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Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders
Origin Lab raised $8M in funding to create a marketplace where video game companies can sell high-quality licensed data...
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Veeam’s big pivot on display at VeeamON 2026
Veeam Software is pivoting from a backup-focused company to a data and AI trust platform designed for the agentic era,...
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Luma opens Uni-1.1 image model API at prices and quality matching OpenAI and Google
Luma has launched its Uni-1.1 image model API with competitive pricing starting at $0.04 per image. The model ranks...
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Amazon launches an AI shopping assistant for the search bar, powered by Alexa+
Amazon has launched Alexa for Shopping, an AI-powered shopping assistant integrated into the search bar that works...
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Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B
After achieving $2.2 billion in revenue in 2025, the defense tech startup has raised another massive round, led by...
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Bosch, Researchers Develop AI for Humanoid Dexterity
Bosch and research teams have developed a "touch dreaming" AI system that significantly improves humanoid robot...
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Red Hat and Intel spotlight scalable AI inference as enterprises move beyond the GPU gold rush
Red Hat and Intel are highlighting the importance of scalable and cost-efficient AI inference systems as enterprises...
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Physical AI Conference Comes to San Jose as Robotics & Autonomous AI Go Mainstream
The Physical AI Expo North America conference will take place May 18-19, 2026 in San Jose, bringing together AI...
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China's AI suppliers can't keep up as critical component shortages hit production
China's AI hardware suppliers are struggling to meet surging demand due to critical component shortages and...
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Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life
Poppy is an AI-powered app that integrates with your calendar, email, messages, and other services to provide...
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Exclusive: Physician-Founded Saile Raises $2.2M To Help Doctors Find Side Jobs Using AI
Saile, a physician-founded startup, raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding to develop an AI-powered credentialing and...
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Alexa is moving into Amazon․com
Amazon is integrating Alexa Plus, its LLM-powered AI assistant, directly into Amazon.com as Alexa for Shopping,...
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Exclusive: AirOps targets emerging AI search market with autonomous content optimization agent
AirOps introduced Quill, an autonomous AI agent designed to help brands optimize content for generative AI search...
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Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves
Adaption has released AutoScientist, an AI tool that automates the fine-tuning process, enabling models to quickly...
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Sector Snapshot: Agtech Startups Face A Drier Funding Climate
Venture funding to agriculture-related startups in 2026 is expected to remain flat or slightly decline compared to...
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Submit Your Questions: AI Is Changing Your Job—Now What?
WIRED is hosting a May 27 livestream AMA where experts will discuss how AI is transforming the workplace. Readers are...
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AI startup Recursive emerges from stealth with $650 million to build self-improving AI
AI startup Recursive has emerged from stealth with $650 million in funding, focusing on recursive self-improvement as a...
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Meet the Sad Wives of AI
An article humorously addressing the phenomenon of people married to individuals who are obsessed with artificial...
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Research & Papers
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Introduces Interaction Models: A Native Multimodal Architecture for Real-Time Human-AI Collaboration
Thinking Machines Lab introduced TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B parameter multimodal model that processes audio, video,...
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