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Harvey Raises $550M at $15.5B Valuation to Expand AI Legal Tools
Harvey has raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation in a round co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The funding follows the company’s introduction of its first post-trained open-weight model and the launch of Harvey LAB, a Legal Agent Benchmark, and will support its efforts to help law firms, in-house legal teams, and…
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An Anthropic exit becomes an extinction debate
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 3,515 new readers. Anthropic has come to be associated with the safety and doom talk around the models it’s building, but a resignation post and an employee’s response just struck a chord that hits harder than…
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Supply chains detect fast, act slow: How AI agents fix it
Supply chain disruption cost businesses about $184 billion in 2025, according to the J.S. Held Global Risk Report, and most of that bill still buys faster detection, not faster action. That figure is usually treated as weather (i.e. storms happen, costs follow.) Treated as a product specification instead, it highlights an operating model that can…
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JD.com expands physical AI in logistics with 3 million robots
JD.com is expanding AI and robotics across its logistics network under a new Physical AI Acceleration Plan, while reiterating a five-year target to procure 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous vehicles, and 100,000 delivery drones. The company launched the plan at JDDiscovery 2026 in Beijing. JD Logistics also unveiled its industrial Wolf Robot series, designed…
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Anthropic Faces Scrutiny Over Account Security and Internal Warnings on AI Risk
Anthropic is confronting two separate controversies involving the safety and security of its Claude AI systems, ranging from account theft affecting paying customers to stark internal warnings about existential risks from advanced AI. Independent AI consultant Grant De Swardt, based in East Sussex, U.K., reported that his Claude Max subscription showed rising token usage despite…
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Bulwark Dynamics Raises $6.8M in Seed Funding to Develop Autonomous Landing Craft, Inks Agreement to Build in Japan
Insider Brief Bulwark Dynamics raised $6.8 million in seed funding and signed an agreement with Japan’s Onomichi Dockyard to support serial production of its Caravel autonomous landing craft. Caravel is designed to autonomously deliver cargo across unimproved shorelines without ports, piers or cranes, and Bulwark said a 15-foot prototype completed transit, beaching, cargo offload and…
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Dispute Erupts Between NYU Mathematician and OpenAI Over AI-Assisted Proof of Millennium Prize Problem
NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs on Tuesday, including preliminary progress toward the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of mathematics’ seven Millennium Prize problems. The work, conducted with Anthropic mathematician Levent Alpöge using a mix of AI models including Codex, was overshadowed by controversy after OpenAI published a full proof of the same problem shortly…
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Meta Launches Muse, a Personal AI Agent That Handles Everyday Tasks
Meta has introduced Muse, a personal AI agent designed to perform everyday tasks for consumers by connecting to their email, calendars, payment systems, and other frequently used apps. The launch comes less than two weeks after Meta agreed to an $18 billion multistate settlement over social media’s consumer harms. Powered by Meta’s Muse Spark model,…
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Google and Accenture Deepen AI Push as Chrome Accelerates Release Cycle to Fight Security Threats
Google is moving aggressively on two fronts to strengthen its position in the AI era: speeding up how quickly Chrome ships updates, and deepening its enterprise AI partnership with Accenture. Chrome has officially shifted from a four-week to a two-week release schedule, with Chrome 153 launching Tuesday across desktop, iOS, and Android. Google said the…
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Startup Besxar Partners With SpaceX to Prototype Orbital Semiconductor Manufacturing
Besxar, a startup founded by former OpenAI staffer Ashley Pilipiszyn, has secured an arrangement with SpaceX to test orbital semiconductor manufacturing using the Falcon 9 rocket booster, which completes more round trips to space and back than any other vehicle. The company aims to produce precursors for advanced semiconductors by leveraging the vacuum of space,…
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