Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed in a weekend essay that frontier AI companies embed third-party evaluators with the power to assess model alignment, report safety incidents, and publish findings without editorial control. Amodei committed Anthropic to giving evaluators such as METR and Redwood Research expanded access to its systems, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said…

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Central and Eastern Europe’s AI scale-up scene punches well above its funding numbers, with the Czech Republic alone contributing three of the ten companies on this list, spanning fraud detection, embedded lending, and behavioral biometrics. Poland brings the region’s two largest raises in warehouse robotics and customer intelligence, while Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, and Estonia round…

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Data centers powering the AI industry’s expansion are projected to consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. The research firm forecasts AI-driven data centers could consume roughly 18 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day within the next decade, nearly double its estimate from nine…

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Insider Brief Canada and Germany announced joint funding of up to CAD $300 million for LawZero, the Montréal-based nonprofit founded by Yoshua Bengio, to advance its “Scientist AI” safe-by-design approach and expand into Europe with a new Berlin office. The funding will grow LawZero’s international research team, secure computing infrastructure, and establish sovereign compute capacity…

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TypeSafe AI, a frontier AI lab focused on building composable, machine-native intelligence, has emerged from stealth with $40 million in seed funding led by DCVC. The company was founded by Diogo Almeida, a former OpenAI researcher and co-inventor of RLHF and ChatGPT, alongside Erik Gafni and Sasha Sheng. Almeida said TypeSafe was created to pursue…

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Amazon has launched its conversational AI assistant, Alexa+, in India with Hindi language support, expanding the generative AI-powered assistant’s rollout following earlier launches in the US, UK, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Italy and Germany. The assistant is available in Early Access across Hindi and English, allowing users to switch languages mid-sentence, hold longer conversations, and maintain…

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Santander has announced an $800 million investment plan for its Chilean operations over the next three years, with a strong emphasis on integrating data and artificial intelligence to streamline internal processes and improve customer responsiveness. Andrés Trautmann, CEO and country head of Santander Chile, unveiled the plan during ChileDay Madrid 2026, detailing funding of roughly…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 4,361 new readers. Days ago, the frontier CEOs looked united behind Dario Amodei’s slowdown plan. Then Trump, Beijing, and Jensen Huang said no, and now one of the biggest labs outside that circle has too. Mark…

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The Adecco Group is rolling out Salesforce’s Agentforce Coworker across more than 40 countries following a pilot in the UK and France, the staffing group announced on September 15. The group said the rollout brings agentic AI into the daily workflows of 27,000 employees. Agentforce Coworker is Salesforce’s AI assistant for enterprise staff. According to the Adecco…

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Lidl has started using a cab-less autonomous electric truck for regular store deliveries in Germany, assigning it a daily replenishment route between its Edermünde distribution centre and a nearby store. The truck, supplied by Swedish freight technology company Einride, operates at SAE Level 4 under a permit from Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority, or KBA.…

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