Crusoe tripling valuation to $30B

Bloomberg

Crusoe is raising ~$3 billion at a $30 billion valuation, tripling its worth from $10 billion in October, as investors bet heavily on AI infrastructure providers serving major tech companies like Meta and Oracle.

Substack

Venice AI, a privacy-centric AI platform with $70M ARR, raises $65M Series A at $1B valuation by offering uncensored access to 200+ models with full user encryption, appealing to those who view AI restrictions as dangerous surveillance.

Google Play

Meta launches Pocket, an AI-powered app for creating interactive games and apps via prompts, marking the company's latest expansion into mainstream AI creation tools following its Gizmo acquisition.

Yale University & Google Research

Yale and Google researchers develop RLMF, a metacognitive training approach that teaches LLMs to self-assess performance accuracy, improving faithful uncertainty calibration by up to 63% over standard RL and enabling smaller models to outperform frontier systems like GPT-5 in expressing reliable confidence.

Meta AI

TUA-Bench establishes a 120-task benchmark for evaluating terminal-use agents on both routine and expert workflows, revealing that even frontier models achieve only 65.8% success—demonstrating substantial remaining gaps in agent reasoning and execution planning in text-based environments.