Startups & Funding
Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD bet $310 million on AI startup building 3D world models
Amazon, Nvidia, AMD, and other investors are backing Odyssey ML with $310 million in funding, valuing the AI startup at...
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AI AgentsMeta
Social media’s next evolution: user-controlled algorithms
Social media platforms including Threads, Instagram, and TikTok are introducing new tools that give users greater...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
NEA’s Tiffany Luck on AI IPOs, personal agents, and the ROI reckoning
The article discusses the aftermath of excessive AI spending in Silicon Valley, where companies like Uber, Meta, and...
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Ethics & Regulation
"Dangerous" AI models are coming no matter what
The article discusses concerns about advanced AI models with dangerous hacking capabilities becoming increasingly...
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Startups & Funding
World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names
Odyssey, an AI startup focused on world models, has raised funding at a $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other...
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LLM
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 closes in on closed-source leaders in coding marathons
Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2, an open-source large language model with a 1-million-token context window under the MIT...
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AI Agents
Vercel Releases Eve: An Open-Source AI Agent Framework Where Each Agent is a Directory of Files Mapped to Capabilities
Vercel has open-sourced Eve, an Apache-2.0 licensed AI agent framework currently in public preview. The framework...
MarkTechPost
Ethics & Regulation
Two-thirds of Americans think AI is advancing too quickly
A Pew Research poll shows that 63 percent of Americans believe AI is advancing too quickly, despite chatbot usage...
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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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Ethics & RegulationAnthropic
The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible
The Trump administration is pressuring Anthropic to make its Fable 5 model completely resistant to jailbreak attempts...
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Personal AssistantsGoogle
Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker
Google is launching a new $99.99 Home Speaker powered by Gemini, replacing the rigid commands of Google Assistant with...
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Ethics & RegulationAnthropic
Vibe-decoding the White House-Anthropic fight over Fable
An article about a conflict between the White House and Anthropic regarding a project called Fable, touching on AI...
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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...
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Ethics & RegulationOpenAI
OpenAI researchers want to predict how often AI models will fail before launch
OpenAI researchers propose a method to predict how frequently AI models will fail after deployment, addressing gaps in...
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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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Personal AssistantsMeta
AI search grounded in Facebook posts? What could go wrong?
Meta has launched AI Mode in Facebook's search feature, which uses AI to answer complex queries by drawing from public...
The Verge AI
Personal AssistantsGoogle
Google’s first smart speaker in six years arrives next week
Google is launching its first new smart speaker in six years, the Google Home Speaker, with preorders opening June 17th...
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Personal AssistantsGoogle
The Gemini-Powered Google Home Speaker Is Finally Here
Google has released a new smart speaker powered by its Gemini AI chatbot, marking the company's first major smart...
Wired AI