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Orbio AI Closes £16M Funding Round to Expand AI Agent Platform for Frontline Workforce Management into UK and Beyond
Orbio AI, a Madrid-based HR technology startup, has raised £16 million in a Series A round led by Dawn Capital, with participation from existing investor Visionaries. The company was co-founded in 2025 by Sergi Bastardas, Nacho Travesí, and Antonio Melé, and targets the 2.7 billion frontline workers it says are underserved by traditional enterprise software.…
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Sarvam Becomes India’s Newest AI Unicorn with $234M Raise as Sovereign AI Push Intensifies
Sarvam, the Bengaluru-based AI startup building full-stack Indian-language AI infrastructure, has raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, making it India’s newest AI unicorn. HCLTech, the IT subsidiary of HCL Group, led the round with a $150 million strategic commitment, with Bessemer Venture Partners participating alongside existing backers Khosla Ventures and Peak XV Partners.…
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AI Lab Radical Numerics Launches with $50M Seed Round To Build General Biological Intelligence
Insider Brief Radical Numerics, an AI research lab building general biological intelligence, has launched with $50 million in seed funding led by Emergence Capital, with participation from Obvious Ventures, Triatomic Capital, Factory, and First Spark Ventures, and pre-seed backing from Patrick Collison. Founded by Eric Nguyen, Michael Poli, Stefano Massaroli, and Armin Thomas, all formerly…
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US Commerce Secretary Accuses ASML of Shipping Advanced Chip-making Equipment to China in Major AI Export Control Dispute
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has told senior executives at Dutch chipmaker ASML that he believes one of the company’s extreme ultraviolet lithography machines may have reached China, a potential breach of export controls that have barred such sales since the first Trump administration. Senior administration officials told Bloomberg they hold evidence of EUV-related components…
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Nobel Laureate John Jumper Leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic after AlphaFold Breakthrough
John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis for developing the AlphaFold protein-structure prediction model, has announced he is leaving DeepMind to join Anthropicafter nearly nine years at the company. Jumper had most recently been working on coding tools at DeepMind, an area Google has struggled to…
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Berkeley Researchers Turn Everyday Videos Into Robot Training Data
Insider Brief UC Berkeley researchers developed Do as I Do, a software system that turns ordinary human hand-object videos into training data for robots performing delicate manipulation tasks. The system reconstructs hand and object motion from two-dimensional video, then retargets that motion through a physics simulator so a robotic hand can carry out the task.…
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NewCore Emerges from Stealth with $66M to Build Identity and Security Infrastructure for the Age of AI Agents
NewCore, a cybersecurity startup focused on AI agent identity management, has emerged from stealth with $66 million in seed funding, valuing the company at $300 million. The round was led by Cyberstarts, with participation from Index Ventures and Evolution Equity Partners. The company was co-founded by Zohar Alon, who previously founded cloud-security startup Dome9 before…
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Google’s Nobel winner jumps to Anthropic
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer leaving for OpenAI already looked like a rough headline for Google DeepMind. Now, John Jumper is heading to Anthropic, and the talent leak is starting to look deeper. The Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold lead is the latest…
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AI Weekly Issue #506: Washington Blocked One AI Lab. China Blacklisted 56 Companies.
Ten days after Washington pulled Anthropic’s top models from foreign hands, the bill came due. This week Beijing blacklisted 56 American firms, Anthropic’s own filing admitted the trigger was a routine coding request rival models can run, and Microsoft’s CEO warned that letting “a few models eat everything” won’t survive politically. The export war just…
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Mitigating vendor lock-in with Sakana AI Fugu multi-agent models
Sakana AI launched Fugu to orchestrate multi-agent operations and mitigate single-vendor dependency risks in enterprise deployments. Enterprises face operational vulnerabilities when relying entirely on monolithic AI APIs. Japanese AI firm Sakana AI designed Fugu as a response to these concentration risks by creating an orchestration language model that calls upon a pool of varied models…
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