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AI& Raises $2B Infrastructure Capital to Build Japan’s Full‑Stack AI Platform
Former Tenstorrent executives David Bennett and Shimpei Hara founded AI&, a vertically integrated AI company in Japan. The startup secured $50 million in seed funding and $2 billion in infrastructure capital to develop a full‑stack platform covering data centers, orchestration software, models and applications.
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Linkhome Holdings Inc. unveiled its first home‑focused humanoid and quadruped robot product lines, marking a shift from purely digital AI services to physical smart‑living devices. The robots are engineered for companionship, basic household chores, environmental inspection, and safety monitoring within residential settings. By tying these robots to its AI‑driven home‑search platform, Linkhome aims to create a seamless, end‑to‑end intelligent living ecosystem that supports users from house hunting through daily home management. Commercial rollout will proceed cautiously, guided by market response and regulatory clearance.
LiveRamp announced that its Data Marketplace now includes not only curated, permissioned data but also third‑party AI models and forthcoming AI‑powered applications and agents. The expansion lets marketers and data scientists license data to train and fine‑tune models, license partner...
Reolink unveiled the AI Box, a local‑processing hub that uses a Qualcomm Dragonwing Q8‑series chip to run AI features directly on security cameras. The device supports prompt‑based alerts, natural‑language video search, event description, and automated smart summaries, eliminating the need...
In this episode, CoreWeave SVP discusses how the company has built a $41 billion AI cloud infrastructure that rivals the big tech giants, focusing on its strategy of offering flexible, high‑performance GPU compute and specialized AI services for enterprises. He explains...
Sony has filed a patent for an AI-driven "Ghost Player" that can intervene when a PlayStation gamer gets stuck, either by demonstrating solutions or taking full control of the game. The system would be trained on gameplay footage from YouTube,...
They SLICED OPEN a "human" on stage... and IT WALKED AWAY. XPENG's IRON robot just shattered the uncanny valley—silicone skin, fluid steps, zero humans inside. Sci-fi is NOW. But is this the future we want? Creepy genius or dystopian nightmare?...
Microsoft is testing a major UI overhaul for Edge that closely mirrors the design of its Copilot app, including shared colors, fonts, and rounded corners. The new look appears in the Canary and Dev builds and applies universally, regardless of...
Retail TouchPoints forecasts that AI will dominate every retail function in 2026, but the year’s biggest shifts will revolve around consumer wellbeing, curated experiences, and the rise of circular commerce. Experts from MG2, Pinterest, Walmart Data Ventures and others warn...
Elizaveta Shutova explains that in 2026 SEO must target both traditional rankings and AI-generated search snippets, as AI overviews now appear in over 23% of queries and pull data from a wide range of sources like Reddit, Wikipedia, and YouTube....
Vectra AI’s VP of Product Research, Mark Wojtasiak, highlighted that modern Security Operations Centers face an "attack signal problem," with less than 0.1% of alerts representing genuine threats. An analysis of millions of alerts showed a 99.98% noise rate and...
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Book6 family—Ultra, Pro and standard models—at CES 2026, featuring Intel’s new Core Ultra Series 3 processors and up to 64 GB of LPDDR5X memory. The laptops integrate an on‑chip NPU capable of 50 TOPS, promising accelerated AI tasks directly on the...
Equinox launched its “Question Everything But Yourself” New Year campaign, juxtaposing absurd AI‑generated images with realistic human portraits to stress authenticity. Developed by Angry Gods and rolled out on Jan 5 across out‑of‑home, digital and social channels, the ads feature bizarre...
VAST Data unveiled an AI inference platform that runs its AI Operating System directly on NVIDIA BlueField‑4 DPUs, creating a shared, pod‑scale key‑value cache for long‑context, multi‑turn and multi‑agent workloads. The design collapses traditional storage tiers, delivering deterministic, line‑rate access...
Global Mofy AI Limited announced the creation of Eaglepoint AI Inc., a Delaware‑based subsidiary in which it holds a 51% stake through GMM Discovery LLC. Eaglepoint brings together engineers from the U.S., Germany and Ethiopia and has launched Aquila, an...
