Insider Brief Inbolt is expanding its AI vision platform with new robot programming and motion-control capabilities designed to reduce the lengthy manual tuning typically required to deploy industrial robots on factory floors. Inbolt Robot Programming allows engineers to generate robot programs directly from CAD models, while Inbolt Robot Control streams real-time motion corrections into robot…

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Farther, the AI-native wealth management platform, has raised $150 million in Series D funding led by General Atlantic, bringing total capital raised to over $272 million and cementing its unicorn status. CEO and co-founder Taylor Matthews and CTO Brad Genser built the platform from scratch to replace fragmented legacy systems with a single AI-driven ecosystem,…

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There’s a number that keeps coming up in conversations about AI investment right now, and it’s so large it barely sounds real. In the first quarter of 2026 alone, investors poured $300 billion into roughly 6,000 startups globally (Crunchbase, April 2026). That’s not a typo. A single quarter. One 90-day window. And it eclipses the…

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Universal Music Group and TikTok have renewed their global licensing agreement, placing AI governance at the centre of the partnership. The deal commits both companies to removing unauthorised AI-generated music from the platform while strengthening attribution systems for artists and songwriters. The agreement marks a significant thaw after a public falling-out in 2024, when UMG…

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AI gateway startup OpenRouter has raised $113 million in a Series B round led by CapitalG, Alphabet’s growth venture fund, lifting its valuation to approximately $1.3 billion — more than double the $547 million it commanded just a year ago following a Series A backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia. Founded in 2023, OpenRouter gives enterprises AI-powered…

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Insider Brief Visium SA, a Swiss AI and data company serving highly regulated industries, has closed its first institutional funding round co-led by Columbus Venture Partners and Concentric, alongside a syndicate of prominent tech founders including Thomas Wolf of Hugging Face and Sam Bourton of QuantumBlack. Founded in 2018 and bootstrapped for eight years, the…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis thinks we’ll have AGI by 2030 — give or take a year. Some gaps remain, but he’s more confident now that we’re on track. We sat down with Hassabis at I/O to talk about what’s…

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Anthropic released Mythos to the public, collapsing the wall between cleared-contractor frontier AI and developer-grade frontier AI in a single press release. DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis moved his AGI timeline from “five to ten years” to “a real possibility by 2029” and tied it explicitly to AlphaProof Nexus solving nine open Erdős problems for the cost…

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Google is folding Display Ads into its AI-powered Demand Gen platform, marking the end of a long-standing digital advertising model. The Google Display Network (GDN) has been a staple of the open internet for almost twenty years. Marketers previously relied on its predictable framework to target placements, bid on audiences, and A/B test static creative…

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The foreign exchange market is really moving away from pure intuition and toward a space shaped by speed, data and precision. By using automated systems in your routine, you can approach volatility with a level of discipline that manual trading often struggles to maintain. Every entry and exit can be based on clear rules, not…

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