Sources: Jeff Dean is raising funds again for Discovery Loop, seeking a valuation of ~$50B; Discovery Loop was raising $1B at a ~$10B valuation a few weeks ago (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)

Anatomy of a skill

This started with a surprise, not with a plan. I needed a survey of the state of the art on a topic I was considering working on, so I ran deep-research , a skill that ships with Claude Code, and it…

2026-09-11 ·dev.to

So you want to use OpenRouter?

So you want to use OpenRouter? One of OpenRouter's selling points is that it "handles fallbacks automatically and picks the most cost-effective option for each request", so you can call a single API…

• OpenRouter automatically handles fallbacks and selects cost-effective options for each request.
• Provider.only option allows control over which provider is routed to for a specific model ID.

2026-09-11 ·simonwillison.net

Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data

The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.

• Mecka AI aims for $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal.
• Founders Josh Gao and team lack robotics experience.
• Data from daily tasks addresses robot training obstacle.

2026-09-11 ·techcrunch.com