Snowflake has committed to a new five-year, $6 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services, a deal that dwarfs the $7 billion the data cloud company generated through AWS Marketplace across its entire history since 2012. The scale of the contract reflects surging AI-driven demand. Snowflake’s customer spending on AWS doubled in 2025 to $2 billion,…

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Artificial intelligence is restructuring medicine from the exam room to the lab bench. The companies doing it most consequentially are not just digitizing old workflows — they are replacing the underlying logic of how care gets documented, how drugs get discovered, how patients move through the system, and how clinicians access knowledge. From cardiothoracic imaging to whole-brain…

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Robinhood is enabling AI agents to trade stocks and make payments on users’ behalf, marking a significant push into agentic finance. Users can now create dedicated accounts for their AI agents, preload them with funds, and connect them via the platform’s Model Context Protocol server to execute trades, analyse portfolio risk, and identify new investment…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Demis Hassabis told us AI can cut drug discovery from years to months…and the industry is already showing signs. Today, Biohub, the nonprofit backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s CZI, dropped a “world model of protein biology,” setting a…

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Google Pay is overhauling its payment infrastructure for an impending wave of transactions from AI agents. The latest updates introduce the Universal Commerce Protocol and a new server architecture, positioning Google Pay as a central clearinghouse for purchases executed by autonomous agents rather than human users. AI agents – designed to perform tasks like booking…

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league plans to introduce an automated system for certain officiating decisions, including out-of-bounds calls. The system would use AI and cameras placed around the court to determine possession. Silver compared the approach to Hawk-Eye, the tracking technology used for line calls in tennis. Disputed call preceded Silver’s comments Silver’s…

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Insider Brief Novarc Technologies and Hanwha Ocean have signed a research collaboration agreement to explore AI-powered welding and manufacturing systems for commercial and naval shipbuilding applications. Hanwha Ocean will contribute large-scale shipbuilding expertise while Novarc brings its welding automation, machine vision and industrial physical AI technologies aimed at improving precision, efficiency and structural integrity. The…

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Insider Brief Cornell University researchers have developed a robotic collective that behaves more like a flowing material than a traditional machine, allowing groups of simple robots to self-organize and adapt without centralized control. The study, published in Science Robotics, explores “mechanical intelligence,” where coordinated behavior emerges from the robots’ physical interactions and structure rather than…

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Insider Brief American Rheinmetall and Harbinger have partnered to develop robotic and uncrewed ground vehicles for U.S. military modernization programs, combining military vehicle integration expertise with autonomy-ready commercial platforms. Initial efforts will target autonomous tactical vehicles, contested logistics resupply and robotic systems aligned with Army priorities around autonomy and manned-unmanned teaming. American Rheinmetall contributes combat…

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Insider Brief Niantic Spatial and Spexi Geospatial have partnered to turn drone imagery into large-scale 3D intelligence for physical AI applications by combining Spexi’s aerial data network with Niantic Spatial’s reconstruction technology. The collaboration makes Spexi a preferred drone imagery provider for training Niantic Spatial’s real-world foundation models and is aimed at expanding 3D reconstruction…

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