Meta announced a new Mac application for Meta AI featuring system-wide dictation and screen-context awareness powered by its Muse Spark model, joining similar tools from Wispr Flow and Google’s Gemini app. The release accompanied a broader business-focused update allowing merchants to connect Instagram, Facebook, ad campaigns, and Google Workspace accounts to Meta AI for performance…

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Insider Brief Skan AI raised $63 million co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from Citi Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, State Farm Ventures, and Wipro Ventures, alongside the launch of its enterprise AI platform including Skan AI Blueprint and Skan AI Agents. The company, powered by NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA NIM microservices,…

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Insider Brief STRGY AI, a Helsinki-based startup building StrategyOS, raised €1 million in angel funding from an international investor base spanning the UK, Norway, Switzerland, and Finland, with additional backing from Innovestor’s Angel CoFund and Business Finland. The platform gives leadership teams an always-on view of strategy execution, connecting daily work to strategic priorities, flagging…

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Blacksmith raised a $45 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners, valuing the company at $550 million, a steep rise from the $60 million valuation it held less than a year ago. Existing investors GV and Y Combinator also participated, bringing total funding to $58.5 million. Founded in 2024, Blacksmith helps companies build, test,…

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SpaceX attempted to acquire AI coding startup Cognition, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter, as the company works to close the AI gap with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Cognition CEO Scott Wu disputed the report, stating on X that the company was not for sale and that no talks had occurred between the…

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Stripe confirmed on Wednesday that it was acquiring OpenRouter, with sources telling the New York Times the deal was valued at $7.5 billion. The price marked a sharp jump from OpenRouter’s $1.3 billion valuation in May, with founders reportedly set to receive $1.5 billion and investors the remaining $6 billion. Stripe reportedly outbid other interested…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 5,054 new readers who joined us yesterday. The entire industry is fighting to create the best AI coworker. Slack is working to own the office space instead. The company’s new Slack Code puts coding agents inside…

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In August 2025, TypeScript became the most used language on GitHub. This was the largest shift in GitHub’s language rankings in the last ten years and it occurred during the period of most accelerated adoption of coding AI agents. Coding AI agents had previously been predicted to lower the importance of language selection. It was…

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Growing public unease about AI is beginning to translate into political and financial pressure, according to a series of recent reports. Axios reported that the National Republican Senatorial Committee warned top AI companies that data center construction is hurting the party’s prospects in a key Ohio election, while Pew Research found that 52% of Americans now say they’re more…

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Italy’s AI scale-up scene is anchored in Lombardy, with Milan alone home to four of the ten companies on this list, but the range of what is being built stretches from Genoa’s humanoid robotics to Turin’s crowdsourced mapping and autonomous mobility. From responsible AI for regulated industries to AI legal research assistants, and from offensive…

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