Insider Brief DataBahn closed a $40 million Series B funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Forgepoint, GTM Capital and S3 Ventures, bringing total funding to $59 million. The company’s agentic data control plane governs, orchestrates and activates enterprise data across sources, destinations and AI models, and has achieved more than…

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Airbnb is increasingly relying on AI to speed up internal development, even as its consumer-facing AI rollout remains more measured, co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said during the company’s second-quarter earnings call. Chesky said AI has helped reduce the time from concept to feature launch by 60%, while the number of features and improvements shipped…

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Cloudflare has launched Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted web browser designed specifically for AI agents rather than human users, entering a growing race among tech companies to build next-generation browsers. Unlike traditional browsers focused on visual elements such as tabs and themes, Kitesurf is built to manage context windows, token costs, performance, and scalability, addressing the different…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 12,457 new readers who joined us this weekend. A week ago, OpenAI’s upcoming Astra model was making major waves in the math world after knocking out 10 long-standing problems. Days later, it set off an alarm…

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Meta is releasing Muse Glimmer under an Apache 2.0 licence for local AI agents that can run on a consumer GPU. The company’s  Superintelligence Labs has released the 30-billion-parameter model’s weights on Hugging Face. Meta says developers can use it for local coding, function calling, local agents, and LLM-as-a-judge evaluation. The release targets an operational…

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Physics AI can now explore thousands of design variations in the time it would take a traditional simulation to chew through a handful of them. Precisely up to 1,000 times faster, according to Siemens. What it cannot do is sign off a safety-critical part. On that, the technology has a firm limit, and Sam Mahalingam,…

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Insider Brief Firebird launched an Nvidia-based AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia, and plans to scale the site beyond 70,000 Nvidia Blackwell and Vera Rubin GPUs and 300 megawatts of capacity by the end of 2027. Nvidia intends to invest in Firebird following an earlier CoreWeave investment, while Schneider Electric, Vertiv and Dell Technologies supplied electrical,…

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For years, artificial intelligence could be covered as one industry. This edition makes that impossible. The important action is now distributed across institutions with incompatible duties, incentives, and definitions of success. The result is a new kind of AI news cycle: no single launch at its center, no single authority in control, and no clean…

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Insider Brief HII plans to award up to $900 million in shipbuilding work to Path Robotics and GrayMatter Robotics over seven years to expand physical AI and automation across U.S. Navy shipbuilding programs. The performance-based agreements are part of HII’s HYPR program and will move through development and delivery stages covering automated welding, grinding, blasting,…

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Insider Brief Magnendo Corp. has been selected for an award of up to $32 million from ARPA-H to develop magnetic robotic navigation technology for increasingly autonomous treatment of ischemic strokes. The five-year award is part of ARPA-H’s Autonomous Interventions and Robotics program and will support development of a platform for navigating guidewires and catheters through…

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