OpenAI is navigating a turbulent week marked by expanding litigation, a major healthcare integration, and new disclosures about an advanced cybersecurity-capable model. Law firm Edelson PC, led by Jay Edelson, filed 30 additional lawsuits against OpenAI this week on behalf of teachers, a principal, and students connected to the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia school shooting,…

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OliverAI has announced pre-seed funding from Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures to grow OliverDB, an analytical data platform built specifically for agentic AI systems. The company argues that current enterprise analytics infrastructure cannot handle the continuous, machine-speed workloads that AI agents generate, creating both performance bottlenecks and rising compute costs that threaten the return on…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 3,338 new readers who joined yesterday. The theme of the last month has been safety over shipping when it comes to models from the two AI leaders. The calendar turning to September appears to have flipped…

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Motional and MIT researchers have built a system that lets self-driving cars explain their decisions in real-time, tackling the black-box problem in autonomous vehicle AI. The work, published in Nature, comes from a team at Motional that includes CEO Laura Major, working alongside researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Their proposed method,…

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ChatGPT Ads has hit $1 billion in annualised revenue run rate in under 200 days, and OpenAI is expanding self-service ads to new regions. Tens of thousands of advertisers now use the platform and self-service access through Ads Manager is launching today in India, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. According to OpenAI, people…

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As AI adoption gathers pace, so does the evolution of the infrastructure that supports it. New standards and connectors keep appearing, and the ones that catch on spread through the ecosystem within months rather than years. That speed strengthens what AI can do, but makes it very difficult for security teams to maintain sufficient protections.…

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Apple has filed new evidence in its ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging former employee Chang Liu, now working at OpenAI, used a confidential Apple circuit schematic and an internal engineering tool in his OpenAI work. The evidence emerged after Liu’s legal counsel handed over his former Apple work laptop for investigation this month. Apple further…

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Insider Brief Transfyr, a physical AI platform for real-world science, launched with $25 million in seed funding led by General Catalyst, with participation from Lux Capital, Breakout Ventures, Factory, Neo, SV Angel, and others, headquartered at The Engine in Cambridge, MA. Founded by Anna Marie Wagner (former Head of AI and Corporate Development for Ginkgo…

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Arga Labs has raised a $10 million seed round led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient, and SV Angel, to build training environments that help AI agents operate reliably within enterprise software such as Salesforce, Workday, and email systems. Unlike typical testing setups that rely on stateless API endpoints, Arga Labs…

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Insider Brief Deep Cogito, a post-training research lab focused on reinforcement learning and self-improvement, raised a $43 millionSeries A led by TQ Ventures, with participation from Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atreides Management, South Park Commons, and Zscaler, bringing total funding to over $56 million. Founded by Drishan Arora and Dhruv Malrana, former leaders of Google’s…

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