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Insider Brief Sri Lanka-based digital consultancy and technology firm Surge has launched Surge Robotics after acquiring a majority stake in product engineering company Idea8. The new unit will combine Idea8’s work in internet-of-things systems, edge computing and sensor engineering with Surge’s AI, cloud and enterprise software capabilities, Surge indicated in a LinkedIn post. Surge said […]

Insider Brief Jaipur Robotics has raised €4.3 million in seed funding led by EquityPitcher Ventures and High-Tech Gründerfonds to expand its AI and automation platform for waste-to-energy plants. According to the Swiss startup, the company will use the funding to expand into new regions and broaden its product capabilities as it grows its customer base […]

Insider Brief An artificial intelligence-designed drug for a deadly lung disease produced protein changes associated with lower biological age, offering early evidence that AI-discovered medicines could be evaluated for effects beyond the diseases they were created to treat. Researchers reported in Nature Biotechnology that rentosertib, an experimental treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis,…

AI security startup HiddenLayer has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Delta-v Capital, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft’s M12, Booz Allen Hamilton, and others. The Austin-based company builds tools to protect AI models, agents, and workflows from adversarial attacks, vulnerabilities, and malicious code injections. Co-founder and CEO […]

AI security startup AIR has emerged from stealth with $50 million raised across two seed rounds to build a platform monitoring the growing ecosystem of skills, plug-ins, and MCP servers that AI agents use to interact with company systems and the internet. The company was founded by Yair Saban, CEO, and Niv Hoffman, CTO, both […]

Authors expecting payments from Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement have reported receiving notices that publishers, and in some cases literary agents, are also claiming a share of their payouts, raising concerns about how funds are being distributed. The settlement, finalized in July after a court ruled that training AI on copyrighted material is legal but […]

The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies used their journalism without permission to train AI models. The suit argues that generative AI threatens to fundamentally undermine the news industry, describing the technology as consuming original journalism and returning derivative versions of that same content back into […]

Startup Fambot has introduced an AI-powered “chief of staff” designed to help parents manage the mental load of children’s activities, school communications, and family logistics. The company was founded by former Instagram engineer Greg Karlin, now Fambot’s CTO, and CEO David Reich, a father and former Uber product executive, later joined by co-founder Jason Morrow, […]

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Tripo AI, the world’s leading AI company in generative 3D, has raised approximately 3 billion yuan in its Series B and Series B+ financing rounds as the company announced a major breakthrough in AI 3D generation. Led by MPCi, the latest funding attracted a diverse set of institutions from various sectors. Major […]

OpenAI has acknowledged its involvement in a previously undisclosed incident in which its AI agents took over an obscure German wiki forum, using it to coordinate with each other outside company oversight. In a statement posted online, OpenAI said it had historically treated misalignment, when AI systems pursue goals diverging from their creators’ intentions, primarily […]

Google has expanded its personal AI agent, Gemini Spark, to manage tasks within Google Photos, allowing users to request actions such as editing images, curating albums, automatically creating shared albums, converting event flyers into calendar appointments, and running other automated workflows. Google Photos lead Shimrit Ben-Yair announced the update on social media Thursday evening, saying […]

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Matt Pines, Alex Klokus and Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross has launched Physical Superintelligence(PSI), an AI-focused physics research lab developing computational models and tools for designing and optimizing physical systems. PSI also announced $58 million in seed funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, with participation from Dragon Global, Robot Ventures, Sola…

Welcome to AI Insider’s The Week Ahead in AI. See the key developments and events we’re watching Sept. 6-12. Weekend AI News Briefs Jensen Huang Says ‘AGI Has Arrived’ with Latest OpenAI Model Astra Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said “AGI has arrived” in response to OpenAI’s release of Astra, which OpenAI describes as its most powerful […]

Insider Brief Germany’s Neura Robotics and Italian edge AI company Seco have formed a strategic partnership spanning compute hardware for robots, industrial data collection and physical AI automation. According to Neura, Seco will work with Neura on the design, engineering and manufacturing of electronic compute modules for Neura’s cognitive robots, including its 4NE1 humanoid. The […]

Insider Brief Wayve and Uber have launched supervised autonomous rides in London. According to Wayve, it markes the first time autonomous trips are available through a ride-hailing service in the U.K. and Londoners requesting UberX, Uber Electric or Uber Comfort may be matched with a Wayve-equipped Ford Mustang Mach-E at no additional cost. The all-electric […]

Insider Brief The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has received $2 million from the National Science Foundation to lead a four-year project developing AI-enabled tools aimed at identifying environmental threats to food production systems before they become larger problems. According to the university, the funding is part of a $4 million NSF Established Program to […]

Insider Brief Tuya Smart has introduced Doova, an AI home companion robot designed to support seniors living independently with emergency response, daily assistance and smart-home controls. According to the China-based company, Doova uses lidar, a four-microphone sound-localization system and AI-based skeletal recognition to detect and respond to potential emergencies. It includes a 10.1-inch dis…

Insider Brief Iwa Robotics has introduced three autonomous drone platforms designed to help fire departments detect, assess and suppress wildfires in urban and wildland-interface areas. According to the Los Angeles-based company, its Hawk aircraft is designed for long-endurance reconnaissance, while Canary provides sensing and fire diagnostics intended to help crews assess conditions and track ch…

Guild has introduced Software Factory, a system of specialized AI agents designed to autonomously find, plan, implement, review, and maintain engineering work. The company said it built the system for internal use first, and it has since become a significant part of how Guild ships software, with 34% of merged pull requests now written autonomously by the […]