Novo Nordisk is expanding its use of AWS artificial intelligence tools across drug discovery, including AI agents for target identification, therapy design, and research workflows. Under the agreement announced recently, AWS will become Novo Nordisk’s preferred cloud provider and strategic AI partner. The companies have also created a co-innovation hub at Novo Nordisk’s existing London…

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Artificial intelligence is giving security researchers new ways to examine code, trace unusual behaviour and identify flaws that conventional tools may overlook. The pressure is particularly visible around Zero-day vulnerabilities, a recent Minimus analysis considers how container composition, dependency records and rebuild speed affect the response after an unknown flaw is exposed. Faster analysis helps only…

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Anthropic announced that Claude Code will switch to auto mode by default for Pro, Max, and Team accounts starting August 14, reducing the level of human oversight required during coding sessions. First introduced as a test feature in March, auto mode allows Claude Code to proceed with tasks without requesting approval at each step, pausing…

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A policy analysis from July 2026 In October 2017, the United Arab Emirates did something no other government had done before: it created a Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence with no other portfolio. Omar Sultan Al Olama took that title at 27 years old, and the strategy his ministry built around him, the National Strategy for…

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Amazon is planning an on-site natural gas power plant for a data center in Pecos County, Texas, that could become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States, according to a report from The New York Times. The plant is reportedly permitted to release 33 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, surpassing any…

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OpenAI has announced it suspended certain aspects of development on its upcoming model, Astra, after an internal review found the model had reached what the company calls a “critical cybersecurity threshold,” meaning it could independently identify and execute cyberattacks against well-protected real-world systems. Under OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework, established in 2023, this finding triggered additional safeguards.…

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Insider Brief Onyx Security, the AI control company, announced a $113 million Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Cyberstarts, TCV, Conviction, FirstMark, Vintage, QuantumLight and G Squared, bringing total funding to $153 million since its founding two years ago. Since emerging from stealth four months ago, Onyx has grown revenue fourfold,…

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Insider Brief Chinese robotics and embodied-intelligence startups have announced a cluster of sizable funding rounds since the start of August, with capital increasingly flowing toward foundation models, world models, reinforcement learning and data systems designed to make robots more capable in real-world environments. Noin Intelligence raised $74 million to advance its GLOW world model and…

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Insider Brief DataBahn closed a $40 million Series B funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Forgepoint, GTM Capital and S3 Ventures, bringing total funding to $59 million. The company’s agentic data control plane governs, orchestrates and activates enterprise data across sources, destinations and AI models, and has achieved more than…

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Airbnb is increasingly relying on AI to speed up internal development, even as its consumer-facing AI rollout remains more measured, co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said during the company’s second-quarter earnings call. Chesky said AI has helped reduce the time from concept to feature launch by 60%, while the number of features and improvements shipped…

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