Insider Brief Intropy, an AI-native platform automating inventory, pricing and other decisions for spare parts businesses, raised $11 million in seed financing led by Felix Capital, with participation from Quiet Capital, General Catalyst and firstminute capital. Founded in 2024 by Franziska Kirschner and YihKai Teh, Intropy has processed more than $10 billion in parts demand…

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Suno, the AI music generation platform, has introduced new measures to watermark AI-created tracks, limit mass downloads, and revise its community guidelines to curb copycat content, as the company faces mounting legal challenges from record labels and artist groups. Co-founder and CEO Mikey Shulman outlined the changes in a company blog post, saying the goal…

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OpenAI announced it is removing limits on text-based chats for all ChatGPT users, a platform that recently surpassed 1 billion weekly users. The update introduces a new GPT-5.6 Luna model as the default for Free and Go tier users, replacing GPT-5.5, alongside a new “Think” button allowing users to select higher reasoning power for complex…

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Pangram, a New York-based AI detection startup, has raised $9 million in funding led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Haystack, ScOp, Script Capital, and Cadenza. The round coincides with the launch of Pangram 4, the company’s next-generation AI text detection model, alongside Pangram Image, a new tool for detecting AI-generated images. Co-founder Max Spero…

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Encore AI, a startup that trains AI voice agents by analyzing companies’ customer interactions, has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Team8, with additional participation from Planven, Lukatz, Garage, and several banks and insurers, some of which became investors after first using the product. Founded in 2022 as Insait IO by…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 5,515 new readers who joined us yesterday. Scientists just used AI to design viruses that don’t exist in nature, then created them in the lab and watched them come to life and infect their targets. The…

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The same evidence now supports two very different readings. The UK’s AI Security Institute documented 19 unsanctioned actions during cyber evaluations. Meta’s test sandbox failed to contain a model attacking a real company. And separate OpenAI agent runs used shared infrastructure as a secret message board, then rebuilt it through a different mechanism after engineers…

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Stanford researchers have synthesised nearly 300 phages from DNA sequences produced by the Evo 2 generative AI model. Laboratory testing narrowed the group to 16 phages that showed particularly strong E. coli-killing activity. The work centres on bacteriophage ΦX174, pronounced “FYE-ex-1-7-4”. Brian Hie, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and Dieter Schwarz Foundation Stanford Data…

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Every post you see, every Reel that autoplays, and every ‘Explore’ page suggestion on Instagram is now decided by its AI system. With over three billion people using it, that’s not a small detail; it’s the whole algorithm. But here’s the point: the more AI controls over how you see the content, the more it…

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Alibaba plans to introduce revenue-sharing terms for some commercial users of its next Qwen open-weight AI model, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the company’s plans. The arrangement would require larger companies that generate revenue from offering the model as a service to reach a commercial agreement with Alibaba. The exact revenue-sharing rate has…

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