Insider Brief Foxglove added agentic AI capabilities to its robotics data platform to help developers search robot data, investigate failures, compare runs and prepare datasets for model development. The platform includes an Agent Sidebar for built-in analysis and an MCP server that lets external AI agents interact with Foxglove through Model Context Protocol. Foxglove also…

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Klaviyo, the publicly traded e-commerce marketing automation platform, has agreed to acquire Agency, a three-year-old AI-powered customer success startup founded by Elias Torres, in a deal with undisclosed financial terms. Agency had previously raised $32 million from investors including Sequoia, Menlo Ventures, and Felicis. As part of the acquisition, Torres will join Klaviyo as chief…

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Inevitable AI Group (IAIG), an AI-native venture studio, announced a $6 million pre-seed funding round led by Aleph. The company builds and launches multiple AI-native software businesses simultaneously, operating on the premise that advances in AI now allow small teams to develop and scale software products significantly faster and more efficiently than traditional methods. Founded…

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Malachyte, an e-commerce personalization startup founded by former Spotify engineers Sidd Motwani, Ian Anderson, and Shivaditya Sinha, announced a $10 million seed funding round co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Gradient, with participation from Harpoon Ventures. The funding will support expanded distribution and additional hires across product and commercial teams. The founders previously built behavioral…

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Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation startup launched in 2021 with ambitions of becoming a modern alternative to Zapier, is shutting down, with several staff members, including founder and CEO Jacob Bank, moving to Google’s Chrome team. Bank announced that paying customers will lose access on September 14, following free-tier customers who already lost access on…

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Perplexity’s yearlong partnership with Indian telecom giant Airtel, which offered free Perplexity Pro subscriptions to 360 million customers starting in July 2025, appears to be yielding early signs of sustained revenue growth as the earliest free subscriptions expire, according to data from Sensor Tower and Appfigures. The promotion drove explosive download growth, with Sensor Tower…

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Insider Brief Velaura AI raised $110 million in a Series A round led by Seligman Ventures to develop lower-power computing technology for AI data centers and physical-AI systems, valuing the company at more than $1 billion. The company plans to use the funding to commercialize its Titan Core silicon platform and expand engineering and customer…

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OpenAI announced the launch of ChatGPT for Teens on Monday, introducing new safety measures and educational tools following multiple lawsuits alleging the chatbot contributed to teen suicides and other mental health issues. The product includes a new Study Mode feature designed to guide teens through problem-solving with step-by-step support rather than providing direct answers, along…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 5,482 new readers. If you were picking a day to launch a GitHub competitor, you couldn’t script a better one than the morning the legacy platform suffered a massive outage. Cursor just managed to hit that…

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Who is actually accountable for ethics inside a frontier AI lab? This year four of them answered, mostly by removing the people and structures that held them to it. Below is who left, what each company said about it, and the one line from a departing researcher that explains why good intentions were never going…

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