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Meta Says Muse AI Agent Was Heavily Inspired by OpenClaw
Meta has acknowledged that its AI agent Muse drew heavily on OpenClaw, the open source personal assistant project, after early users speculated the two shared the same underlying design. Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta Superintelligence Labs and former GitHub CEO, said on X that Muse was built from scratch but was strongly inspired…
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Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Chips Built for On-Device AI Agents
Qualcomm has announced two flagship smartphone processors, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, at its annual Snapdragon Summit, positioning both around more personalized, on-device AI. The chips feature new sensing hubs capable of running small models of up to 200 million parameters, allowing phones to operate a local…
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Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5.5 With Stronger Coding Performance and Lower Pricing
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday, saying the model sets a new state of the art in coding and knowledge work. Opus is the most capable tier of the Claude lineup, above Sonnet and Haiku, and the company said the new model outperforms its larger Fable model on many benchmarks and completed several informal…
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Confido Secures $55M Series B to Take AI-Powered Automation Across the Entire Consumer Brand Back Office
Insider Brief Confido, an AI-powered platform unifying finance, accounting, sales and operations for consumer packaged goods brands, has raised a $55 million Series B led by Insight Partners, with Trenches Capital, Watchfire and Barrel Ventures joining returning backers Footwork and Y Combinator, bringing total funding to $77 million. Founded in 2022 by former athletes Justin…
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Spott Announces $21M Series A to Bring Agentic AI to Recruitment Agencies
Spott, a Leuven, Belgium-based AI-native applicant tracking system and CRM platform for recruitment agencies, has raised $21 million in a Series A led by Balderton Capital, with Base10 Partners, Y Combinator and Fortinoparticipating. The platform unifies candidate management, search, conversations, outreach and automation, turning emails, CVs and pipelines of up to two million candidates into…
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The pacing era’s first launch day
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 20,221 new readers who joined us yesterday. Barely two weeks into the AI industry’s new “pacing” era, the frontier’s two biggest rivals are still launching on each other’s heels. Anthropic and OpenAI shipped models just 90…
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U.S. TRANSCOM deploys randomised AI to secure military logistics
Deploying randomised AI logistics offers military planners a viable defence against adversarial tracking, allowing U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) to insulate global distribution networks against contested disruption. Commercial freight software historically prioritises static scheduling, steady delivery windows, and just-in-time routing to eliminate transit waste. In an operational theatre, however, those fixed cadences expose military transports to…
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AI Agents Are Becoming a New Malware Distribution Channel
By Farukh Rakhimov, Head of Compliance, Data Protection and Information Security at AdTech Holding Roughly 7,600 fake GitHub repositories, 6,600 fraudulent profiles and more than 14 million downloads: that is the scale of FakeGit, a malware campaign documented by Island in July 2026. Over 800 repositories impersonated AI skills and MCP servers, distributing SmartLoader and…
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Epson Expands 6-Axis Robot Line With AX6 Collaborative Model
Insider Brief Epson Robots introduced the AX6, a six-axis collaborative robot designed for applications requiring closer worker interaction, compact deployment and operation in controlled environments. The AX6 combines power- and force-limiting features with no-code and Python development tools, a carbon-fiber structure, IP54 protection, ISO 5 cleanroom certification and a 3D simulator. Additional features include manual…
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Cyera Announces $400M Investment from Goldman Sachs to Build the Trust Layer for the Agentic Enterprise
Insider Brief Cyera, valued at over $12 billion, secured a $400 million Series G extension from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, led by Evolution Equity, to expand its platform governing data and identity access for humans, machines and AI agents. The funding will support Cyera’s AI Security roadmap alongside expansion into the federal market…
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