Text-message-based AI agents are increasingly being packaged so people can text an assistant to remember context, connect to other apps, and carry out tasks like scheduling, research, reservations, and reminders. Instinct’s latest funding round valued the company at $10 billion after raising $1 billion in September 2026. More personal- and family-focused assistants are rolling out across iMessage/RCS, WhatsApp, Telegram, and dedicated apps, with subscriptions and added autonomy features like agent email addresses and phone-call support.
Russia’s Kremlin funded the national program “New Health Preservation Technologies” to pursue anti-aging therapies including gene therapies, bioprinting, and genetically modified mini pigs. The effort is set to spend about $26 billion through 2030 (roughly 22 billion euros) with a stated goal of saving 175,000 lives by the end of the decade. Spending and tax plans instead shift costs toward Russians as social cuts continue and defense budgets rise to much larger levels.
The author argues that appointing an AI czar is not enough because repeated AI incidents and weakening public/investor trust could trigger a broader pullback that harms the U.S. economy. In 2025, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft invested $400 billion in data centers alone. The proposed change is to create a fully staffed Department of AI with authority to set pre- and post-deployment risk frameworks, run audits, impose fines, and draft faster legislation to reduce risk and preserve investment confidence.
Supabase raised $150 million and acquired the lightweight SQLite database company Turso to support A.I. agent use cases. The financing was led by Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and added $150 million. Supabase plans to fund employee share sellout and new A.I.-agent features while expanding coverage from Postgres databases to disposable, instant databases backed by Turso.
FieldAI Inc. is reportedly seeking a $700M funding round that could value the robotics AI developer at $10 billion. The report says FieldAI’s value would be about five times its worth from last August. As a result, the company’s fundraising plans could expand its ability to scale its map-free robot AI and digital twin platform.
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