Insider Brief Amazon Web Services has launched two AI-powered tools for startups: AWS Startup Advisor, an AI assistant designed to help founders build on AWS, and an automated migration service that helps companies move applications and AI workloads onto the platform. AWS Startup Advisor provides guidance on cloud architecture, security, spending and infrastructure decisions based…

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ZutaCore, which makes waterless two-phase liquid cooling systems for AI and high-performance computing infrastructure, has closed a $100 million Series C round backed by Mitsubishi Electric, Carrier Ventures, and Samsung Ventures. The funding will support global commercialisation and R&D into thermal management for next-generation chip architectures, with ZutaCore’s platform already designed to handle processors exceeding…

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Insider Brief AlphaSense has closed a $350 million funding round at a $7.5 billion valuation — nearly double its previous $4 billion valuation — led by Vitruvian Partners, Accenture Ventures, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management, bringing total funding to well over $1 billion and reflecting the company’s growth to more than $600 million in annual recurring revenue as of…

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Meta is rolling out its Meta Business Agent globally on WhatsApp and Instagram DMs, bringing AI-powered customer interaction tools to small and medium businesses after nearly two years of testing in markets including India and Mexico. The AI agent can answer customer queries, recommend products, book appointments, qualify sales leads, and escalate conversations to human…

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Veteran director Martin Scorsese has signed on as a partner and adviser to AI image-generation company Black Forest Labs, deploying the technology exclusively for storyboarding. Scorsese said the tool allows him to communicate his visual intentions to cinematographers and production designers far more quickly than traditional methods, drawing on seven decades of creating storyboards by…

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ZeroDrift, a startup that sits between AI models and end users to catch and rewrite non-compliant outputs, has raised $10 million in seed funding from investors including a16z Speedrun, Reign Ventures, Pitchdrive, and U&I Ventures. The company’s system uses deterministic rules to flag messages that may violate standards such as SOC 2 or GDPR, only…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. How you use an AI image model is starting to change, and two back-to-back releases show where it’s going. The new (open-source!) Ideogram 4.0 and Reve 2.0 make a similar case: the prompt gets you close, but letting users edit…

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Microsoft used its own developer conference to show it can live without OpenAI, Florida’s attorney general sued OpenAI and went after Sam Altman personally, researchers and a new Workday product made plain that nobody trusts AI agents yet, and Alphabet raised a record $85 billion the same week the Fed flagged AI as a systemic…

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Meta has launched Business Agent to automate conversational commerce workflows directly inside its messaging applications. The software allows global retail brands to execute transactions and field support tickets without human intervention. Deploying this architecture places agentic AI directly at the core of social commerce. Meta integrated these workflows natively into Instagram, Messenger, and soon WhatsApp.…

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Microsoft has announced the wider testing of its new Autopilot feature at the Microsoft Build event this week, backed by a post on the company’s’ website. Autopilots are described as a new category of agents that can work autonomously on a user’s behalf. Microsoft says each Autopilot has its own identity, and so multiple agents…

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