Insider Brief Physical Intelligence has launched a beta version of its Pi API, giving robotics developers hosted access to its latest foundation models for fine-tuning and inference. Developers can upload robot data, fine-tune a Pi model on company-managed compute and deploy it through a hosted inference gateway, allowing teams to iterate on tasks without building…

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Insider Brief Milrem Robotics and Chugach Alaska Corp. have signed a memorandum of cooperation to explore U.S.-based production, integration and support of Milrem’s unmanned ground systems for American and allied customers. Chugach could become Milrem’s preferred U.S. industrial partner for assembly, sustainment, lifecycle support and configuration of systems for Defense Department, federal and commercial requirements.…

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Insider Brief PayJoy, a financial services provider for underserved consumers in emerging markets, is acquiring select strategic assets of Finia AI, a Mexican fintech that built AI-powered underwriting and financial products for micro-businesses with limited credit history. The deal will bring Finia’s AI underwriting technology to PayJoy’s global platform, which has reached more than 20…

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Insider Brief Agility Robotics moved closer to a public listing after the SEC declared effective its registration statement for a proposed merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI, with a shareholder vote set for Nov. 2. The transaction is expected to provide more than $620 million in gross proceeds, including about $424 million from Churchill XI’s…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 5,034 new readers. Last month, OpenAI went from hacker to hacked. This month, it used ChatGPT to play the detective. Federal prosecutors now say one of its engineers hid a recorder in the company’s executive meeting…

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Matter Machine, a University of Liverpool spin-out using AI to discover new materials, has closed an oversubscribed £4 million pre-Series A round led by IP Group and supported by Northern Gritstone, the University of Liverpool Enterprise Fund, Norrsken Evolve, LYVA Labs and the Northern Universities Venture Fund. It is the largest investment secured by a…

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Insider Brief Ondas and Palantir Technologies have formed Regna AI, a standalone company that will develop sovereign AI models for defense and other mission-critical operations. Regna AI will use Palantir’s AIP and open-weight models to run mission-specific AI within customer-controlled infrastructure and on edge systems including drones, ground vehicles, surface vessels and command-and-control platforms. Ondas,…

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Insider Brief Google has made Gemini 4 Argon broadly available to developers, enterprises and consumers, expanding the model beyond its initial early-access rollout. Argon is available through the paid Gemini API, AI Studio, the Gemini platform, Google Antigravity and select Gemini app and AI Mode subscriptions, with introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens…

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Insider Brief Loops, an enterprise AI company building agentic commerce systems for brands and retailers, has secured a $3.5 million seed round from a16z speedrun, NTT Docomo, Connecticut Innovations, Alumni Ventures and Monday Capital to support product development, customer deployment and international expansion. Rather than offering separate AI tools, the platform unifies AI search, a…

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Character.AI, the platform that lets users create and chat with AI characters, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after five years of operation, citing assets and liabilities of between $50 million and $100 million. The company has agreed to sell some assets to Disney for $20 million, along with a non-exclusive perpetual license to its technology. Disney…

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