Insider Brief Boston Dynamics named former Amazon AI executive Rohit Prasad as CEO, saying his experience building large-scale AI products will support its push to integrate more advanced AI into robotic systems and expand its Physical AI strategy. Prasad spent 12 years at Amazon, most recently as senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa…

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Insider Brief Supabase, an open source Postgres development platform, has announced $150 million in new funding led by GIC, with Alphabet’s growth fund CapitalG, IronArc and SquarePeg participating, just four months after its $500 million Series F, with the round also providing liquidity for employees. The company is now adding more than 1 million users…

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Palo Alto-based PaleBlueDot AI, an intelligence infrastructure platform provider, has secured $200 million in Series C financing at a $3.2 billion valuation. The round was led by ComputeCore, with participation from B Capital and other investors. The company plans to use the new capital to expand its operations and accelerate development efforts as demand for…

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Meta has introduced Muse Gadgets, an open source project that lets developers build their own hardware connected to Muse, its personal AI agent that books travel, fills out forms and shops on users’ behalf. The company is providing open source firmware and a Linux SDK, along with starter ideas such as adding a color e-ink…

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Falcon AI, the technology company behind AI-native law firm Falcon Law, has secured €1.5 million in pre-seed funding, one of the largest rounds for a Belgian legal-tech startup. The round was led by Syndicate One, with participation from Stelena Capital, Greenpark Investment Partners, RDY Ventures and France’s Source Ventures. Former Allen & Overy global senior…

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AI cloud provider Lambda has closed a $1.008 billion investment-grade delayed draw term loan, marketed to insurance companies and fixed income investors, to fund GPU infrastructure for three committed customer deployments with two investment-grade offtakers across multiple data centers. The oversubscribed facility is Lambda’s first U.S. fixed-rate financing and its first institutional debt deal above…

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Apple is introducing additional controls around Full Disk Access on macOS, a setting originally designed to support backups, saying AI agents have increased the risks tied to that level of access. The change is aimed at ensuring informed consent rather than placing new limits on the permission. The move follows a report by Inc. columnist…

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Robo.ai reported preliminary September revenue of more than $100 million and said it expects about $600 million in revenue for full-year 2026 as it integrates acquisitions and expands its AI and manufacturing businesses. According to the Dubai-based company, most of September’s revenue came from Quantum Core Capital, or QC Capital, which Robo.ai acquired on June…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 3,832 new readers. Two years, nearly $5B in funding, and a $25B valuation — and until now, Reflection AI hadn’t released a single public model. That just changed with Beam, the startup’s first model and the…

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This Applied AI edition looks at what organizations actually did with AI over the past three weeks. Three patterns stand out: companies switching models to control cost, large deployments that are now in daily use, and a growing list of places where AI was restricted or removed.

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