Insider Brief The European Union began enforcing key AI Act provisions on Aug. 2, requiring disclosure when users interact with AI and labels or machine-readable markings for certain AI-generated and manipulated content. General-purpose AI providers must document their models, adopt copyright policies, publish training-content summaries and address systemic risks, while the law also prohibits manipulative…

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Insider Brief American Rheinmetall received an 18-month U.S. Army contract to develop hybrid-powered autonomous ground vehicles for transporting supplies in contested environments. The Project Sustainment effort will combine Harbinger’s commercial hybrid chassis, Forterra’s autonomous-driving technology and Primordial Labs’ voice-controlled Anura interface. The vehicles are intended to support company-sized units with limited human involvement, reduce risks…

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Insider Brief MIT researchers developed VLASH, a method that lets robots plan their next movements while completing current actions, cutting pauses and doubling task speeds in some tests. The system predicts a robot’s future state so vision-language-action models can prepare the next action sequence without relying on stale observations, accelerating reaction times more than 30-fold.…

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Insider Brief Unitree Technology warned that new U.S. restrictions on foreign-made advanced robots could limit access to a major market and constrain overseas growth as it prepares for a Shanghai IPO, Reuters reported. Unitree said existing U.S.-authorized models can remain on sale, but future robots could be blocked and additional tariffs or withdrawn approvals could…

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Anthropic said Thursday that an internal investigation found three incidents in which its Claude models breached the systems of outside organizations during cybersecurity testing, disclosed roughly a week after OpenAI revealed a similar breach involving Hugging Face. Anthropic said the breaches traced back to a misconfigured testing environment run with partner Irregular, which mistakenly allowed…

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Sam Altman said it plainly earlier this year: intelligence is becoming a utility, like electricity or water, and people will buy it from OpenAI on a meter. If that vision holds, the token, the small chunk of text or data an AI model reads or writes, may become the defining unit of the AI age…

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British AI neocloud Nscale is acquiring software startup Anyscale for $1.65 billion, according to a Bloomberg report citing an anonymous source, as the company looks to capture more of its customers’ AI spending. Anyscale, built by the team behind the open-source Ray distributed programming framework, originally focused on high-performance computing before pivoting toward AI workload…

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Okta has agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security, betting that demand for protecting AI agents and other machine identities will grow as enterprises deploy more autonomous software. Okta did not disclose deal terms, but a source familiar with the matter said the acquisition is valued at just under $200 million and structured…

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The European Union has launched a call for tenders to establish up to seven AI Gigafactories across Europe, part of its broader push toward technological sovereignty and its ambition to become a leading AI continent. The initiative is backed by up to €10 billion in EU and national funding and is expected to unlock at least €20…

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Glow, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, emerged from stealth Wednesday with a $180 million all-equity Series A round that valued the company at $1.2 billion. The round was led by Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, and Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Index Ventures, Swish Ventures, Lux Capital, Operator Collective, and Holly…

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