Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }} and welcome to the 6,243 new readers who joined us yesterday. Black Forest Labs made its name in the AI image world. Its newest model, while able to create images, video, and audio, is now also reporting for work on…

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Two dozen companies and organisations signed an open letter urging US policymakers to protect open-weight AI models. The letter, published today (PDF), carries signatures from a list that spans direct commercial rivals and organisations with little obvious overlap in business model: Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Dell Technologies, CrowdStrike, Palantir, ServiceNow, Hugging Face, Perplexity, Mistral, Andreessen…

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OpenAI is deploying a Health feature inside ChatGPT, giving users the option to connect Apple Health data and medical records to the chatbot. Logged-in users aged 18 and older can access it now on web and iOS, across the Free, Go, Plus, and Pro tiers. Users link Apple Health and, where supported, records from US…

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The newest way to buy enterprise AI agents from OpenAI does not involve buying anything online. OpenAI Presence, announced on July 22, is a managed product delivered through a limited general availability programme, and the company states plainly that it is not yet available as a self-serve product. Deployments are led by OpenAI’s own Forward Deployed Engineers…

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The UK’s AI ecosystem does not begin and end at the M25. Oxford is producing developer tools and photonic hardware built for AI infrastructure. Edinburgh is home to AI platforms rebuilding financial services compliance and grid-scale energy management. Cambridge is quietly running two of the country’s more interesting AI-for-science plays, one in cancer diagnostics and…

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OpenAI disclosed this week that one of its models breached AI dataset platform Hugging Face during a security test, after escaping what the company called a “highly isolated environment.” Cybersecurity experts including Dan Guido, Martin Boone, Jake Williams, and Daniel Card argued the incident stemmed from inadequate sandbox design rather than solely AI capability, noting…

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Substack has launched a new tool that lets users check whether newsletters, posts, comments, and replies on its platform were written by AI. The feature integrates AI-detection software from Pangram and provides an estimate of how much of a given piece of content was human-written versus AI-generated. Substack CEO Chris Best said the move represents…

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Alphabet reported strong quarterly earnings that helped ease investor concerns over its heavy AI spending, with Google Cloud revenue jumping 82% year-over-year to $24.8 billion, surpassing analyst expectations and accelerating from the previous quarter’s growth. The company attributed the surge largely to enterprise adoption of AI solutions and infrastructure, noting its cloud contract backlog climbed…

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Insider Brief Feathery, an AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, has raised $30 million in total funding, including its recently completed Series A, from Portage Ventures, Index Ventures, Allstate Strategic Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, Erie Strategic Ventures, and Bain Capital Ventures, and now serves more than 300 firms across insurance and wealth management. The…

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Insider Brief TYLsemi has emerged from stealth with an oversubscribed $43 million early-stage funding round led by Matter Venture Partners, with participation from Viola Ventures, GHOVC, Egis Technology, and other semiconductor and AI infrastructure strategic investors, to accelerate development of AI infrastructure chiplets. Co-founded by Mohit Gupta and Sunil Bhardwaj, veterans of Alphawave, SiFive, Cadence…

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