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Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught
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Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught

Physical Intelligence, a robotics startup, has unveiled π0.7, a new robot brain model that can perform tasks without...

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The UK Launches Its $675 Million Sovereign AI Fund
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The UK Launches Its $675 Million Sovereign AI Fund

The UK government has launched a $675 million sovereign AI fund to support homegrown AI startups and reduce...

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Nvidia wants to scale robot simulation training with Lyra 2.0
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Nvidia wants to scale robot simulation training with Lyra 2.0

Nvidia has released Lyra 2.0, a system that generates large, coherent 3D environments from single photographs for...

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India's 1.5 million annual IT graduates face an industry that's moving on without them
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India's 1.5 million annual IT graduates face an industry that's moving on without them

India's IT industry is rapidly adopting agentic AI, leaving the country's 1.5 million annual IT graduates unprepared as...

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InsightFinder raises $15M to help companies figure out where AI agents go wrong
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InsightFinder raises $15M to help companies figure out where AI agents go wrong

InsightFinder raised $15M in funding to help companies monitor, diagnose, and understand where AI agents fail within...

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AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it’s boosting their revenue too
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AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it’s boosting their revenue too

Adobe reports that AI traffic to U.S. retail sites surged 393% in Q1, with a 269% jump specifically in March. AI-driven...

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Roblox’s AI assistant gets new agentic tools to plan, build, and test games
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Roblox’s AI assistant gets new agentic tools to plan, build, and test games

Roblox has introduced new agentic AI tools designed to assist game creators throughout the entire development process,...

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Nvidia Partners with Chip Software Maker to Close Sim-to-Real Gap
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Nvidia Partners with Chip Software Maker to Close Sim-to-Real Gap

Nvidia has expanded its partnership with Cadence Design Systems to improve robot training accuracy and reduce the...

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Bytedance rolls out Seedance 2.0 to 100+ countries but keeps the US off the list
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Bytedance rolls out Seedance 2.0 to 100+ countries but keeps the US off the list

ByteDance is rolling out its AI video generation model Seedance 2.0 to over 100 countries, but notably excluding the...

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Runway CEO says AI could help Hollywood make 50 films instead of one $100M blockbuster
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Runway CEO says AI could help Hollywood make 50 films instead of one $100M blockbuster

Runway's CEO argues that AI technology could enable film studios to produce 50 films for the cost of a single $100M...

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Exclusive: GetWhys Raises $5.2M To Help Companies Like Intel And Verizon Better Understand Their Customers
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Exclusive: GetWhys Raises $5.2M To Help Companies Like Intel And Verizon Better Understand Their Customers

GetWhys, an AI-powered customer intelligence platform based in Boise, Idaho, has raised $5.2 million in funding to help...

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Character.AI’s new Books mode turns reading into roleplay
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Character.AI’s new Books mode turns reading into roleplay

Character.AI launches a new "Books" mode featuring interactive roleplay experiences with over 20 classic public domain...

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Canva’s AI 2.0 update goes all in on prompt-powered design tools
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Canva’s AI 2.0 update goes all in on prompt-powered design tools

Canva has released AI 2.0, a major update featuring prompt-based design tools and a unified conversational interface...

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Canva’s AI assistant can now call various tools to make designs for you
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Canva’s AI assistant can now call various tools to make designs for you

Canva's latest AI assistant update enables users to create editable designs using natural language prompts by...

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This simulation startup wants to be the Cursor for physical AI
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This simulation startup wants to be the Cursor for physical AI

Antioch, a simulation startup focused on physical AI and robotics, raised an $8.5 million seed round to develop...

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These 3 Charts Show How Venture Capital Has Concentrated At The Top In 2026
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These 3 Charts Show How Venture Capital Has Concentrated At The Top In 2026

In Q1 2026, venture capital has become increasingly concentrated among a small number of large, well-funded AI...

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This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts
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This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts

California-based startup Sabi is developing a wearable beanie that converts thoughts directly into text using neural...

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Cadence expands AI and robotic partnerships with Nvidia, Google Cloud
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Cadence expands AI and robotic partnerships with Nvidia, Google Cloud

Cadence Design Systems announced AI-related partnerships with Nvidia and Google Cloud at its CadenceLIVE event,...

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Coding Co-pilot

Codex for (almost) everything

The Codex app for macOS and Windows has been updated with new features including computer use, in-app browsing, image...

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