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Deep dive into ARM’s physical AI and robotics strategies with Drew Henry

The Robot Report Podcast · Deep Dive into ARM’s Physical AI and Robotics Strategies with Drew Henry Episode 249 of The Robot Report Podcast features Drew Henry of Arm Holdings PLC. Podcast guest: Drew Henry of Arm Drew Henry. | Credit: Arm Drew Henry is executive vice president of Arm’s Physical AI Business Unit, leading the Cambridge, U.K.-based company‘s strategy for the computing and software technologies that power automotive, robotics, and autonomous systems. These markets sit

India’s MoEngage bets that the future of marketing is millions of AI agents

The all-cash deal gives MoEngage access to technology that assigns AI agents to individual customers.

ExRobotics launches UL-certified inspection robot for hazardous environments

The ExR-2.5 robots is now available in North America. Source: ExRobotics Oil and gas operators face mounting pressure from aging infrastructure, acute workforce shortages, and the escalating cost of unplanned downtime, noted ExRobotics B.V. The company today made the North American launch of its UL-certified ExR-2.5 autonomous inspection robot at the Energy Drone & Robotics Summit in Houston. “The inspection challenges facing oil and gas operators are intensifying — skilled labor is ha

Mistral OCR 4 Brings Citation-Ready Structured Output to RAG, Agentic, and Enterprise Search Pipelines

Today, Mistral AI released OCR 4, its latest document-understanding model. This new release adds bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores alongside extracted text. It supports 170 languages across 10 language groups and runs in a single container for fully self-hosted deployments. OCR 4 also serves as an ingestion component for enterprise search, RAG, and domain-specific retrieval pipelines. TL;DR OCR 4 returns bounding boxes, typed-block labels, and per-word c

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Hollywood is bending the knee to OpenAI

Netflix, A24, Focus Features, and Warner Bros.' Clockwork have all reportedly decided to pass on picking up Artificial - director Luca Guadagnino's new biographical drama about OpenAI cofounder / CEO Sam Altman - for distribution deals. And while Neon and Mubi are still said to be interested in the film, this situation makes it seem like Hollywood no longer has the courage to tell critical stories about Big Tech. Postproduction on Artificial was nearly finished when Amazon MGM

Google Home will soon get better at recognizing you

A new update for Google Home could make it less likely your smart home cameras mistake you for someone else, just because you're facing away from the camera. Starting June 23rd, Google's expanding its facial recognition feature so that people you've tagged in your Familiar Faces library can continue to be identified when their faces aren't clearly visible, using "additional non-biometric signals (body size, clothing color, etc.)." The Familiar Faces library will also begin aut

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Vention collaborates with FANUC and Universal Robots on software-defined automation

Vention’s AI-powered platform enables FANUC industrial and collaborative robots to autonomously generate collision-free motion paths while providing integrated monitoring and remote support. Source: CNW Group/Vention At Automate this week in Chicago, Vention Inc. is showcasing partnerships around software-defined automation. The company has expanded support for FANUC America industrial robots, and it has optimized a new digital twin platform for Universal Robots deployments. “We&#821

Virginia Approves First-Ever Data Center Power Tax

Virginia’s new electricity tax on data centers, including self-generated power, is projected to generate $600M annually.

How to Use NVIDIA Canary-1B-v2 for ASR, Translation, and Automatic SRT Subtitle Export in Python

In this tutorial, we build a speech recognition and translation workflow using NVIDIA Canary-1B-v2. We begin by setting up the required audio, NeMo, NumPy, and SciPy dependencies, then load the Canary model on a GPU-enabled runtime for efficient inference. From there, we prepare audio into a clean 16 kHz mono format, perform English ASR, translate speech into multiple languages, generate word and segment timestamps, export translated subtitles as an SRT file, test long-form transcription, run b

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Datalab Releases lift: A 9B Open-Weights Vision Model That Extracts Structured JSON From PDFs Using Schemas

Datalab has released lift, a 9B open-weights vision model for structured extraction. You pass it a JSON schema, and it returns a JSON object that matches. The model reads PDFs and images directly, then decodes against your schema. This is Datalab’s first model built purely for extraction. The team already ships open-source OCR tools: chandra, marker, and surya. lift extends that work into schema-driven field extraction. lift scores 90.2% field accuracy on Datalab’s 225-documen

Oracle’s 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments

The growing use of AI contributed to Oracle laying off 21,000 workers in a year, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. In its annual regulatory filing for the fiscal year ending May 31, Oracle said it has 141,000 full-time employees. In its 2025 filing, Oracle said it had 162,000 employees. The reported 12.9 percent reduction followed March reports of mass layoffs at the database management software company. "[T]he adoption and deployment of AI technologies across

Helping build shared standards for advanced AI

OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation through the Appia Foundation.

CreateMe partners with Avalo and Laguna Fabrics to bring resilience to apparel supply chains

CreateMe’s platform includes Pixel micro-adhesive bonding, the MeRA robotic assembly system, and Thermo(re)set reversible adhesive science. | Source: CreateMe Technologies CreateMe Technologies Inc. today announced strategic partnerships with Avalo and Laguna Fabrics to introduce Seed to System. This initiative aims to connect climate-smart cotton, domestic textile manufacturing, and robotic garment assembly into a single AI-assisted ecosystem. The partnership aims to demonstrate how appar

Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election

Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers chronicling the misadventures of their favorite tech overlords and Washington swamp creatures. ("Favorite" is, of course, subjective.) Not a subscriber yet? Sign up here, especially if you want the hot scoop on quality Amazon Prime Day deals recommended by the wonderful humans of The Verge's newsroom, and not by a slop algorithm. Some news: The Verge now has a special subscription price of $10 / year for stud

Something’s off with Midjourney’s pivot to body scanners

A scan of an imaging phantom, segmented to validate how cleanly structures separate under controlled conditions. | Image: Midjourney Medical Last week, Midjourney, an AI startup best known for its image generator, made an unusual pivot: medical imaging. The company announced a futuristic ultrasound scanner that would dunk users into a vat of water and, hopefully, produce "something as powerful as MRI" yet "as casual as a trip to the spa." Midjourney says the goal is to help peo

Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time

Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows.

How GPT-5 helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a 3-year-old mystery

GPT-5 Pro helped solve a 3-year-old immunology mystery, offering insights into T cell behavior. The breakthrough could support cancer and autoimmune research.

