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SpaceX Officially Completes $60B Acquisition of AI Coding Startup Cursor
SpaceX has officially closed its acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, according to an announcement on Cursor’s blog. The deal follows an agreement first announced in April, when Elon Musk’s SpaceX partnered with Cursor and secured an option to acquire the company for $60 billion. The companies confirmed plans to move forward with the acquisition two months…
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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei Defends AI Messaging as Company Clarifies Claude Watermarking Details
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pushed back against criticism that his warnings about AI risks have fueled public backlash against the industry, responding to investor Gavin Baker, who argued on the All-In podcast and social media that Amodei’s cautionary messaging has contributed to growing opposition toward data centers and AI regulation. Amodei disputed the characterization that…
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Stripe Reportedly Finalizes $7B-Plus Acquisition of AI Gateway Startup OpenRouter
Stripe has reportedly reached a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to a Bloomberg report. OpenRouter provides customers with a platform to select and switch between hundreds of different AI models based on specific needs and budget, positioning itself as a way to avoid vendor lock-in. The acquisition…
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University of Essex Agricultural Robotics Spin-out Versatile RobotX Secures £1M in Funding
Insider Brief Versatile RobotX secured more than £1 million in investment and grant funding, including backing from British Design Fund, Innovate UK and Defra, to move its agricultural robots toward commercial deployment. The University of Essex spinout plans to use the funding for product development, manufacturing readiness, customer engagement and commercial expansion. Versatile RobotX develops…
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Dario Amodei logs on to answer the critics
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 10,253 new readers. AI has a trust problem, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei doesn’t think a marketing campaign can fix it. Amodei just made a rare X appearance to answer claims that his AI safety talk…
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AI Weekly Issue #522: Zuckerberg promises superintelligence for all. Experts aren’t sold.
The people who build and study AI did most of the editing this week. The most-shared document among the experts we track was Mark Zuckerberg’s 6,500-word case for giving every person superintelligence, and almost none of them shared it kindly. The same experts were passing around an AI agent that hacked a gym’s booking system,…
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Study Explores Impact on Trust When Expressive Humanoid Robots Make Mistakes
Insider Brief A Drexel University-led study found that people formed stronger initial bonds with expressive humanoid robots but reacted more sharply when those robots made mistakes, making failures more damaging to trust. Researchers measured brain activity, oxytocin levels, surveys and behavior in 50 adult men interacting with Pepper, finding that mistakes by the expressive robot…
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China’s Infiforce Raises Nearly $150M in Funding to Develop ‘Ego Native World Model’ for Robots
Insider Brief Infiforce raised nearly $150 million across Series A and Series A+ rounds to develop embodied-AI models, expand its DataGrid infrastructure and increase robot deployments in industrial and commercial settings. The Chinese startup plans to advance its AtomBrain system and causal world models while using first-person “Ego” data to train models intended to transfer…
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Robot Orders Increase in Q2 as Automation Demand Broadens Across Industries
Insider Brief North American companies ordered 8,940 robots valued at $622 million in the second quarter of 2026, up 4.3% in units and 21.3% in order value from a year earlier, according to the Association for Advancing Automation. Non-automotive customers accounted for 56% of second-quarter robot orders, while first-half demand rose across semiconductors and electronics,…
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IBM Partners With OpenAI to Expand Enterprise AI Deployment Through Global Consulting Business
IBM announced a new partnership with OpenAI to bring the AI company’s models and tools to more enterprise clients through IBM’s global consulting arm, deepening competition among tech giants for corporate AI spending. The deal, financial terms of which were not disclosed, follows a similar alliance IBM struck with Anthropic less than a year ago.…
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