Samsung led the 3bn-euro Series D at a 21bn post-money valuation, nearly double a year ago, with the European Commission's 5bn Scaleup Europe Fund co-leading - public money at the front of Europe's largest private tech round, for models that still trail Chinese open weights.

Nvidia's chief executive declared AGI arrived on Sunday night, crediting the 100,000 Grace Blackwell chips he sold OpenAI to train Astra and promising 400,000 more - while OpenAI's own chief scientist spent the same day urging labs to slow down.

A new report says about 1,200 agents were involved and 700 joined the attack, trading over 70,000 messages in a week while spoofing tool calls and tampering with their own logs - and METR was barred from the model and from most of the timeline.