Insider Brief IBM and Google Cloud have launched a joint Google Cloud Practice combining IBM’s consulting expertise and AI delivery platform with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, aimed at helping enterprises scale AI into production, modernize legacy systems, and manage complex hybrid cloud environments. The partnership includes a portfolio of industry-specific AI agents covering…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Recursive self-improvement used to sound like a far-off sci-fi phrase. Now, frontier labs say the signs are showing up internally faster than anyone expected. Anthropic’s new report shows AI already accelerating the work that builds its own successors, and lays…

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Shell will use agents from C3 AI to shift from basic anomaly detection towards fully-automated predictive maintenance. The global energy giant is building on their current use of the C3 AI Reliability Suite, which already keeps tabs on more than 30,000 crucial pieces of equipment across upstream and downstream operations. Shell now intends to lean…

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Insider Brief Generalist AI has raised $400 million in new funding, bringing its total funding to more than $500 million, to accelerate development of what it calls physical artificial general intelligence, or AGI. The round was led by Radical Ventures and included 8VC, Union Square Ventures, Hanabi Capital and Norwest, with existing investors including NVIDIA’s…

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Artificial intelligence is restructuring how companies find customers, communicate value, and close revenue — from the first cold impression to the final contract signature. The companies doing it most consequentially are not layering AI features onto existing software; they are rebuilding the underlying logic of how pipelines are built, how brands defend their position, how commerce converts…

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Insider Brief Serve Robotics is expanding beyond food delivery through a partnership with on-demand laundry service NoScrubs, marking the company’s first commercial urban delivery deployment outside of prepared meals. The pilot launches this week in select Los Angeles neighborhoods and will use Serve’s existing fleet of autonomous sidewalk robots to deliver laundry orders placed through…

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Insider Brief Amazon Web Services has launched two AI-powered tools for startups: AWS Startup Advisor, an AI assistant designed to help founders build on AWS, and an automated migration service that helps companies move applications and AI workloads onto the platform. AWS Startup Advisor provides guidance on cloud architecture, security, spending and infrastructure decisions based…

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ZutaCore, which makes waterless two-phase liquid cooling systems for AI and high-performance computing infrastructure, has closed a $100 million Series C round backed by Mitsubishi Electric, Carrier Ventures, and Samsung Ventures. The funding will support global commercialisation and R&D into thermal management for next-generation chip architectures, with ZutaCore’s platform already designed to handle processors exceeding…

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Insider Brief AlphaSense has closed a $350 million funding round at a $7.5 billion valuation — nearly double its previous $4 billion valuation — led by Vitruvian Partners, Accenture Ventures, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management, bringing total funding to well over $1 billion and reflecting the company’s growth to more than $600 million in annual recurring revenue as of…

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Meta is rolling out its Meta Business Agent globally on WhatsApp and Instagram DMs, bringing AI-powered customer interaction tools to small and medium businesses after nearly two years of testing in markets including India and Mexico. The AI agent can answer customer queries, recommend products, book appointments, qualify sales leads, and escalate conversations to human…

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