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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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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