Thrive And Sequoia Back Pace With $46 Million To Automate Insurance’s Back Office

Thrive and Sequoia have invested $46 million into Pace, a startup that says its AI agents can handle the dull work insurers have long shipped to offshore operators.

From Whom Does AI Learn Its Way Of Seeing The World

What artificial intelligence lacks, and what few if any benchmarks truly formalize or meaningfully penalize, is integrity.

Analysis Of Anthropic Claude System-Prompt Instruction That Shapes The Handling Of AI Mental Health Chats

Anthropic Claude provides open access to their system-wide prompt. I analyze the portions dealing with AI mental health guidance. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

Solving The Mystery Of Motion With AI

Neuroscience research connects dopamine, spontaneity, movement disorders, probabilistic behavior, and AI-driven brain understanding advances.

AI models have a religion favoritism problem, and new research exposes it

Researchers tested 14 major AI models on religious bias and found a consistent pattern: models subtly favor some faiths over others, with Grok showing the strongest bias and Anthropic and Meta performing the best.

Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?
Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?

It’s possible that AI was used to write parts of Pope Leo XIV’s latest encyclical about AI’s impact on humanity. An analysis by Linch Zhang posted on the forum LessWrong found certain paragraphs of Magnifica Humanitas to be between 40 percent and 100 percent written by AI, according to the popular AI detector Pangram. The […]

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DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search

Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app installs spiked 30% as users seek a way out.

4 Ways To Maintain Your Authentic Identity In The Age Of AI

Discover how leaders can preserve their authentic identity, overcome AI brain fry, and break free from job hugging to thrive alongside automation.

OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

OpenRouter has raised a $113 million Series B led by CapitalG. Its 5x growth in usage over six months indicates the multi-AI-model future is here.

The Missing Moat In AI: Your Eval Data

AI’s next moat is eval data: the answer key for agents. I propose a thin client on Claude to make eval data first-class and help workflows self-correct.