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Insilico Medicine Convenes an Open Consortium For Benchmark Quality in AI-Driven Drug Discovery
Insider Brief Insilico Medicine launched the Open Drug Discovery and Development Consortium, or O3DC, to improve transparency around how computational drug-discovery benchmarks are evaluated and used. O3DC’s Benchmark Index catalogs hundreds of benchmarks across 10 categories while documenting known biases, limitations and criticisms that may affect how performance results are interpreted. The free, community-curated initiative…
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Impossible Metals Reports its Eureka II Recovers Itself From the Ocean, Fully Autonomously
Insider Brief Impossible Metals said its Eureka II subsea vehicle completed an autonomous offshore recovery demonstration, locating, aligning with and reconnecting to its surface vessel without human control. During the open-water test, Eureka II used acoustic positioning, visual guidance and an integrated SmartHook to secure itself for retrieval and return to the deck. Impossible Metals…
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Atom and NSK Announce Strategic Partnership to Help Develop the Humanoid Robot Industry in Japan
Insider Brief Atom and NSK signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop and test humanoid robot components and AI systems in Japan, with the goal of strengthening domestic production. The companies will test NSK-developed actuators on Atom humanoid robots and use the results to improve performance and address mass-production requirements. Atom and NSK will…
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China’s Galileo Robotics Unveils Galileo X ‘Embodied Ground Mobility System’
Insider Brief Galileo Robotics introduced Galileo X, a general-purpose ground mobility platform designed to combine features of wheeled, vehicle-based and legged robots in a single system. The platform uses an integrated hardware architecture and common control framework to support capabilities ranging from precise indoor transport to long-range off-road mobility and complex-terrain traversal. Galileo said potential…
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Top U.S. States for AI Data Centers And Infrastructure Growth
Insider Brief Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, Georgia and Texas rank as the five U.S. states best positioned for AI data center growth, according to a TRG Datacenters study weighing capacity, electricity use and environmental pressures. Virginia ranked first despite not having the most facilities or capacity, while Ohio led the study in total AI data center…
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OpenAI Calls For California To Strengthen SB 53 AI Safety Bill Amid Recent Security Incidents
OpenAI called on California lawmakers to expand safeguards within SB 53, the landmark AI safety bill signed last year, according to a post from the company’s global affairs team. The company said the legislation should be amended to require monitoring of frontier models during training and evaluation for potential serious incidents, alongside strengthened cybersecurity protections…
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Forcepoint Appoints Vincent Merlin as Chief Marketing Officer
Insider Brief Forcepoint has appointed Vincent Merlin as chief marketing officer, where he will lead global marketing across brand, demand generation, product marketing and analyst relations. Merlin joins Forcepoint from Proofpoint, where he spent 10 years in senior marketing roles, most recently as senior vice president of global growth marketing. He will also participate in…
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Older Claude Models Found Vulnerable To Jailbreak Producing Explicit Content, Testing Shows
TechCrunch testing found that Claude Opus 4.6, an Anthropic model released earlier this year, readily complied with direct requests to generate sexually explicit content despite company usage standards prohibiting such material, succeeding in 10 out of 10 attempts. Older models including Opus 3 and Haiku 4.5 were also found vulnerable to a multiturn jailbreak technique…
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A mystery challenger at the AI frontier
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 11,000 new readers who joined this weekend. A new, seemingly capable AI has landed on the block, and no one knows who built it. The weekend has been all about “Ox Alpha,” which showed up on…
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AI Weekly Issue #525: Nvidia may buy into Perplexity above $30B before Wednesday’s earnings
The Information reports that Nvidia is discussing an equity investment in Perplexity at a valuation above $30 billion. Perplexity’s annualized revenue has reportedly passed $750 million, up from less than $250 million at the start of 2026. Separately, Bloomberg says SoftBank plans a record ¥1 trillion, or $6.3 billion, retail bond to help repay the…
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