How Did AI Deals Hit **$90M** Before Noon? 💸🤖📈

TL;DR

• Cyber risk AI lands $75M Series C fuel
• Vertical AI for construction secures fresh backing
• Agentic finance startup closes strategic seed round
• Governments tighten AI rules and infrastructure bets

HEADLINES

Samsung Electronics unveiled Galaxy S26 “agentic AI phone” 📱🔗

Anthropic rolled out 10 new enterprise plug-ins 🧠🔗

Pentagon probed contractors’ reliance on Anthropic AI 🛰️🔗

DeepBrain AI joined cross-border deepfake detection SaaS program 🎭🔗

SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 projected 700 AI-focused startups exhibiting 🏙️🔗

X Square Robot secured several-hundred-million-yuan embodied AI round 🤖🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

Springcoast Partners invested $75M in UpGuard 🛡️🔗

Bessemer Venture Partners invested $10M in MeltPlan 🏗️🔗

Franklin Templeton invested in $5M seed for t54 Labs 🏦🔗

RAISES

UpGuard raised $75M in a Series C led by/from Springcoast Partners 📊🔗

MeltPlan raised $10M in a seed round led by/from Bessemer Venture Partners 🚧🔗

t54 Labs raised $5M in a seed round from Anagram and Franklin Templeton 🤝🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Anthropic unveiled new Claude enterprise workflow plug-ins 🚀🔗

Samsung Electronics launched Galaxy S26 agentic AI smartphones 📱🔗

DeepBrain AI announced global deepfake detection SaaS initiative 🌐🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

UpGuard CRPM unifies AI-powered cyber risk posture management 🛡️🔗

MeltPlan offers AI-native preconstruction planning engine 🏗️🔗

DeepBrain AI Studios provides AI video, avatars, deepfake detection 🎥🔗

t54 Agent Trust Layer powers identity and risk for AI agents 🤖🔗

METRICS

UpGuard platform processes 100B+ cyber risk signals daily 📊🔗

UpGuard completed 70k AI risk assessments, 700k questionnaires 📈🔗

SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 expects 700 startups, 60,000 attendees, 10,000 meetings 📊🔗

t54 Labs cites 42% consumers open to AI purchasing 📉🔗

MeltPlan targets $14T global construction planning market 📐🔗

BENCHMARKS

AI Basic Act Korea sets national framework for trustworthy AI deployment 📘🔗

SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 anchors AI, robotics as core conference pillars 📊🔗

Korea–Japan hub program links Songdo, Tokyo as AI commercialization pipeline 🌏🔗

UpGuard ranks top 15 security vendors in G2 2026 🏅🔗

INFRA & COSTS

Samsung Electronics raised Galaxy S26 prices amid AI-driven chip costs 💾🔗

UpGuard processed 23B tokens in last 100 days ⚙️🔗

SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 showcases humanoid robotics, autonomous systems infrastructure 🤖🔗

X Square Robot funding accelerates embodied AI for vehicle manufacturing 🚗🔗

VALUATIONS

X Square Robot claims top 2026 valuation among embodied AI 🏷️🔗

Galaxea AI cited above 10B yuan robotics valuation 📈🔗

AI² Robotics joins China’s 10B+ yuan embodied AI club 🤖🔗

Spirit AI reaches over 10B yuan robotics valuation 📊🔗

POLICY

Republic of Korea enforced AI Basic Act 2026 framework ⚖️🔗

DeepBrain AI project aligns deepfake SaaS with new labeling rules 🛡️🔗

US Department of Defense weighs classifying Anthropic as supply-chain risk 🏛️🔗

SOVEREIGN

Korea MSS links Songdo, Tokyo hubs for bio and AI 🌏🔗

Tokyo Metropolitan strategy uses SusHi Tech to attract AI capital 🏙️🔗

South Korean R&D program funds cross-border deepfake detection infrastructure 🌐🔗

SECTORS

Construction deployed AI planning engine for preconstruction 🏗️🔗

Cybersecurity deployed AI-driven cyber risk posture management 🛡️🔗

Media and finance deployed deepfake detection SaaS across institutions 🎭🔗

Consumer electronics deployed agentic AI assistants on smartphones 📱🔗

Autonomous finance deployed trust layer for AI payment agents 💳🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Chandler Fang shipped t54’s $5M agentic finance seed round 🚀🔗