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AI Weekly Issue #493: Meta hired $145B in capex and fired 8,000 people
Six days after we called $725B a bet on what no one wanted, the receipts started landing. Meta committed $145B to AI infrastructure the same week it began firing 8,000 people. Standard Chartered described its own cuts as replacing “lower-value human capital.” Pope Leo XIV announced he’d co-launch his first AI encyclical with Anthropic’s Christopher…
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Enterprise AI roadblocks and roadmaps, security and physical AI: Day two at TechEx
Day two of TechEx North America has been more of a deeper, critical examination of AI in the enterprise, but with a optimistic bent. The AI and Big Data programme opened with reference to what was termed the “AI graveyard” – that is, AI projects that seem to perform well in pilot, but don’t seem…
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The Nvidia H200 China deal survived the Trump-Xi summit–just not in the way anyone expected
President Trump flew to Beijing, brought Jensen Huang along at the last minute, and left two days later, telling reporters that “something could happen” on chip exports. Nothing did. Not a single Nvidia H200 has shipped to China since Trump first authorised the sales in December 2025, and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Bloomberg that semiconductor controls were…
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Sygaldry Raises $139M for Quantum AI Infrastructure
Insider Brief Sygaldry Technologies raised $139 million in seed and Series A funding to develop quantum-accelerated AI servers. The company is building quantum computing systems designed to improve the efficiency and energy consumption of AI training and inference workloads. Sygaldry said its technology is intended to integrate alongside existing classical AI infrastructure in data centers.…
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SkillWaze and Amplibotics Partner to Train Collegiate Gamers as ‘Robot Pilots’
Insider Brief SkillWaze and Amplibotics AI have partnered with the National Esports Collegiate Conference and Dynamic Athlete Placement to train collegiate esports competitors as remote robot operators for industrial applications. Participants will use gaming controllers and teleoperation systems to pilot real-world robots while building skills and credentials across industries including manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and defense.…
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Former Amazon, Meta Scientists Unveil Graphon AI, the First Pre-Model Intelligence Layer, with $8.3M in Seed Funding
Insider Brief Graphon AI has emerged from stealth with $8.3 million in seed funding led by Novera Ventures, with participation from Perplexity Fund, Samsung Next, Hitachi Ventures, and others, to build what it describes as a pre-model intelligence layer that sits between raw enterprise data and AI foundation models. Rather than working within a model’s…
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Pan-Canadian AI Strategy: What’s Working & Where It’s Stuck
A policy analysis from the perspective of mid-2026 Canada was the first country in the world to launch a national AI strategy. That distinction, announced in 2017 and backed by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), was a genuine act of foresight. Nearly a decade later, the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy (PCAIS) stands as both a celebrated…
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The Week Ahead in AI: Nvidia Earnings, Pope’s Commission on AI, Mention of AI Draws Boos at Another Commencement, Plus Mistral CEO’s Warning to Europe
Welcome to AI Insider’s The Week Ahead in AI. See the key developments and events we’re watching May 17- 23. Weekend AI News Briefs Pope Approves Creation of Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence Pope Leo XIV approved creation of an Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence to coordinate the Vatican’s approach to AI policy, ethics and human…
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Northwestern and NIH Commentary Suggests Rethinking How Plagiarism is Policed in AI-Assisted Research Writing
Insider Brief Researchers at Northwestern University and the National Institutes of Health warned that generative AI is creating new concerns around “plagiarism of ideas,” where AI systems may reproduce underlying concepts or intellectual contributions without proper attribution. In a commentary published in Nature Machine Intelligence, the researchers argued traditional plagiarism policies focused on copied text…
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AI Healthcare Procurement Startup Aumet Announces $12M in Funding to Scale Across GCC and Emerging Markets
Aumet, an AI-first procurement operating system for healthcare, has raised $12 million in a Series A led by Emkan Capital, with participation from Qatar Development Bank, SABAH VC, AAIC, and existing investor Shorooq. The funding will accelerate enterprise deployments across the GCC, with a particular focus on Saudi Arabia’s national healthcare infrastructure. Founded by Yahya…
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