Why physical AI 2.0 needs a reality check

Physical AI needs more than data to enable robots to be more effective. Source: Erika AI, via Adobe Stock The world of artificial intelligence is moving from chatbots to vision processing—AI that lives in robots and self-driving cars. While we have made major strides in training these systems using massive datasets and digital simulations, a critical gap remains: the bridge between what a robot “sees” and what is actually happening in our messy, physical world. High-level reasoning i

The Breaking Points 2035: A Data Center Space Odyssey

Orbital data centers promise relief from terrestrial power challenges, but their future may hinge on a harder question: repair infrastructure or replace fleets.

How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots

Last year we featured a lengthy interview with tech journalist/science fiction author Cory Doctorow about his book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It. The prolific Doctorow is back with a provocative new book that serves as a follow-up of sorts, focusing on AI and related issues: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI. Doctorow doesn't actually enjoy talking about AI, but he's constantly being asked to comment on it. "I made the tactical error of b

Sony’s AI Camera Assistant is exactly as bad as it looks

I’m sorry Sony, your AI isn’t very good at photography. When Sony announced the Xperia 1 VIII last month, it promoted the phone by sharing some of the worst photos taken on a Sony camera in years. These weren't just any photos, though: they were taken with Sony's new AI Camera Assistant. After a week with the Xperia 1 VIII, I'm here to tell you that the AI assistant is exactly as bad as Sony made it look. After Sony first showed me the AI Camera Assistant during a press briefing

The Fitbit Air takes a smarter approach to the AI health dumpster fire

The Google Fitbit Air is one of the better attempts at an AI-compatible health tracker. Google Health Coach seems to think I'm on the verge of physical collapse. My sleep is not where it needs to be, hence my unimpressive readiness score. My heart rate variability, a measure of how recovered I am, is below baseline. I'm spending too much time in a hot, humid environment, it says, reminding me temperatures are creeping above 90 degrees Fahrenheit. According to Google's AI coach,

Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban

For the past three years, "Meta" and "Ray-Ban" have been synonymous in the smart glasses space. Not anymore. Yesterday, I slipped on several pairs of Meta Glasses - no Ray-Bans - in three different styles and seven colors. One style, I was told several times by various enthusiastic Meta spokespeople, is a collaboration with socialite and reality TV star Kylie Jenner. Meta could've struck out on its own from the get-go, but teaming up with EssilorLuxottica and the Ray-Ban brand

Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates

Stockholm-based startup Fika Jobs is building a video-first hiring platform that combines AI interview agents with short-form video profiles, creating something that feels like a cross between LinkedIn and TikTok.

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4 days left to save up to $190 on TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026

Four days left to save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 - the ultimate founder bootcamp - before Early Bird rates end on June 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here.

Introducing Mistral OCR 4

Mistral OCR 4 delivers enterprise document AI with 170-language support, bounding boxes, and self-hosted deployment.

Chevron Lands 20-Year Microsoft Deal to Power West Texas AI Campus

Microsoft's West Texas power agreement with Chevron shows how AI developers are securing generation capacity alongside compute.

Data Centers Take Training into Their Own Hands Amid Talent Shortages

Data center operators are launching training programs, apprenticeships, and college partnerships to address growing AI-era talent shortages.

Prime Intellect Releases prime-rl 0.6.0 to Train Trillion-Parameter MoE Models on Agentic RL Workloads

Prime Intellect has released prime-rl version 0.6.0. The framework targets reinforcement learning on trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. It focuses on heavy agentic workloads, like long-horizon software-engineering tasks. The research team trained GLM-5 on SWE tasks at up to 131k sequence length. Step times stayed under five minutes. The batch size was 256 rollouts. The run used only 28 H200 nodes. TL;DR prime-rl 0.6.0 trains trillion-parameter MoE models on agentic RL

GLM-5.2 OpenAI-Compatible API: A Hands-On Guide to Reasoning Effort, Function Calling, and Long-Context Retrieval

In this tutorial, we work with GLM-5.2 and use its hosted, OpenAI-compatible API instead of running the full model locally. We begin by setting up multiple provider options, securely loading the API key, and creating a reusable chat wrapper that supports normal chat, thinking mode, streaming, tool calling, and token tracking. Then we move beyond a simple chatbot example and test the model in more practical situations, including reasoning-effort control, streamed reasoning and answers, function

How Omio is building the future of conversational travel

Discover how Omio uses OpenAI to power conversational travel experiences, accelerate product development, and transform into an AI-native company.

The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open-source bugs

OpenAI is attempting to tackle the security issues of the open source software community.

FORT and NVIDIA launch AI-driven Outside-In Safety blueprint

FORT extends robot perception beyond on-board sensors by including external sensors to dynamically control robot behavior and perform at maximum efficiency. | Credit: FORT Robotics FORT Robotics announced today that it has joined the NVIDIA Halos for Robotics ecosystem. The companies introduced an AI-driven “Outside-In Safety” solution. They designed this solution to boost autonomous robot productivity and worker safety by utilizing external infrastructure sensors. The company will d

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

The move comes after the company left potentially sensitive data from the initiative exposed internally.

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GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers

Dozens of new robot arms have been installed at General Motors’ flagship electric vehicle factory in Detroit—even as 1,300 workers remain out of work following what was supposed to be a temporary layoff. The latest automation push has spurred union pushback over a potentially existential issue for automakers and their workers. General Motors installed approximately 50 robot arms at GM’s Factory Zero plant in Detroit, Michigan, according to reporting by Crain’s Detroit Business. Made by the Japan

Nvidia says its AI data center design runs hotter to use a lot less water

Public pushback against data centers has emphasized their water and energy consumption, and now Nvidia is highlighting its claim that the Rubin generation reference design for a fully liquid-cooled data center has "eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage." Still, it doesn't address all of the concerns around AI data centers, including during their construction, and for the power generation requirements of the massive facilities. Also, as Gizmod

Bear Robotics acquires Kinisi Robotics to boost its physical AI capabilities

Kinisi Robotics’ KR1 will join Bear Robotics’ portfolio of service robots. | Source: Bear Robotics Bear Robotics today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kinisi Robotics. The transaction will make Kinisi part of Bear. On closing, Kinisi’s KR1 humanoid robot, its Bristol-based engineering team, and its physical AI capabilities will be integrated into Bear Robotics, completing Bear’s end-to-end physical AI robotics platform. The companies expect to cl

Eclipse Automation launches RealitySync simulation platform

Eclipse RealitySync helps manufacturers evaluate, de-risk, and scale automation faster. | Source: Eclipse Automation Eclipse Automation launched Eclipse RealitySync at Automate 2026. The company said this product offers a new approach to how manufacturers evaluate, de-risk, and scale factory automation. Factory automation has grown more complex, connected, and harder to assess using traditional methods. Eclipse RealitySync allows manufacturers to step into their future factory before it’s built.

