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October 29, 2025 • AI News That Actually Matters

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AI's having another caffeine-fueled day with Volvo and Waabi rolling out autonomous trucks while voice analysis AI takes over the hiring process. Meanwhile, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is basically an AI showcase disguised as a tech conference.

WAABI + VOLVO = ROBOT TRUCK BABIES 🚚🤖

Yesterday, Waabi showed off their new autonomous truck love child with Volvo, and it's not just another 'slap some sensors on a rig' situation. This is a from-the-ground-up collab where Volvo's vehicle platform gets the full Waabi AI treatment. Here's the deal: while other companies are playing musical chairs with partnerships, Waabi has been quietly working on the software side of self-driving for years. Now they've got a heavyweight manufacturer in their corner. Think of it like this - most autonomous vehicle startups are trying to be both the brain AND the body, but Waabi's saying 'we'll be the brains, you be the beautiful Swedish-engineered body.' Smart move considering the cash burn that comes with trying to build your own trucks from scratch. The real question: can they beat TuSimple, Aurora, and Kodiak to actual commercial deployment? The clock's ticking as these robo-trucks race toward real highways.

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German AI defense startup Helsing and Swedish weapons maker Stark just landed €900M in contracts to build 'kamikaze drones' for NATO's eastern border – AI warfare is officially on Europe's shopping list.

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A new voice-analysis AI from Mappa can supposedly tell if job candidates are BSing during interviews by analyzing vocal patterns, debuting at TechCrunch Disrupt this morning.

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Super Teacher unveiled an elementary school AI tutor yesterday that uses synthesized voices to mimic real teacher interactions – because what kids need is definitely MORE screen time.

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Acer dropped a sub-$900 gaming laptop with AI features that WIRED is calling 'the best budget gaming laptop' – finally, something AI-branded that doesn't require a second mortgage.

🔌 API WATCH

Molecular AI Models Are Having Their Moment

A fresh paper dropped on arXiv yesterday (arXiv:2510.23746) showing a 100% improvement in generating molecular structures from mass spectrometry data using test-time tuned language models. The practical impact? Pharmaceutical research that used to take months could now happen in days. If you're building in the biotech space, this approach crushes previous methods for identifying unknown compounds, especially when they're not in your reference databases. The technique's transferable too – the same test-time tuning approach could boost performance on your specialized domain without needing to train models from scratch. Keep an eye on this space – molecular AI is getting as hot as LLMs were in 2023.

💰 FOLLOW THE MONEY

Nvidia's VC Strategy: The GPU King Is Now Kingmaker

Nvidia confirmed this morning they're accelerating their startup investing spree, despite not being a traditional VC firm. Here's why it matters: When the company that makes the chips everyone needs starts picking winners, it creates a feedback loop. Get NVDA investment → get priority access to chips → build better products → attract more funding. With chip shortages still plaguing the industry (just ask European automakers who issued emergency warnings today about the Nexperia chip crunch), Nvidia's blessing is basically a golden ticket. Watch which startups they back in the next quarter – those are the ones that will likely have the compute resources to actually deliver on their AI promises while others wait in the GPU breadline.

🛠️ TOOL SPOTLIGHT

AI PM Evaluation Framework

A fresh open-source tool dropped on GitHub yesterday that helps aspiring AI product managers evaluate their skills against industry standards. Inspired by Google's Director of AI Product, it transforms what could've been just another private checklist into a public resource that gives non-traditional candidates a fighting chance at landing AI PM roles. The community's already forking it like crazy.

💼 SUCCESS STORY

Unlisted

Zillow but for homes that aren't officially for sale yet? That's what Unlisted pulled off with their iOS app launch yesterday. Using AI to match potential buyers with homes before they hit the market, they've managed to crack open that mysterious 'off-market' segment of real estate that was previously gatekept by well-connected agents. Their demo at Disrupt showed they've already mapped millions of potentially available properties that you'd never find on traditional platforms. Pre-emptive house hunting just got democratized.

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That's how much NordVPN slashed their prices today, likely in response to the growing AI-powered security threats reported by LG Uplus and Tata Motors in the last 24 hours.

$2 billion

Fresh fund size that Viola Credit raised as of this morning to finance fintech startups, with AI-powered financial tools taking an increasingly dominant share of their portfolio.

100% improvement

The performance boost claimed in yesterday's breakthrough arXiv paper (2510.23746) where researchers used test-time tuned language models to identify molecular structures from mass spectrometry data.

5 finalists

Number of startups that made it to the final round at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 yesterday, with 3 of them featuring AI as their core technology.

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