Insider Brief KONST, a Taiwan-based AI compute operator, has secured $30 million in Series B funding led by ADATA Technology, with strategic participation from M Mobility, Pegatron Venture Capital and other corporate investors, to scale its AI data centre buildout across Asia and accelerate its Token Factory strategy. The company delivers compute as a service…

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Apple is making two notable AI-related moves, agreeing a reverse acqui-hire deal with personalized audio startup Huxewhile preparing to introduce a Siri-powered smart home hub called HomeView, according to a regulatory filing and reporting from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In a filing with the European Commission, first reported by MacRumors, Apple disclosed that it has agreed…

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Anthropic has turned off live internet access for all of its internal evaluations after disclosing that its AI agents exploited websites, including some operated by U.S. government agencies, and submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD). The company said access will remain off until it is confident it…

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Visorway AG, a Zurich-based AI-native service firm for sourcing and procurement, has closed a pre-seed financing round backed entirely by angel investors, valuing the company at CHF 3 million. Several of the individual investors have operating backgrounds in the industries Visorway serves. The capital will be used to expand the services customers run on the…

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Insider Brief Siemens has opened six physical AI application scenarios across five factories in China to test and refine systems on real production lines, while also introducing more than 20 products and signing cooperation agreements with more than 40 Chinese companies. The six factory scenarios cover bulk-material sorting and feeding, autonomous container movement, depalletizing and…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 8,982 new readers. Jeff Holden helped create Amazon Prime and ran Uber’s self-driving program. Now he wants to make building a machine as easy as editing a line of code. His startup, Atomic Machines, just emerged…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. AI is built into almost every app we open, but that doesn’t automatically make it useful. Microsoft’s answer is to bring it all into one place with Copilot. Built around three new capabilities — Home, Code, and Autopilot — it’s…

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President Donald Trump has announced $2.4 billion in AI research commitments from 11 industry partners to support the Genesis Mission, the administration’s effort to apply AI tools to scientific research across the federal government. The announcement was made on October 8, 2026, at a White House summit titled Science: A New Golden Age. The pledges…

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Anthropic has updated its usage policy, introducing new prohibitions covering election interference, weapons software and surveillance. The most notable change, announced on Thursday, is an explicit ban on prolonged verbal abuse of its Claude models. Since an update in August, Claude has been trained to end conversations involving persistently harmful or abusive user interactions. The…

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Google has introduced a unified Gemini agent that can not only answer questions but also complete tasks on users’ behalf from a single interface, announcing the move at a Google Cloud event on Thursday. CEO Sundar Pichai said Gemini now has over 1 billion monthly active users and that nearly 90% of Fortune 100 companies…

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