At CES 2026, Ascentiz unveiled its first commercial modular exoskeleton, a compact system designed for everyday mobility, outdoor activities, and occupational endurance. The platform features interchangeable hip and knee modules controlled by an AI motion engine that adapts assistance across...
During NATO’s Hedgehog exercise in Estonia, Britain’s 4th Light Brigade demonstrated Project ASGARD, an AI‑driven "digital targeting web" that links drones, sensors and shooters in under a minute. The system, built in four months, lets operators select strike options on...
Microsoft has not renamed its Office suite to Microsoft 365 Copilot; the confusion stems from the Office.com landing page promoting the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, which aggregates the traditional Office apps with AI assistance. The site’s note “formerly Office” references the legacy web‑based Office...
Telit Cinterion will unveil a suite of next‑generation IoT modules, AI‑powered edge platforms, and 5G connectivity at CES 2026. The showcase includes the Nokia Cognitive Digital Mining demo, which pairs Telit’s advanced modules with an NVIDIA GPU‑enabled Black Box for...
ADATA Technology showcased a broad AI‑focused portfolio at CES 2026, highlighting its TRUSTA AI Scaler Toolkit that offloads large‑language‑model inference across GPU, DRAM and SSD. The company introduced a PCIe 5.0 T7P5 SSD delivering 13,500 MB/s reads, 447 MB/s‑W power efficiency, and DDR5...
Chinese robotics firm Agibot announced its U.S. market debut at CES, claiming to have shipped more than 5,000 humanoid robots and entered mass production. The company showcases a unified “one body, three intelligences” architecture that integrates locomotion, manipulation and interaction...
MulticoreWare demonstrated a complete “cloud‑to‑car” AI workflow at CES 2026, leveraging Qualcomm AI Hub, AIMET quantization tools, and QCR100 cloud‑based AI instances. The demo showed OEMs and Tier‑1 suppliers can train, test, and optimize ADAS perception, planning, and sensor‑fusion models in...
Clipto.AI announced a new funding round that lifts its valuation above $250 million, backed by investors such as HSG, GL Ventures, EnvisionX Capital and others. The company has completed a series of pre‑Series A rounds since July 2025, underscoring confidence in its...
Avenga announced that Clay Van Doren will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer on January 12, 2026, succeeding Ludovic Gaudé after a five‑year integration phase. Van Doren arrives from Atos, where he most recently served as Group Chief Growth...
Artificial intelligence is reshaping contract lifecycle management by reading contracts at scale, extracting key terms, and flagging risky clauses. Five AI‑powered platforms—Agiloft, Ironclad, Icertis, LinkSquares, and ContractPodAi—stand out for their distinct strengths, from no‑code configurability to generative legal assistants. Each...
Validic announced at CES 2026 that its AI‑enabled platform converts high‑volume wearable and device data into concise, actionable clinical insights. The solution embeds these insights directly into Epic, Oracle Health and Salesforce Health Cloud workflows, reducing data overload for clinicians....
AI is transforming patient access by shifting communication from reactive to proactive, real‑time engagement. Tools such as automated scheduling, predictive reminders, and conversational chatbots streamline administrative tasks while remaining HIPAA‑compliant. Studies show AI can cut no‑show rates and boost capacity...
Walmart has begun serving ads inside Sparky, its AI shopping assistant, after a pilot last fall. The sponsored prompts appear when shoppers ask for product recommendations, and 81 % of Walmart customers have already used Sparky to check availability. Leveraging its...
In 2025 the AI chip shortage became the dominant constraint on enterprise AI projects, as U.S. export controls and a severe high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) crunch limited access to Nvidia GPUs and other accelerators. Enterprise AI spend is projected at $85,521...
im not saying using ai to build is wrong or anything. im saying if you dont know what ai is building, you might land in serious trouble at some point. if you are able to build something by articulating your...
A speculative piece in The Information suggested OpenAI might acquire Pinterest, igniting a strong backlash from the platform’s user base. Despite the rumor lacking any confirmed deal, Pinterest’s shares rose on market optimism about a potential AI‑driven partnership. Users expressed...
