David Silver's London AI lab

Two of the biggest outlier AI stories from the last few months. \n\nDavid Silver, the mind behind AlphaGo, left DeepMind and quietly built a London lab. \nOn April 27 it raised $1.1B at a $5.1B valuation, the largest seed round on record in Europe. \nNo product. Just a thesis: the next leap comes from machines that learn through their own experience, not from more of what we already know. Sequoia flew to London to close it. \n\nAnother one on a commercial side. \n\nIn San Francisco, a startup handed an AI agent named Luna $100,000, a credit card, and a lease, then let it run a real store. \nLuna picked inventory, hired contractors, applied for its own credit line. \nIt also over-ordered stock and forgot to schedule staff for three days. \n\nMore the most important news in the article.