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Omen AI Closes $31M Funding Round to Monitor Data Centre Cooling Fluid in Real Time as AI Compute Demand Strains Infrastructure
Omen AI has raised $31 million in a Series A round led by Nava Ventures, with participation from CRV, Vanderbilt University, Mann+Hummel, Starhill Holdings, and Hard Launch Capital, alongside personal investments from executives at Bridgestone, GM, Johnson Controls, and TensorWave. The company has raised $40 million in total since its founding in 2024. The startup…
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Google Quietly Opted Users Into AI Training on Their Images, Audio, and Video
Google has updated its Search services privacy settings to allow the company to store and use uploaded media, including images, audio recordings, and video, to train its AI models, a change that was communicated to users via a low-profile email in June and applied by default. The update introduced two new settings, Search Services History…
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Develo Raises $14M to Bring AI-Native Operating System to Pediatric Healthcare
Develo, a Los Angeles-based startup building an AI-native operating system for pediatric care, has raised $14 million in a funding round led by Blueprint Equity, with participation from Villain Capital, Z21 Ventures, and Bienville Capital. The capital will be directed toward research and development and customer success as the company scales its platform across the…
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AI Detectors Are Flagging Human Writing as Machine-Generated, With Serious Consequences for Students
When chemistry undergraduate Lauren Jager at Idaho State University ran her PhD application personal statement through several AI detectors, every tool returned a result of almost 100 percent AI-generated. She had written every word herself. To pass the checks, she deliberately made her writing less polished, ultimately submitting a statement she considered inferior to her…
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Pocket Announces $11M in Funding from Accel and Others as Demand Surges for Its Personal AI Assistant Device
Insider Brief Pocket, an AI hardware device that captures conversations and generates summaries, speaker-attributed notes, and action items, has raised $11 million from Accel, Y Combinator, and angel investors including Guillermo Rauch of Vercel, Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs, and Kaz Nejatian of Opendoor, to expand hiring across design and engineering and explore new hardware form…
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The part of Claude’s brain nobody built
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Anthropic has been criticized for its AI consciousness talk — and while its latest research is careful to avoid any conclusions, it definitely has neuroscientists talking. The researchers say a newly found “J-space” holds Claude’s unspoken thoughts and “emerged on…
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Insilico Medicine advances AI drug for IPF to Phase III trials
Insilico Medicine is advancing to Phase III human trials for testing a drug identified by AI targeting idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). This progression supplies the computational drug discovery sector with empirical test cases, advancing an AI medicine past early safety evaluations into late-stage efficacy validation. IPF destroys respiratory capacity through severe lung tissue scarring. Patients…
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L’Oreal, Mondelez, and Nestle use AI to speed product development
L’Oreal is using AI to shorten product development timelines and identify new uses for ingredients already present in its portfolio. The French cosmetics group has applied AI in its laboratories for the past four years, with Fabrice Megarbane, president of L’Oreal’s consumer products division, telling Reuters that the technology helps the company predict how molecules…
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If AI Coding Could Replace Software Engineers, Why Are AI Companies Selling It?
Imagine a company created an AI system that could do everything a professional software engineer does. Not just write snippets of Python or JavaScript, but understand vague customer requirements, design complex architectures, build secure enterprise applications, deploy them to production, maintain them for years, and adapt them as business needs changed. That wouldn’t simply be…
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Google’s Fourth of July Ad Places Gemini in the Room Where the Declaration of Independence Was Drafted
Google has released a Fourth of July advertisement imagining the Founding Fathers using Google Workspace and Gemini to draft the Declaration of Independence, blending historical fiction with a relatively understated pitch for the company’s AI tools. The commercial, taglined “Group project, but make it 1776,” depicts a fictionalised Thomas Jefferson collaborating with Benjamin Franklin and…
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