Situational Awareness, an AI-focused hedge fund, invested $400 million into Source Foundry, a chip manufacturing startup founded by Stanford researchers, bringing the fund’s total investment in the company to $500 million, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Source Foundry aims to make chip production faster and cheaper. The investment comes despite recent turbulence for…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 5,596 new readers who joined us yesterday. That memo you just worked with Claude to write? It might soon carry an invisible signature that says so. Anthropic just quietly detailed the rollout of invisible watermarks that…

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Frontier AI is no longer one market with one scoreboard. This week’s release wave exposed a contest between three kinds of leverage: controlling access to intelligence, owning the model outright, and deciding which model receives each job. That changes what winning means. The lab with the highest benchmark score may not control deployment. The model…

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Google’s research medical AI system, AMIE (Video), conducted synchronous video consultations with professional patient actors and received clinical evaluator ratings on par with primary care physicians across several core measures. Fifteen trained actors portrayed conditions across cardiopulmonary, abdominal, HEENT, neurological or psychiatric, and musculoskeletal presentations. Google says studies involving real patients and their own health…

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Insider Brief Wayy.ai closed a $2 million Pre-Seed round led by 0 to 1 Ventures, with angel investor Tunç Yalgin participating, and officially launched a platform functioning as a virtual sales co-founder for solopreneurs and small business owners, already used by roughly 70 companies. Built by CEO Leo Popov and CTO Dr. Aleksei Samarin, the…

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Insider Brief RoboStore has launched Robo Inc., a U.S.-based robotics manufacturing and systems-integration company, with plans to open a 66,000-square-foot Long Island facility by the first quarter of 2027. The launch comes shortly after new U.S. restrictions on advanced foreign-made robots, while Robo Inc. plans to emphasize U.S.-based assembly, localized data infrastructure, security reviews and…

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OpenAI announced an expansion of Daybreak, its cyber defense service, introducing a new cyber-focused model for defensive security work amid rising concerns about AI agents behaving maliciously, including recent incidents involving compromised platforms and autonomous hacking attempts. The move follows Anthropic’s earlier release of its cyber-focused model, Mythos. Daybreak will now offer two tiers, Blue…

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Dili, an AI-powered compliance company focused on U.S. infrastructure projects, announced a $15 million Series A funding round. The raise follows a previous $6.7 million seed round, bringing the company’s total funding to $21.7 million. The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’Darren Bechtel, and…

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Insider Brief Zenity, an AI security and governance platform purpose-built for AI agents, announced a $125 million Series C led by Norwest, with new investors Qumra Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures and LG Technology Ventures, alongside existing investors Vertex Ventures, Third Point Ventures, DTCP and Intel Capital. Zenity, led by co-founder and CEO…

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Meta released Muse Glimmer, an open-weight AI model designed to run agents locally on consumer hardware, offering a concrete look at CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of “personal superintelligence.” The 30-billion parameter model is an open counterpart to Meta’s more powerful closed model, Muse Spark, debuted in April. Glimmer is released under the Apache 2.0 license,…

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