The Pentagon has launched custom versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok, giving roughly 3 million military and civilian personnel access to generative AI tools tailored for defense use. The tools, named ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government, join GenAI.mil, a secure portal launched last year to let Defense Department employees use commercial AI models…

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Insider Brief Norbert Health raised $14 million in Series A funding to expand its physical AI platform that gives mobile robots clinical capabilities for use as autonomous nursing assistants. The round was supported by William A. Marino with Cardinal Group, with participation from Exor Seeds, CareIT and angel investors including executives from Datadog, Noom and…

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Elon Musk confirmed that a secret foundry SpaceX has been building in Bastrop, Texas, is designed to manufacture turbine blades and vanes in-house, aiming to accelerate natural gas turbine production by up to 18 months. The confirmation followed a report from The Information, which cited job listings referencing a “blades and vanes foundry” and findings…

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Instagram announced Monday that it is changing how it labels AI-generated profiles and will begin limiting the visibility of accounts featuring AI-generated people who fail to disclose it. The platform is renaming its existing “AI creator” label to “AI-generated profile,” a change the company said should make the disclosure clearer to users. Under the new…

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Legato, a new hearing tech startup, has emerged from stealth with $12 million in funding and plans to launch its AI hearing glasses, Legato Frames, later this fall. The glasses integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into eyewear frames, targeting the roughly 50 million U.S. adults with hearing loss, most of whom don’t seek treatment.…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 4,629 new readers. Runway just previewed an internet where nothing exists until you open it, with interactive sites and apps that have zero code running under the hood. Solaris instead renders everything as real-time video, creating…

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We went looking for what companies are actually building with AI. The answer was not more chatbots. It was drones carrying diagnostic samples, driverless Frito-Lay trucks, AI-guided flight paths, repair copilots, and rugged GPU laptops in Ukraine. We reviewed 136 use cases from the last 20 days. The biggest surprise: only 38 included a reported…

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Runable, a Bengaluru-based AI startup, has raised $21 million in a Series A round co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Together Fund and Array VC. The all-equity round valued the company at $65 million post-investment, according to co-founder and CEO Umesh Kumar. Founded in 2025 by Kumar…

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Ringg, an Indian voice AI startup, has raised $10 million from Peak XV Partners as an extension of its Series A round, bringing total funding to $15.5 million following an earlier $5.5 million raise this year. The company currently processes 20 million call attempts monthly, betting on continued growth as most Indian consumers still prefer…

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Lambda, an AI cloud company that leases computing chips to businesses, has raised $1 billion in private, short-dated debt to purchase Nvidia AI chips that it will lease to Microsoft, according to Bloomberg. The deal, arranged by JP Morgan Chase, reflects Lambda’s expectation that it can rapidly deploy the chips and generate revenue quickly enough…

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