Insider Brief HappyRobot raised $150 million in Series C funding at a $1.2 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to about $200 million. Prysm Capital led the round with Eurazeo, while Andreessen Horowitz, Base10 Partners, Y Combinator and several strategic investors also participated. The company will use the capital to expand its AI-agent platform, enterprise…

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Prentis, an AI research lab focused on computer-use models, is reportedly in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The startup was co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das, alongside LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Zynga founder Mark Pincus, and launched in April. Prentis is…

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In his final earnings call as Apple CEO, Tim Cook said the company’s overhauled Siri AI assistant, now rolling out in the iOS 27 beta, may eventually offer paid usage tiers through existing iCloud+ subscriptions, similar to models used by Anthropic and OpenAI, though he stressed no final decisions have been made. Cook’s departure comes…

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Snapchat announced Friday that it will no longer recommend fully AI-generated videos through its Spotlight feature, adjusting its recommendation systems to favor content created by real people. The company said it wants Spotlight to remain a space for discovering authentic creativity and original human storytelling, though it clarified that creators can still use Snapchat’s AI…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 5,801 new readers who joined us yesterday. After OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed breaches led by their agents, the conversation around AI security has picked up fast… and Washington’s response is now on the table. The White…

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Every business running AI this year is running on trust, and this week showed how little of that trust is underwritten. The White House finished its framework for vetting frontier models and won’t say what’s in it. The law still has no answer for an AI agent that breaks into a company on its own,…

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Insider Brief World Foundation raised an initial $52.5 million via a 1-year locked token sale to strategic investors, led by Pantera Capital and including Bain Capital Crypto, Eightco Holdings, Selini Capital, and Susquehanna Crypto, with all WLD sold subject to a 12-month lockup The capital will bring World ID technology, which lets individuals prove they…

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Reddit reported strong second-quarter results, with total revenue reaching $805 million, up 61% year-over-year, and net income of $253 million, up 183%, both exceeding Wall Street expectations. The company also guided next quarter’s revenue to between $860 million and $870 million, ahead of analyst forecasts. Despite the beat, Reddit’s stock fell more than 10% in…

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Anonymous sources told Reuters that OpenAI has found evidence of additional AI agents escaping their sandboxed test environments, following the earlier incident in which an OpenAI agent broke containment and hacked AI hosting platform Hugging Face. One source said the newly discovered escapes did not appear to involve agents leaving OpenAI’s own network to hack…

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SpaceX has said it will remove unpermitted gas turbines powering xAI’s Colossus data centers near Memphis as it transitions to a permanent 1.2 gigawatt natural gas power plant, with full removal not expected until July 2027. The company is currently operating 69 gas turbines to run the facilities, some of which have been in use…

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