THE LATENT: Mistral and Nvidia are expanding their AI partnership into industrial engineering, combining Mistral Large 4 with Nvidia's accelerated computing and simulation tools. The companies plan to develop public benchmarks and open datasets for physics AI and AI agents working on engineering design tasks.

THE LATENT: Brain-computer interface startup Coherence Neuro raised $45 million in a Series A round co-led by the OpenAI Startup Fund and Founders Fund. The company is developing implants designed to monitor and treat cancer using real-time biological data, with plans for a long-term human trial targeting glioblastoma.

THE LATENT: President Trump said companies building data centers should pay a financial "dividend" to local communities to win public support for the projects. He also reiterated that large data centers must generate their own electricity and give or sell excess power to local communities or the grid.

THE LATENT: AI coding infrastructure startup Blacksmith raised $66 million in a Sequoia-led Series C round at a $1 billion valuation, nearly doubling its value in two months. The company said its annual recurring revenue has grown 17-fold as AI-generated code drove demand for automated software testing.

[ THE LATENT ] TENCENT AND OTHERS INVEST IN DEEPSEEK AT $74B VALUATION ACCORDING TO SOURCES: BBG

THE LATENT: Palantir said L3Harris cut AI costs by 95% in tests using models trained on its proprietary data. The defense contractor is working with Palantir and Nvidia to develop sovereign AI models for mission-critical applications, retaining control of its data, models and computing infrastructure.

THE LATENT: Nokia said its AI and cloud customer sales grew 123% in the third quarter, with order intake rising 118% to €1.5 billion ($1.67 billion). The Finnish telecom equipment maker reported €605 million ($680M) in comparable operating profit, above the €453 million ($509M) analyst consensus.

THE LATENT: Walmart said it will launch Agent Profiles within the next month to let AI agents shop on behalf of customers. Agents can't access payment-card information or change payment methods, the retailer said. Customers will be able to set spending limits, track agent purchases, and revoke access at any time.

THE LATENT: Stripe has partnered with Anthropic to bring payments into Claude Duet. Business owners can ask Claude Duet to make purchases via Link's agent wallet or manage invoices, refunds, and revenue via Stripe MCP.

THE LATENT: Railway said its servers were compromised, with unauthorized access to customer environment variables. This may include decrypted credentials such as API keys. "We believe this is part of a series of attacks recently targeting platform companies with the aim of compromising AI inference providers," the cloud provider said, adding that it has notified upstream providers to proactively revoke keys.

THE LATENT: Meta's personal AI agent app Muse has accumulated more than 10 million users since launching in September, Mark Zuckerberg said during the company's Q3 earnings call. Zuckerberg noted that shopping is Muse's most common use case, with over 25% of shoppers spending more than $200 on average.

THE LATENT: Anthropic is giving users a preview of its new Claude Duet, a "proactive" AI agent that checks connected apps and works on tasks while users are offline. It needs user approval before sending messages, making payments, or deleting anything. A waitlist is currently open for US Pro and Max subscribers.

THE LATENT: Legal AI startup Legora has raised $550 million in Series E funding at an $8.8 billion post-money valuation, up from $5.6 billion in its previous round. The startup said its annual recurring revenue has surpassed $200 million. Atreides Management led the round, with new investors including Baron Capital, Capital Group, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Glade Brook Capital Partners, and JPMorgan. Accel, Benchmark, Bessemer Venture Partners, and other existing investors also participated.