Insider Brief Rocket Lab has completed its acquisition of California-based space robotics company Motiv Space Systems, expanding its capabilities in planetary robotics, autonomous spacecraft systems and orbital infrastructure. Motiv, now rebranded as Rocket Lab Robotics, develops robotic arms, motion control systems and precision spacecraft mechanisms used in missions including NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover and the…

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YouTube is taking a more active role in policing AI-generated content, announcing it will automatically apply labels to videos when its internal systems detect significant photorealistic AI — even when creators fail to disclose it themselves. The platform has required creator disclosure for over two years, but the policy shift means YouTube will now act unilaterally if…

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Cognition, maker of autonomous AI software engineer Devin, has raised more than $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation — a remarkable jump from the $10.2 billion post-money valuation it carried just eight months ago. The round was led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC, with participation from Founders Fund, Elad Gil, Ribbit Capital, and…

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Snowflake has committed to a new five-year, $6 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services, a deal that dwarfs the $7 billion the data cloud company generated through AWS Marketplace across its entire history since 2012. The scale of the contract reflects surging AI-driven demand. Snowflake’s customer spending on AWS doubled in 2025 to $2 billion,…

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Artificial intelligence is restructuring medicine from the exam room to the lab bench. The companies doing it most consequentially are not just digitizing old workflows — they are replacing the underlying logic of how care gets documented, how drugs get discovered, how patients move through the system, and how clinicians access knowledge. From cardiothoracic imaging to whole-brain…

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Robinhood is enabling AI agents to trade stocks and make payments on users’ behalf, marking a significant push into agentic finance. Users can now create dedicated accounts for their AI agents, preload them with funds, and connect them via the platform’s Model Context Protocol server to execute trades, analyse portfolio risk, and identify new investment…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Demis Hassabis told us AI can cut drug discovery from years to months…and the industry is already showing signs. Today, Biohub, the nonprofit backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s CZI, dropped a “world model of protein biology,” setting a…

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Google Pay is overhauling its payment infrastructure for an impending wave of transactions from AI agents. The latest updates introduce the Universal Commerce Protocol and a new server architecture, positioning Google Pay as a central clearinghouse for purchases executed by autonomous agents rather than human users. AI agents – designed to perform tasks like booking…

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league plans to introduce an automated system for certain officiating decisions, including out-of-bounds calls. The system would use AI and cameras placed around the court to determine possession. Silver compared the approach to Hawk-Eye, the tracking technology used for line calls in tennis. Disputed call preceded Silver’s comments Silver’s…

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Insider Brief Novarc Technologies and Hanwha Ocean have signed a research collaboration agreement to explore AI-powered welding and manufacturing systems for commercial and naval shipbuilding applications. Hanwha Ocean will contribute large-scale shipbuilding expertise while Novarc brings its welding automation, machine vision and industrial physical AI technologies aimed at improving precision, efficiency and structural integrity. The…

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