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Insider Brief Palladyne AI and Fanuc America have formed a strategic collaboration to develop AI-powered robotic automation for manufacturing, warehousing and logistics. According to the companies, the effort will combine Fanuc America’s industrial robots with Palladyne IQ, Palladyne AI’s physical AI software platform, with the goal of making robotic systems easier to deploy and more […]

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Blee, an AI-first marketing compliance platform, has announced a $20 million Series A to give legal, compliance, and brand teams the ability to govern the growing amount of AI-generated content. The round was co-led by Fin Capital and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund, with participation from Hannah Grey VC and National Bank […]

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Forus, the AI network accelerating medicine, has announced $150 million in Series C financing at a $3 billion valuation, tripling its valuation just months after announcing its Series B and bringing total funding to more than $300 million. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, an investor in Forus since its […]

GCC-based fintech Sav has raised $3.5 million in Pre-Series A funding to scale its AI-native financial platform and expand its capabilities across open finance and wealth management. The round was led by Phoenix Venture Partners, with participation from 394H Capital, Vestalia Investments, Majlis Investment Management, 500 Sanabil, KAUST Innovation Ventures, and several family offices and […]

Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup Huskeys has raised $27 million in a Series A round led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, bringing its total funding to $35 million following an earlier $8 million seed round. Additional investors include Merlin Ventures, Skinos Ventures, Zscaler Ventures, Okta Ventures, Bright Pixel Capital, SV Angel, and individual backers from companies including […]

French AI lab Mistral AI has raised €3 billion, roughly $3.58 billion, at a post-money valuation exceeding €21 billion, or about $24.39 billion, in what the company describes as the largest equity funding round ever completed by a European technology firm. The Series D round was led by Samsung Electronics, with EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund […]

Insider Brief Orbital data centers could ease some of artificial intelligence’s pressure on energy grids, water supplies and land, but a new legal analysis warns that moving computing infrastructure into space would create difficult questions over cybersecurity, data ownership, liability and orbital debris. The working paper, “Governing Orbital Data Centers in the New Space Race,” […]

Insider Brief XPeng announced the first of Iron humanoid robot walked off its new productions lines with deployment in its own stores planned first before an official market launch and deliveries in China and overseas in 2027. According to the Chinese EV maker, more than 80% of the core manufacturing processes are automated and the […]

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 […]