Insider Brief Faraday Future secured $25 million in new financing, bringing the company’s total funding over the past two months to $70 million as it expands its embodied AI and robotics strategy. According to the company, the funding will support development of humanoid and bionic robots alongside AI-enabled automotive robotics systems through the first phase…

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Insider Brief Nature’s Miracle signed a memorandum of understanding with robotics company DROMNI to explore deployment of AI-enabled autonomous ground vehicles across agriculture, logistics, industrial automation and AI data center operations. According to the company, the partnership will initially focus on pilot deployments for applications including greenhouse automation, material handling, infrastructure monitoring and facility operations.…

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Ian Crosby, the founder ousted from collapsed accounting startup Bench, has raised $10 million in seed funding for a new venture called Synthetic, which aims to build a fully autonomous AI bookkeeper capable of generating accrual-based financials without human involvement. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Basis Set Ventures and Shopify…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Three weeks of high-profile testimonies, spicy leaked messages, and $100B in claims made for a blockbuster trial — but Elon Musk vs. OpenAI’s conclusion didn’t live up to the hype. With jurors dismissing the suit in OpenAI’s favor and Musk…

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Six days after we called $725B a bet on what no one wanted, the receipts started landing. Meta committed $145B to AI infrastructure the same week it began firing 8,000 people. Standard Chartered described its own cuts as replacing “lower-value human capital.” Pope Leo XIV announced he’d co-launch his first AI encyclical with Anthropic’s Christopher…

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Day two of TechEx North America has been more of a deeper, critical examination of AI in the enterprise, but with a optimistic bent. The AI and Big Data programme opened with reference to what was termed the “AI graveyard” – that is, AI projects that seem to perform well in pilot, but don’t seem…

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President Trump flew to Beijing, brought Jensen Huang along at the last minute, and left two days later, telling reporters that “something could happen” on chip exports. Nothing did. Not a single Nvidia H200 has shipped to China since Trump first authorised the sales in December 2025, and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Bloomberg that semiconductor controls were…

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Insider Brief Sygaldry Technologies raised $139 million in seed and Series A funding to develop quantum-accelerated AI servers. The company is building quantum computing systems designed to improve the efficiency and energy consumption of AI training and inference workloads. Sygaldry said its technology is intended to integrate alongside existing classical AI infrastructure in data centers.…

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Insider Brief SkillWaze and Amplibotics AI have partnered with the National Esports Collegiate Conference and Dynamic Athlete Placement to train collegiate esports competitors as remote robot operators for industrial applications. Participants will use gaming controllers and teleoperation systems to pilot real-world robots while building skills and credentials across industries including manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and defense.…

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Insider Brief Graphon AI has emerged from stealth with $8.3 million in seed funding led by Novera Ventures, with participation from Perplexity Fund, Samsung Next, Hitachi Ventures, and others, to build what it describes as a pre-model intelligence layer that sits between raw enterprise data and AI foundation models. Rather than working within a model’s…

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