New early-stage AI fund launches with Sequoia and Jeff Dean as LPs

WSJ. Magazine's The Job Interview features DeepMind co-founder and Isomorphic Labs founder Demis Hassabis discussing why he sold DeepMind to Google, his Nobel Prize, and what he calls the most pressing question in science.

Replit's Monitoring Agent reads production logs and metrics, investigates alerts, validates a fix, and can auto-deploy it to production, then emails a summary of what changed. It builds on App Monitoring, launched earlier this year, which only flagged outages.

Reservoir Media filed copyright infringement and DMCA suits against Suno and Anthropic in U.S. court, seeking nearly $340 million in combined damages, with roughly $200 million of that aimed at Suno. Attorney Richard S. Busch represents Reservoir in both actions.

Retail investors who bought semiconductor stocks during the AI rally were hit hard in Thursday's rout, while Citadel Securities' Scott Rubner expects money to flow back into the AI trade after the US midterms. Goldman's Ben Snider warned Magnificent Seven concentration could amplify risk as rising costs weigh on earnings.

Top AI firms are pitching different approaches to giving money to public causes, per Bloomberg's newsletter. The piece frames the pledges as a response to public backlash against AI.