Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 and will shut down its public API by March 2027, citing large-scale scraping and automated abuse. The changes come as the platform’s user-generated content has become a lucrative source of revenue through AI licensing deals, with its non-advertising revenue rising 24% year over year to…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 6,908 new readers. It’s already hard to believe your eyes on the internet. After Tavus’ new “Human Interaction Model” demo, it looks like the same is about to go for live video calls. The company’s new…

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Berlin-based Restate has secured a $20 million Series A led by Singular, with participation from Redpoint Ventures and Capital One Ventures, as demand for resilient AI agent infrastructure grows. Co-founder Stephan Ewen launched the company in 2022 to build an execution engine that keeps multistep workflows running through crashes and network interruptions. He said the…

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Insider Brief Figure AI retired most of its Figure 02 humanoid robot fleet by training the robots to jump autonomously into molten steel, a decommissioning stunt inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s suggestion to “melt them.” Figure trained a new AI model in simulation using stunt performers as references, then shipped the robots to a foundry in…

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Airbnb has added AI-powered search to its app as part of its fall product update, marking the company’s first major step into AI-driven property discovery after CEO Brian Chesky chose to avoid a chatbot-style interface. Users can now switch on a toggle to search for properties using text or voice prompts, with the interface generating…

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Voice AI startup ElevenLabs has announced a $300 million tender offer allowing employees to sell part of their vested equity at a $22 billion valuation. The figure doubles the $11 billion valuation the company reached in February, when it secured $500 million in funding. The transaction was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price, large…

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Insider Brief GMI Cloud, an AI-native cloud providing GPU infrastructure and inference services, has secured $668 million in new financing, comprising a $223 million Series B led by ARCHIV with participation from NVIDIA, Trend Micro, KT Corporation and other Asia-Pacific investors, plus a $445 million credit facility led by CTBC. The capital will fund capacity…

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The U.S. government’s new public-facing AI chatbot, America.gov, built in partnership with Google and SpaceXAI, has so far proved difficult for users to jailbreak, though it has revealed at least one unexpected quirk. When users bring up Minecraft, the chatbot responds with a roughly 1,800-word monologue that can read like an existential awakening. Rather than…

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Insider Brief Efficient Computer has secured more than $97 million in Series B financing at a $650 million valuation, bringing its total funding to $173 million, in a round led by TQ Ventures with participation from Eclipse, Union Square Ventures, Giant Ventures, Toyota Ventures and others. The company says its Fabric architecture, a clean-slate redesign…

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Insider Brief Menos AI, an AI-native platform for institutional investors, has secured $5.1 million in Pre-A financing led by returning investor Copper Sky Capital, with participation from Alpha Square Group, bringing its total funding to more than $10 million, with Jack Selby of Thiel Capital leading the investment. Since launching its Sonαr research agent in…

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