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16 SEP 2026 · Swyx

AIUC's CEO, Rune Kvist, has raised $40M in Series A funding, backed by a list of prominent industry advisors, to build confidence infrastructure for frontier AI through standards and insurance, addressing the growing concern of liability and risk in autonomous systems. The company's mission is to make AI deployable and trustworthy by providing a standard for agent security, safety, and reliability, and by insuring AI systems against potential risks. This approach aims to overcome the current bottleneck in AI adoption, which is driven by trust and liability concerns rather than capability. AI summary

11 SEP 2026 · Zvi Mowshowitz

CEOs of major AI labs, and employees of major AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, often say they plan to build superintelligence soon, as in within a few years create AIs that are superior to humans at essentially all cognitive tasks.