Foundation models get most of the attention, but the infrastructure underneath them increasingly determines who wins the race to build and deploy them. That infrastructure question has stopped being purely technical. It now touches geopolitics, chip architecture, and where intelligence actually gets to run. Understanding how AI infrastructure powers the next generation of foundation models…

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Data center developer Crusoe has reportedly raised a new $3 billion round at a $30 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg. The round is being co-led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners, with participation from Mubadala Capital, the asset management arm of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund. The funding comes just 10 months after Crusoe…

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Meta is offering developers a discount of roughly 95% on its new Muse Spark model, an AI system built for coding and other agentic tasks, in exchange for allowing the company to use their prompts and outputs to train future models. Under the “contributor” pricing tier, input tokens drop from $1.25 to 10 cents per…

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Boston-based startup Blue Voice has emerged from stealth with $6 million in funding led by SignalFire and Las Olas VC, offering an AI tool that gives police officers real-time access to department policies and legal guidance in the field. The company was founded by David Lawrence, a former Harvard Law student who left school after…

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Insider Brief Guickly launched with $4.2 million in seed funding led by Engineering Capital to give enterprises visibility into AI spend, usage, and ROI, addressing the fact that only 39% of organizations can attribute bottom-line impact to AI, per McKinsey. Founded by former Google Applied AI Lead Prashant Jalan, the platform tracks every AI tool,…

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OpenAI has released its new AI model, Astra, describing it as the company’s most powerful and capable system to date, particularly for computer and browser use. The model became available immediately to customers of OpenAI’s Daybreak cybersecurity program, with broader access rolling out over the following week to Pro, Plus, Enterprise, and Business subscribers, as…

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Google DeepMind and Google Research have released WeatherNext 3, a new AI weather forecasting model that the company says will begin powering weather information across Search, Google Maps, and Gemini, while also being available to researchers on Google’s cloud platforms. According to senior staff engineer Samier Merchant, this marks the first time such core forecasting…

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AI lab Thinking Machines, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is reportedly in discussions to raise $1 billion at a valuation of at least $40 billion, according to The Information. Existing investor Accel is said to be in talks to lead the round, though the figure would fall below the $50 billion valuation the…

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Insider Brief Clipto raised $15 million at a $250 million post-money valuation from investors including HSG, GL Ventures, EnvisionX Capital, and Palm Drive Capital, and launched native Windows and Android apps along with a new Model Context Protocol for AI agents. The startup uses on-device AI to turn personal video and audio into a searchable…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 3,363 new readers. The long-awaited GPT-6 Astra has finally arrived. OpenAI calls it “a new generation of intelligence,” with president Greg Brockman going further with “Welcome to the AGI era.” So has AI’s loftiest, least-defined bar…

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