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Nobel Laureate John Jumper Leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic after AlphaFold Breakthrough
John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis for developing the AlphaFold protein-structure prediction model, has announced he is leaving DeepMind to join Anthropicafter nearly nine years at the company. Jumper had most recently been working on coding tools at DeepMind, an area Google has struggled to…
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Sarvam Becomes India’s Newest AI Unicorn with $234M Raise as Sovereign AI Push Intensifies
Sarvam, the Bengaluru-based AI startup building full-stack Indian-language AI infrastructure, has raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, making it India’s newest AI unicorn. HCLTech, the IT subsidiary of HCL Group, led the round with a $150 million strategic commitment, with Bessemer Venture Partners participating alongside existing backers Khosla Ventures and Peak XV Partners.…
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AI Lab Radical Numerics Launches with $50M Seed Round To Build General Biological Intelligence
Insider Brief Radical Numerics, an AI research lab building general biological intelligence, has launched with $50 million in seed funding led by Emergence Capital, with participation from Obvious Ventures, Triatomic Capital, Factory, and First Spark Ventures, and pre-seed backing from Patrick Collison. Founded by Eric Nguyen, Michael Poli, Stefano Massaroli, and Armin Thomas, all formerly…
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Berkeley Researchers Turn Everyday Videos Into Robot Training Data
Insider Brief UC Berkeley researchers developed Do as I Do, a software system that turns ordinary human hand-object videos into training data for robots performing delicate manipulation tasks. The system reconstructs hand and object motion from two-dimensional video, then retargets that motion through a physics simulator so a robotic hand can carry out the task.…
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NewCore Emerges from Stealth with $66M to Build Identity and Security Infrastructure for the Age of AI Agents
NewCore, a cybersecurity startup focused on AI agent identity management, has emerged from stealth with $66 million in seed funding, valuing the company at $300 million. The round was led by Cyberstarts, with participation from Index Ventures and Evolution Equity Partners. The company was co-founded by Zohar Alon, who previously founded cloud-security startup Dome9 before…
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Google’s Nobel winner jumps to Anthropic
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer leaving for OpenAI already looked like a rough headline for Google DeepMind. Now, John Jumper is heading to Anthropic, and the talent leak is starting to look deeper. The Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold lead is the latest…
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AI Weekly Issue #506: Washington Blocked One AI Lab. China Blacklisted 56 Companies.
Ten days after Washington pulled Anthropic’s top models from foreign hands, the bill came due. This week Beijing blacklisted 56 American firms, Anthropic’s own filing admitted the trigger was a routine coding request rival models can run, and Microsoft’s CEO warned that letting “a few models eat everything” won’t survive politically. The export war just…
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Mitigating vendor lock-in with Sakana AI Fugu multi-agent models
Sakana AI launched Fugu to orchestrate multi-agent operations and mitigate single-vendor dependency risks in enterprise deployments. Enterprises face operational vulnerabilities when relying entirely on monolithic AI APIs. Japanese AI firm Sakana AI designed Fugu as a response to these concentration risks by creating an orchestration language model that calls upon a pool of varied models…
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L’Oréal brings Maybelline virtual try-on to ChatGPT
L’Oréal has announced a collaboration with OpenAI that will bring Maybelline New York’s virtual makeup try-on feature into ChatGPT. The announcement was made at VivaTech 2026. The partnership covers consumer-facing shopping tools, product discovery, advertising pilots, research, and internal content production. The collaboration also covers L’Oréal’s internal use of AI in research, formulation, content production,…
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General Intuition in Talks to Raise $300M at $2B Valuation to Advance Spatial AI Agent Training
General Intuition, the New York-based AI startup building foundation models that teach agents to reason through space and time, is in talks to raise approximately $300 million, according to sources familiar with the matter. The round would value the company at just over $2 billion and follows a $134 million seed raised eight months ago…
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