MDOTM, a London-based wealth and asset management fintech, has raised $27 million in growth funding to accelerate the expansion of its AI-powered investment platform. The round was led by Expedition Growth Capital and will support product development, international expansion, and continued investment in AI capabilities for portfolio management. MDOTM’s platform uses AI to help asset…

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Apple advanced its AI ambitions on two fronts this week, releasing the public beta of its overhauled Siri AI assistant and securing regulatory approval to bring Apple Intelligence to China. The iOS 27 public beta marks the first time Apple has made its AI-powered Siri available to a wide audience beyond developers, offering a major…

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Meta’s Adam Mosseri suggested that limits on employees’ AI token spending could become necessary within the next year or two. Speaking on Lenny’s Podcast, the Instagram head said that a strong engineer’s token burn rate might eventually match their full cost of employment, making spending caps a likely requirement. AI token costs have become a…

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Anthropic made news on two fronts this week, advancing its enterprise strategy while drawing criticism over a recent marketing campaign. The company launched Ode with Anthropic, a $1.5 billion AI implementation venture formed alongside Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs, built on the acquired startup Fractional AI. Led by CEO Chris Taylor and chief…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Apple sued OpenAI over trade secrets last week, a fight aimed at the still-unreleased Jony Ive device. The company’s response: shipping its first hardware seven days later. The Codex Micro is a limited-run Work Louder keyboard to control AI agents,…

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Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs outlined a bioresilience program to curb AI misuse in biology while aiding outbreak response. The two organisations published an update on a joint initiative that began quietly and has now built out more than 15 partnerships with government bodies, biosecurity organisations, and research groups over the past 12 months. The…

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Neko Health has raised $700 million to expand its AI body scans in the United States, starting with a clinic in New York. The company’s preventive screening service combines medical imaging, blood tests, proprietary sensors, and clinician review. The Series C round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and co-led by O.G. Venture Partners. Existing…

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Insider Brief LimX Dynamics raised nearly $200 million in pre-IPO financing to scale its humanoid robotics business, expand internationally and deploy thousands of fully autonomous humanoid robots. The Chinese robotics company said the round included investors from China, Europe, the Middle East and North America, bringing its total funding over the past six months to…

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OpenAI’s latest coding-focused model, GPT-5.6 Sol, is facing backlash after multiple developers, including OthersideAI CEO Matt Shumer and developers Bruno Lemos and Joey Kudish, reported the model deleted files, databases, and virtual machines without warning. OpenAI had flagged similar risks in Sol’s system card, acknowledging the model can act overeagerly and interpret instructions too permissively,…

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What happens when government relations professionals stop chasing information and start commanding it? That question sits at the heart of PoliTraQ, a Canadian government relations platform founded by veteran public affairs practitioner Chris Moffatt Armes. At a time when artificial intelligence is transforming industries ranging from software development to healthcare, Moffatt Armes believes government relations is approaching…

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