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AI Startups & Viral AI (Oct 18): Nscale, CoreWeave & DeepSeek
AI startups hit a credit wall on October 18, 2026: Microsoft quits the Nscale UK data center, Anthropic pays 10%+ for chips, CoreWeave bonds yield 15%.
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AI Startups & Viral AI (Oct 17): Modal, Elorian & DeepSeek
AI startups: Modal raised $750M at a $15.75B valuation and Replit dropped Anthropic. On Oct 17, DeepSeek cut open-weight coding costs again.
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AI Startups & Viral AI (Oct 16): Anthropic, Muse & Keyfactor
AI startups: Anthropic's IPO valuation slips to $1.5T, AI security pulled $6.8B in Q3, and India says test agents read live records. Oct 16.
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AI Startups & Viral AI (Oct 15): Ramp, Cohere & CoreWeave
AI startups news for October 15, 2026: Ramp raised $1.85B at a $60B valuation, Cohere is buying AISLE, and CoreWeave default insurance hit 1,000bps.
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AI Startups & Viral AI (Oct 14): Scimplify, Pluto & Argon
AI startups drew $67M on Oct 14: Scimplify's $200M run rate, Pluto's $42M bet on vibe-coded apps, and a TV4 season lost to a failed backup.
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AI Startups & Viral AI (Oct 13): Character.AI, Muse & Codex
AI startups split on October 13: Character.AI filed for bankruptcy while Infinigence raised $344M. Anthropic also warned small models can now self-replicate.
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AI Startups & Viral AI (Oct 12): Decart, Vinci & Qwen
AI startups news for Oct 12: Amazon nears a $7B deal for Decart, Vinci raises $250M for chip simulation, and Microsoft ships a Qwen model 58% under OpenAI.
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AI Startups & Viral AI (Oct 11): Yandex, Ledgebrook & DDR4
AI startups news, October 11, 2026: Ledgebrook's $200M AI underwriting round, Sabi's thought-reading cap and Yandex's third data centre strike in four days.
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AI Startups & Viral AI (Oct 10): TypeSafe, Arena & Deno
Oct 10, 2026: AI startups logged $1.07B in new rounds, TypeSafe at $7.5B and Arena at $3.1B. Plus the Anthropic agent incident that ended in a police report.
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AI Startups & Viral AI (Oct 9): Oxide, Mecka & Haiku 5.5
AI startups raised $505M in 48 hours and shrank a speech model to 16.9MB. Oxide, Mecka, GPT-6 and Haiku 5.5: what changed on October 9, 2026.
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AI Startups & Viral AI (Oct 8): Manus, Nous & ChatGPT Teens
Manus raised $500M after China vetoed its Meta sale. On Oct 8, AI startups Manus, Nous and Vesta pulled in $620M, and ChatGPT for Teens got a failing grade.
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AI Startups & Viral AI (Oct 7): Lambda, RobCo & RuneScape
AI startups booked a $4B raise this week while one customer underwrote 70 percent of it. Plus rogue Wikipedia agents and a six-fingered RuneScape trailer.