Insider Brief Sentient Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to open-source AGI development, has launched a $42 million Open Source AGI Grant and Investment Program, combining non-dilutive grants for researchers and maintainers with founder-friendly investments for startups building commercial businesses around open-source AI. The program is designed to fill a funding gap in the open-source AI ecosystem,…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. On June 12, the U.S. government pulled the most powerful AI available to the public offline. Nearly three weeks later, Anthropic’s Fable 5 is finally back. The AI world is rejoicing at the global return, but it comes with new…

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Sam Altman spent a year pitching the White House on taking a piece of OpenAI. The offer is now on the table, and it volunteers his rivals too. Add Fable 5’s return, paid for in oversight concessions, and a pattern is hard to miss: this was the quarter the government stopped watching frontier AI from…

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Anthropic Claude Science now integrates the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to accelerate computational life sciences research. Anthropic has launched the public beta of Claude Science, an AI workbench built for scientific research. The platform enables scientists to converse directly with digital agents using natural language to execute end-to-end research workflows. This system connects natively to…

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Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Their work spans the breadth of modern AI — robotics and embodied intelligence, large language models and reasoning,…

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Insider Brief 10Beauty raised $23.5 million in new funding led by Story Ventures to expand its robotic manicure system across retail and salon locations. The Boston-based company said the round brings its total funding to more than $70 million and will support technology development, operational readiness and broader deployment with partners. 10Beauty’s machine performs polish…

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Insider Brief CarbonSix raised $40 million in Series A funding to expand its physical AI systems for manufacturing, including robotic intelligence software, hands and manipulators for factory lines. The round was co-led by DSC Investment and LB Investment, with participation from new investors including IMM Investment, Korea Development Bank, SV Investment, Cortentia and ASQ. CarbonSix…

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Insider Brief Taktile has raised a $110 million Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives Growth Equity, with participation from Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Tiger Global, Y Combinator, and Dig Ventures, bringing total funding to $184 million to expand its agentic decision platform for banks and insurers across the US, EMEA, and LATAM. The company’s…

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A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that large language models mirror human social hierarchies, adjusting their behavior based on whether they are positioned as a superior or subordinate in a conversation, with potentially serious implications for AI safety. The research, led by computer science graduate student Anvesh Rao Vijjini…

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The numbers are in, and they are striking. Artificial intelligence is no longer a technology category defined by potential. It is a force defined by scale, and the data from multiple major research institutions makes that case with unusual clarity. Private investment more than doubled in a single year. Consumer surplus from generative AI tools…

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