Insider Brief InfoHawk, an AI platform built to detect and neutralize online deception at scale, has raised $2.25 million in pre-seed funding led by Moonshots Capital, founded by Rob Leathern, Ben Poiesz, and Jamie McCrindle to combat a fraud ecosystem in which consumers globally lost an estimated $442 billion to scams in 2025. The platform…

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Prometheus, the physical AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and former Verily co-founder Vik Bajaj, has raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation from investors including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock, bringing total funding to more than $18 billion since the company launched late last year. The company is building what it describes…

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Insider Brief Upriver, an AI-native data engineering platform, has raised $14 million in seed funding led by Valley Capital Partnersand Hetz Ventures, with early customers including Unity and DMGT and established partnerships with Databricks and Snowflake. The platform addresses a critical bottleneck in enterprise AI adoption — with Gartner finding poor data quality among the leading causes…

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Research from the Ramp AI Index shows that the top one percent of AI-adopting American businesses, described as “AI-pilled” firms, are spending $7,500 per employee each month on artificial intelligence, with that figure growing 14 percent month-on-month. The findings come as executives at Nvidia and AI recruitment startup Mercor have publicly noted that compute costs…

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Devin Kim, a former engineer at xAI, has filed suit against the company and its parent SpaceX in a California state court, alleging he was dismissed in retaliation for raising repeated concerns about safety failures in the development of Grok, xAI’s AI chatbot. Kim, who departed xAI in September 2025 and was recently named president…

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A Security has emerged from stealth with $37 million in funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Cyberstarts, with angel backing from Wiz chief executive Assaf Rapaport and Cyera chief executive Yotam Segev, to build an autonomous offensive security platform that identifies and remediates exploit paths before attackers can use them. Chief executive and co-founder…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Jeff Bezos’ Prometheus has been floating around the AI rumor mill for months, but a fresh $12B raise has the Amazon founder finally showing his cards. Bezos just put a specific goal on the record: an “artificial general engineer” that…

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Coinbase for Agents connects AI to financial execution channels to automate trading and payments directly from user portfolios. Large language models process vast quantities of data but lack direct integration with active financial portfolios. Individuals frequently employ these models to evaluate market developments or research investment opportunities. These software tools possess the capacity for complex…

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Insider Brief Harbinger has launched its Harbinger Praesidia unmanned hybrid-electric vehicle platform for military and government applications, designed for missions including logistics, troop transport, field communications, perimeter security and counter-drone operations, while also announcing a strategic investment from In-Q-Tel. The autonomous-ready platform is built on Harbinger’s commercial hybrid vehicle architecture and features drive-by-wire controls, teleoperation…

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Insider Brief Hyperscale Data said its subsidiary, Omnipresent Robotics, has begun production of the first 30 humanoid robots planned for deployment at its Michigan AI data center campus, part of a broader rollout of 143 robots. The initial robots will be assigned to its Model Training Laboratory, where they will support data collection, model training,…

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