NEWS

• HighTouch raises $80M at a $1.2B valuation for AI-powered marketing personalization
• Perplexity open-sources r1-1776, a uncensored DeepSeek r1 variant
• Safe Superintelligence raises over $1B at a $30B valuation with Green Oaks leading

COMMENTARY

• WSJ deep dive: how Altman and Musk went from co-founders to bitter rivals
• Grok 3 vs. OpenAI deep research: a head-to-head prompt breakdown
• Grok 3 launches: state-of-the-art model benchmarks but lags OpenAI on product