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🧬 Chai Discovery Secures $130M Series B to Scale Generative Biology Platform


Chai Discovery raised $130M (Series B) led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst, with strategic backing from OpenAI and Thrive Capital. Valued at $1.3B, the capital scales their platform for "hard-to-drug" targets, validating the premium investors place on generative models that drastically shorten the design-to-experiment cycle in pharma.

🛡️ CrowdStrike Launches Falcon AIDR to Secure Enterprise AI Interaction Layer


CrowdStrike released Falcon AI Detection & Response (AIDR) to general availability, securing the enterprise AI "interaction layer." The tool detects prompt injections and data leakage in real-time across agentic workflows using 180+ known attack techniques. By unifying visibility and enforcement, CrowdStrike counters the new attack surface emerging from widespread corporate LLM and autonomous agent adoption.

🇮🇳 Gurugram’s Tagbin Raises $10M for AI-Led Government Platforms

Tagbin raised $10 million led by SageOne Flagship Growth OE, with participation from Ramesh Damani and Jyotivardhan Sonthalia. The funding accelerates their AI-driven government platforms for policy analysis and predictive policing. Targeting ₹200 Cr revenue this fiscal, Tagbin aims to scale regulated enterprise solutions ahead of a planned 2027 IPO.

🎬 Mirelo Raises $41M from a16z & Index to Solve AI Video’s Audio Gap

Berlin’s Mirelo secured a $41M round (led by a16z and Index) to launch Mirelo SFX v1.5, a model that generates synchronized audio for AI video. The platform addresses the "silent video" gap in generative pipelines, creating foley and soundtracks to match visual cues. Mirelo’s expansion targets the "uncanny valley" in creator workflows, enabling fully automated, multimodal content production.

🧠 KnowBe4 Releases Custom Deepfake Training to Counter Social Engineering

KnowBe4 launched a defensive module enabling admins to simulate realistic deepfake attacks (audio/video) on workforces. Citing a 40% rise in injection attacks, the tool inoculates employees against AI-driven fraud and Business Email Compromise (BEC). This release positions human verification as the critical "last mile" defense, countering the exponential rise in sophisticated, AI-enabled identity theft.

🤖 AppZen "AI Agent Studio" Reaches General Availability for Finance Automation

AppZen’s AI Agent Studio reached general availability, offering a low-code environment for finance teams to build auditable "digital coworkers." The platform automates complex T&E and AP tasks, aiming to reduce operating costs by 50%. AppZen prioritizes strict governance and audit trails, targeting enterprises requiring controlled, transparent autonomous operations within their ERP ecosystems.

TRENDING AI NEWS

💻 NVIDIA Debuts Nemotron 3 Open-Model Family

NVIDIA launched the Nemotron 3 open-model family (Nano, Super, Ultra), utilizing a hybrid Latent MoE architecture to drastically slash inference costs. Designed for multi-agent orchestration, these open-weight models democratize high-efficiency AI for edge and cloud, directly challenging proprietary systems with scalable, cost-effective reasoning for enterprise agent rollouts.

🏗️ Pure Data Centres Commits €1B to Amsterdam AI Campus

Oaktree-backed Pure Data Centres committed €1B to an Amsterdam AI campus, a build-to-suit facility dedicated to a single hyperscaler. Designed for multi-megawatt racks, this project alleviates critical European grid constraints. It significantly expands regional capacity, streamlining procurement for high-density AI training clusters in a supply-constrained market.

🫀 Philips Acquires SpectraWAVE to Scale AI-Guided Coronary Therapy

Philips agreed to acquire SpectraWAVE to integrate the HyperVue™ Imaging System (DeepOCT + NIRS) and X1-FFR into its Azurion platform. This deal consolidates coronary diagnostics by combining wire-free angiography-derived physiology with high-definition imaging. The move accelerates Philips' "decide, guide, treat" workflow, ensuring precision guidance in a single cath-lab setting.

🤝 Nvidia Acquires SchedMD to Orchestrate AI Clusters

Nvidia acquired SchedMD, the primary commercial maintainer of the Slurm workload manager, to integrate the industry-standard scheduler into its AI stack. The deal targets hyperscale GPU optimization, addressing critical bottlenecks in job scheduling for massive training clusters. By securing the control plane for HPC, Nvidia ensures tighter orchestration for clients like CoreWeave and national supercomputing centers.

🇺🇸 U.S. Launches "Tech Force" to Recruit 1,000 AI Engineers

The U.S. administration launched "Tech Force" to recruit 1,000 AI engineers for two-year federal stints, offering salaries of $150k–$200k. Backed by post-service hiring commitments from partners like Apple, Nvidia,  xAI ,and Adobe, strategically positions federal service as a high-prestige "tour of duty" to urgently modernize agency infrastructure and compete for top-tier talent

🎧 AudioCodes Deploys 500-Agent Voca CIC with Atento

AudioCodes confirmed a large-scale deployment of Voca CIC with Atento, supporting 500 concurrent AI voice agents for a major healthcare provider. Completed in just 30 days, the project replaces legacy IVR with Azure-powered conversational AI. This rapid deployment validates the shift toward elastic, AI-first contact centers, significantly reducing call handling times and operational overhead.

📗 Book Summary: Guns, Germs, and Steel — The Fates of Human Societies
Author: Jared Diamond

🧠 Main Idea:
This book explains why some civilizations became powerful and technologically advanced while others did not — not because of intelligence or race, but because of geography, environment, and access to resources.

🔍 Key Concepts:

  • Geographic Advantage:
    Societies with fertile land, domesticable animals, and favorable climates developed agriculture earlier — leading to population growth and power.

  • Germs:
    Exposure to animal diseases created immunity in some populations, which later devastated societies without such exposure.

  • Steel & Technology:
    Early food surpluses allowed specialization (soldiers, inventors, rulers), accelerating technological progress.

  • Writing & Knowledge Transfer:
    Writing systems enabled societies to preserve knowledge, organize governments, and plan warfare.

  • Environmental Determinism (Not Racism):
    Differences in development are due to environmental conditions, not biological superiority.

🌱 Core Lessons:

  • History is shaped more by environment than individual brilliance.

  • Access to resources determines long-term power.

  • Inequality between societies has structural causes, not moral ones.

  • Understanding history helps dismantle false ideas about superiority.                                                                                                                                                                                                              AI TOOLS

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