Insider Brief An AI-designed drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis produced protein changes associated with lower biological age in a 12-week phase 2a clinical trial. Six machine-learning aging clocks detected biological-age reductions among treated participants, with the most consistent results from the 30-milligram twice-daily dose. The small study could not separate the drug’s anti-fibrotic activity from…

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Insider Brief Jaipur Robotics raised €4.3 million in seed funding led by EquityPitcher Ventures and High-Tech Gründerfonds to expand its AI and automation platform for waste-to-energy plants. The company said its computer-vision system analyzes more than 5 million tons of waste annually, uses a dataset of over 50 million labeled images and detects hazardous materials…

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Insider Brief Surge has launched Surge Robotics after acquiring a majority stake in product engineering company Idea8, expanding the Sri Lanka-based firm into industrial automation and physical technology. The new unit will combine Idea8’s IoT, edge computing and sensor engineering with Surge’s AI, cloud and enterprise software capabilities, with a focus on predictive maintenance and…

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Insider Brief A MassRobotics survey found the FCC’s July 2026 addition of foreign-produced advanced robotics devices to its Covered List is affecting companies differently based largely on where they manufacture and source components. Companies manufacturing mostly or entirely in the U.S. generally viewed the rule as beneficial, while those dependent on overseas production reported neutral…

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The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies used their journalism without permission to train AI models. The suit argues that generative AI threatens to fundamentally undermine the news industry, describing the technology as consuming original journalism and returning derivative versions of that same content back into…

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Authors expecting payments from Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement have reported receiving notices that publishers, and in some cases literary agents, are also claiming a share of their payouts, raising concerns about how funds are being distributed. The settlement, finalized in July after a court ruled that training AI on copyrighted material is legal but…

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AI security startup AIR has emerged from stealth with $50 million raised across two seed rounds to build a platform monitoring the growing ecosystem of skills, plug-ins, and MCP servers that AI agents use to interact with company systems and the internet. The company was founded by Yair Saban, CEO, and Niv Hoffman, CTO, both…

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AI security startup HiddenLayer has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Delta-v Capital, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft’s M12, Booz Allen Hamilton, and others. The Austin-based company builds tools to protect AI models, agents, and workflows from adversarial attacks, vulnerabilities, and malicious code injections. Co-founder and CEO…

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Startup Fambot has introduced an AI-powered “chief of staff” designed to help parents manage the mental load of children’s activities, school communications, and family logistics. The company was founded by former Instagram engineer Greg Karlin, now Fambot’s CTO, and CEO David Reich, a father and former Uber product executive, later joined by co-founder Jason Morrow,…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 6,120 new readers. In July, OpenAI’s agents broke out of a test and hacked Hugging Face, sending a shockwave through the AI safety world. It turns out that wasn’t the first (or only) swarm out in…

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