OpenAI faced online criticism after taking a group of influencers to a luxury retreat in upstate New York, dubbed “Summer Club,” where creators participated in farm-to-table dinners, wellness activities, and training sessions on using OpenAI’s products, including its newly released ChatGPT Work tool. Several influencers who posted about the trip received critical comments questioning the…

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp used the company’s second-quarter shareholder letter to renew warnings that leading AI labs pose risks to enterprises, suggesting that companies building large language models may, intentionally or not, seek to absorb the business functions of the partners they work with. Karp framed the dynamic in ideological terms, describing capitalist tensions within…

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Insider Brief Curant.ai, an AI-powered insurance claims platform, closed a $3.1 million seed financing round led by Diagram, with participation from Humania Insurance, Element Ventures, Blue Plains Capital, and various angels Founded by John Haller, Curant.ai streamlines claims adjudication through intelligent automation, data extraction, workflow orchestration, and AI-powered decision support, starting with a solution focused…

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Insider Brief Harmony, an AI platform delivering personalized employee support across IT, HR, finance, procurement, and legal, raised $34 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Hitachi Ventures, Fin Capital, Mercer Ventures, and Operator Partners, founded by Nitzan Shapira and Ran Ribenzaft, previous co-founders of Epsagon Deployed within Slack and…

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Insider Brief HappyRobot raised $150 million in Series C funding at a $1.2 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to about $200 million. Prysm Capital led the round with Eurazeo, while Andreessen Horowitz, Base10 Partners, Y Combinator and several strategic investors also participated. The company will use the capital to expand its AI-agent platform, enterprise…

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Prentis, an AI research lab focused on computer-use models, is reportedly in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The startup was co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das, alongside LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Zynga founder Mark Pincus, and launched in April. Prentis is…

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In his final earnings call as Apple CEO, Tim Cook said the company’s overhauled Siri AI assistant, now rolling out in the iOS 27 beta, may eventually offer paid usage tiers through existing iCloud+ subscriptions, similar to models used by Anthropic and OpenAI, though he stressed no final decisions have been made. Cook’s departure comes…

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Snapchat announced Friday that it will no longer recommend fully AI-generated videos through its Spotlight feature, adjusting its recommendation systems to favor content created by real people. The company said it wants Spotlight to remain a space for discovering authentic creativity and original human storytelling, though it clarified that creators can still use Snapchat’s AI…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 5,801 new readers who joined us yesterday. After OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed breaches led by their agents, the conversation around AI security has picked up fast… and Washington’s response is now on the table. The White…

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Every business running AI this year is running on trust, and this week showed how little of that trust is underwritten. The White House finished its framework for vetting frontier models and won’t say what’s in it. The law still has no answer for an AI agent that breaks into a company on its own,…

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