How Intrinsic eliminates manual robot coding

Intrinsic Intelligence aims to unlock new value for the industry through adaptive AI-enabled industrial robotics. | Credit: Intrinsic Alphabet’s Intrinsic debuted a modular, software-first robotic workcell design powered by IntrinsicOS. With the platform, Intrinsic aims to democratize industrial AI by replacing complex robot coding with drag-and-drop automation. This comes ahead of Intrinsic’s major manufacturing pilot with Foxconn later this year. The company is demonstrating the Int

Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program

Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI models.

xAI Launches /goal in Grok Build, Adding Long-Running Autonomous Execution With Built-In Verification for Multi-Step Coding Tasks

xAI shipped a new mode called /goal inside Grok Build, its terminal coding agent. The feature targets long-running, autonomous task execution. You hand the agent a larger implementation task, then step back. Most coding sessions require back-and-forth execution and verification. You prompt, the agent acts, and you verify each step. /goal changes that loop. The agent keeps working until a task is completed and verified. Verification can mean reviewing code, inspecting webpages, or executing

Sakana AI Launches Sakana Fugu: An Orchestration Model That Routes Tasks Across a Swappable Pool of Frontier LLMs

Today, Sakana AI launched Sakana Fugu. It is a multi-agent orchestration system that behaves like one model. You send a request to a single endpoint. Fugu decides how to handle it internally. It solves a task directly when that is enough. It also assembles and coordinates a team of expert models when needed. The complexity of a multi-agent system never reaches your code. TL;DR Fugu delivers a multi-agent system behind one OpenAI-compatible API. Fugu Ultra leads most published coding a

AI is cursing renters with the promise of impossible homes

Joyce, a native New Yorker, didn't think finding her first solo apartment in the city would be easy. But she also didn't think it'd be "hell." After looking at a lot of tiny, overpriced places she described as "shitholes," Joyce found her dream apartment: a reasonably priced studio in Manhattan. "It was big and airy, and there was a fireplace," she said. The kitchen was small but well equipped and looked like it had been recently renovated. She dropped everything to see the ap

Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI’s future in Hollywood with A24 deal

Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.

Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem

Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.

AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire deal

What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.

The AI world is getting ‘loopy’

The loop takes agentic AI a step further, by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.

Codex-maxxing for long-running work

Learn how Jason Liu uses Codex to preserve context, manage complex projects, and help work continue beyond a single prompt.

NVIDIA releases Halos, a full-stack safety system for robotics

Agility Robotics is the first to use NVIDIA Halos for Robotics to build safety into its humanoids working in factories, warehouses, and logistics operations for customers including Amazon, GXO, Schaeffler, and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada. | Source: NVIDIA NVIDIA today launched NVIDIA Halos for Robotics. This is a full-stack, comprehensive safety system for robotics and physical AI that unifies AI compute and safety. NVIDIA said autonomous robots will need AI foundation models, accelerated

OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos

Amid concerns about AI models’ cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI revealed an improved version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its “Patch the Planet” initiative to fix open-source software bugs.

Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Hindi support

Amazon sent emails to customers inviting them to test Alexa+

SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab

Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia's latest GB300 AI chips and supporting hardware across SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, Tennessee.

Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers

OpenAI introduces Patch the Planet, a Daybreak initiative helping open-source maintainers find, validate, and fix vulnerabilities with AI and expert review.

Daybreak: Tools for securing every organization in the world

OpenAI introduces new Daybreak tools, including Codex Security and GPT-5.5-Cyber, to help organizations find, validate, and patch vulnerabilities at scale.

Cobot’s Proxie Gen 2 robot adds autotasking, mobile manipulation

Collaborative Robtics’ Proxie 2.0 offers bimanual manipulation and autotasking. | Credit: Collaborative Robotics Collaborative Robotics (Cobot) unveiled the second-generation version of its Proxie mobile robot, adding greater payload capacity, self-swapping batteries, autonomous task identification, and a new two-armed manipulation option as the company looks to expand deployments across healthcare, logistics, and manufacturing. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company introduced Proxie Gen 2

How Anthropic may have talked itself into an AI export ban

Anthropic has warned about the dangers of advanced AI far more often than rival OpenAI this year, according to FT analysis, as critics accuse the company of helping to trigger a US ban on foreign access to its newest models. Five in every 1,000 words used by Anthropic in 2026 related to risk, regulation, or restrictions, according to FT research that analyzed official statements, social media posts, and articles written by the company or its chief, Dario Amodei. The equivalent figure for OpenAI

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The founder conference built for growth: TechCrunch Founder Summit pass rates increase June 26

Save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 by June 26, 11:59 p.m. PT. Designed for founders first on November 4 in Boston. Register here.

World Cup Scams Are Getting Harder to Spot

From fake tickets to cloned websites, AI is magnifying World Cup scams. Can fans distinguish between what’s real and what’s not?

Some Electricians Think Building Data Centers Is for Sellouts

Big Tech is throwing big money into data center buildouts. As national opposition to the facilities grows, some workers are beginning to question whether it’s worth it.

Read this before you vibe-code another app

Bob Starr was delighted with his vibe-coded website. "Boomberg" showed how much US tax money is going to tech companies, and Starr launched it online immediately after making it. It wasn't until months after the site went live that he realized there was a problem: a hidden SQL injection risk. It could've left the site open for an attacker to read or alter data they shouldn't have access to. "It was just a glaring oversight on my part. It was a complete blindspot in my state of

Building Data Centers Faster: Plays That De-Risk Delays

Data center build timelines are driven less by the shell and more by permitting, utility interconnection, and supply-chain bottlenecks.

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How to Design Python-First Interactive Dashboards with Prefab Reactive UI Components and Static HTML Export

In this tutorial, we build a Prefab application that demonstrates how to create interactive dashboards entirely in Python. We use Prefab’s component-based Python interface to design a polished operations dashboard with reactive state, charts, tables, filters, forms, tabs, alerts, metrics, and client-side actions. We generate realistic pipeline monitoring data, connect it to live UI controls, and export the final app as a static HTML dashboard that we can preview directly inside Google Colab. Th

Crawlee for Python: Build a Web Crawling Pipeline with Robots Handling, Link Graphs, and RAG Chunk Export

In this tutorial, we build a full Crawlee-for-Python workflow that covers environment setup, local website generation, static crawling, dynamic crawling, structured extraction, and downstream data processing. We begin by configuring a compatible Crawlee runtime with pinned Pydantic support, Playwright browser installation, persistent storage directories, and Colab-safe execution handling. We then generate a realistic local demo website containing product pages, documentation pages, blog content

