Weekly AI roundup: DeepSeek funding, China model export controls, Anthropic's $45B compute deal
persist_en · reddit · 2026-10-26
A weekly AI news roundup. Key items this edition:
- AI-assisted cybersecurity incidents dominated the week
- DeepSeek keeps shipping useful features at aggressive prices, raised a new round with CATL and Tencent, coinciding with China announcing export controls on AI models
- Anthropic keeps expanding compute after a $45B agreement with Nscale
- Bubble skeptics may be surprised by AstraZeneca's $1.5B deal with Istro
- AI startups continue raising significant capital
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