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🔧 DeepMind alum nabs $1.1B for new startup, AI shorts upend Hollywood

April 29, 2026 · Morning brief · 12 news · 5:43

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DeepMind big-shot bags $1.1B to build a self-teaching god, Chinese AI slashes prices to bone, robots haul bags at airports, FDA green-lights drugs in seconds—the whole universe is hustling AI on rush-hour subway!

Today's Top 3 Headlines

  1. AI

    🤖 Ex-DeepMind David Silver raises $1.1B for Ineffable Intelligence

    UK startup Ineffable Intelligence confirms $1.1B raise at $5.1B valuation for self-learning AI that skips human data. Silver teams can ditch costly labels and storm OpenAI’s data moat.

    Source
  2. AI Industry News

    🤖 AI shorts burn ¥100M ads/day; ¥100B market 4× in 2 mo

    AI short dramas burned ¥100M in ads on Apr 15, quadrupling in 60 days; daily revenue hit ¥350M, 2.5× cinema box office. The old studio model is being algorithmically rebuilt—early adopters of generative tools will carve up the ¥100B new pie first.

    Source
  3. Open-source Tools

    🤖 OpenAI open-sources 1.5B Privacy Filter, 50M active PII scrubbing in browser

    OpenAI ships open-source Privacy Filter: 1.5B total, 50M active params run in-browser to strip PII. Devs erase private data locally in milliseconds, slashing front-end compliance costs.

    Source

+8 more headlines

  • 🤖 Poolside open-sources Laguna XS.2: free high-perf local coding Agent LLM
  • 🤖 DeepSeek v4 matches US LLMs, cheaper yet cold-shouldered
  • 🤖 OpenAI models hit Amazon Bedrock for direct AWS inference
  • 🤖 Haneda to test humanoid baggage sorter '26, $13.5k/unit
  • 🏥 FDA taps AI to speed drug trials, streamline data
  • 🤖 GitHub Copilot code reviews now burn Actions minutes—AI & CI share quota
  • 🤖 DeepSeek V4-Pro hits 0.87 USD per M tokens—1/35 cost of GPT-5.5
  • 🤖 NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni hits SageMaker JumpStart for enterprise inference
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