Startups & Funding
SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers — and already eyeing a $100B IPO
SoftBank is launching a new robotics company focused on building data centers using AI and robotics technology. The...
TechCrunch AI
Other Companies
Startups & Funding
Glean's Model Aims to Redefine Enterprise Search With AI
Glean is redefining enterprise search using AI-powered models, with insights from Waldo highlighting the need for...
AI Business
Ethics & Regulation
Solving the “Whac-a-mole dilemma”: A smarter way to debias AI vision models
Researchers have developed WRING, a new debiasing technique for AI vision models that addresses the "whac-a-mole...
MIT News AI
Ethics & Regulation
Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse
Emergency first responders have raised concerns with federal regulators that Waymo's autonomous vehicle technology was...
Wired AI
Ethics & Regulation
Taylor Swift Wants to Trademark Her Likeness. These TikTok Deepfake Ads Show Why
Scammers are using AI-generated deepfake videos of celebrity interviews to deceive TikTok users into sharing personal...
Wired AI
Research & Papers
Top 10 KV Cache Compression Techniques for LLM Inference: Reducing Memory Overhead Across Eviction, Quantization, and Low-Rank Methods
The article discusses 10 KV cache compression techniques for optimizing Large Language Model inference, covering...
MarkTechPost
Startups & Funding
Is AI video just a prequel? Runway’s CEO thinks world models are next
Runway, a New York-based AI video generation company, has raised close to $860 million at a $5.3 billion valuation and...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise
Parallel Web Systems, an AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has raised $100 million in...
TechCrunch Startups
Ethics & Regulation
Ubuntu’s AI plans have Linux users looking for a ‘kill switch’
Canonical's plan to integrate AI features into Ubuntu has prompted users to request a way to disable or opt-out of...
The Verge AI
LLM
Qwen Team Releases FlashQLA: a High-Performance Linear Attention Kernel Library That Achieves Up to 3× Speedup on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs
The QwenLM team released FlashQLA, a high-performance kernel library that accelerates linear attention mechanisms,...
MarkTechPost
LLM
Sanctioned Chinese AI Firm SenseTime Releases Image Model Built for Speed
SenseTime, a sanctioned Chinese AI firm, has released a new image generation model optimized to run on Chinese-made...
Wired AI
Startups & Funding
Scout AI Raises $100M to Build ‘AI Brain' for Autonomous Warfare
Scout AI has raised $100M in funding to develop AI technology for autonomous warfare systems. The funding round...
AI Business
AI Agents
IDC: How EMEA CIOs can jumpstart AI rollouts
IDC research indicates that EMEA CIOs need to conduct aggressive system audits to accelerate stalled enterprise AI...
AI News
Startups & Funding
Exclusive: Supabase Execs Were So Impressed With Dreambase, They Became Investors In Its $3.7M Round
Dreambase, an AI-powered analytics platform designed to enable data-driven decision-making without requiring a...
Crunchbase News
Startups & Funding
Larry’s risky business
Oracle has pivoted to AI as its traditional database business declines, positioning itself as a unique player in the AI...
The Verge AI
Personal Assistants
Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats
Shapes is a new app that integrates AI characters into group chat experiences similar to Discord, allowing humans and...
TechCrunch AI
Ethics & Regulation
Taylor Swift deepfakes are pushing scams on TikTok
Scammers are using AI-generated deepfakes of celebrities like Taylor Swift and Rihanna on TikTok to promote fraudulent...
The Verge AI
AI Agents
Humanoid Bots to Start Airport Pilot in Japan
Humanoid robots are beginning a pilot program at a Japanese airport as part of broader workplace trials of autonomous...
AI Business
Ethics & Regulation
China freezes new robotaxi licenses after Baidu chaos
China has suspended new licenses for autonomous vehicles following a Baidu robotaxi incident in Wuhan where dozens of...
The Verge AI