The 7 Types of Agent Memory: A Technical Guide for AI Engineers

Large language models are stateless by default. Each API call starts fresh. The model forgets your last message once the response returns. That is fine for a single question. It breaks the moment you build an agent. Agents plan, call tools, and run across many steps. They need to remember. Memory is the infrastructure that fixes this. It turns a stateless model into a system that retains context. That system can learn from experience and act over time. What is Agent Memory Memory is an

MoonMath AI Open-Sources a HIP Attention Kernel for AMD MI300X That Beats AITER v3 on Every Shape and Rounding Mode

MoonMath AI team has released a bf16 forward attention kernel for AMD’s MI300X GPU. It is written in HIP, not hand-written assembly. The code is open-source under the MIT license. The MoonMath.ai team reports it beats AITER v3, AMD’s own optimized kernel, on every tested shape. Bare-metal access came from HotAisle, an AMD cloud provider. Attention is the fused softmax(QKᵀ/√d)·V operation inside every transformer. The MI300X is AMD’s CDNA3 data-center GPU, with the ISA targe

Güdel to show grinding beyond stationary robots with vertical, horizontal motion at Automate 2026

Gudel will demonstrate a grinding application at Automate 2026. Source: Titan Robotics Grinding and surface finishing of fabricated parts is one of the classic dull, dirty, or dangerous applications that are suitable for robot automation. Unfortunately, this requires multiple robots and complex part repositioning, which adds significant cost and extends cycle times while introducing new sources of variation in the process, noted Güdel AG. At Automate 2026, the company plans to show a system desi

28 Tips to Take Your ChatGPT Prompts to the Next Level

Sure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.

When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?

On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.

Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27

Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving elsewhere in iOS 27.

Samsung Electronics brings ChatGPT and Codex to employees

Samsung Electronics deploys ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees worldwide, marking one of OpenAI’s largest enterprise AI rollouts.

Defense manufacturing readiness hinges on autonomous finishing, says GrayMatter Robotics

GrayMatter Robotics uses its Factory SuperIntelligence AI architecture across industries, environments, materials, geometries, and applications. | Source: GrayMatter Robotics Workforce shortfall and attrition in defense manufacturing are measurable, and their effects are showing up in readiness data. GrayMatter Robotics said that its autonomous surface-finishing systems represent one structural response to the trades shortage driving that attrition. According to the Government Accountability Off

Siri AI Hands On: A Smart, Helpful Assistant

The new Siri AI is conversational, omnipresent, and actually helpful.

Cisco AI Introduces FAPO: Pipeline-Aware Prompt Optimization With Step-Level Failure Attribution and Claude Code Orchestration

Getting prompts right is still the hardest part of shipping reliable LLM applications. Small wording changes can swing accuracy by 20 percent. What works on a few examples often breaks at scale. When a multi-step pipeline returns a wrong answer, finding the failing step means inspecting intermediate outputs by hand. Cisco AI introduced FAPO to address that bottleneck. FAPO stands for Fully Automated Prompt Optimization. It is a Claude Code-driven system that optimizes LLM pipelines from base

Nous Research Updates Hermes Agent With a Blank Slate Mode That Pins Toolsets via platform_toolsets.cli and disabled_toolsets

Nous Research has added a Blank Slate setup mode to its open-source Hermes Agent. It inverts the usual onboarding. Instead of a fully loaded default, you start with almost nothing. Hermes Agent is the self-improving agent framework from Nous Research. It runs on your own machine. The team announced the new mode on X. Blank Slate now joins two existing options: Quick Setup and Full Setup. TL;DR Blank Slate boots an agent with everything off except provider & model, File Operations,

Yandex Open-Sources YaFF: A Zero-Copy Wire Format for Protobuf With Near-Struct Read Speed

TLDR YaFF is Yandex’s open-source zero-copy wire format for Protobuf — Apache 2.0, currently C++, v0.1.0. The .proto file stays the source of truth; only the physical memory layout changes. On Yandex’s benchmarks, the Flat Layout reads hot data ~3.8× faster than FlatBuffers, within 1.2× of a raw C++ struct. Four layouts — Fixed, Flat, Sparse, Dynamic — trade read speed for schema flexibility; Dynamic is the default. YaFF runs in its advertising recommendation system,

How to Build a Forecasting Pipeline with TimeCopilot Using Foundation Models and Automated Anomaly Detection

In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end forecasting workflow with TimeCopilot. We prepare a panel dataset containing real airline passenger data and a synthetic seasonal series with injected anomalies, then evaluate a diverse collection of statistical, foundation, and optional GPU-based forecasting models. We use rolling cross-validation and multiple error metrics to identify the strongest model, generate probabilistic forecasts with prediction intervals, visualize future trends, and detect un

The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI

Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over 100,000 songs each. According to Reisner, the sets have been downloaded thousands of times and, while it's impossible to know exactly who has used them, Googl

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

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In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

So ... what's your In the Weights score?

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.

Vibe gets to work.

The unified agent for long-horizon productivity and coding, launching with Work and Code modes. Plus, a new Vibe VS Code extension.

Connect the dots: Build with built-in and custom MCPs in Studio

Connect enterprise data to your AI applications with reusable connectors, direct tool calling, and human-in-the-loop approval controls.

Speaking of Voxtral

Voxtral TTS: A frontier, open-weights text-to-speech model that’s fast, instantly adaptable, and produces lifelike speech for voice agents.

Introducing physics AI at Mistral: the foundation for engineering acceleration.

A new class of AI models that predict the behavior of physical systems, powering the engineers and hardware products of tomorrow.

Introducing Forge

Today, we’re introducing Forge, a system for enterprises to build frontier-grade AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge.

Remote agents in Vibe. Powered by Mistral Medium 3.5.

Introducing Mistral Medium 3.5, remote coding agents in Vibe, plus new Work mode in Le Chat for complex tasks.

AI Now Summit 2026

Innovations for global enterprises solving the world’s hardest problems.

Workflows for work that runs the business

Workflows is now in public preview.

Introducing Search Toolkit

Search Toolkit is a composable framework for building production search pipelines for AI applications.

Physics AI research that’s shaping the industry.

Published breakthroughs pushing the state of the art.

Fast-tracking genetic leads to reverse cellular aging

Biologists use Co-Scientist to find novel factors that successfully rejuvenate human cells.

Opening new paths in aging research

Calico Life Sciences uses Co-Scientist to connect scattered findings and generate new leads in aging research.

Gemini for Science: AI experiments and tools for a new era of discovery

A collection of science tools and experiments to expand the scale and precision of scientific exploration.

