Meta agreed to an $18 billion settlement with 48 US states, the District of Columbia, and three territories to resolve claims that Facebook and Instagram harmed children, marking the company’s largest payment to date over child safety litigation. California Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers approved the settlement, which will be paid in annual installments over ten…

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OpenAI has seen more than a dozen executives depart since the start of the year, including former chief operating and revenue officers, its chief marketing officer, and most recently Chris Malone, the company’s head of data centers, who left last week after joining in March 2025. OpenAI attributed Malone’s exit to a reorganization of its…

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Insider Brief Fasset raised $68 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation led by SBI Group, entering the global fintech unicorn category after a total of $119 million raised in 2026 following its $51 million Series B earlier this year. The new capital will expand Own Network, Fasset’s regulated financial network connecting…

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Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, said its newly released AI agent Faradayoutperformed larger frontier systems from Anthropic and OpenAI at independently reproducing published scientific findings without prior knowledge of the results. The announcement came weeks after the startup emerged from stealth with a $50 million seed round. Co-founder and chief…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 2,833 new readers. The anonymous free AI that had developers playing detective all weekend belongs to China’s Z AI, and the case of Ox Alpha is officially closed. The impressive preview launches as GLM-5.3-Flash, arriving with…

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Nvidia has put nearly US$50 billion into the AI labs that buy its chips, and has lined up commitments for more than $500 billion Colette Kress, the company’s chief financial officer, told analysts on August 26 that demand from the labs Nvidia backs with its own balance sheet will contribute toward roughly a quarter of its business…

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Insider Brief Lightberry introduced Lumi, a humanoid robot built on Unitree’s G1 platform and designed for interaction with people through conversation, guidance, information lookup and other tasks. Lumi combines Lightberry OS and an SDK with Nvidia Jetson Thor compute, 34 degrees of freedom, a 421 Wh battery, dual 1920 × 1200 cameras and a beamforming…

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Starcloud, a startup building satellites capable of performing AI inference in orbit, has added a $250 million extension to its March Series A round, bringing total funding to $420 million and valuing the company at $2.3 billion. The round was led by Manhattan West Ventures, with participation from Nvidia, which reportedly contributed $25 million, along…

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Insider Brief Corvus Robotics raised $20 million in new funding led by Catalyst Investors, with participation from S2G Investments, Spero Ventures, F7 Ventures and new investor Cibus Capital, bringing total funding to $38 million. Co-founder and CTO Mohammed Kabir has been named CEO, succeeding co-founder Jackie Wu, who is stepping down for health reasons and…

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The gap between what agentic AI promises and what most enterprises can actually point to has become the defining tension of 2026. Ask a leadership team whether the company is investing enough in AI agents and the answer is almost always yes. Ask which specific workflows are measurably better because of them, and the room…

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