Ex-Meta AI chief Yann LeCun's startup AMI Labs closed a $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation (Europe's largest seed round ever) backed by Bezos, Nvidia, Samsung, and Toyota Ventures. AMI is building "world models," AI that learns from physical reality and causality instead of language, targeting automakers, aerospace, and pharma. LeCun has been publicly skeptical of LLMs for years. His investors just wrote him a $1B check to prove the point. (TechCrunch)

Ahead of GTC 2026 next week, Nvidia is unveiling NemoClaw, an open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, and it's already lined up Salesforce, Cisco, Google, and Adobe as early partners. Hardware agnostic by design, the platform lets any enterprise deploy AI agents across their workforce regardless of what chips they're running on. Essentially, Nvidia is building the full-stack layer your AI agents will live on. (CNBC)

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OpenAI has acquired Promptfoo, an AI security startup used by 25% of Fortune 500 companies to red-team and find vulnerabilities in AI systems. The deal brings automated security scanning and compliance monitoring directly into OpenAI Frontier, the platform for building and operating AI coworkers. As enterprises race to deploy AI agents, OpenAI is making security table stakes  before anyone gets burned. (TechCrunch)

The Trump administration is preparing an executive order formally removing Anthropic's Claude from all federal agencies, escalating a standoff that began when Anthropic refused Pentagon demands and sued the government. Agencies including Treasury are already offboarding Claude, while Anthropic argues in court that Congress never granted authority to blacklist a U.S. company over protected speech. (Axios)

Amazon's Zoox is expanding robotaxi testing to Phoenix and Dallas, pushing its footprint to 10 U.S. cities after logging more than 1 million autonomous miles and serving 300,000+ riders. A new command hub opens in Scottsdale with hundreds of jobs on the way. Waymo still leads in commercialization, but Zoox has Amazon's balance sheet, and it's accelerating. (CNBC)

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