Investing in multi-agent AI safety research

Google DeepMind and partners announce a $10M funding call for multi-agent safety research.

Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning

UK government partners with Google DeepMind to build a new AI-powered prototype aimed at faster housing decisions.

Finding the molecular switches behind new infectious diseases

Clare Bryant uses Co-Scientist to identify genetic triggers in emerging infectious diseases.

Strengthening Singapore’s AI Future: A New National Partnership

Google DeepMind and Singapore partner to apply frontier AI to address complex challenges across health, education, and sustainability and more.

Accelerating discovery of liver disease mechanisms

Filippo Menolascina uses Co-Scientist to identify new liver disease treatments and explain why existing drugs only help certain patients.

Securing the future of AI agents

Securing internal systems with an AI Control Roadmap, combining traditional safeguards and real-time monitoring.

Simulate real-world places with Project Genie and Street View

We’re expanding access to Google AI Ultra subscribers globally and introducing a new capability powered by Street View.

Measuring the impact of learning with AI in Sierra Leone and beyond

Results from a randomized controlled trial show the potential of Gemini’s Guided Learning feature to boost engagement and accelerate learning.

Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate brings near real-time, natural speech translation to Google AI Studio, Google Translate and Google Meet.

Making it easier to understand how content was created and edited

We're expanding our tools to help you understand how content was created and edited across the web.

Uniting biological toolkits for a new approach to ALS

Co-Scientist unites Boston Children’s Hospital and MIT’s labs to explore new RNA-based treatments for ALS.

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Benchmarks and Analysis of GLM-5.2

VibeThinker-3B: A 3B Dense Reasoning Model Built on Qwen2.5-Coder-3B With the Spectrum-to-Signal Post-Training Pipeline

While recent breakthroughs in AI reasoning have largely been driven by massive scale, pouring in billions of parameters to cross complex cognitive thresholds—VibeThinker-3B is charting a completely different path. Created by researchers from Sina Weibo Inc (China), this 3-billion-parameter model proves that efficiency can punch far above its weight class. Released under an open-source MIT license, VibeThinker-3B matches the performance of models hundreds of times its size on verifiable tasks

NVIDIA AI Introduce SpatialClaw: A Training-Free Agent That Treats Code as the Action Interface for Spatial Reasoning

NVIDIA Research has released SpatialClaw, a training-free framework for spatial reasoning. It targets a persistent weakness in vision-language models (VLMs). These models still struggle to judge where objects are, how they relate, and how they move in 3D. SpatialClaw does not retrain the model. Instead, it changes the action interface the agent uses to call perception tools. The research team argues the interface is the bottleneck. Their solution is to treat code as the action interface. Acr

How to turn off AI in your Google Docs

Here's what you need to do to get those pesky "write with Gemini" pop-ups to go away.

Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jailbreaks exist in other models. So is […]

The US banned Anthropic’s Fable 5 release, but the numbers don’t seem to care

Encryption, spyware, and now Mythos: History shows why cyber export control doesn’t work

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

Billionaire Ambani wants AI in every call, app, and home

Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.

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Elmo releases new motion controller and servo drives for industrial applications

Elmo’s motion control portfolio includes servo drives, network-based multi-axis motion controllers, and integrated servo motors. | Source: Elmo Motion Control Elmo Motion Control Ltd. yesterday launched new servo drives and a new motion controller drives for a wide range of applications in industrial, harsh, and extreme environments. The new products can work across temperature, altitude, sea depth, humidity, vibration, and more. “Our customers need more than just compact size and power de

U.S. robotics industry saw double-digit growth in 2025, says IFR

A chart showing annual installations of industrial robots in the U.S. | Source: IFR The number of industrial robot installations in the United States rose by 11% year over year, according to the International Federation of Robotics, or IFR. U.S. robotics installations reached 38,000 units in 2025. Robust growth in the food industry and other non-manufacturing sectors drove this recovery, said the Frankfurt, Germany-based organization. However, the automotive industry still remains the largest ad

QumulusAI’s $124M Deal Spotlights AI Infrastructure’s Utilization Challenge

Hyperbolic and QumulusAI say customers now care as much about utilization, efficiency, and production operations as raw GPU capacity.

Data Centers’ Next Hurdle: Winning Public Trust and Social License

The industry faces a “public legitimacy challenge,” where earning social license and trust has become as critical to success as obtaining megawatts and permits.

Discover 2026: HPE Bets on Hybrid Quantum-Supercomputing Architectures

HPE expands quantum partnerships as it works to connect supercomputers, AI systems, and quantum processors in future hybrid environments.

Federal Colocation Readiness: What Data Center Operators Must Prove

Discover how commercial data centers can meet US federal needs for uptime, security, and compliance, with guidance on readiness, ATO, and procurement.

Why Validation Will Define the Future of HPC and AI

As AI becomes part of HPC workflows, validation, data quality, and trust are emerging as key factors in technology and buying decisions.

Google Cloud Disruptions Continue After India Data Center Fire

Google has rerouted traffic after a Delhi data center fire, but customers across Indian metros may still experience latency and packet loss.

HPE Targets GPU Utilization With New AI Networking Portfolio

New Juniper-based switches, automation capabilities, and security integrations extend HPE’s networking strategy across AI training, inference, and enterprise environments.

HPE Interview: Why Data Center Efficiency Is Now Core to IT Decisions

As AI infrastructure scales, HPE’s Andrew DesRochers explains how power availability, cooling, utility timelines, and water use are becoming core IT planning priorities.

Articul8 Lands Major Industrial AI Deal, Beats Big GenAI Rivals

AI startup says a multinational industrial software company selected its platform as the core GenAI engine for engineering, simulation, and operational workloads.

The Overlooked Reason AI Data Centers Use So Much Power

AI workload volatility forces data centers to run secondary tasks, inflating energy use, infrastructure demands, costs, and grid pressure.

Data Center Automation: What’s New and What Works

Modern data center automation replaces siloed tools with policy-led orchestration across power, cooling, security, and AIOps.

HPE, Vultr Go All In on AI Inference Data Center Growth

Vultr selects HPE and Nvidia AI infrastructure as enterprise demand shifts from model training to production inference and large-scale deployments.

AI’s Next Data Center Challenge: Scaling Memory for the Inference Era

AI inference needs scalable memory, not just compute. CXL decouples the two, letting data centers scale memory independently and avoid overbuying expensive processors.

HPE Puts Networking at the Center of AI at Discover 2026

CEO Antonio Neri outlined the company’s “agentic enterprise” vision as HPE deepens Juniper integration and expands AI infrastructure portfolio.

