Insider Brief Perceptual Robotics secured more than £4 million in funding this year to expand its autonomous wind turbine inspection and maintenance technology. The funding includes backing from Investing for Purpose, Loggerhead Ventures and One Planet Capital, along with support co-funded by Innovate UK. The company said the capital will support product development, offshore capabilities…

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Insider Brief Emergent, an AI software creation platform enabling founders and business owners to build full-stack, production-ready applications, has announced a $130 million Series C round led by Creaegis, with MNI Ventures-Claypond Capital and Sentinel Global as co-lead investors, alongside participation from Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed, and Y Combinator. The round values…

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Google’s AI-generated search feature, AI Overviews, now appears in 43% of searches, up from 15% a year ago, according to a new report from market intelligence firm Similarweb. The findings point to a broader shift in how users interact with search, as Google increasingly routes users from AI Overviews into its more conversational AI Mode,…

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OpenAI is in discussions with Nvidia about a financial backstop of up to $250 billion to support debt financing for a planned 10-gigawatt data center campus in Pike County, Ohio, according to people familiar with the talks, first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The guarantee would help OpenAI raise construction and lease debt using Nvidia’s credit…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 5,588 new readers who joined us yesterday. The U.S. is still weighing what to do about powerful open models, and (most of) the industry has lined up on the open side. Both just got handed a…

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Guardoc Health says it processes over one million clinical documents daily using Amazon Nova models through Bedrock. Bringing AI into clinical documentation comes down to a specific kind of risk calculation. Get it wrong and the errors compound into denied Medicare claims under the Patient-Driven Payment Model, audit fines, litigation exposure, and in the worst…

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Armenia is not a big country. It’s not a wealthy country. It’s not a famous country. And yet, it has become not only a consumer of different AI products akin to Clideo subtitles generator for video editing, or giants like OpenAI, but also entered the headlines of global news for several reasons, not the least…

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A policy analysis: July 2026 Singapore has no domestic tech giant on the scale of a Google or an Alibaba, no chip fabs comparable to Taiwan’s, and a population smaller than metropolitan Houston. What it has instead is a habit of treating national strategy as a living document rather than a one-time announcement, and a…

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Several major technology companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging U.S. policymakers to avoid imposing sweeping restrictions on open-weight AI models. The letter arrives amid reports that the Trump administration is considering banning Chinese open-weight models following allegations that firms like Moonshot AI improperly used Anthropic’s Fable…

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Insider Brief Enigma emerged from stealth with $71 million in seed funding led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital to develop AI models and software that simplify robot training, deployment and use. Founded less than a year ago by Jonathan Jacobi and Gal Niv, the company is building robot-agnostic foundation models and interfaces designed to…

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