Insider Brief Fragment, a New York-based AI-enabled financial infrastructure startup, has raised $12 million in a Series A round led by FirstMark with participation from BoxGroup, bringing its total funding to $23 million. The company helps vertical AI businesses automate their customers’ billing, payments and accounting, counts Ramp, BILL and Whop among its customers, and…

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Figma has introduced Figma Specs, a Markdown-based editor that lets teams define their design language as a reference for both designers and AI agents, at its first Config event in India. Specs can exist as a standalone file or within the canvas, and can reference canvas elements and embed FigJam diagrams, code layers and designs.…

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Anthropic is giving six researchers from METR, a nonprofit that tests frontier AI models, employee-level access to independently assess its models, safety practices and risk management. The METR team has company-issued laptops, office space and access to internal tools roughly comparable to those used by Anthropic’s own risk assessment teams, and staff are encouraged to…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 5,678 new readers. Earlier this week, Meta caught up with OpenAI and Anthropic with its frontier model Muse Wonder. Turns out, the comeback story had one more chapter: a large open-weight release with an unlikely partner.…

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Insider Brief RoboParty has launched RP1, a full-stack open-source humanoid robot for robotics research and embodied AI development, with access to both hardware and software. RP1 comes in standard and Pro versions with 24 and 30 actuated degrees of freedom, respectively, and supports modular hardware, whole-body control, VR teleoperation, motion capture and simulation-to-real-world workflows. The…

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Insider Brief Fincantieri plans to invest nearly $100 million through 2030 to expand robotics, physical AI and automation across 13 shipyards under its BOOST² – The Shipyard of the Future program. The initiative is moving from technology scouting and experimentation into broader deployment, with applications including collaborative robotics, digital twins, smart supply-chain systems, additive manufacturing…

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Insider Brief Origin has emerged from stealth with $20 million in funding co-led by Accel and Zacua Ventures to expand deployment of its OG-1 robot, which autonomously handles drywall finishing tasks such as applying compound, sanding and priming. The company plans to use the funding to build its fleet, support pilots in the U.S. and…

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Bee, the AI wearable maker acquired by Amazon last year, has introduced its first new products since the deal: the Bee Frontier, a next-generation device worn on the wrist or pinned to clothing, and the Bee Eclipse, a credit-card-sized device that attaches magnetically to the back of a smartphone. Priced at $74.99 and $99.99 respectively,…

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Zenzap, a private messaging platform with built-in AI for businesses, has secured $44 million in funding from investors including Bessemer, Lightspeed and The Garage, along with Wix president Nir Zohar and former EY GM Yoram Tietz. It marks the first fundraise for founder Guy Weiss, who bootstrapped and sold e-commerce marketing platform StuccoMedia before founding…

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Insider Brief Labelbox, an AI platform for reinforcement learning and enterprise agents, has raised more than $100 million in Series E financing, including equity and a credit facility, in a round led by Infinitum Partners with participation from Wipro Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, B Capital and others. The company serves more than 400 customers, including over…

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