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Boston Dynamics, the Massachusetts-based robotics company known for its four-legged robots and humanoids, is going through a leadership change. Robert Playter announced in an internal memo on Tuesday that he would be stepping down as the company’s chief executive, as first reported by A3.
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify AI lab Flapping Airplanes just landed $180 million in seed funding from the likes of Google Ventures, Sequoia, and Index to do something most labs have quietly given up on: making models learn like humans instead of vacuuming up the internet.
Czech ice dancers Kateřina Mrázková and Daniel Mrázek made their Olympic debut on Monday, an unfathomable feat that takes a lifetime of dedication and practice.
The AI industry’s pursuit of licensable content has been a messy affair, filled with lawsuits and accusations of copyright infringement.
This article introduces DLRMv3, the first sequential recommendation inference benchmark in the MLPerf DLRM series, based on the HSTU architecture. It highlights the dramatic scaling in model size and computation compared to previous DLRM benchmarks, aligning with modern production recommendation workloads.
Major Chinese technology companies Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei are pursuing agentic AI (systems that can execute multi-step tasks autonomously and interact with software, data, and services without human instruction), and orienting the technology toward discrete industries and workflows.Alibaba’s o
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AI video-generation startup Runway has raised a $315 million Series E round, nearly doubling its valuation to $5.3 billion, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The fresh funds will allow Runway to “pre-train the next generation of world models and bring them to new products and indus
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has raised the largest-ever seed round for a dev tool startup, according to its lead backer, Felicis.
Alphabet has lined up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond, stepping up a borrowing spree by Big Tech companies racing to fund their vast investments in AI this year. The so-called century bond will form part of a debut sterling issuance this week by Google’s parent company, said people familiar with
India has ordered social media platforms to step up policing of deepfakes and other AI-generated impersonations, while sharply shortening the time they have to comply with takedown orders.
Hauler Hero has picked up fresh funds as demand for its AI-powered waste management software continues to pile up. The New York-based startup raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Frontier Growth with participation from K5 Global and Somersault Ventures, among others, TechCrunch has learned.
Modern enterprises generate enormous amounts of security data, but legacy tools like Splunk still require companies to store all of it in one place before they can detect threats — a slow and costly process that’s increasingly breaking down in cloud environments where volumes are exploding and data
use the name “io” for its forthcoming line of AI hardware devices, according to a Monday court filing.The motion is part of a trademark infringement lawsuit filed last year by audio device startup iyO, which sued OpenAI after the ChatGPT maker acquired famed Apple designer Jony Ive’s startup io.
The most seductive narrative in American work culture right now isn’t that AI will take your job. It’s that AI will save you from it. That’s the version the industry has spent the last three years selling to millions of nervous people who are eager to buy it.
Agentic AI in healthcare is graduating from answering prompts to autonomously executing complex marketing tasks – and life sciences companies are betting their commercial strategies on it.According to a recent report cited by Capgemini Invent, AI agents could generate up to $450 billion in economic
Enterprise resource planning software company Workday announced Monday that chief executive Carl Eschenbach was stepping down and leaving the company’s board, effective immediately.
OpenAI on Monday announced it’s beginning to test ads in the U.S. for users on its Free and Go subscription tiers. The newer Go plan is a low-cost subscription at $8 per month in the U.S. and was introduced globally in mid-January. Subscribers to OpenAI’s paid plans, including its Plus, Pro, Busines
As Anthropic expands into India, a local software company has filed a court complaint saying it was already using the name “Anthropic,” spotlighting how the rapid global push of AI firms can collide with local incumbents. The filing comes amid Anthropic deepening its focus on India, announcing an In
For a couple of weeks now, AI agents (and some humans impersonating AI agents) have been hanging out and doing weird stuff on Moltbook’s Reddit-style social network.
