Anthropic has signed a deal to rent approximately $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company, according to a source familiar with the matter. Nscale, founded in 2024 and already partnered with Microsoft, will supply Anthropic with computing power built on Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin chip system, a six-chip architecture representing…

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The Nordics have built a reputation for pairing deep technical rigor with a genuine focus on solving specific, high-stakes problems, and this list bears that out. Sweden contributes the largest share, with entries spanning video analytics, data observability, and driving risk insights, while Denmark brings clinical AI for radiology and elder care, and Finland and…

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Insider Brief Quintessent raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series A led by Cycle Capital, with new investors including Goldman Sachs XIG-Industry Ventures, Susquehanna International Group, and Ciena, alongside existing backers Foothill Ventures, M Ventures, Osage University Partners, and Sierra Ventures. The company also began customer sampling of its single-chip quantum dot-based DWDM comb laser,…

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Keenable, founded by former Yandex search executive Andrey Styskin and AI scientist Matthias Petri, emerged from stealth with $26 million in seed funding led by Accel, with participation from Conviction Partners and angel investors. The startup is building web search infrastructure specifically designed for AI chatbots and agents, arguing that existing search tools were optimized…

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Google announced new voice features for Gemini Live on Wednesday, promising users wouldn’t need to determine which specific feature, such as Spark or Daily Brief, a given task required. However, the company’s own branding structure undercuts that goal, with the Gemini app splitting functionality across multiple distinctly branded features, each with separate icons and navigation,…

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Meta agreed to an $18 billion settlement with 48 US states, the District of Columbia, and three territories to resolve claims that Facebook and Instagram harmed children, marking the company’s largest payment to date over child safety litigation. California Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers approved the settlement, which will be paid in annual installments over ten…

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OpenAI has seen more than a dozen executives depart since the start of the year, including former chief operating and revenue officers, its chief marketing officer, and most recently Chris Malone, the company’s head of data centers, who left last week after joining in March 2025. OpenAI attributed Malone’s exit to a reorganization of its…

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Insider Brief Fasset raised $68 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation led by SBI Group, entering the global fintech unicorn category after a total of $119 million raised in 2026 following its $51 million Series B earlier this year. The new capital will expand Own Network, Fasset’s regulated financial network connecting…

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Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, said its newly released AI agent Faradayoutperformed larger frontier systems from Anthropic and OpenAI at independently reproducing published scientific findings without prior knowledge of the results. The announcement came weeks after the startup emerged from stealth with a $50 million seed round. Co-founder and chief…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 2,833 new readers. The anonymous free AI that had developers playing detective all weekend belongs to China’s Z AI, and the case of Ox Alpha is officially closed. The impressive preview launches as GLM-5.3-Flash, arriving with…

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