Nvidia wants to scale robot simulation training with Lyra 2.0
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Nvidia wants to scale robot simulation training with Lyra 2.0

Nvidia has released Lyra 2.0, a system that generates large, coherent 3D environments from single photographs for...

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India's 1.5 million annual IT graduates face an industry that's moving on without them
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India's 1.5 million annual IT graduates face an industry that's moving on without them

India's IT industry is rapidly adopting agentic AI, leaving the country's 1.5 million annual IT graduates unprepared as...

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Google launches native Gemini app for Mac
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Google launches native Gemini app for Mac

Google has released a native Gemini app for Mac, expanding its AI assistant beyond smartphones to desktop. This marks...

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InsightFinder raises $15M to help companies figure out where AI agents go wrong
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InsightFinder raises $15M to help companies figure out where AI agents go wrong

InsightFinder raised $15M in funding to help companies monitor, diagnose, and understand where AI agents fail within...

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AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it’s boosting their revenue too
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AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it’s boosting their revenue too

Adobe reports that AI traffic to U.S. retail sites surged 393% in Q1, with a 269% jump specifically in March. AI-driven...

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Gemini can now pull from Google Photos to generate personalized images
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Gemini can now pull from Google Photos to generate personalized images

Google's Gemini can now generate personalized images using its Nano Banana 2 model by pulling data from Google Photos....

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Roblox’s AI assistant gets new agentic tools to plan, build, and test games
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Roblox’s AI assistant gets new agentic tools to plan, build, and test games

Roblox has introduced new agentic AI tools designed to assist game creators throughout the entire development process,...

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Anthropic releases a new Opus model amid Mythos Preview buzz
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Anthropic releases a new Opus model amid Mythos Preview buzz

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most powerful generally available model, featuring improvements in software...

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 makes a big leap in coding, while deliberately scaling back cyber capabilities
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 makes a big leap in coding, while deliberately scaling back cyber capabilities

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, its new flagship model featuring significant improvements in coding capabilities....

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Nvidia Partners with Chip Software Maker to Close Sim-to-Real Gap
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Nvidia Partners with Chip Software Maker to Close Sim-to-Real Gap

Nvidia has expanded its partnership with Cadence Design Systems to improve robot training accuracy and reduce the...

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Apple sends Siri developers to AI coding bootcamp
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Apple sends Siri developers to AI coding bootcamp

Apple is training fewer than 200 Siri developers through a multi-week bootcamp to learn AI coding tools like Claude and...

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OpenAI wants to sell more ads in ChatGPT, but advertisers are struggling with basic tools
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OpenAI wants to sell more ads in ChatGPT, but advertisers are struggling with basic tools

OpenAI is expanding its advertising business within ChatGPT with new pricing models, but early advertisers face...

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OpenAI Updates Agents SDK, Aims at Building Secure Agents
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OpenAI Updates Agents SDK, Aims at Building Secure Agents

OpenAI has updated its Agents SDK with features designed to enable faster agent deployment and improve security. The...

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Bytedance rolls out Seedance 2.0 to 100+ countries but keeps the US off the list
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Bytedance rolls out Seedance 2.0 to 100+ countries but keeps the US off the list

ByteDance is rolling out its AI video generation model Seedance 2.0 to over 100 countries, but notably excluding the...

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Runway CEO says AI could help Hollywood make 50 films instead of one $100M blockbuster
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Runway CEO says AI could help Hollywood make 50 films instead of one $100M blockbuster

Runway's CEO argues that AI technology could enable film studios to produce 50 films for the cost of a single $100M...

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Exclusive: GetWhys Raises $5.2M To Help Companies Like Intel And Verizon Better Understand Their Customers
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Exclusive: GetWhys Raises $5.2M To Help Companies Like Intel And Verizon Better Understand Their Customers

GetWhys, an AI-powered customer intelligence platform based in Boise, Idaho, has raised $5.2 million in funding to help...

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Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s ‘unconstrained’ relationship with the truth
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Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s ‘unconstrained’ relationship with the truth

Investigative journalist Ronan Farrow discusses his New Yorker feature on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, examining questions...

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Character.AI’s new Books mode turns reading into roleplay
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Character.AI’s new Books mode turns reading into roleplay

Character.AI launches a new "Books" mode featuring interactive roleplay experiences with over 20 classic public domain...

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Anthropic Plots Major London Expansion
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Anthropic Plots Major London Expansion

Anthropic has leased a new London office with capacity to quadruple its current 200-person workforce from around 50 to...

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