Insider Brief Corma, the first frontier AI lab for defensive cybersecurity, announced $60 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital, alongside Khosla Ventures and Coatue, and is already working with Fortune 100 companies. In simulations using models like OpenAI’s GPT and Anthropic’s Claude, Corma found AI attackers succeeded 88% of the time while AI…

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Insider Brief Point2 Technology, a developer of RF-based interconnect solutions for AI data-center infrastructure, announced an extension of its Series B financing led by LB Investment, with new strategic participation from Arm and continued support from Maverick Silicon, bringing total Series B funding to $136 million. The round expands a backer roster that also includes…

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Amazon announced that its AI assistant, Alexa+, will now be available for free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the U.S., regardless of whether users have an Amazon Prime subscription. The update introduces conversational search, smart home controls, and AI-generated content recommendations, expanding an offering that previously cost $19.99 monthly for non-Prime members. According…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 12,567 new readers. Four days ago, Dario Amodei went on X to say Anthropic’s biology work was months away from its first “early glimmers.” Did he undersell the timeline? Claude just added protein design to its…

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If you use AI at work, the tools you rely on could change again before February. OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, several Chinese labs, and a group of world-model startups are all preparing or rumored to be preparing new releases. Some have announced dates. Others have only appeared in testing reports, leaks, or investor comments. This…

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Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model-routing platform that gives developers access to hundreds of models through a single interface. The deal adds model selection and routing to Stripe’s existing work around AI usage and token-based billing. OpenRouter supports more than 400 models from over 80 providers, according to Stripe. Rather than requiring…

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Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery service to nearly 500 cities and towns across the US by the end of 2026. That build-out amounts to six times the number of locations Prime Air serves today, extending the option to communities with tens of millions of customers, according to Amazon. Reaching that many…

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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been early in adopting artificial intelligence for 9 years. It published a national AI strategy in October 2017 and, days later, created a ministerial post to run it, making Omar Sultan Al Olama the world’s first minister of state for artificial intelligence at 27. In the years since, it…

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Advertising inside ChatGPT arrived with a promise that the assistant already knows what the user wants. So far, that hasn’t entirely been the case. Searchable, the AI visibility platform, analysed more than 11,000 ads served inside real ChatGPT conversations between 4 July and 4 August 2026, pairing every ad with the conversation it appeared in,…

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AI data centre regulation in Pennsylvania now begins with a signature. Before the state will so much as open a developer’s permit file, that developer has to sign a contract accepting a fixed set of conditions and the penalties for breaking them, and persuade the town that has to live with the building to say…

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