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University of Washington Study Finds Major Security Flaws in AI Browser Agents
New research from the University of Washington has found that several popular AI-powered agentic browsers carry significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities, undermining a foundational web security protocol known as the same-origin policy. The study examined seven agentic browsers and found that four, including ChatGPT Atlas, Chrome with Gemini, Claude for Chrome, and Perplexity Comet, created conditions allowing malicious actors…
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Aether AI Announces $20M Seed Round to Build Causal World Models for the Next Era of AI
Insider Brief Aether AI has closed a $20M seed round led by MPCi, with participation from Inno Angel Fund, SWC Global, Unity Ventures, and others, to accelerate research and development of its causal world model technology and support initial commercial deployments in Physical AI and robotics. Founded by Prof. Biwei Huang, an Assistant Professor at…
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California Strikes Discounted Claude AI Deal With Anthropic for State Agencies
California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced a partnership with Anthropic that will give state agencies and local governments discounted access to Claude, the company’s AI chatbot, along with associated training and support. The deal arrives as many organisations grapple with the rising costs of enterprise AI subscriptions, and is positioned by the state as a…
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Google Expands Free Access to Personalized AI Image Generation in Gemini App
Google has expanded access to Nano Banana-powered personalised image generation within its Gemini app, making the feature available free to all eligible US users, a capability previously restricted to paying Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers. The tool, part of Gemini’s Personal Intelligence feature, generates images tailored to a user’s interests by drawing on data connected…
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Tetrix Closes $15M Series A to Scale AI Platform Powering $100B in Private Market Assets
Insider Brief Tetrix has raised a $15M Series A co-led by White Star Capital and Innovation Endeavors, with participation from several high-profile angel investors, to accelerate product development, team expansion, and global growth across the alternative markets ecosystem. The platform uses agentic workflows, AI-powered data normalization, and real-time analytics to turn unstructured fund data — described as…
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Prosper AI Secures $30M from Andreessen Horowitz to Scale the First AI Platform to Run the Entire Patient Journey
Insider Brief Prosper AI has raised a $30M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Base10 and continued support from Emergence Capital, Y Combinator, and Company Ventures, following a period in which the company grew revenue 5x and now powers more than $1.3B in patient care. The platform manages the entire patient journey…
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Pearson and AWS Research Reveals Gap Between Student AI Use and Workplace Readiness
New research from Pearson and Amazon Web Services has found that while AI use among US college students is widespread, a significant disconnect remains between how students engage with AI tools and the skills employers actually need from graduates entering an AI-driven workforce. The study, based on more than 500 survey responses from learners, employers,…
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South Korea Unveils $900B National AI and Semiconductor Investment Plan
South Korea has announced a sweeping $900 billion investment programme spanning memory chips, AI data centres, and physical AI infrastructure, with Samsung and SK Hynix committing the bulk of the capital. The plan, unveiled at a presidential briefing attended by both companies’ chairmen, allocates $518 billion to build four new memory fabs in the country’s…
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Meta’s brain-reading AI leaves letters behind
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Meta’s first brain-reading AI could only spell things out one character at a time. Version 2 just graduated to whole sentences. Brain2Qwerty v2 decodes those sentences from a non-invasive scan with accuracy starting to close in on surgical setups —…
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Qwen Study Finds World Modeling Can Improve General-Purpose AI Agents
Insider Brief Qwen researchers introduced Qwen-AgentWorld, a language-based world model designed to simulate how digital environments respond to AI agents across search, software, terminal, web, mobile and operating-system tasks. The study reports that Qwen-AgentWorld outperformed several frontier models on the team’s AgentWorldBench benchmark, with its strongest results in text-based environments and more mixed results in…
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