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AI news flash: Komatsu is expanding one of its US mining equipment maintenance hubs to three times its current size, aiming to cash in on the ‘copper rush’ driven by American tech giants racing to build AI data centers. Copper is a critical metal for data center power infrastructure, and as AI compute demand surges, so does demand for domestic copper mining and related equipment. The original summary doesn’t go into detail on the specific location, investment amount, completion timeline, or maintenance services involved — check the source link for more.

AI news brief: The GitHub Copilot app has rolled out a new feature that automates the triage and review of Dependabot dependency update pull requests. This piece is part of GitHub’s official blog ‘for beginners’ series, aimed at developers who are just getting started with the Copilot app, explaining how to use AI to cut down on repetitive package version maintenance work.

AI News Brief: This news comes from the Google DeepMind blog, not internal data, translated directly: Google has launched a new speech-to-text model, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, built for accurate and intelligent speech recognition, already powering the Gemini App, Android Rambler, and the macOS Gemini App…

AI News Brief: OpenAI’s latest report explores how students and educators are using ChatGPT to extend learning beyond the classroom, turning it into an ongoing experience that isn’t tied to a fixed time or place. See the original article for full details.

AI news brief: The ChatGPT for Teachers program is expanding to 55 school districts across the US, bringing safe AI tools, training, and support to over 100,000 educators and staff. The expansion aims to help more school systems adopt ChatGPT with built-in safety features, letting teachers use AI to support lesson planning, admin work, and classroom tasks, alongside training to help staff use the tools properly.

AI News Brief: Runable, a Bangalore-based Indian startup founded in 2025 with a team of just 15, recently closed a $21 million Series A led by Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners, with existing investors Together Fund and Array VC also joining. This round was…

AI News Flash: Google, OpenAI, Meta, and TikTok launched the Japan Anti-Scam Alliance in Tokyo on August 26 together with the Japanese government and local businesses. It’s a public-private effort aimed at tackling online scam networks linked to Southeast Asia (especially crime hubs like Cambodia and Myanmar). The report notes these transnational criminal groups have increasingly leveraged cutting-edge tech tools to target victims in recent years, prompting Japanese authorities and international tech giants to team up on a joint anti-fraud mechanism.

AI News Brief: Generalist, a robotics startup founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers Pete Florence and Andy Zeng along with former Boston Dynamics engineer Andrew Barry, has reached a post-money valuation of $3 billion in its latest funding round led by 8VC. According to regulatory filings, the new capital raised is nearly $200 million,…

AI news brief: this piece is handled directly as part of Mimi’s content line AI news card task. Ringg is an Indian voice AI startup, formerly the text-to-speech company DesiVocal, that pivoted to enterprise voice AI agents after finding it too costly to build its own speech models. A Truecaller survey found over 76% of Indian consumers prefer phone communication, giving voice automation a massive market opportunity. Ringg now handles 20 million call attempts a month and just announced a fresh $10 million extension to its Series A from Peak XV Partners.

AI News Brief: Honda has begun using AI to assist with vehicle body design, cutting the traditional five-year development cycle down to about three years. The initiative is led by an internal Honda team that’s bringing AI into the vehicle design process, while trying to fold the company’s long-standing emphasis on open brainstorming discussions into the AI-assisted design workflow, rather than letting AI replace the team’s collective discussion process. Overall, this is a concrete case of Honda adopting AI tools…