From Grid Constraints to On-Site Solutions: The Future of Data Center Power

On-site power solutions are increasingly helping data centers overcome grid delays and meet growing energy demands.

Evaporative Cooling in Data Centers: Why the Industry Hesitates to Move On

Evaporative cooling still dominates data centers, but with rising liquid cooling adoption, is the industry ready to embrace more sustainable solutions?

Battery Storage Moves Closer to Data Centers, but Challenges Persist

Operators are deploying battery systems to support reliability and grid flexibility, but cost, performance, and complexity still hinder adoption.

Data Centers in Space: Hype, Reality, and the Long Timeline Ahead

SpaceX and others are exploring orbital data centers that promise limitless solar power, but these facilities face significant hurdles in cost, technology, and scalability.

FERC Targets Grid Rules for Data Centers and Large Loads

FERC gave six grid operators 60 days to justify or revise large-load tariffs and 30 days to explain how they will power growing AI demand.

Missouri Emerges as the Next Hyperscale Frontier Amid Growing Power Demands

Amazon and Google’s multibillion-dollar data center investments in Montgomery County are positioning Missouri as a key destination for hyperscalers seeking power and scalability.

Liquid AI Introduces LFM2.5-Embedding-350M and LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M: Dense Bi-Encoder and Late-Interaction Models for Fast Multilingual Search Across 11 Languages

This week, Liquid AI released two new retrieval models. They are LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M and LFM2.5-Embedding-350M. Both hold 350M parameters. Both are the first bidirectional members of the LFM family. They build on LFM2.5-350M-Base, released in March. The pair targets fast multilingual and cross-lingual search across 11 languages. Their footprint is small enough to run almost anywhere. Both are available now on Hugging Face under the LFM Open License v1.0. LFM2.5 Retrievers The two models s

The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM

Luca Guadagnino's film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Artificial, has reportedly been dropped by Amazon MGM. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield and covers the rollercoaster five days in 2023 spanning Altman's termination and reinstatement as CEO, had been in the works for about a year. The cast also includes A Complete Unknown actress Monica Barbaro as OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk, and Anora's Yura Borisov as OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. In a

Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months

Five months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph - the company's head of enterprise AI sales - has departed, The Verge has learned. Zoph returned to OpenAI in mid-January after a stint as co-founder and CTO of Thinking Machines Lab, the competing AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. Shortly after Zoph returned to OpenAI, the company said he would lead its push into enterprise - a significant role at OpenAI, since in recent months it had vowed to stop chasing

The CEO of Allbirds’ new AI biz has a plan, but no employees

Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.

The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t

There's a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.

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RTK Data Coverage Explained: Why Access to Many RTK Stations Matters

Accurate field positioning depends on more than a good GNSS receiver. The correction network behind the receiver also matters because station distance, signal quality, uptime, and regional availability affect how stable the final position is. Strong RTK precision is easier to maintain when field teams use RTKdata as a provider with access to a large […]

Large Portuguese building 3D printed in record 9 Days

Portuguese construction 3D printing company Havelar has delivered a public building for the municipality of Matosinhos using construction 3D printing technology. The project, a 500 m² (5,400 ft²) recycling center office at the Ecocentro de Perafita in Porto, was printed in 9 days on budget using a COBOD BOD2 construction 3D printer operated by a […]

Graitec outlines AI roadmap focused on accountability in engineering and construction

Software provider Graitec has unveiled a three-stage artificial intelligence strategy aimed at the architecture, engineering, construction and operations (AECO) sector, arguing that the industry’s biggest challenge is not generating content with AI but ensuring the results can be trusted in real-world projects. The company says it is embedding AI directly into engineering, fabrication and construction […]

Why Reliable Backup Power is Becoming Essential for Modern Robotics Systems

Modern robotics systems are transforming industries by improving efficiency, accuracy, and productivity. From manufacturing plants to logistics facilities, organizations increasingly depend on automated systems to keep operations running smoothly around the clock. Businesses researching backup power solutions for robotics infrastructure can find valuable information through Nite & Day Power, which specializes in uninterruptible power systems […]

Massachusetts awards $2 million to six local robotics companies

Massachusetts’ Healey-Driscoll Administration and the Innovation Institute, a division of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech), has awarded nearly $2 million through the Massachusetts Robotic Digital Twin Initiative to six organizations advancing robotics innovation across the state. The funding will help accelerate commercialization pathways for robotics hardware developers by expanding access to digital twin technologies. Digital […]

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Richtech Robotics launches livestream for ADAM AI-powered humanoid

The ADAM robot will interact with people via livestream in addition to service locations. Source: Richtech Robotics One aspect of humanoid robotics development is building public trust. Richtech Robotics Inc. today launched a round-the-clock interactive streaming platform featuring its ADAM robot. “Richtech Robotics has always focused on creating robots that seamlessly integrate into human environments and improve the way businesses operate,” said Wayne Huang, CEO of Richtech Robotics. “With the

RealSense unveils AI-native D585 Pro depth camera for robots

RealSense is unveiling the new D585 Pro AI-native depth camera at Automate 2026 in booth 12036. The RealSense D585 Pro combines depth sensing, edge AI acceleration and a software-defined platform that the company said is designed to improve over time through SDK-delivered capabilities. The RealSense D585 Pro is expected to begin shipping in Q1 2027. Designed for humanoids, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), collaborative robot arms, industrial robotics and inspection systems, the D585 combines a

Microbot Medical to expand veteran access to robotic surgery with LIBERTY

LIBERTY is a single-use, remotely operated endovascular robotic system. | Source: Microbot Medical Robotics can help improve the quality of care for U.S. military veterans. Microbot Medical Inc. this week said it is working with Lovell Government Services Inc. to serve federal healthcare systems. This includes those run by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), a division of the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, the Military Health System (MHS), which is run by the U.S. Department of War, a

Kinova launches KIMA medical robotic arm

Designed for precision-driven surgical robotics, KIMA combines calibrated accuracy, repeatable motion control, and compact clinical integration. | Source: Kinova Kinova Inc. recently marked its 20th anniversary by launching KIMA, a medical robotic arm purpose-built for clinical environments. The company said KIMA can support practitioners across a broad spectrum of applications, from endoscopy and bronchoscopy to complex surgical interventions. “KIMA represents a shift in how medical robot

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How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members

Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.

3 Amazon Workers Say They’re Under Investigation for Speaking Out About Data Centers

The software engineers filed a complaint with Seattle’s civil rights office accusing Amazon of illegally retaliating against them for expressing their personal political beliefs.

The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed

Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.

