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Microsoft Adds Guardian Agents to Treat Enterprise AI Agents as Potential Insider Threats
Microsoft has introduced new security features aimed at protecting enterprises from risks posed by AI agents, headlined by Guardian Agents, a tool that monitors the agents a company deploys. It forms part of Project Perception, which Microsoft introduced in June with red, blue and green teams of agents to attack, detect and fix vulnerabilities from…
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Anthropic and Nscale Reportedly Near Second $45B AI Compute Deal
Anthropic and AI infrastructure provider Nscale are reportedly close to announcing another $45 billion compute deal, just over a month after the two companies agreed a deal of the same size. According to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter, the companies are on the verge of finalizing the new agreement, although talks are…
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Inovia Capital Secures $200M First Close for AI-Focused Sixth Venture Fund
Montreal-based Inovia Capital has secured $200 million in a first close for Inovia Capital Fund VI, its sixth venture capital fund. The firm plans to deploy the capital over three years, backing between 25 and 30 startups across North America and Europe. The fund will target sectors where AI is still early in adoption but…
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Eka Robotics Raises $150M Series A to Scale Vision-Force-Action Model for Dexterous Robots
Insider Brief Eka Robotics raised $150 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and F-Prime at a reported $1.45 billion valuation to develop robots that combine dexterous manipulation with the speed and reliability needed for real-world deployment. The company is building a vision-force-action model trained with simulation and reinforcement learning to help robots…
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Anthropic co-founder says the singularity is underway
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 5,481 new readers. Anthropic has spent 2026 warning that AI is moving faster than anyone is ready for. Now one of its co-founders says the moment has a name. Jack Clark just said that the singularity,…
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Meta Drops Commercial Terms Language That Sparked AI Training and Scraping Concerns
Meta has removed a provision from its updated commercial terms of use that legal experts warned could have allowed it to scrape publishers’ websites and use the content to train its AI models. The revised terms had stated that Meta could use any content from a business account’s domains, web pages or URLs to provide,…
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Disney Agrees to Hire Majority of Character.AI Workforce Following Chatbot Startup’s Bankruptcy
Disney has agreed to offer jobs to most of the workforce at Character.AI, the AI chatbot startup that filed for bankruptcy earlier this week. According to a legal filing reported by Bloomberg, Disney will make employment offers to at least 60 Character.AI employees, representing the majority of its staff, with estimated annual compensation totaling $60…
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Kapital to Acquire AI Coding Startup Woz in $30M Deal to Boost Financial AI Capabilities
Kapital, an AI-powered financial institution and one of Latin America’s largest B2B financial firms, has agreed to acquire Woz, a Y Combinator-backed startup building advanced AI coding agents, in a $30 million cash-and-stock transaction. Woz’s flagship product, WOZCODE, uses patented token-reduction technology to make frontier coding models from Anthropic and OpenAI faster, cheaper and better…
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Zap Surgical Raises $36M in Funding to Scale Non-Invasive Robotic Brain Surgery
Insider Brief Zap Surgical Systems raised $36 million in financing led by Catalio Capital Management to expand production and deployment of its ZAP-X robotic radiosurgery platform, with strategic partner Baheal also participating. Zap said it recently shipped its 50th ZAP-X system and has treated nearly 10,000 patients worldwide, while the new funding will support broader…
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Anthropic’s Claude Designs More Efficient Quantum Circuits With Automated Feedback
Insider Brief Anthropic and Harvard researchers paired Claude with an automated evaluator to design more efficient quantum circuits across eight computational tasks. The system reduced gate and qubit requirements in seven tasks and developed a new arithmetic approach in the eighth, with results checked through classical computation rather than quantum hardware. Researchers guided Claude toward…
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