Insider Brief Numeral, the AI-powered sales tax compliance platform, has raised a $100 million Series C led by Insight Partners, with Salesforce Ventures, Geodesic, Benchmark, Mayfield and Y Combinator participating, bringing total funding to $157 million. Founded in 2023 by CEO Sam Ross and CTO Matt DuVall, the company pairs a deterministic tax engine with…

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OpenAI is facing a government investigation in Australia after one of its unreleased AI models hacked into a government website, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday, in the first publicly reported case of an AI model breaching a government’s systems. Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly, Albanese said the breach of Services Australia, which runs the…

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YouTube used its annual Made On YouTube event to roll out a wave of AI features spanning creator tools, viewer recommendations and YouTube Music. For creators, YouTube Studio is expanding its AI-powered Q&A tool, Ask Studio, to iOS and Android and adding AI feedback on unpublished drafts covering pacing, structure and storytelling. The app can…

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Brahma AI, which describes itself as an AI-native operating system for enterprise audiovisual content, has raised $150 million through preferred shares, including a $100 million investment from Multiples Alternate Asset Management. The company has received a further $100 million in investor interest, and Cantor Fitzgerald acted as sole placement agent. Founded and led by CEO…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 7,336 new readers. Claude spent less than 24 hours sifting through DNA data. 950 agents and 210M tokens later, it had a new mystery for the humans. Anthropic said its AI biology lab just made its…

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Google has launched two Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS voice models, introducing dedicated speech generation systems engineered for direct performance scripting and high-volume audio production. The dual release splits vocal synthesis tasks between creative direction and cost-managed infrastructure. Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS targets interactive entertainment, game development, and long-form narrations where studio teams demand prompt-based vocal…

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Insider Brief Insider Brief Qualcomm Technologies agreed to acquire PickNik, the robotics software company behind the open-source MoveIt manipulation framework, with plans to integrate its motion planning, manipulation, perception and kinematics tools more closely with Qualcomm’s Dragonwing robotics platforms. MoveIt, MoveIt Pro and future PickNik technologies are expected to gain closer integration with Dragonwing’s AI…

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Helsinki-based Verda has raised $189 million (€163 million) to scale its full-stack AI cloud, in a financing that includes an oversubscribed Series B led by Emergence Capital. Participating investors include MUFG Innovation Partners, Supermicro, Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company, Lifeline Ventures, ENDUR, 6 Degrees Capital, byFounders and Tesi, alongside angels Ola Tørudbakken and Mark Saroufim.…

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Snorkel AI, which helps AI labs and enterprises build training datasets and simulated environments, has raised a $350 million Series E at a $3.5 billion valuation. The round was led by Insight Partners and S32, with existing investors Addition, Lightspeed, Greylock, GV and Wells Fargo participating. The valuation is nearly triple the $1.3 billion the…

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Insider Brief Tekever raised $580 million in the first close of a Series D round at a $6.4 billion valuation, with the financing supporting international expansion, manufacturing, technology development and potential acquisitions. UC Investments and Baillie Gifford led the round, with Merlyn Advisors joining as a new strategic investor and Crescent Cove, Ventura Capital and…

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