Meta’s AI Workers Are Revolting, Peter Thiel’s Secret Society, and SBF’s Plea to Trump

On today’s Uncanny Valley, we dive into the dysfunction in Meta’s newly formed AI unit and why it’s been driving already-low employee morale even further into the ground.

The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time

Anthropic still can’t distribute Claude Mythos or Fable 5 after running afoul of the Trump administration. But no one can say exactly what the company did wrong.

The KV Cache Compression Race: TurboQuant vs OSCAR vs EpiCache

Long-context large language models (LLMs) face a memory bottleneck that has nothing to do with model weights. During decoding, transformers cache the key and value (KV) vectors for every token at every layer so they don’t have to recompute attention. This cache grows linearly with sequence length and batch size, and at long context with high concurrency it can dwarf the model’s own footprint. Consider Llama-3.1-70B in BF16. Its KV cache costs about 0.31 MB per token (80 layers ×

Salesforce CodeGen Tutorial: Generate, Validate, and Rerank Python Functions With Unit Tests and Safety Checks

In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end workflow for Salesforce CodeGen. We load a CodeGen model from Hugging Face, prepare it for code generation, and use it to generate Python functions from natural-language prompts. We then move beyond basic inference by adding function extraction, syntax checking, static safety checks, unit-test-based validation, best-of-N candidate reranking, multi-step program synthesis, prompt-style experimentation, benchmark visualization, and artifact export. Thro

Perplexity Launches Brain, a Self-Improving Memory System That Builds a Context Graph of an Agent’s Work and Learns Overnight

Most AI memory remembers the user. It stores your preferences, your tastes, and your role. Perplexity is taking a different path. Today, Perplexity launched Brain, a self-improving memory system for its agent product, Computer. Brain does not focus on remembering you. It remembers what the agent did. That reframes what memory in AI is for. What is Perplexity‘s Brain Brain is a self-improving memory system. It builds a context graph of the work Computer performs. At set intervals, su

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The search for dark matter has been blown wide open

Underneath an Apennine massif, below the Jinping Mountains of Sichuan, and at the bottom of a South Dakota mine, there is a cosmic hunt afoot. Isolated deep beneath these rocky shields, massive detectors filled with liquid xenon aim to make the first direct detections of dark matter, the long-sought invisible substance whose gravity has sculpted our universe. The hope is that someday, a bit of dark matter called a weakly interacting massive particle (a WIMP, for short) will collide with a

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The Download: a new hunt for dark matter and Kenya’s case for going solar

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The search for dark matter has been blown wide open For decades, physicists have hunted for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for dark matter. But their search has run into a new problem: neutrinos. These tiny particles from the sun and other stars can create a “neutrino fog” that drowns out any signa

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Geoengineering still faces major practical challenges

Solar geoengineering is often portrayed as a sort of emergency brake. Something along the lines of Pull in case of climate emergency to scatter light-reflecting particles to bounce sunlight out of the atmosphere and cool the planet. But it might be less like a simple brake and more like a complicated, entirely unsolved puzzle. Some researchers are starting to look into how nations or companies would go about trying to cool the planet—and there’s a lot to figure out. My colleague James T

Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry

Bernie Sanders has unveiled an aggressive plan to transfer trillions from leading AI firms to the public, and, to the likely horror of AI firms, it goes even further than expected to give Americans more control over the AI industry. Sanders shared a summary of his legislation with AP News. If passed, the law would create a sovereign wealth fund “financed through a one-time 50 percent tax on the stock of the largest AI companies,” AP News reported. Any AI firm that does $200 million in annual AI

As China looms, Taiwan makes more drones for defense and the US military

Taiwan’s existence as a self-governing democracy may depend heavily on having enough military drones to discourage any attempted invasion by China’s military. As the Taiwanese government aims to boost domestic production of military drones and Taiwanese citizens sign up for drone flight training, Taiwanese companies are forming international partnerships to sell more drones to the US military and other overseas buyers. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense proposed a special budget that would sp

Who decides when AI is too dangerous?

On today’s episode of Decoder, my guest is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter for The Verge. Often when Hayden comes on the show, it’s because something has gone wrong in the world of AI. Last weekend, that something was a pretty intense mix of Anthropic, the Trump administration, and Anthropic’s new AI model, Fable 5. On Friday, not even a week since Anthropic released Fable to the public, the US government said it was imposing export controls on the new model, as well as

Adobe’s redesigned AI studio remembers what your creations look like

Give your characters, objects, and backgrounds a name to easily replicate them without changing the design. | Image: Adobe Adobe is introducing some new capabilities for its Firefly AI assistant, alongside a "reimagined" AI studio that lets you edit and generate new designs from a single interface. The new Firefly experience launching today in private beta is designed to give you "persistent context, reusable assets, and organized workflows" across your projects, according to Ad

Photoshop and Premiere now have AI assistants

Photoshop is one of several Adobe Creative Cloud apps to receive new conversational editing capabilities. | Image: Adobe Adobe's plan to stick AI assistants into all of its Creative Cloud suite is now fully underway, with new chatbots now rolling out to its biggest editing and design apps. As part of a public beta launching today, Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io now each have a bespoke AI Assistant that can be used to organize your work and automate app

Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans

“A scan of an imaging phantom, segmented to validate how cleanly structures separate under controlled conditions.“ | Image: Midjourney Medical Midjourney CEO David Holz just showed off the company's first hardware product and plans to build a San Francisco spa, which he admitted is a bit different from the "cat pictures" produced by its AI image generator. Dubbed The Midjourney Scanner, it's an ultrasound-based full-body scanner that uses a ring of sensors to capture vertical sl

Amazon employees say they’re facing termination for backing data center limits

When three Amazon software engineers testified earlier this month at Seattle City Council hearings about data centers, they started their testimony by citing a city law barring employment discrimination over political speech. Now, they're accusing their employer of breaking that law by retaliating against them. On June 10th - one week after the hearing, and one day after the City Council passed a milestone moratorium on data centers - Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani, and Lies

General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation

The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal’s dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.

Pixi’s new iOS app turns text messages into interactive AR experiences

Forget stickers, GIFs, and emoji reactions. Pixi is betting that the next evolution of messaging is interactive augmented reality (AR).

AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid

FERC told grid operators to give data centers a fast lane for interconnections, but it failed to address electricity supply shortages.

Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs

The Snapchat maker is spinning off yet another internal unit. Dotmo will be composed of current Snap staff who are leaving the social media company to focus on AI video development.

Almost half of US singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says

About 47% of singles look negatively at the use of AI in dating -- but many dating app users are open to AI helping with profile punch-ups and conversation starters.

Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips

AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers. CEO Andy Jassy has said this represents a $50 billion opportunity for the company.

