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Insider Brief Just as artificial intelligence is helping scientists make advances in mathematics and biotechnology, researchers may focus AI on emerging tech, like fusion energy.
Meta is extending its AI ambitions beyond consumers, launching a dedicated enterprise business and bringing its Museagent to small businesses in back-to-back announcements this week.
Google is making two significant changes to its Gemini ecosystem, testing direct purchases through its AI services in India while retiring its custom assistant feature, Gems, in favor of a new skills format.
Seligman Ventures, the venture arm of Seligman Investments, has doubled its deployable capital from $500 million to $1 billion less than a year after launching in February 2026, as it deepens its focus on technologies supporting the AI infrastructure build-out.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Instinct, the company building a personal agent for everyday life, announced that it has raised an additional $1 billion in its latest round from Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Coatue to bring useful AI to everyone.
Denver-based AI data center builder Crusoe has ended its plan to use stationary power plants from fellow Denver company Boom Supersonic, scrapping a $1.25 billion agreement for 29 of Boom’s 42-megawatt Superpower natural gas turbines that were due for delivery starting in 2027.
British AI neocloud Nscale has secured $3.36 billion in convertible note financing ahead of its planned U.S. IPO later this year, the company announced on Friday. The round highlights the enormous capital needed to build out AI data center infrastructure.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Outmarket AI, the leading AI platform purpose-built for insurance, announced it has raised $34.5 million in Series B funding. The round was led by SignalFire, with participation from Fika Ventures, Permanent Capital Ventures, TTV Capital and Dash Fund.
Insider Brief Shanghai robotics startup MirrorMe Technology unveiled Viva, a dexterous robotic hand the company says can perform a real-time four-hand piano duet with a human player, moving past pre-programmed note playback toward expressive ensemble performance.
Few governments have compressed as much AI policy into as short a window as South Korea has since mid-2025. In roughly fourteen months, the country has stood up a presidential AI secretariat, passed and enforced what it calls the world’s first comprehensive AI law, committed tens of billions of…
Insider Brief AMD agreed to acquire World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.2 billion, adding the spatial-intelligence startup’s AI research team as the chipmaker looks to shape future computing platforms around emerging AI workloads.
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