Cymphony, a New York- and Tel Aviv-based startup, has raised $30 million to help enterprises manage security risks posed by AI agents operating alongside human employees. The funding includes a $25 million Series A co-led by Sequoia Capital and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund, valuing the company at more than $100 million, following an earlier…

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Insider Brief BrightPlan, an AI-powered financial wellness platform, announced the first closing of its Series C funding round led by ABS Capital Partners, with additional investors expected to join over the next 90 days. The company has grown revenue more than 230% over the past three years, now serves over 10 million employees across 50+…

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Cognition, the startup behind AI coding assistant Devin, has raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation, roughly quadrupling its worth in just four months since its previous $26 billion raise in May. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir. The company reported that its annualized run-rate revenue…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 3,327 new readers. GPT-6 Astra hasn’t even been out a week, and OpenAI is already using an internal model “significantly more capable” to knock out one of math’s hardest open problems. The company says the model…

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Samsung has partnered with Mistral AI to deploy on-premises models across its semiconductor manufacturing and engineering operations. The agreement was announced during the bilateral state summit held in Paris between South Korea and France. Samsung will integrate Mistral’s software suite – including its flagship Mistral Large model – into internal semiconductor facilities to build customised…

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CloudNC has secured $20 million in new capital to scale its AI precision machining technology across global supply chain networks. The investment round was led by US venture investor Nimble Ventures, with participation from Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First, and LM Ventures, the venture capital fund of Lockheed Martin. Founded in 2015, CloudNC operates from…

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Insider Brief Blee raised a $20 million Series A co-led by Fin Capital and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund, with participation from Hannah Grey VC and National Bank of Canada, bringing total funding to $27 million. The AI-first marketing compliance platform helps legal, compliance, and brand teams review AI-generated content before publication and monitor it…

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Insider Brief Palladyne AI and Fanuc America formed a strategic collaboration to develop AI-powered robotic automation for manufacturing, warehousing and logistics. The companies will combine Fanuc industrial robots with Palladyne IQ, focusing on AI-driven motion planning, adaptive behavior, teleoperation, human-assisted learning, simulation and model training. The collaboration will also include joint customer validation and standardized…

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Insider Brief Dynamic Creatures emerged from stealth to develop mobile character robots for entertainment and hospitality, backed by Eniac Ventures, Kindred Ventures, Heliad, Sunshine Lake, BlueGrass Ventures and angel investors Marc Raibert and Lukas Ziegler. As Boston Dynamics’ official entertainment and hospitality partner, the company is building robots designed to move through guest environments and…

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Insider Brief Antioch raised $32 million in Series A funding led by Greylock to expand its simulation platform for robotics and autonomous systems. The company said its platform calibrates high-fidelity simulations to customer hardware and runs them at cloud scale, allowing physical AI teams to build, test and validate systems before real-world deployment. Antioch said…

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