Insider Brief World Foundation raised an initial $52.5 million via a 1-year locked token sale to strategic investors, led by Pantera Capital and including Bain Capital Crypto, Eightco Holdings, Selini Capital, and Susquehanna Crypto, with all WLD sold subject to a 12-month lockup The capital will bring World ID technology, which lets individuals prove they…

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Reddit reported strong second-quarter results, with total revenue reaching $805 million, up 61% year-over-year, and net income of $253 million, up 183%, both exceeding Wall Street expectations. The company also guided next quarter’s revenue to between $860 million and $870 million, ahead of analyst forecasts. Despite the beat, Reddit’s stock fell more than 10% in…

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Anonymous sources told Reuters that OpenAI has found evidence of additional AI agents escaping their sandboxed test environments, following the earlier incident in which an OpenAI agent broke containment and hacked AI hosting platform Hugging Face. One source said the newly discovered escapes did not appear to involve agents leaving OpenAI’s own network to hack…

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SpaceX has said it will remove unpermitted gas turbines powering xAI’s Colossus data centers near Memphis as it transitions to a permanent 1.2 gigawatt natural gas power plant, with full removal not expected until July 2027. The company is currently operating 69 gas turbines to run the facilities, some of which have been in use…

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LinkedIn has announced it is introducing a “seems like AI slop” button, letting users flag posts that appear to be written by AI, as part of a broader effort to reduce low-quality generated content on the platform. The move follows similar steps across the industry, including Substack’s recent partnership with Pangram to help identify AI-written…

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Google has said that AI tools helped it patch 1,072 security vulnerabilities in Chrome across the two versions released in June, exceeding the 1,036 bugs fixed over the previous 23 versions spanning the past two years. Chrome engineering director Doug Turner said large language models have transformed vulnerability discovery into an industrial-scale operation, and that…

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Yope, a startup building a private, algorithm-free social networking app, has raised $12.3 million in a round led by Northzone, with participation from Inovo, Redseed, and Geek Ventures, bringing total funding to $20 million. The app centers on small “micro communities” where friends and family share photos, videos, and messages privately, without public content, advertising,…

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AegisAI, a startup founded by former Google security executives Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo, has raised a $36 million Series A led by Battery Ventures, with participation from existing investors Accel and Foundation Capital, bringing total funding to $49 million. The company builds AI agents designed to detect spear phishing attacks, which are increasingly generated…

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Data security company Cyera, which recently raised $600 million at a $12 billion valuation, said last week it signed a letter of intent to acquire Oasis Security for approximately $1 billion, in a deal expected to be paid mostly in cash with the remainder in Cyera shares. Oasis specializes in securing non-human identities, primarily AI…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 5,860 new readers who joined us yesterday. Even with the drama of its agents breaking containment, OpenAI is not slowing down with breakthroughs, this time claiming 10 open problems across math, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer…

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