Insider Brief A coalition of robotics and automation companies launched a new industry group called Robots for America aimed at accelerating adoption of robotics and physical AI across U.S. manufacturing. The coalition said it was formed following requests from officials tied to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Department of Commerce,…

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Robinhood has filed a confidential registration for RVII, a second publicly traded venture fund that will expand beyond its first fund’s late-stage focus to include early-stage startups. The fundraising target has not yet been set, following RVI’s debut in March which raised several hundred million short of its $1 billion goal but has since more…

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Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has announced a new class of AI called interaction models, designed to process input and generate responses simultaneously rather than sequentially. The approach, known as full-duplex communication, enables the AI to respond mid-conversation in a manner closer to a natural phone call than a turn-based…

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General Motors has laid off more than 600 salaried IT employees — over 10% of its IT workforce — as part of a deliberate restructuring to replace legacy technology expertise with AI-native capabilities. The company confirmed the cuts, which were first reported by Bloomberg, framing them as preparation for the future rather than simple cost reduction. GM is actively…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Both Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines and Ilya Sutskever’s SSI have spent the post-OpenAI era mostly out of view, making every public reveal feel that much bigger. Murati’s lab just broke the silence with ‘interaction models,’ a new type of AI…

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Joe Rose, president at strategic technology provider JBS Dev, wants to cut through one of the myths of working with generative and agentic AI systems. “It’s a common misconception that your data has to be perfect before you do any of these types of workloads,” he explains. As a recent article in AI Fieldbook outlines,…

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A malicious Hugging Face repository that posed as an OpenAI release delivered infostealer malware to Windows machines and recorded about 244,000 downloads before removal, according to research from AI security firm HiddenLayer. The number of downloads may have been artificially inflated by the attackers to make the model seem more popular, so the extent of…

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Laserfiche has announced the release of AI agents that can help perform tasks through natural language prompts. Intelligent assistants follow Laserfiche’s integrated security rules and compliance requirements, helping ensure all sensitive data remains protected. Karl Chan, CEO of Laserfiche, said, “The introduction of AI Agents to content management signals a change in how we handle…

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Insider Brief HDT Robotics announced delivery of its Hunter WOLF unmanned ground vehicles to the U.S. Army’s 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division at Fort Polk, Louisiana, as part of the Army’s Ground Optionally Autonomous Transport program. According to the company, the delivery supports a week-long training event where soldiers will receive hands-on instruction operating, maintaining…

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Insider Brief Researchers at Technische Universität Berlin found that prompting large language models to reason more like humans significantly improved their ability to provide medical care-seeking advice, according to a study published in JMIR Biomedical Engineering. The study tested 10 ChatGPT models using psychological decision-making frameworks based on Naturalistic Decision-Making and found self-care recommendation accuracy…

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