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    White Circle gives AI-driven teams a command center for production systems—hardening apps against unsafe inputs and jailbreaks while tracking user behavior and tuning model performance. It’s how you test, shield, and refine every live AI interaction from one layer.

    Paris, France

    Fintech

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    An AI-driven risk management platform where expert advisors design personalized coverage strategies, safeguarding the assets and lifestyle high-earners have worked to build.

    San Francisco, United States

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    Retro is a friends-only photo journal that shifts social sharing to a slower, more intentional rhythm. Each week, it nudges you to capture one meaningful moment—so you post for yourself, while close friends stay in the loop.

    San Francisco, United States

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    Veeda

    Veeda develops multimodal world models that emulate physical reality, providing embodied AI agents with scalable, interactive training environments. Founded by Sanja Fidler, the company targets the next growth inflection for physical AI through simulation-based learning.

    Toronto, Canada

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    Callosum

    Callosum builds intelligent-systems infrastructure that unifies heterogeneous compute across the full stack, so AI teams can pursue hardware and intelligence as co-evolving layers rather than depend on any single model or chip.

    London, United Kingdom

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    Orchard Robotics

    Orchard Robotics develops AI-powered agricultural automation that helps U.S. farmers increase crop yields while lowering costs and environmental impact. Its precision systems bring autonomous farming technology to orchards, safeguarding domestic food production.

    Seattle, United States

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    Hyperbound

    Hyperbound gives sales teams an AI roleplay platform to practice, measure, and scale the exact behaviors of top performers. Trusted by LinkedIn, Workday, IBM, and Intel, it functions as an agentic operating system for revenue enablement.

    San Francisco, United States

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    Inherent

    Inherent is a London-based frontier AI lab building recursively self-improving AI that probes 'unknown unknowns'—uncovering paradigm-shifting scientific discoveries as traditional breakthroughs grow costlier and scarcer.

    London, United Kingdom

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    Sprains, whiplash, and hard stops: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxi fleets scale

    As Waymo and Zoox race to expand their robotaxi fleets, the people hired to ride along and monitor the technology are paying for it with sprains, strains, and whiplash.

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    Twitter.now Is the New Social Network Built on the Name X Left Behind

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    An ex-PG&E engineer's 'underground Google Maps' raises $26M

    Former PG&E engineer Josh Mackanic left to build CivilGrid, a 'Google Maps for the underground' that just raised $26M to prevent costly utility strikes.

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    Google’s AI Mode turns into a travel planner with price tracking and hotel booking

    Google is turning AI Mode into a hands-on trip-planning tool. Users can now track flight prices, book hotels through conversation, pay with Google Pay, and see flight or hotel costs in points and miles.

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    Pokémon Sleep gets a special-edition Fitbit Air — preorders start at $129

    There's a new reason for Pokémon fans to wear a Fitbit. Google unveiled a special-edition Fitbit Air designed for Pokémon Sleep, pairing its fitness features with the sleep-tracking game just as the franchise marks its 30th anniversary.

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    AI giants urge joint action against rogue AI threats

    More than 100 tech companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft, have signed an open letter calling for public and private sectors to work together against AI-driven cyber attacks.

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