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On the left, Hello Robot’s Stretch 4, and on the right, A&K Robotics’ Cruz autonomous pod. | Source: Hello Robot, A&K Robotics Consumer-facing spaces are dynamic, crowded, and highly unpredictable, requiring robots to safely navigate around constantly changing obstacles, operate…
Field also worked on Apple's secretive car project and oversaw development of the Tesla Model 3.
Pluto Security raises $42 million to address AI security challenges.
University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield.
The problem with giving everyone in a company access to AI tools is that people will use them in unexpected ways. And that fact is steadily seeding fears that companies now have new, gaping security holes in their systems or, at least, will soon.
Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.
Газпромбанк ищет решения от научных команд в финтех-акселератор Трек «Финтех.Наука» рассчитан на исследователей из вузов, НИИ и R&D-центров, у которых есть научный задел в IT и желание довести его до продакшена в банке. Готовый прототип не обязателен. К научной экспертизе…
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Promise Robotics says it can accelerate homebuilding by standardizing component manufacturing. Source: Promise Robotics The construction industry is fragmented and has been relatively conservative about adopting new technologies, but physical AI promises to modernize…
✔️ DeepSeek will invest in robotics startup Winverse AI A Chinese developer will lead the round of Winverse AI, which makes embodied AI models for robotics. The Long-Z fund, owned by Meituan, China's largest service provider, is also participating in the deal. Founded Winverse...
The startup will sell some of its assets to Disney for $20 million.
Character.AI, one of the first breakout startups of the generative AI boom, has filed for bankruptcy and is selling some of its assets to Disney. The company, which builds various online bots for users to chat or roleplay with, has faced mounting scrutiny and lawsuits over the…
AI labs are starting to buy data from defunct startups to train their models.
🏗 AI Startup Promises to Create Construction Drawings in Minutes Blueprints AI is developing a system that turns a 2D sketch or PDF into a set of architectural documents, ready to be checked for compliance with building codes. In the new version it will be possible to immediately generate...
When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money. He’s netted roughly $25,000 for his code…
Meta представила новые модели Muse Wonder, которые показывают успехи в ИИ.
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.
Стартап Blueprints AI создает архитектурные чертежи за минуты с помощью ИИ.
Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?
Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch.
Бывший исполнительный директор Plaud привлек $26 млн для приложения ИИ, которое слушает пользователей постоянно.
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🛒 Humanoids are taught to work in supermarkets at night. In the Føtex store near Copenhagen, Unitree G1 is learning to replenish shelves after closing. The project was launched by the Danish startup Hive Robots and the country's largest retailer Salling Group. While every movement of the robot is controlled by an operator in...
Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and now at Anthropic, sees a widening knowledge gap in AI. About 75 percent of the world's population has barely touched LLMs. Roughly 5,000 people, meanwhile, have access to internal frontier systems whose agent swarms do work that would…
One of the core promises of AI is that the more it knows about a person, the better it will be able to assist them with tasks and make appropriate suggestions, which, if you'll believe the tech companies, requires apps and devices to listen, watch, or record users' activity all…
Корпоративные ИИ-агенты могут нарушать правила, несмотря на точность выполнения задач.
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Итоги уходящей недели - то, что имеет значение Бизнес ИИ- компаний Карта рынка ИИ в клиентском сервисе: куда уходит маржа Вышла платформа, которая выступает закупщиком для экономики ИИ-агентов Доклад крупной инвесткомпании мира о деньгах ИИ-агентов и инфраструктуре. Экономика…
Voice AI's often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break