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Insider Brief Vecna Robotics raised $31 million to expand its autonomous mobile robot business and develop new warehouse automation capabilities for moving cases and pallets. The round was led by Unless, with participation from Drive Capital, Tiger Global, Highland Capital Partners and Tectonic Ventures, while Vecna plans to scale deployments and add pallet stacking, de-stacking […]

HP has scaled its OpenAI Frontier integration across global operations to optimise enterprise workflows and accelerate output. The hardware manufacturer initiated testing of the platform in February 2026. Early pilot programs yielded verified operational gains in software engineering and cybersecurity remediation. Expanding these initial trials into an enterprise-wide operating model requires connecting access protocols, contextual […]

Autonomous AI agents capable of writing and submitting grant applications without human involvement represent a fundamental threat to the integrity of research funding, according to experts speaking at a webinar organised by the League of European Research Universities. Geraint Rees, vice provost for research, innovation and global engagement at UCL, drew a sharp distinction between […]