Ethics & Regulation
Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows
A Pew Research study reveals that only 16 percent of Americans believe AI will have a positive impact on society,...
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Other Companies
Research & Papers
Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.
The article discusses the challenge of collecting training data for physical AI systems, noting that while large...
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AI Agents
Nvidia research shows robots that train themselves through AI coding agents
Nvidia researchers, alongside Carnegie Mellon University and UC Berkeley, are using AI coding agents to train robots in...
The Decoder
Startups & Funding
Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI
Pramaana Labs secured a $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to develop formal verification technology for AI systems....
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Startups & Funding
Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom
A Canadian pension giant is acquiring an 8.2% stake in CtrlS, an Indian tech company operating over 15 data centers....
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Startups & Funding
DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation
DeepL has acquired Mixhalo to enhance its live-event audio streaming and translation capabilities. The acquisition...
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Startups & Funding
I Sold My AI Startup Before Revenue: Here’s What Investors Missed — And Founders Shouldn’t
An angel investor shares insights from selling his AI startup before generating revenue, discussing why deep technical...
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Personal Assistants
Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’
Pinterest has launched 'Ask Pinterest,' an experimental AI-powered shopping app that enables users to discover products...
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Startups & Funding
Hyperscalers may soon be unable to fund their AI buildout from cash flow alone
Major hyperscalers including Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle are spending on AI infrastructure at 70%...
The Decoder
Startups & Funding
The next humanoid robot might not look human at all
Genesis AI, a French startup backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, has unveiled Eno, a new general-purpose humanoid...
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LLM
MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA): a Two-Branch Block-Sparse Attention Trained on a 109B-Parameter MoE With a 3T-Token Budget
MiniMax released MSA, a sparse attention mechanism built on Grouped Query Attention that reduces per-token attention...
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Research & Papers
Could AI tell you where you left your keys?
Researchers have developed a new spatial memory system for robots that efficiently captures and recalls details about...
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Research & Papers
How to Build Memory-Efficient Transformers with xFormers Using Packed Sequences, GQA, ALiBi, SwiGLU, and Causal Attention
This article demonstrates how to implement xFormers, a toolkit for building memory-efficient Transformer models on GPUs...
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LLM
Introducing LifeSciBench
LifeSciBench is a new expert-authored and expert-reviewed benchmark designed to evaluate how AI systems perform on...
OpenAI Blog
AI Agents
Databricks’ new agentic coworker Genie One brings AI automation to every part of the business
Databricks launched Genie One, an agentic AI tool designed to help business teams automate workflows and orchestrate...
SiliconANGLE
AI Agents
The AGI moment? Databricks’ new releases zero in on support and deployment of AI agents
Databricks released a new Lake Transactional/Analytical Processing architecture designed to support AI agents in...
SiliconANGLE
Startups & Funding
Bland raises $50M to automate complex, high-stakes phone calls
Bland, a voice AI startup founded in 2023, has raised $50 million in funding to expand its AI agents that handle phone...
SiliconANGLE
Startups & Funding
SpaceX to acquire vibe coding startup Cursor for $60B
SpaceX announced plans to acquire Cursor, a popular AI coding platform, for $60 billion in stock, with closing expected...
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Startups & Funding
SpaceX Aims at Agentic Coding With $60B Cursor Acquisition
SpaceX is acquiring Cursor, an AI coding assistant, for $60 billion to expand its developer offerings and gain access...
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