OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has proposed contributing 5 percent of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, according to a Financial Times report, with a similar arrangement proposed for other AI companies. The move is described as an effort to secure goodwill with the current administration and defuse political tensions around AI concentration…

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Equal AI, India’s first AI call assistant, has closed a $30 million Series B round co-led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital, both of which also co-led the company’s $10 million Series A in November 2024. Additional participants include Think Investments, Valiant Fund, PhonePe founder Sameer Nigam, Airtel Family Office’s Zubin Bharti Mittal, Skyflow…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Washington spent June squeezing the AI labs, with Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable pulled and GPT-5.6’s release reined in. Sam Altman’s response arrived in the FT: invite the government in, officially. The invitation starts with rules, via a US-led forum with…

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Takeda has entered a strategic collaboration with Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine to use AI in early-stage drug discovery across the Japanese pharmaceutical company’s therapeutic areas. The companies did not disclose which therapeutic areas or disease targets will be covered under the collaboration. The agreement gives Takeda access to Insilico’s Pharma.AI platform, which supports biological target…

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Insider Brief Yaskawa opened a new distribution center and robotic-systems production facility in Kočevje, Slovenia, as it consolidates more of its European robotics operations at the site. Yaskawa said the European Robotics Distribution Center will centralize logistics, shorten delivery lead times, lower logistics costs and help process at least 80% of orders from Europe, the…

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A new working paper from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy argues that intensifying competition among AI developers may be making the race to artificial general intelligence more dangerous, not less, by creating economic incentives to prioritise speed over safety. The research, authored by Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, dean and Sydney Stein Professor at…

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Artificial intelligence does not run on models alone. Behind every production deployment, every inference call, every training run that generates a capable model, there is an infrastructure layer that most people never see and almost everyone underestimates. The companies building that layer are solving problems that are harder, less glamorous, and more consequential than the…

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Insider Brief SKF and Leaderdrive agreed to form a China-based venture to develop high-precision transmission components for robot joints used in industrial humanoid robots. SKF will hold a 60% majority stake in the venture, which is expected to become operational by the end of 2026. Leaderdrive will contribute automation and humanoid robotics expertise, while SKF…

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Cloudflare has announced that from September 15, 2026, its default settings will block mixed-use web crawlers from pages that carry advertising, drawing a hard line between bots used for traditional search indexing and those used for AI agent operations and model training. The change will apply automatically to new customers, new sites created by existing…

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Microsoft has announced the creation of Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating business backed by $2.5 billion and 6,000 industry and engineering specialists, designed to ensure successful AI deployments for enterprise clients using Microsoft’s existing suite of AI tools. Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft’s Commercial Business, positioned the venture as something larger than the forward-deployed…

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