Insider Brief Mind Robotics announced a $400 million financing round led by Kleiner Perkins, bringing total investment in the industrial robotics startup to more than $1 billion. The round included new investors Meritech Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Incharge Capital, A-Star Capital, Garuda Ventures and SV Angel alongside existing backers including Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Eclipse, Prysm Capital,…

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Insider Brief Frame Security has launched publicly with $50 million in funding led by Index Ventures, Team8, and Picture Capital, building a platform designed to address the human element behind roughly 90% of data breaches. The company’s AI-powered platform automates security awareness and training by generating realistic attack simulations, personalized role-based training, and real-time guidance,…

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Anthropic has launched a new set of AI-powered tools for the legal sector, expanding its Claude for Legal platform with specialised plug-ins and Model Context Protocol connectors targeting specific areas of law including commercial, privacy, corporate, employment, and AI governance. The new tools are designed to automate clerical legal work such as document search and…

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified in court against a lawsuit brought by co-founder Elon Musk, who alleges that the creation of OpenAI’s for-profit subsidiary amounted to misappropriating a charitable organisation built around safe AI development. Altman pushed back on that framing, arguing that OpenAI had built one of the world’s largest charitable foundations and that…

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Insider Brief A Deep Knowledge Group study found that global competitiveness in AI-driven biotechnology, healthcare and longevity increasingly depends on a country’s ability to deploy AI safely within real-world medical and regulatory systems rather than research capability alone. The report ranked the United States, United Kingdom and China as the leading national ecosystems for AI…

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Insider Brief Anduril Industries has raised $5 billion in a Series H funding round valuing the defense technology company at $61 billion as it expands manufacturing capacity and autonomous defense systems development. According to CEO Brian Schimpf, the funding round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz will support manufacturing expansion, research and development, and…

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Google used its Android Show: I/O Edition 2026 event to unveil a sweeping suite of AI-powered features under the Gemini Intelligence banner, signalling its most ambitious push yet to embed generative AI throughout the Android experience. The features will initially roll out to Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel devices this summer before reaching other Android…

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Insider Brief Isomorphic Labs, an AI-first drug design company founded by Sir Demis Hassabis, has raised $2.1 billion in Series B funding led by Thrive Capital, with participation from Alphabet, GV, MGX, Temasek, CapitalG, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund. The capital will be used to scale the company’s AI Drug Design Engine (IsoDDE), expand…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Google’s headlining I/O event isn’t until next week, but Android just gave a pretty big performance for an opening act. The company just introduced a new line of AI-native Googlebooks, a new Gemini Intelligence system across devices, a Gemini-infused mouse…

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Hyperscalers will spend $725 billion on AI infrastructure this year. The users they are spending it on are now actively rejecting the output. Gartner finds 50% of US consumers prefer brands that don’t use generative AI. Wikipedia just banned AI-generated content 44-2. Stack Overflow’s new-question volume has fallen 78% year over year. Google AI Overviews…

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