Insider Brief Monorale, a British AI platform building a unified operating layer for multi-model AI, has opened a £4 million Series A round after surpassing 40,000 unique user sign-ups in its first eight months since its September 2025 founding. The platform addresses AI ecosystem fragmentation by letting developers, freelancers, creators, entrepreneurs and small businesses access…

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Insider Brief The White House unveiled more than $5 billion in federal commitments expanding the Genesis Mission, with over 15 federal agencies contributing research awards, datasets, and facilities to 278 selected projects across new National Science and Technology Challenges. The initiative, launched via Executive Order in November 2025, spans health care, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing and…

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Music streaming platform Deezer has reported that AI-generated tracks now account for more than 50% of downloads on its service, marking a sharp escalation in the growth of AI music on the platform. The company said daily uploads of AI-generated tracks peaked in June 2026 at an average of 90,000 tracks per day. Deezer CEO…

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U.S. data centers are projected to consume one-fifth of the country’s electricity by 2035, four times current levels, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. The consultancy attributed the surge largely to growth in AI computing, forecasting that data center capacity will approach 200 gigawatts over the next decade, with nearly half devoted to AI training and…

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Insider Brief microagi formalized a compute partnership with Google Cloud and Nvidia to support Atlas, its data and deployment platform for industrial robotics. The Munich-based company said Atlas now trains and runs models on Nvidia Blackwell infrastructure through Google Cloud, along with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and AI models for multimodal data. microagi…

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Insider Brief Johnson & Johnson said the FDA granted De Novo authorization for its Ottava robotic surgical system, clearing the company to begin a limited U.S. commercial launch. The table-integrated soft-tissue robotic system is authorized for several general surgery procedures, including gastric bypass, gastrectomy, cholecystectomy, splenectomy, appendectomy and hiatal hernia repair. Johnson & Johnson said…

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Insider Brief University of South California (USC) is leading a Department of Energy Genesis Mission research team developing AI models to improve turbulence prediction for scientific and engineering applications. The project combines expertise from USC, the University of Michigan, and Argonne National Laboratory to develop physics-informed AI methods for complex simulations. The research aims to…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Google just added three more models to the Gemini family. Somehow, that made the missing one even harder to ignore. A new Flash trio covers speed, low-cost use, and cybersecurity, and the company’s “most ambitious pre-training run yet” for Gemini 4…

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TL;DR In technology and startups, a unicorn is a privately held company valued at over one billion dollars. The term “unicorn” is commonly used in the technology and startup world to describe companies that achieve extraordinary valuations before going public. Originally coined to highlight how rare such companies were, the term has become a standard…

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TL;DR Data mining is the practice of discovering useful patterns, trends, and insights hidden within large collections of data. Data mining is a foundational concept in data science and artificial intelligence, focused on extracting meaningful information from large and complex datasets. As organizations generate enormous volumes of data from digital systems, sensors, transactions, and user…

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