Insider Brief Bland has raised a $50M Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from HubSpot Ventures, Archerman Capital, Tribeca Venture Partners, and all existing investors, bringing its total funding to over $100M in under three years. Unlike most voice AI platforms built on third-party foundation models, Bland develops its own in-house models…

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Insider Brief AMC Robotics has leased a 6,150-square-meter manufacturing facility in Bắc Ninh, Vietnam, as the company builds out production capacity for its robotics platforms and establishes a manufacturing hub in Southeast Asia. The company plans to invest approximately $3.5 million in the facility’s first phase, with production scheduled to begin in the second half…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Your Slack workspace has a new coworker — Claude. Anthropic just debuted Claude Tag, which brings the agentic capabilities previously limited to Claude Code and Cowork into Slack channels, enabling entire teams to simply tag the AI to handle tasks…

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Samsung Electronics is expanding employee access to ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex, giving staff wider use of AI tools for technical and non-technical work. According to OpenAI, the deployment covers all Samsung Electronics employees in Korea and all Device eXperience employees worldwide. The DX division includes smartphones, consumer electronics, and home appliances. Samsung plans to use…

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Anthropic launched a beta version of its Claude Tag feature for Enterprise and Team tiers, shifting its chat model into shared Slack channels. Moving away from traditional isolated chat boxes, users pull the artificial intelligence model into active group threads by typing @Claude.  The integration allows any team member in the channel to delegate a task, review…

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Probably, an AI reliability startup, has raised $9 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz to tackle one of the most persistent problems in large language models: hallucinations and factual errors that escape detection before reaching end users. Founded by Peter Elias, the company is targeting the kind of 99.99% accuracy common in deterministic software…

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OpenAI has announced a new cybersecurity initiative called Patch the Planet, partnering with security firm Trail of Bitsto help open source software maintainers identify and fix vulnerabilities in their codebases using AI-powered tools. Under the programme, security engineers from Trail of Bits will work directly with open source project maintainers, reviewing potential code issues before…

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Baseten, an AI inference startup, is close to finalising a $1.5 billion funding round at a $13 billion valuation, according to the Wall Street Journal, just five months after raising a $300 million Series E at a $5 billion valuation. The deal is reportedly co-led by Spark Capital, Sands Capital, Altimeter Capital, and Wellington Management,…

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Reflection AI has agreed to pay $150 million per month to SpaceX for access to Nvidia GB300 AI chips at the Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, Tennessee, in a deal worth up to $6.3 billion running from July 2026 through 2029. The agreement makes Reflection the third major AI lab to tap SpaceX’s compute…

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Google DeepMind has announced a $75 million investment in indie film studio A24, forming what it describes as a first-of-its-kind research partnership aimed at developing AI tools for filmmaking. The collaboration will see Google DeepMind build AI creative features with direct input from working filmmakers, while A24 provides artistic feedback and guidance to shape how…

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