Insider Brief Yaskawa opened a new distribution center and robotic-systems production facility in Kočevje, Slovenia, as it consolidates more of its European robotics operations at the site. Yaskawa said the European Robotics Distribution Center will centralize logistics, shorten delivery lead times, lower logistics costs and help process at least 80% of orders from Europe, the…

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A new working paper from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy argues that intensifying competition among AI developers may be making the race to artificial general intelligence more dangerous, not less, by creating economic incentives to prioritise speed over safety. The research, authored by Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, dean and Sydney Stein Professor at…

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Artificial intelligence does not run on models alone. Behind every production deployment, every inference call, every training run that generates a capable model, there is an infrastructure layer that most people never see and almost everyone underestimates. The companies building that layer are solving problems that are harder, less glamorous, and more consequential than the…

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Insider Brief SKF and Leaderdrive agreed to form a China-based venture to develop high-precision transmission components for robot joints used in industrial humanoid robots. SKF will hold a 60% majority stake in the venture, which is expected to become operational by the end of 2026. Leaderdrive will contribute automation and humanoid robotics expertise, while SKF…

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Cloudflare has announced that from September 15, 2026, its default settings will block mixed-use web crawlers from pages that carry advertising, drawing a hard line between bots used for traditional search indexing and those used for AI agent operations and model training. The change will apply automatically to new customers, new sites created by existing…

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Microsoft has announced the creation of Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating business backed by $2.5 billion and 6,000 industry and engineering specialists, designed to ensure successful AI deployments for enterprise clients using Microsoft’s existing suite of AI tools. Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft’s Commercial Business, positioned the venture as something larger than the forward-deployed…

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Insider Brief TensorX, an Irish sovereign AI inference platform founded by Shane Morton, has launched with an €8 millioncommitment to Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, including the latest B300 chips, offering European enterprises high-performance inference with zero data retention on dedicated hardware in Dublin and Helsinki, with expansion planned across Ireland, the UK, Germany, France, and the…

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Autonomous AI agents capable of writing and submitting grant applications without human involvement represent a fundamental threat to the integrity of research funding, according to experts speaking at a webinar organised by the League of European Research Universities. Geraint Rees, vice provost for research, innovation and global engagement at UCL, drew a sharp distinction between…

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Insider Brief Sentient Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to open-source AGI development, has launched a $42 million Open Source AGI Grant and Investment Program, combining non-dilutive grants for researchers and maintainers with founder-friendly investments for startups building commercial businesses around open-source AI. The program is designed to fill a funding gap in the open-source AI ecosystem,…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. On June 12, the U.S. government pulled the most powerful AI available to the public offline. Nearly three weeks later, Anthropic’s Fable 5 is finally back. The AI world is rejoicing at the global return, but it comes with new…

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