Artificial intelligence is moving from the lab bench to the production floor, and the companies enabling that transition are building the infrastructure that defines how agents are created, trained, deployed, and governed. The companies doing it most consequentially are not wrapping chat interfaces around existing models; they are constructing the runtimes, the training environments, the…

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Niteshift, an AI coding infrastructure startup founded by former early Datadog engineers Sajid Mehmood and Conor Branagan, has raised a $7 million seed round led by Greylock partner Jerry Chen. Notable angels include Reid Hoffman, Datadog co-founders Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc, Ankur Goyal of Braintrust, and Misha Laskin of Reflection AI. The company’s core…

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A new Pew Research Center study reveals a striking disconnect between growing AI adoption in the United States and widespread public pessimism about its long-term consequences. Only 16% of Americans believe AI will have a positive impact on society over the next 20 years, while around 40% expect a negative outcome. Skepticism toward oversight is…

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Insider Brief Coram AI, the AI-native physical security platform, has raised $35 million in Series B funding co-led by Ansa Capitaland Battery Ventures, with participation from UP.Partners, 8VC, and Mosaic Ventures, bringing total capital raised to $66 million. Founded by Ashesh Jain and Peter Ondruska, former AI leaders at Lyft’s self-driving division and Toyota’s Wovendivision,…

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Odyssey, the world model AI startup founded by autonomous vehicle veterans Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has closed a $310 million Series B round at a $1.45 billion valuation. The round was led by Natural Capital, with Amazon, AMD Ventures, and GV among the participants. The company has now raised $337 million in total. World…

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Warner Music Group has acquired Sureel AI, a startup whose patented technology fingerprints songs and traces how AI models use their component elements. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal gives WMG enhanced tools to monitor when artists’ and songwriters’ work is used in AI-generated content or for model training. Sureel also offers name, image,…

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Pinterest has unveiled a standalone experimental app, Ask Pinterest, that brings conversational AI to product discovery and shopping, drawing on the company’s proprietary Taste Graph to deliver personalised recommendations through natural-language queries. The app supports complex, multistep requests and retains user context across sessions, with saved Pins and Boards used to further tailor results. The…

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CPP Investments, Canada’s largest pension fund, has committed up to ₹70 billion (approximately $741 million) to Hyderabad-based data center operator CtrlS, backing India’s expanding role in global AI infrastructure. The deal involves a ₹40 billion stake acquisition giving CPP Investments an 8.2% share in CtrlS, plus a joint venture to develop hyperscale data center campuses…

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Google has unveiled its first smart speaker designed specifically around its Gemini AI, the Google Home Speaker, priced at $99.99 and available for preorder now. It marks the company’s first standalone audio device since the Nest Audio in 2020, and represents a significant leap in conversational capability. Unlike its predecessors, the speaker supports natural-language, multistep…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. While Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, and others gather in France to talk AI safety with G7 world leaders, one of them has a very real security fight going on in real time. Anthropic’s battle with the U.S. government…

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