Insider Brief Visium SA, a Swiss AI and data company serving highly regulated industries, has closed its first institutional funding round co-led by Columbus Venture Partners and Concentric, alongside a syndicate of prominent tech founders including Thomas Wolf of Hugging Face and Sam Bourton of QuantumBlack. Founded in 2018 and bootstrapped for eight years, the…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis thinks we’ll have AGI by 2030 — give or take a year. Some gaps remain, but he’s more confident now that we’re on track. We sat down with Hassabis at I/O to talk about what’s…

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Anthropic released Mythos to the public, collapsing the wall between cleared-contractor frontier AI and developer-grade frontier AI in a single press release. DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis moved his AGI timeline from “five to ten years” to “a real possibility by 2029” and tied it explicitly to AlphaProof Nexus solving nine open Erdős problems for the cost…

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Google is folding Display Ads into its AI-powered Demand Gen platform, marking the end of a long-standing digital advertising model. The Google Display Network (GDN) has been a staple of the open internet for almost twenty years. Marketers previously relied on its predictable framework to target placements, bid on audiences, and A/B test static creative…

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The foreign exchange market is really moving away from pure intuition and toward a space shaped by speed, data and precision. By using automated systems in your routine, you can approach volatility with a level of discipline that manual trading often struggles to maintain. Every entry and exit can be based on clear rules, not…

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Insider Brief Torc Robotics is partnering with the Mila–Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute to expand its physical AI and autonomous trucking research through deeper collaboration with researchers and academic talent. As Mila’s only autonomous trucking partner, Torc will establish a presence within the institute’s Montreal ecosystem, including dedicated research space and access to students, faculty and…

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Insider Brief Hypershell has launched its new AI-powered X Series exoskeleton lineup and introduced HyperLIFT, a field-testing initiative aimed at evaluating wearable robotics in real-world search and rescue operations. The new lineup uses the company’s HyperIntuition motion-control system, designed to make exoskeleton support feel more natural and responsive by adapting to user movement and terrain…

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Insider Brief IntBot and Certis have partnered to develop socially intelligent humanoid robot applications for enterprise and customer-facing environments, with pilot deployments planned in Singapore. The collaboration combines IntBot’s General Social Intelligence technology with Certis’ operational expertise in security, facilities management and frontline services to create humanoid concierge and assistance systems. The companies said the…

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Insider Brief AiM Medical Robotics is partnering with Siemens Healthineers to integrate its MRI-guided brain surgery robot with Siemens MRI systems, a move aimed at advancing image-guided neurosurgery and accelerating clinical deployment. The collaboration centers on a software interface designed to coordinate AiM’s robotic platform with Siemens MRI scanners, enabling tighter integration between imaging and…

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Insider Brief Logistics startup Stord has raised $250 million in a Series F round at a $3 billion valuation and launched Stord Labs, a new Atlanta-based physical AI and robotics lab aimed at strengthening its challenge to Amazon’s fulfillment ecosystem. The funding round included Strike Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Franklin Templeton, Baillie Gifford, G…

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