SoftBank Group is seeking as much as $100 billion from Gulf investors to scale up its artificial intelligence investments, according to the Financial Times, citing people familiar with the matter. Founder Masayoshi Son has held early talks with potential backers, including investors in the United Arab Emirates. The proposed fund would acquire companies and use…

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Insider Brief Rein Security, an AI-native runtime security platform for enterprises, has secured $25 million in Series A financing co-led by Glilot Capital and Sienna Venture Capital, with participation from Corner Ventures, Atlacle and RNP Capital Advisors, bringing its total funding to $35 million. Built on patented sidecar technology that operates where AI agents execute…

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Vinci, an AI-native engineering platform founded by Hardik Kabaria, has secured $250 million in Series B financing at a $1.5 billion valuation. The round was co-led by Advent, Temasek and Xora, with participation from AMD Ventures, Madrona, Eclipse and Khosla Ventures. The company will use the capital to extend its platform from semiconductor physics into…

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Insider Brief Gallatin AI, an AI-native logistics company focused on U.S. military sustainment, has secured $50 million in Series A financing backed by investors including 8VC and Silent Ventures, bringing its total funding to $70 million following a 2024 seed round. The capital will expand engineering, accelerate product development and broaden AI-enabled sustainment capabilities around…

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Microsoft has revealed the specifications and pricing for its Surface Laptop Ultra, an AI- and agent-ready PC built on Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip, at an event during San Francisco’s Tech Week. The laptop comes in two base models starting at $2,600 and $3,700, with higher-memory and storage configurations reaching $5,900. The company also introduced the…

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OpenAI is facing questions on two fronts this week, as leading mathematicians challenge how it released hundreds of claimed solutions to difficult math problems, and new reporting suggests its annualized revenue is around $20 billion lower than previously reported. The lab released 719 manuscripts presenting solutions to some of the hardest open problems in mathematics, saying it…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 4,619 new readers who joined us yesterday. Weeks after pledging to open its doors to outside safety experts, OpenAI fired three of its own safety researchers, saying they mishandled sensitive information. But that was not the…

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This issue is built from the links the AI experts we follow shared over the past three days. Most of them look ahead: whether AI can do AI research on its own, who gets a say in governing it, how it is moving into war planning, and how it is moving onto personal computers.

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Insider Brief FireDome has launched U.S. operations with a demonstration site at Yuba County Airport in California, where it is testing an autonomous system designed to detect and suppress wildfires before they spread. The system combines continuous monitoring with stationary launchers that can fire retardant-filled capsules up to 1,000 feet to create firebreaks, protect assets…

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Insider Brief Deep Robotics deployed DR02 humanoid robots in Hangzhou’s Xihu District to test traffic direction, public guidance and other support functions under real-world conditions including heavy crowds, vehicle traffic and sustained rain. The IP66-rated DR02 uses environmental perception and motion control to navigate intersections, avoid pedestrians and vehicles, provide multilingual tourist assistance and identify…

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