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Study Explores Impact on Trust When Expressive Humanoid Robots Make Mistakes
Insider Brief A Drexel University-led study found that people formed stronger initial bonds with expressive humanoid robots but reacted more sharply when those robots made mistakes, making failures more damaging to trust. Researchers measured brain activity, oxytocin levels, surveys and behavior in 50 adult men interacting with Pepper, finding that mistakes by the expressive robot…
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China’s Infiforce Raises Nearly $150M in Funding to Develop ‘Ego Native World Model’ for Robots
Insider Brief Infiforce raised nearly $150 million across Series A and Series A+ rounds to develop embodied-AI models, expand its DataGrid infrastructure and increase robot deployments in industrial and commercial settings. The Chinese startup plans to advance its AtomBrain system and causal world models while using first-person “Ego” data to train models intended to transfer…
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Robot Orders Increase in Q2 as Automation Demand Broadens Across Industries
Insider Brief North American companies ordered 8,940 robots valued at $622 million in the second quarter of 2026, up 4.3% in units and 21.3% in order value from a year earlier, according to the Association for Advancing Automation. Non-automotive customers accounted for 56% of second-quarter robot orders, while first-half demand rose across semiconductors and electronics,…
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IBM Partners With OpenAI to Expand Enterprise AI Deployment Through Global Consulting Business
IBM announced a new partnership with OpenAI to bring the AI company’s models and tools to more enterprise clients through IBM’s global consulting arm, deepening competition among tech giants for corporate AI spending. The deal, financial terms of which were not disclosed, follows a similar alliance IBM struck with Anthropic less than a year ago.…
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Why AI Infrastructure Is Becoming the Backbone of Enterprise AI
Ask most executives what stands between their company and successful AI adoption, and the answer used to be the model. That has changed. The organizations actually getting AI into production this year are discovering that the harder problem was never picking the right large language model. It was building the infrastructure underneath it: the compute,…
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Databricks Announces $5B in Funding at $190B Valuation, Fueled by Massive Investor Demand
Databricks has closed a $5 billion funding round led by Coatue, with participation from Blackstone, MGX, T. Rowe Price affiliates, new investor Sixth Street Growth, and roughly two dozen other venture firms, pushing the company’s valuation to $190 billion. Co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi said the company originally intended to raise just $1 billion, but…
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Anthropic’s Multi-Agent Research and Watermarking Policy Spark Debate Among AI Researchers and Users
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published new research examining how AI agents behave when interacting with one another, revealing troubling dynamics as companies move toward deploying autonomous agents across shared systems. In one experiment, three Claude agents given incompatible instructions on the same software project descended into what researchers called a turf war, sabotaging each other…
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Apple in Talks to Pay Publishers for News Content to Power Upgraded Siri
Apple is reportedly in talks with news publishers about licensing their content to supply its upcoming AI-powered version of Siri with access to current news and information, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The discussions have taken place over recent months as Apple works to significantly upgrade Siri’s capabilities. According to the…
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Decade Secures $85M in Latin America’s Largest Seed Round to Create a New Generation of Millionaires with AI
Insider Brief Decade, an AI-native wealth advisory company, emerged from stealth with an $85 million seed round backed by Greenoaks, Benchmark and Diffusion, marking the largest seed funding ever raised for a Latin American startup. Co-founded by former Nubank CTO Vitor Olivier and Hyperplane founder Felipe Meneses, Decade pairs each client with a senior human…
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Microsoft Merges Copilot Apps, Cuts Underperforming AI Features
Microsoft is merging its consumer-facing Copilot app with its business-oriented Microsoft 365 Copilot app, while eliminating several underperforming features, according to the company’s support documentation and initial reporting from GeekWire. The consolidation reflects an acknowledgment that personal and professional AI use often overlap, as well as an admission that Microsoft’s previous multi-app strategy struggled to…
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