Colle AI, the multichain NFT creation platform, announced a major upgrade to its AI‑driven design automation framework. The enhancement streamlines visual assembly, stylistic coherence, metadata preparation, and chain‑specific formatting for Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin, BNB Chain, and the XRP Ledger. By...
In this episode, Matthew DeMello interviews Tami Craig Schilling, Bayer Crop Science’s VP of Agronomic Digital Innovation, about how generative AI is used to deliver hyper‑local agronomic recommendations throughout the planting cycle. They discuss tools like the zip‑code‑based ELI platform...
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Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo has revised his AI doom timeline, moving the expected date for autonomous coding from 2027 to the early 2030s and pushing the emergence of superintelligence to 2034. The original AI 2027 scenario, which warned of a...
Nvidia unveiled DLSS 4.5 at CES, introducing a second‑generation transformer model and a 6× Multi‑Frame Generation mode that can synthesize up to five extra frames per rendered frame. The update is rolled out to all RTX GPUs today, with the most...
The episode spotlights the most outlandish tech revealed at CES 2026, dissecting quirky AI-driven gadgets and sci‑fi‑like innovations that captured global attention. The host explains why each invention is unusual, highlighting their novel functionalities, market hype, and potential impact on...
AMD unveiled its Ryzen AI 400 Series at CES 2026, featuring 12 CPU cores, 24 threads and AI‑accelerated performance that is 1.3× faster at multitasking and 1.7× faster for content creation versus rivals. The launch also introduced the gaming‑focused Ryzen 7 9850X3D and an...
The episode explains Nvidia's $20 billion acquisition of Groq, focusing on how Groq's inference leadership and its LPU chiplet architecture dramatically boost memory bandwidth and lower latency for large language model serving. It highlights the strategic value of Groq's technology and...
Tiiny AI Inc. unveiled the Tiiny AI Pocket Lab, a Guinness‑World‑Record‑holding mini‑PC that can run a 120‑billion‑parameter large language model locally. The 14.2 × 8 × 2.53 cm device weighs 300 g, draws only 65 W, and combines an ARMv9.2 12‑core CPU with a 190 TOPS NPU, 80 GB...
There’s a reason there are so few (no) TV shows about change management and workflow automation. It’s slow. It’s methodical. And honestly, it’s often kind of boring. It would make for crap television. There are no big reveals like cop...
With NVIDIA's Jensen Huang, it's not what he says, it's what he shows. And what he shows is that everybody's going to buy another data center.
MSI unveiled a refreshed Prestige business‑laptop lineup at CES 2026, emphasizing thinner chassis, OLED screens and 2‑in‑1 flexibility. The flagship Prestige 14 AI Plus and Prestige 16 AI Plus ship with Intel’s Panther Lake processors, while the Flip variants add an MSI Nano Pen stylus with rapid charging....
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NVIDIA and Hugging Face have merged NVIDIA Isaac Lab‑Arena with the LeRobot EnvHub, creating an open‑source pipeline for evaluating vision‑language‑action (VLA) robot policies in simulation. The integration gives developers access to pre‑trained GR00T N models, a library of 250+ Lightwheel tasks, and...
At CES 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced that a dual platform shift—AI‑centric applications and GPU‑first computing—is redefining the entire technology stack. He highlighted the company’s recent successes, including the DGX platform’s impact on healthcare, weather forecasting and autonomous driving, and...
At CES 2026, Nvidia unveiled its Vera Rubin architecture, the latest generation of AI hardware succeeding Blackwell. The six‑chip system combines a new GPU, Vera CPU, enhanced Bluefield storage and NVLink interconnect, delivering up to 3.5× faster training and fivefold...
Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo at CES 2026, an open‑source AI family for autonomous vehicles featuring Alpamayo 1, a 10‑billion‑parameter vision‑language‑action model that reasons through complex driving scenarios. The suite includes the Cosmos generative world‑model for synthetic data, a 1,700‑hour real‑world driving dataset, and...
There's a famous quote from the economist John Maynard Keynes, that "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." He was speaking about investing but it has just as much application to marketing, because many a better...
We’re making great progress with our Gemini Robotics work in bringing AI to the physical world - a critical aspect of AGI. As part of our next steps, super excited to announce our partnership with @BostonDynamics, combining our SOTA robotics...
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