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Matter Machine Closes £4M Pre-Series A to Scale AI-Powered Materials Discovery, Appoints Oxford Nanopore’s Gordon Sanghera
Matter Machine, a University of Liverpool spin-out using AI to discover new materials, has closed an oversubscribed £4 million pre-Series A round led by IP Group and supported by Northern Gritstone, the University of Liverpool Enterprise Fund, Norrsken Evolve, LYVA Labs and the Northern Universities Venture Fund. It is the largest investment secured by a…
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Ondas and Palantir Launch Regna AI for Sovereign Defense Systems
Insider Brief Ondas and Palantir Technologies have formed Regna AI, a standalone company that will develop sovereign AI models for defense and other mission-critical operations. Regna AI will use Palantir’s AIP and open-weight models to run mission-specific AI within customer-controlled infrastructure and on edge systems including drones, ground vehicles, surface vessels and command-and-control platforms. Ondas,…
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Google Begins Gemini 4 Argon Frontier Model Rollout
Insider Brief Google has made Gemini 4 Argon broadly available to developers, enterprises and consumers, expanding the model beyond its initial early-access rollout. Argon is available through the paid Gemini API, AI Studio, the Gemini platform, Google Antigravity and select Gemini app and AI Mode subscriptions, with introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens…
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SOAR AI Announces Up to $1B Equity Facility to Fund Expansion of Its AI Infrastructure Platform
Insider Brief Volato Group, which is rebranding as SOAR AI, has entered into an equity facility of up to $1 billion with an institutional investor, giving it on-demand access to capital to develop its Ohio AI infrastructure campus, which has 154 MW of power available today and a roadmap to 480 MW, and additional brownfield…
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Loops Closes $3.5M in Funding to Build the AI Operating System for Commerce
Insider Brief Loops, an enterprise AI company building agentic commerce systems for brands and retailers, has secured a $3.5 million seed round from a16z speedrun, NTT Docomo, Connecticut Innovations, Alumni Ventures and Monday Capital to support product development, customer deployment and international expansion. Rather than offering separate AI tools, the platform unifies AI search, a…
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Character.AI Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and Agrees $20M Asset Sale to Disney
Character.AI, the platform that lets users create and chat with AI characters, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after five years of operation, citing assets and liabilities of between $50 million and $100 million. The company has agreed to sell some assets to Disney for $20 million, along with a non-exclusive perpetual license to its technology. Disney…
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American Express Introduces Intent Intelligence Framework to Secure AI Agent Purchases
American Express has introduced a new Intent Intelligence Framework designed to capture and authenticate a customer’s purchase intent before an AI agent completes a transaction, aiming to prevent unauthorized purchases caused by misfiring agents. The company hopes the framework will become an industry standard for AI-powered commerce. It forms part of Amex’s Agentic Commerce Experiences…
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Microsoft President Brad Smith Urges Global AI Safety Rules, Says UK Is Best Placed to Lead
Microsoft president Brad Smith has called for urgent regulation of artificial intelligence, arguing that everyday products such as milk and washing machines face more oversight than the companies building AI. Speaking on a BBC podcast, Smith described AI as both a weapon and a tool that is putting global cybersecurity at risk, and said the…
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Meta Superintelligence Lab Releases Muse Wonder Models in First Push Into Frontier AI
Meta’s Superintelligence Lab has released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier AI models, marking a step up from the lightweight, low-latency Muse Spark. According to Meta’s model card, the larger Wonder models deliver higher benchmark scores and stronger performance on complex tasks such as coding, achieving results comparable to Fable 5.1 and…
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Meta’s Watermelon ripens into a frontier model
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 4,730 new readers. Meta’s Watermelon has been ripening and hyped for months. It’s finally ready, and just came out bigger than almost anyone expected. The company’s new Muse Wonder family (codenamed Watermelon) is here, with its…
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