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worth noting Regulation and law Risks and compliance

Analysis: AI regulation based on the text of system prompts is insufficient, say authors writing for Tech Policy Press

An analysis on Tech Policy Press (authors Neumann, Sargeant, Singh) argues that AI safety regulation based on the text of system prompts is insufficient – prompts provide only weak assurances about behavior and can conceal the gap between intent and actual model output. Evidence: incidents involving Grok and GPT-4o.

Business impact

Companies developing AI models should prepare for the possibility that future regulation may (and, according to the authors, should) require evidence of actual model behavior – adversarial testing, audits across contexts and languages, changelogs – rather than merely submitting the text of a system prompt as proof of safety.

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worth noting New models Productivity

Smallest.ai raised 13 million dollars to develop a voice AI model for customer support

Startup Smallest.ai raised 13 million dollars in Series A funding (led by Seligman Ventures) to develop a small, latency-free voice model for real-time customer support, bringing its total funding to over 21 million dollars.

Business impact

A specialized player has joined ElevenLabs, Cartesia and Sarvam in the market for voice AI models for customer support, expanding the options available to companies when choosing a provider for real-time voice agents.

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worth noting Robotics Productivity

Investors fund startup Embodied AI developing adaptive manufacturing robots

The Swiss startup Embodied AI has secured an investment round for robots that adaptively learn to work on the production line. The round was led by Faber VC, with participation from the Prague-based fund Look AI Ventures, the American Plug and Play San Francisco, and the Italian Techschop Capital.

Business impact

Investor interest in physical AI for flexible manufacturing is growing; companies in electronics, logistics, and automotive assembly may, over the coming years, gain an alternative to rigidly programmed robots that adapts to variable tasks without interrupting operations.

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worth noting update Business and investment Sales and marketing

Founder of the Instinct platform releases first operational metrics after an investment of 1 billion dollars

Noah Shinn, the founder of Instinct, said in a podcast that over 50 % of transactions on the platform are travel-related, annual volume is approaching 1 billion dollars and growth is 10 % daily. The company recently raised a Series C round of 1 billion dollars at a valuation of 10 billion dollars.

New: More than 50% of transactions on the Instinct platform are travel bookings; The platform reaches approximately $1 billion in annual transactions; The platform achieves daily growth of 10%; The information comes from a primary source – a podcast featuring founder Noah Shinne

Business impact

Travel agencies, hotels and restaurants face a new intermediary layer in the form of AI agents, which, according to the founder of Instinct, already account for the majority of transactions on the platform (travel) and are growing by 10 % daily; this could shift volumes away from traditional booking channels and challenge established practices such as first-come-first-serve reservations at restaurants.

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worth noting Tools and apps Sales and marketing

YouTube is introducing the Custom Feeds feature for creating personalized feeds using Google's Gemini model

YouTube announced the Custom Feeds feature, which uses Google's Gemini model to create a personalized video feed based on a user's text description. The feed gets pinned to its own tab on the homepage. According to the company, the rollout to web and mobile is set to begin in October 2026.

Business impact

YouTube content creators and marketers will gain a new discoverability channel that viewers build themselves via a text description instead of the main recommendation algorithm, which may affect existing strategies for optimizing for recommendations.

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Meta worth noting New models Sales and marketing

The Muse app from Meta surpassed the ChatGPT app in adoption, according to early data

According to estimates from Apptopia, in its first 12 days the Muse app from Meta had more downloads (1.8 million on iOS in the USA/Canada vs. 1.3 million for ChatGPT) and daily active users (642 000 vs. 231 000 in the USA) than ChatGPT in the comparable period.

Business impact

According to Apptopia, early data showed that the Muse app from Meta surpassed the ChatGPT app in adoption, a competitive signal in the AI app market driven by a distribution advantage through Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp.

