Insider Brief Hackuity, a Lyon-based AI-powered Vulnerability Operations Center platform, raised $19 million led by Forgepoint Capital International, with existing investors Bright Pixel, Bpifrance and Seventure Partners, bringing total funding to $38 million. The round comes amid a surge in AI-discovered vulnerabilities, citing Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview identifying over 10,000 high or critical severity flaws…

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Meta is reportedly developing a new smart glasses model called Luna that omits built-in cameras, according to The Information, following backlash and accusations that its existing camera-equipped glasses function as invasive surveillance devices. The camera-free version would instead focus on AI interaction, featuring six built-in microphones and a side button that activates Meta’s AI chatbot…

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Insider Brief Rapta raised $8 million to expand its AI-powered quality assurance and manufacturing intelligence platform for defense, aerospace and other precision manufacturing. Voyager Capital and Access Venture Partners co-led the round, with participation from DeepWork Capital, LongKnife, Elevate Capital, Ringbolt Capital, Portland Seed Fund, BVC and existing investors. Rapta said its platform is used…

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Google announced two separate initiatives this week expanding how AI agents can access and act on real-world data, launching Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for both a new UN statistical database and its Google Home smart device ecosystem. The United Nations, in partnership with Google, unveiled the UN System Data Commons, built on Google’s open-source…

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Insider Brief CADDi, a manufacturing AI data platform headquartered in Chicago and Tokyo, raised $114 million in Series D funding at a $1.2 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $234 million, with new investors including Moore Strategic Ventures, Coreline Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. CEO Yushiro Kato framed the raise around closing the gap between…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 4,542 new readers. The AI slowdown conversation isn’t… slowing down, and the number of eye-popping safety reports coming out of the frontier labs isn’t either. OpenAI’s latest details six cases of models misbehaving in training, from…

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Gartner reports that warehouse automation now spans four operational AI tiers as logistics operators transition from software trials to live facility deployments. In an analysis released this month, the research firm concludes that logistics infrastructure has reached a clear adoption threshold. Three pressures are driving this change across the sector. Persistent worker deficits make automated…

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The Instinct-to-Instinct model that is the talk of Silicon Valley presents too small a future for personal AI. With Fulcra’s multiplayer capabilities, people can get agent to agent collaboration without having to lock-in to any AI model. BOSTON, September 18, 2026 — Fulcra Dynamics, the company behind the best user-owned context backend for AI agents,…

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Insider Brief Figure introduced Helix 2.5, a neural network that enabled its humanoid robot to perform three whole-body household tasks across 30 unseen homes without collecting data or adapting the model in those environments. Figure said Index pretraining raised zero-shot success from 9% to 56%, while Helix 2.5 used half as much task-specific data as…

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SK Hynix is reportedly in discussions with Intel to manufacture RAM chips in the United States for the first time, according to Reuters, citing anonymous sources. The companies are said to be considering multiple arrangements, including SK Hynix leasing space at Intel’s planned Ohio factory, or forming a joint venture potentially involving cloud service providers. SK…

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