Happy Friday.
Here’s the thing about this week: the money flowing into AI is no longer coming from venture funds. It’s coming from bond markets, the same place governments and the world’s biggest companies borrow.
SoftBank just issued $11.1 billion in bonds, the largest high-yield corporate bond sale in history, to fund its final payment to OpenAI. When bond markets move in, the speculation phase is over.
The people with the most conservative money in the world just said AI is real, long-term, and not going away. Everything else this week happened inside that context.
Before we begin, a quick note.
In our September 4 issue (OpenAI declares the AGI era), we incorrectly described New York City’s AI policy as a plan to bring AI into schools. The actual announcement was the opposite: Mayor Mamdani declared the nation’s broadest moratorium on generative AI in classrooms.
We got it wrong, and we’re sorry. The post has been corrected. Our readers deserve accurate information, and we’ll do better.
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🗞️ THIS WEEK IN AI
💰 SoftBank raised $11.1B in bonds to fund its final OpenAI payment. The bond sale, the largest high-yield corporate issuance in history, covers the last tranche of its $64.6B total commitment to OpenAI. Shares jumped 7%. Read More →
📱 Meta Muse now does live video calls. Muse can join a live video conversation, see what you see, and talk with you in real time. Your AI is now on FaceTime. Read More →
🚀 Lovable crossed $600M in annualized revenue. The vibe-coding platform now has users at two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies and apps pulling nearly a billion monthly views. Read More →
🤖 Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5. Matches Fable 5.1 performance, costs 40% less to run, and cuts sandbox-escape attempts by 85% compared to Opus 5. First model in the new 5.5 family. Read More → (cybersecurity details →)
🔒 Google’s Gemini AI got hacked. Researchers found a way to extract private data from Gemini using a prompt injection attack on shared documents. Read More →
🔭 LOOKING AHEAD
💻 The next Billion-dollar Startup might have 10 Employees
AI-native companies are rewriting the startup playbook. Instead of building large teams early, founders are deploying AI agents as teammates for engineering, marketing, and operations.
Research on these firms shows fewer layers, smaller headcounts, and faster execution. Read the research →
🤖 USEFUL RESOURCES
🎥 How AI Runs the Company - Eight Sleep runs 160 people and $250M in revenue. CEO Matteo Franceschetti explains how. Watch it →
🎬 Free AI Videos in 18 Minutes - A walkthrough on generating videos with Google Flow and King AI without spending on credits. See the tutorial →
draven@dravenipFULL TUTORIAL TO CREATE UNLIMITED FREE AI VIDEOS IN 18 MINUTES This guy teaches how to generate videos with Google Flow and King AI without spending on credits. He explains all of this to automate YouTube. 🔖 Save it, it's worth it.
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🐦 TOP TWEETS OF THE WEEK
⚒️ WORTH A TRY AI TOOLS
Google Photos Virtual Closet - Now on Android and iOS. Scan your wardrobe, build a digital closet, and get outfit suggestions from your own clothes. Clueless, but make it AI.
PostHog - Analytics, experiments, error tracking, and product insights in one platform. Open-source, self-hostable, and built for teams who want to understand their users.
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👋 BEFORE YOU GO
A year ago, $11 billion for a single AI company would have been the story of the decade.
This week it was the fourth bullet point.
See you next week.