President Donald Trump has created a new Super Intelligence Force to coordinate federal AI efforts, capping a week in which top tech executives signed a White House safety pledge and new reporting described his reliance on Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot. In a Sunday post on Truth Social, Trump said the task force will coordinate the government’s work…

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Insider Brief Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson will participate as an individual consultant in Mitre-led Project Meridian, a Department of War initiative examining emerging technologies and military capabilities over the next 10 to 20 years. The 120-day study will assess technologies including AI, autonomy, directed energy, robotics and biotechnology and recommend ways to develop, test…

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Shopify has introduced Canvas, a site-building tool that lets merchants create their online stores by chatting with Sidekick, the company’s AI agent. Previously, Shopify’s no-code builder required merchants to rearrange theme sections and blocks, with deeper customizations demanding code edits or a developer. With Canvas, merchants describe what they want and see changes appear in…

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AI startup Photon has secured $4.5 million in seed funding co-led by Gradient and A*, with participation from Vercel, HSG, Z Fellows, Llama Ventures, Karman and angel investors. The company says it has attracted more than 40,000 developer sign-ups and grown revenue tenfold in four months, with churn below 3% and messaging volume up fivefold…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 7,038 new readers. September was a month of OpenAI cataloguing its own problems — misbehaving models, rogue agents, a shelved launch. Now, one of the people writing those safety reports is out the door. David Robinson…

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Insider Brief Hitachi is partnering with Agile Robots to develop physical AI systems for complex factory work, combining Hitachi’s AI, manufacturing and edge-computing technology with Agile Robots’ robotics platform. The agreement comes alongside Hitachi’s separate partnership with Fanuc, reinforcing its broader push to build an HMAX Industry ecosystem for more autonomous manufacturing. Agile Robots contributes…

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This week, campus IT leaders voted AI their top priority for the first time, Cambridge refused Turnitin’s new terms over AI training on student work, Dartmouth opened an investigation into its own provost’s writing, and Ken Griffin gave Carnegie Mellon $3 billion. Student AI use is no longer a future scenario. The useful question for…

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With enterprise AI moving from pilot projects to production at speed, few events capture the state of the industry quite like World Summit AI. The flagship Amsterdam edition returns on Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 October 2026 at Taets Art and Event Park, bringing together more than 10,000 attendees, 300+ speakers, over 100 exhibitors and 10…

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Insider Brief Wandercraft acquired Ekso Bionics from a ChronoScale Holdings subsidiary, combining their medical exoskeleton businesses across rehabilitation and personal mobility while expanding Wandercraft’s U.S. presence. The combined portfolio includes Atalante X, EksoNR, Eve and Indego Personal, with Atalante X and EksoNR used at more than 700 rehabilitation centers worldwide and holding U.S. FDA clearances…

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Insider Brief South Korea’s physical AI news this week spanned on-device robotics chips, cobot sensing, shipyard and highway automation, multi-agent manufacturing and a modular robotics IPO. Semifive and Mobilint advanced an outdoor robotics AI chip project, Aidin Robotics joined a Doosan-led cobot program, and Hanwha Ocean and Korea Expressway Corp. separately signed agreements covering shipbuilding…

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