Insider Brief Qureight, an end-to-end imaging company providing enterprise-grade imaging and precision endpoints for clinical trials focused on lung and heart disease, raised $20 million in Series B financing led by Molten Ventures, with participation from existing investors Hargreave Hale AIM VCT, XTX Ventures, Guinness Ventures, Meltwind, and Ascension. The capital will fund expansion of…

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Every AI model, no matter how capable, is only as good as the systems underneath it. Training a large language model, running inference at scale, or deploying an autonomous agent all depend on a specific combination of hardware, software, networking, and data pipelines built to handle demands that ordinary IT systems were never designed for.…

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Guest Post by By Mark M.J. Scott, President of Northern Pixels Inc. The demo went well. The buyer leaned in, asked good questions, took the follow-up meeting. Then nothing. Your team has theories — the budget froze, the champion got busy, a competitor undercut you on price. No one names the real one: the buyer never…

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A New Mexico judge on Thursday ordered Meta to pay a $567 million fine, adding to a previous $375 million penalty from March and bringing the company’s total fines in the state to $942 million, in a case centered on social media harms and addiction among young users. The court also mandated operational changes, including…

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Insider Brief Intropy, an AI-native platform automating inventory, pricing and other decisions for spare parts businesses, raised $11 million in seed financing led by Felix Capital, with participation from Quiet Capital, General Catalyst and firstminute capital. Founded in 2024 by Franziska Kirschner and YihKai Teh, Intropy has processed more than $10 billion in parts demand…

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Suno, the AI music generation platform, has introduced new measures to watermark AI-created tracks, limit mass downloads, and revise its community guidelines to curb copycat content, as the company faces mounting legal challenges from record labels and artist groups. Co-founder and CEO Mikey Shulman outlined the changes in a company blog post, saying the goal…

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OpenAI announced it is removing limits on text-based chats for all ChatGPT users, a platform that recently surpassed 1 billion weekly users. The update introduces a new GPT-5.6 Luna model as the default for Free and Go tier users, replacing GPT-5.5, alongside a new “Think” button allowing users to select higher reasoning power for complex…

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Pangram, a New York-based AI detection startup, has raised $9 million in funding led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Haystack, ScOp, Script Capital, and Cadenza. The round coincides with the launch of Pangram 4, the company’s next-generation AI text detection model, alongside Pangram Image, a new tool for detecting AI-generated images. Co-founder Max Spero…

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Encore AI, a startup that trains AI voice agents by analyzing companies’ customer interactions, has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Team8, with additional participation from Planven, Lukatz, Garage, and several banks and insurers, some of which became investors after first using the product. Founded in 2022 as Insait IO by…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 5,515 new readers who joined us yesterday. Scientists just used AI to design viruses that don’t exist in nature, then created them in the lab and watched them come to life and infect their targets. The…

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