Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation startup launched in 2021 with ambitions of becoming a modern alternative to Zapier, is shutting down, with several staff members, including founder and CEO Jacob Bank, moving to Google’s Chrome team. Bank announced that paying customers will lose access on September 14, following free-tier customers who already lost access on…

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Perplexity’s yearlong partnership with Indian telecom giant Airtel, which offered free Perplexity Pro subscriptions to 360 million customers starting in July 2025, appears to be yielding early signs of sustained revenue growth as the earliest free subscriptions expire, according to data from Sensor Tower and Appfigures. The promotion drove explosive download growth, with Sensor Tower…

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Insider Brief Velaura AI raised $110 million in a Series A round led by Seligman Ventures to develop lower-power computing technology for AI data centers and physical-AI systems, valuing the company at more than $1 billion. The company plans to use the funding to commercialize its Titan Core silicon platform and expand engineering and customer…

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OpenAI announced the launch of ChatGPT for Teens on Monday, introducing new safety measures and educational tools following multiple lawsuits alleging the chatbot contributed to teen suicides and other mental health issues. The product includes a new Study Mode feature designed to guide teens through problem-solving with step-by-step support rather than providing direct answers, along…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 5,482 new readers. If you were picking a day to launch a GitHub competitor, you couldn’t script a better one than the morning the legacy platform suffered a massive outage. Cursor just managed to hit that…

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Who is actually accountable for ethics inside a frontier AI lab? This year four of them answered, mostly by removing the people and structures that held them to it. Below is who left, what each company said about it, and the one line from a departing researcher that explains why good intentions were never going…

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OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman warns that enterprise security teams face a compressed timeline to adopt AI defences. Brockman has published an account of what the company calls the “OpenAI-Hugging Face” incident, using it to argue that organisations need to uplevel their security practices with what he terms unprecedented speed. He writes that he…

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Freight software provider Alvys has launched an agentic AI platform that allows carriers and brokers to automate operational tasks directly within its transportation management system (TMS). Called Alvys Foundry, the platform supports pre-built and custom AI agents that work with freight data and workflows already held within the TMS. Foundry includes more than 20 pre-built…

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Zhipu’s release note for GLM-5.3 contains a sentence that did not make it into most of the coverage. Describing its own cybersecurity results, the Beijing company writes that capability “is growing fastest exactly where we are furthest behind.” Zhipu, which also trades as Z.ai, is one of a handful of Chinese labs releasing models that compete with…

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Insider Brief Gravis Robotics raised $200 million in a Series A investment from SoftBank to expand its physical-AI systems for autonomous heavy construction equipment. The ETH Zurich spinout develops the Gravis Rack, a hardware-agnostic control system that can retrofit machinery from manufacturers including Caterpillar, John Deere, JCB, Hitachi and Volvo for operator-assisted or autonomous operation.…

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