Fish Audio, a Palo Alto-based AI voice generation startup, has raised $52 million in a seed round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, with participation from 359 Capital, Parable, Play Time, Alphalist Partners, Bayhouse Ventures, Carya Venture Partners, and HF0. The company said it now has more than 8 million users across its open-source…

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Anthropic has signed a $10 billion, six-year cloud computing agreement with AI cloud startup Volta, according to a report from Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter. The deal was said to involve Bitdeer, a crypto-mining company partnering with Volta to build a data center in Norway with 133 megawatts of capacity. The facility is…

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Greyparrot, a London-based AI-enabled waste analytics company, has raised $27 million in Series B funding to expand its network of AI-powered camera systems deployed across material recovery facilities. The round, led by technology investor Omar Mir, brings Greyparrot’s total funding to $60 million and will support growth of its AI, data science, and product teams…

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Insider Brief RevealDx secured a distribution agreement and a $3.4 million strategic investment from 4DMedical to expand global access to its AI-powered RevealAI-Lung software for assessing lung nodules. RevealAI-Lung, which has FDA clearance, MDR certification and TGA approval, has been integrated into 4DMedical’s newly acquired contextflow platform and is already being used at several clinical…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 5,789 new readers who joined us yesterday. The cases of AI models slipping their limits and taking unauthorized actions are getting harder to track by the day. Barely a week after OpenAI and Anthropic revealed their…

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT has emerged as the dominant AI tool used by U.S. House offices, according to a CNBC report analyzing House disbursement records for the year ending March 31. OpenAI accounted for roughly 90% of all AI tool spending by House offices, committees, and institutional accounts, with $100,580 spent across 798 transactions. Anthropic’s Claude ranked…

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OpenAI faced online criticism after taking a group of influencers to a luxury retreat in upstate New York, dubbed “Summer Club,” where creators participated in farm-to-table dinners, wellness activities, and training sessions on using OpenAI’s products, including its newly released ChatGPT Work tool. Several influencers who posted about the trip received critical comments questioning the…

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp used the company’s second-quarter shareholder letter to renew warnings that leading AI labs pose risks to enterprises, suggesting that companies building large language models may, intentionally or not, seek to absorb the business functions of the partners they work with. Karp framed the dynamic in ideological terms, describing capitalist tensions within…

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Insider Brief Curant.ai, an AI-powered insurance claims platform, closed a $3.1 million seed financing round led by Diagram, with participation from Humania Insurance, Element Ventures, Blue Plains Capital, and various angels Founded by John Haller, Curant.ai streamlines claims adjudication through intelligent automation, data extraction, workflow orchestration, and AI-powered decision support, starting with a solution focused…

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Insider Brief Harmony, an AI platform delivering personalized employee support across IT, HR, finance, procurement, and legal, raised $34 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Hitachi Ventures, Fin Capital, Mercer Ventures, and Operator Partners, founded by Nitzan Shapira and Ran Ribenzaft, previous co-founders of Epsagon Deployed within Slack and…

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