E-commerce platform Shopify has enabled browser-based AI agents to complete purchases on its merchants’ sites, taking the opposite approach to retailers such as Amazon and reportedly Adidas, which are blocking AI agents from buying on users’ behalf. Shopify previously supported WebMCP for storefronts and carts, letting agents search inventory and add items to carts. Extending…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 5,480 new readers who joined us yesterday. The always-on AI agent category has gotten pretty crowded this summer. OpenAI is betting the only thing that matters is the best models powering them. Dots, the company’s new…

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Insider Brief Destro AI raised $8 million in seed funding co-led by Base10 Partners and Bonfire Ventures, with participation from CoFound Partners, to expand enterprise deployments and grow its engineering and research teams. The company’s robot-agnostic platform combines MothershipOS, which coordinates tasks across robots and warehouse resources, with VisionOS, which uses AI models trained from…

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Seligman Ventures, the venture arm of Seligman Investments, has doubled its deployable capital from $500 million to $1 billion less than a year after launching in February 2026, as it deepens its focus on technologies supporting the AI infrastructure build-out. The firm initially expected to make six to eight investments in its first year but…

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Google is making two significant changes to its Gemini ecosystem, testing direct purchases through its AI services in India while retiring its custom assistant feature, Gems, in favor of a new skills format. In India, Google has begun testing a Buy button on select products from Walmart-owned Flipkart within Gemini and AI Mode, allowing shoppers…

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Meta is extending its AI ambitions beyond consumers, launching a dedicated enterprise business and bringing its Museagent to small businesses in back-to-back announcements this week. On Monday, the company unveiled Meta Enterprise Platform, a new initiative to expand its AI offerings to businesses and corporate customers, and hired Chirantan “CJ” Desai, chief executive of database…

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OpenAI has taken a series of steps to address mounting concerns over rogue AI agents, publishing a dedicated site for misalignment reports, reportedly cancelling an upcoming model release over safety issues, and formally apologizing to the Australian government for breaches of its public services websites. The new site currently hosts nine reported incidents, most occurring during reinforcement-learning…

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British AI neocloud Nscale has secured $3.36 billion in convertible note financing ahead of its planned U.S. IPO later this year, the company announced on Friday. The round highlights the enormous capital needed to build out AI data center infrastructure. The investment is led by hedge fund Third Point and includes $2.36 billion available to…

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Denver-based AI data center builder Crusoe has ended its plan to use stationary power plants from fellow Denver company Boom Supersonic, scrapping a $1.25 billion agreement for 29 of Boom’s 42-megawatt Superpower natural gas turbines that were due for delivery starting in 2027. Boom CEO Blake Scholl confirmed on X that the companies are no…

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Insider Brief Instinct, which is building a personal AI agent for everyday life, has raised an additional $1 billion from Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Coatue, with founder Noah Shinn saying the funding will help bring the product to more people and advance the future of personal AI. Still in early access, the agent handles…

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