Autonomous artificial intelligence agents have already penetrated the offices of large, global enterprises. Now, HoneyBook is trying to bring that same capability to independent businesses with the launch of HoneyBook MCP, recently released as a connector for Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude. The move addresses a real gap. McKinsey’s recent State of AI survey found that…

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Insider Brief SandboxAQ has made AQPotency generally available as a Large Quantitative Model for predicting drug-target activity and prioritizing candidate molecules. The model can rank molecule-target pairs without requiring a solved 3D structure of the target and provides confidence information alongside its predictions. AQPotency is available through Claude via Model Context Protocol and SandboxAQ’s website,…

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Diald, an AI-powered real estate due diligence and underwriting platform, launched a rebuilt interface designed to surface insights from qualitative data such as zoning changes, permit activity, and neighborhood sentiment, information previously inaccessible to financial models. The release introduced Diald’s Neighborhood Investment Rating, which evaluates whether market optimism or pessimism around an area is supported…

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Insider Brief VibeIQ raised $22.5 million in growth financing led by Volition Capital, with participation from existing investor Venture Guides. The platform gives merchandising, design, and product development teams a single live view of the product line, using embedded AI to identify gaps, duplication, trade-offs, and margin risk before development and sourcing commit cost, with…

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Getting an AI project greenlit has never been the hard part. Getting it greenlit with a business case that survives contact with a skeptical CFO, a change-resistant operations team, and a board asking hard questions about payback period is a different challenge entirely. Most AI proposals fail not because the underlying technology is weak, but…

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OpenAI announced a new set of security policies aimed at containing incidents during model testing, including expanded monitoring during development and stronger emphasis on alignment and security in post-training. The company said that as models grow more capable, associated risks rise correspondingly, requiring monitoring, alignment, and security standards to keep pace. The measures represent one…

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Insider Brief Omilia raised a $67 million Series B led by Expedition Growth Capital, with the company having grown live annual recurring revenue more than 10x since its Series A to over $60 million without raising additional equity in the interim. The Agentic CX platform serves major enterprises including Capital One, Discover, RBC, Taco Bell,…

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Discovered Materials closed a $9 million seed round led by Lightspeed India Partners, with participation from Peak XV Partners and angel investors including Paul Graham, following the startup’s emergence from Y Combinator. The company aims to deploy swarms of AI agents to discover new materials capable of building more thermally efficient integrated circuits, addressing the…

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Cursor, now part of SpaceX following the completion of its acquisition, launched Origin this week, a new code-hosting platform enabling developers to collaboratively work on codebases, browse and edit them, manage pull requests, and store repositories, functions traditionally associated with GitHub. The launch marks a natural extension for Cursor, whose business until now centered on…

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Etched announced that it had raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, in a round led by Jane Streetfollowing the quantitative trading firm’s testing and purchase of the startup’s AI hardware. The valuation marked a dramatic escalation for the company, which stood at $5 billion in December and reached $10.3 billion in July, effectively…

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