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The smartphone era created an attention crisis. Slowtech is fixing it

“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention... They’re down for whatever helps them do that.”

A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight

Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.

AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round

Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush" marches on.

OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO

OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week.

‘Queer Eye’s’ life coach Karamo Brown launches Kē, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone

Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey—from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and personal growth—Brown wants to help others do the same. Kē offers […]

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M

DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.

Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT

Learn how GPT-5.5 Instant improves ChatGPT’s health and wellness responses with stronger reasoning, better context, clearer communication, and physician-informed evaluations.

New usage analytics and updated spend controls for enterprises

OpenAI introduces new spend controls and usage analytics for ChatGPT Enterprise, helping organizations manage costs and scale AI with confidence.

Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children

Researchers used an OpenAI reasoning model to help diagnose rare diseases, identifying 18 new diagnoses in previously unsolved cases.

Genesis AI launches first general-purpose humanoid robot

Genesis AI, a “global full-stack robotics company”, has unveiled Eno, the company’s first general-purpose robot. The company describes Eno as “a next-generation robot that breaks free from traditional form factors through its minimalist design”. GENE, Genesis AI’s foundation model and the industry’s most advanced robotic brain, will operate Eno as a true physical agent: reasoning, […]

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5 Investor Narrative Mistakes That Undermine Funding Applications for Technology Companies, According to Sociality Limited

There is a frustrating paradox at the center of most failed funding rounds. The technology works. The market is real. The team has done the hard technical work. And still, the application goes nowhere. More often than not, the problem is not the product. It is the story being told about the product. Investors evaluate […]

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SAFe Has Won Enterprise Agile – What That Means for Your Career

The competition among enterprise agile frameworks that dominated practitioner conversations for much of the last decade has largely resolved. SAFe – the Scaled Agile Framework – has emerged as the dominant approach for large enterprises navigating agile at scale, and its adoption at the organizations with the largest hiring volumes has created a specific and […]

From backflips to folding laundry: How X Square Robot is building the missing ‘brain’ for embodied AI

While robotics companies around the world continue to showcase humanoids performing backflips, running obstacle courses, and dancing on stage, one Chinese firm is pursuing a more difficult – and arguably more consequential – goal: teaching robots to operate in the messy, unpredictable environments where people actually live and work. According to X Square Robot founder […]

How Kodiak uses AI and probabilistic risk assessment to measure autonomous trucking safety

Rapid AI advances now enable engineers to develop autonomous driving technology faster than ever, but the true frontier of autonomous driving is the ability to couple those advances with demonstrable and rigorous safety. Increasingly, depth and rigor is achieved not through the biggest budgets nor the largest fleets, but by distilling the most precise insights […]

Raymond partners with Third Wave Automation to expand physical AI across lift truck fleets

Third Wave Automation has announced a technology collaboration with The Raymond Corporation, part of Toyota Material Handling North America to launch and expand AI-enabled physical automation capabilities across select automated Raymond lift trucks. The collaboration builds on several years of collaborative development and operational learning since 2021, backed first by investments from Toyota Ventures, Toyota’s […]

RLWRLD named World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for advancing physical AI infrastructure

RLWRLD, a physical AI company developing the proprietary Robotics Foundation Model RLDX-1, has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer 2026. The WEF Technology Pioneers program selects 100 innovative technology companies each year that are positioned to drive long-term, paradigm-shifting impact on global industries and society. According to the WEF’s official analysis report, Meet […]

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What Operational Security Means Beyond Access Controls – Insights by Reindore Limited

Access controls tend to get a disproportionate amount of attention in conversations about platform security, and that is understandable on some level. However, Reindore Limited points out that focusing too heavily on who can log in and what they are able to access ends up creating a blind spot around everything else that contributes to […]

Fennec Engineering earns T2 qualification for Advanced Safety Acceleration Platform

Fennec Engineering has worked with clients including Amazon Robotics. Source: Fennec Engineering Functional safety is critical for robots and related technologies to earn trust and adoption, and it must be considered as early as possible in development, according to Fennec Engineering. The company today said it has received independent certification from TÜV Rheinland for its Advanced Safety Acceleration Platform, or ASAP. The year-long Tool 2 (T2) qualification process demonstrated that ASAP me

Sanctuary AI validates physical AI performance at Tier 1 automotive supplier

Sanctuary demonstrates a wire-plugging task at an automotive customer. Source: Sanctuary AI While the race for commercially viable humanoid robots continues, some developers are applying physical AI and advanced manipulation to existing platforms. Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp. today said it has achieved “world-class performance” in a complex wire-plugging task with a global Tier 1 automotive supplier. The result was a 99.5%+ task success rate at a cycle time of 2.54 seconds, vali

Evaluating humanoids for surface finishing applications

Manufacturing processes such as sanding, polishing, blasting, grinding, coating, and painting are used in a wide variety of industries. These manufacturing tasks are ergonomically challenging and pose significant health risks for humans (please see image above). There is considerable interest in using robots to automate these operations. When parts are large, the robot arm needs to be repositioned around to ensure that the entire part surface can be covered. People often ask if humanoids would

Autonomique deploys semi-humanoid robots and AI at Canadian Tier 1

Autonomique’s AI platform and mobile manipulator are moving from the lab into factories. Source: Autonomique Manufacturers face persistent labor shortages, rising costs, and growing production complexity. However, traditional automation, built for fixed and repetitive tasks, often struggles to adapt, according to Autonomique Inc. The company today said that its physical AI platform, which is designed to address this challenge, is progressing toward production deployment at Tier 1 automotiv

US pulls the 'kill-switch' on Anthropic's Fable 5 AI models, sending global allies scrambling — European and Canadian leaders alarm allies over sudden export bans

Following the Trump administration's block on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models, world leaders have raised concerns that without direct access to frontier models, they may need to develop their own national alternatives.

Nvidia reveals AI robots that taught themselves to install GPUs into motherboards — video shows robot ‘solve high-precision tasks like… installing GPUs all by itself’

Nvidia showcases agentic robots that can teach themselves high-precision and dexterous tasks - like PC building - in the real world.

The Gemini-Powered Google Home Speaker Is Finally Here

Arriving six years after Google’s last smart speaker, the new HomePod-style device was redesigned to play host to Gemini’s chatbot.

Operating a Humanoid With Your Body Is a Hot Job in China’s Hardware Capital

In Shenzhen, workers at IO-AI Tech control humanoid robots using a VR rig reminiscent of Ready Player One.

The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible

Trump administration officials tell WIRED that if Anthropic wants to rerelease Fable 5, it will need to ensure the model's guardrails can't be circumvented. Security experts say that can't be done.