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Jack Dorsey’s Block Introduces Dessa, an Emotionally Expressive Voice AI That Runs Locally
Block, the company led by Jack Dorsey, has released Dessa, a new voice model from its research lab that runs locally and produces strikingly human expressions such as laughter, pauses and crying. The company said the model was trained entirely on human speech using a single NVIDIA GPU rack. Dessa is a full-duplex model, able…
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Jack Dorsey’s Block Introduces Dessa, an Emotionally Expressive Voice AI That Runs Locally
Block, the company led by Jack Dorsey, has released Dessa, a new voice model from its research lab that runs locally and produces strikingly human expressions such as laughter, pauses and crying. The company said the model was trained entirely on human speech using a single NVIDIA GPU rack. Dessa is a full-duplex model, able…
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1Password Introduces Platform Letting AI Agents Log In Without Seeing User Credentials
Password manager 1Password has introduced 1Password for Agents, a tool that lets personal AI agents sign in to users’ accounts on their behalf without ever accessing their credentials. The system creates a line of communication between the agent, the user and the password manager. When an agent attempts to log in, it sends a unique digital key…
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Jack Dorsey’s Block Introduces Dessa, an Emotionally Expressive Voice AI That Runs Locally
Block, the company led by Jack Dorsey, has released Dessa, a new voice model from its research lab that runs locally and produces strikingly human expressions such as laughter, pauses and crying. The company said the model was trained entirely on human speech using a single NVIDIA GPU rack. Dessa is a full-duplex model, able…
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1Password Introduces Platform Letting AI Agents Log In Without Seeing User Credentials
Password manager 1Password has introduced 1Password for Agents, a tool that lets personal AI agents sign in to users’ accounts on their behalf without ever accessing their credentials. The system creates a line of communication between the agent, the user and the password manager. When an agent attempts to log in, it sends a unique digital key…
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Jack Dorsey’s Block Introduces Dessa, an Emotionally Expressive Voice AI That Runs Locally
Block, the company led by Jack Dorsey, has released Dessa, a new voice model from its research lab that runs locally and produces strikingly human expressions such as laughter, pauses and crying. The company said the model was trained entirely on human speech using a single NVIDIA GPU rack. Dessa is a full-duplex model, able…
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1Password Introduces Platform Letting AI Agents Log In Without Seeing User Credentials
Password manager 1Password has introduced 1Password for Agents, a tool that lets personal AI agents sign in to users’ accounts on their behalf without ever accessing their credentials. The system creates a line of communication between the agent, the user and the password manager. When an agent attempts to log in, it sends a unique digital key…
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Tractian Closes $130M Series D to Expand AI for Industrial Asset Health
Insider Brief Tractian has raised a $130 million Series D at a $1.4 billion valuation, led by Sapphire Ventures and co-led by M&G’s Catalyst, with participation from investors including General Catalyst, Bosch Ventures and Y Combinator. The Atlanta-based company applies physical AI to critical machines, using vibration, ultrasound and other sensors alongside an agentic platform…
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UK Commits £600M to Counter AI-Driven Health and Security Threats
Britain’s government has set out around £600 million ($800 million) in funding focused largely on defending against health and security risks posed by artificial intelligence. The largest share will go to a new biosecurity initiative, including £100 million for an AI Biosecurity Lab that will use AI to detect biological threats and £65 million to…
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Weflayr Announces $2.5M Pre-Seed to Build Intelligent AI Inference Routing Layer
Paris-based Weflayr has closed a $2.5 million pre-seed round led by 13books Capital, with participation from Founders Future, Kima Ventures, Plug and Play, Station F Ventures, General Catalyst scout Roxanne Varza and a group of angel investors. The startup aims to give AI companies full control over how they evaluate, select and route AI models.…
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Indurex Raises €7M to Bring Engineering Intelligence to Critical Infrastructure and Industrial Operations
Insider Brief Indurex, a Netherlands-based company applying AI to cyber-physical systems security, has raised €7 million, with Contrarian Ventures, Curiosity and Axeleo Capital named in the announcement, following its recognition by Gartner as a Cool Vendor earlier this year. Its AI-native platform, Indurex SafeGuard AI, unifies engineering, safety and cybersecurity data from sources such as…
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Jack Dorsey’s Block Introduces Dessa, an Emotionally Expressive Voice AI That Runs Locally
Block, the company led by Jack Dorsey, has released Dessa, a new voice model from its research lab that runs locally and produces strikingly human expressions such as laughter, pauses and crying. The company said the model was trained entirely on human speech using a single NVIDIA GPU rack. Dessa is a full-duplex model, able…
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1Password Introduces Platform Letting AI Agents Log In Without Seeing User Credentials
Password manager 1Password has introduced 1Password for Agents, a tool that lets personal AI agents sign in to users’ accounts on their behalf without ever accessing their credentials. The system creates a line of communication between the agent, the user and the password manager. When an agent attempts to log in, it sends a unique digital key…
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Tractian Closes $130M Series D to Expand AI for Industrial Asset Health
Insider Brief Tractian has raised a $130 million Series D at a $1.4 billion valuation, led by Sapphire Ventures and co-led by M&G’s Catalyst, with participation from investors including General Catalyst, Bosch Ventures and Y Combinator. The Atlanta-based company applies physical AI to critical machines, using vibration, ultrasound and other sensors alongside an agentic platform…
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UK Commits £600M to Counter AI-Driven Health and Security Threats
Britain’s government has set out around £600 million ($800 million) in funding focused largely on defending against health and security risks posed by artificial intelligence. The largest share will go to a new biosecurity initiative, including £100 million for an AI Biosecurity Lab that will use AI to detect biological threats and £65 million to…
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Weflayr Announces $2.5M Pre-Seed to Build Intelligent AI Inference Routing Layer
Paris-based Weflayr has closed a $2.5 million pre-seed round led by 13books Capital, with participation from Founders Future, Kima Ventures, Plug and Play, Station F Ventures, General Catalyst scout Roxanne Varza and a group of angel investors. The startup aims to give AI companies full control over how they evaluate, select and route AI models.…
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