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worth noting Security Risks and compliance

Study: general-purpose AI chatbots in mental health care have cultural and safety limitations

According to an article from The Conversation, general-purpose AI chatbots are increasingly replacing unavailable mental health care, but they draw on a Western, individualistic model of distress and tend to affirm the user’s beliefs rather than correct them. Health Canada has not approved mental health chatbots, and…

Business impact

Companies offering general-purpose AI chatbots as mental health support operate without approval from health regulators (according to the source, for example, Health Canada has not approved the tools, and their use as therapy is unregulated) and face a documented risk that models reinforce stigma or agree with users’ harmful beliefs.

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worth noting New models Development

Microsoft Research published the RetroChimera model for predicting molecular retrosynthesis

Microsoft Research published the RetroChimera model in Nature, a combination of the transformer model R-SMILES 2 and the graph network NeuralLoc for predicting molecular retrosynthesis. According to the company, chemists in blind tests prefer its synthesis proposals over older methods. The model is on GitHub under the MIT license and…

Business impact

Companies developing drugs or new materials gain an open-source tool that, according to Microsoft Research, makes planning molecular synthesis faster and cheaper — a step in the development cycle that has so far been manual, time-consuming and costly.

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worth noting Business and investment Sales and marketing

Jet Investment invested in AppNava, a startup that uses AI to predict the behavior of mobile app users

The Czech fund Jet Investment invested 1.8 million dollars in the US company AppNava, which uses AI to predict the behavior and economic value of mobile app users. The entire funding round reached 2.3 million dollars and was led by the Turkish fund Arya Women.

Business impact

Jet Investment invested 1.8 million dollars (over 38 million Kč) in AppNava as part of a funding round totaling 2.3 million dollars led by the Turkish fund Arya Women; this is the eleventh investment by this Czech fund and expands its portfolio with a company offering AI predictions of the value and behavior of mobile app users.

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worth noting Security Risks and compliance

Von der Leyen warns of AI agent risks and promises EU safety measures

In the State of the Union 2026 address, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned of the risks posed by AI agents and self-improving models and announced a plan to cooperate with Canada and the United Kingdom on model safety, citing AI Act as a tool for safeguards.

Business impact

Companies developing frontier AI models may be invited to talks with the European Commission on model safety and evaluation and should expect AI Act to serve as a tool for further regulatory requirements concerning AI agents and cyber risks.

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NVIDIA worth noting update Business and investment Processes

NVIDIA and Palantir detailed the pilot deployment of AI for supply chains: Nemotron models and the cuOpt tool in Foundry

Palantir is integrating Nemotron 3 Ultra from NVIDIA into the Foundry platform and combining it with the cuOpt tool to optimize supply chains. It is being piloted in the supply chain of NVIDIA itself (1.3 million components per Vera Rubin rack).

New: Palantir is integrating open Nemotron models (specifically Nemotron 3 Ultra) into the Foundry platform for fine-tuning; The Nvidia cuOpt tool handles optimization and scenario planning in supply chains; The pilot deployment targets the supply chain of Nvidia itself, with 1.3 million components in a single Vera Rubin rack; The system includes a feedback loop—decisions and their outcomes are fed back into the models for continuous improvement; The solution is available for manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and energy through the Sovereign AI OS reference architecture

Business impact

Companies in manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and energy will be able to deploy a combination of Nemotron models and the cuOpt tool in the Foundry platform on their own hardware or in the cloud, which, according to NVIDIA and Palantir, will enable earlier detection of bottlenecks and faster allocation of materials in the supply chain without sharing operational data with third parties.

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worth noting Productivity Processes

DiDi replaced a third-party QA solution with an in-house system on Amazon Bedrock

DiDi International Business Group collaborated with AWS to build an in-house QA system for contact centers on Amazon Bedrock with three pipelines (intent verification, compliance, VOC analysis); intent verification accuracy increased from 38 % to 86 %.

Business impact

Companies operating contact centers have a documented example showing that switching from a third-party solution to an in-house system built on foundation models can significantly improve the accuracy of quality checks and reduce manual analysis from hours to minutes.

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