20B as Wall Street questions AI spending.
2. One shared switch lets websites tell all major AI crawlers not to train on their content.
3. China's Kling AI closes a ~$3 billion funding round.
4. DeepSeek open-sources a prototype AI that manages other AIs.
5. Google's satellite AI chip answers its first prompt from orbit.

The week's briefings