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Tutor • Series B

Tutor, which is training a frontier robot foundation model and builds AI warehouse robots, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z, taking total funding to $117M.

Revolut says it cut AI coding inference costs by roughly 90% in less than a year by making self-hosted GLM models its default over commercial tools like Claude Code. The move highlights a growing trend of enterprises replacing third-party coding assistants with in-house model deployments to control spend.

Enterprise AI • Techmeme

CrowdStrike launched an AI kill switch in its Falcon Guardian product to stop internal AI agents that go rogue, and announced a Falcon Guardian integration with Claude Cowork. The move reflects enterprise demand for controls over autonomous agents operating inside corporate networks.

AI Safety • Techmeme

Solo fund by ex-Phoenix Court partner • Unknown

A former partner at London VC firm Phoenix Court launched her debut solo fund, a $17 million vehicle looking to unearth Europe's next AI success. The fund is not a direct startup funding round but a new venture capital fund.

Tencent released Hy4, the latest generation of its large language models, adding vision and computer-use capabilities and marking a capability leap over the Hy4 preview. The company positions it among the top tier of open-weight models.

Models • Pandaily

AI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2026 midterms with mixed results, and political groups are already looking toward the next election cycle. Separately, OpenAI's Chris Lehane is proposing a new social contract aimed at defining the 2028 election.

Policy • TechCrunch AI

WULF

TeraWulf secured a credit backstop agreement with Google to support financing for its data center project with Anthropic in Kentucky, set to come online in H2 2027. The agreement provides financial backing for the project.

Productivity

Datasette Agent 0.5a0 adds a panel that lets the agent chat open and sit next to Datasette pages such as a table or query page; combined with datasette-apps, you can prompt a database-backed app into existence and then modify it from the chat beside that app.