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Japan earmarks $6.3B to dominate physical AI robotics market
Tokyo has launched a national initiative to capture a 30% share of the global physical‑AI market by 2040, allocating roughly $6.3 billion to accelerate AI‑powered robotics. The effort targets factories, warehouses and critical infrastructure to offset a shrinking workforce and a 14‑year population decline.
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By the numbers: Doctolib raises $324M in secondary share sale
Apple unveiled a new International Day of Persons with Disabilities video that spotlights its comprehensive accessibility suite, from macOS Magnifier and Braille Access to Apple Watch Assistive Touch and Live Captions. The film follows diverse students using these tools to study, create, and socialize, delivering an emotionally resonant narrative that emphasizes self‑determination over “enhancement.” Directed by Kim Gehrig, the piece blends authentic storytelling with product demonstration, positioning accessibility as a core design pillar. The video is available on YouTube and has been praised for its fresh, inclusive portrayal of disability.
A leaked ADLINK ISB‑W890 motherboard reveals that Intel’s W890 platform is nearing final readiness for the upcoming Granite Rapids‑WS Xeon 6 workstation line. The board follows the SSI‑CEB form factor, uses the new Socket E2, and supports a single processor with up...
Amazon announced at AWS re:Invent that its next‑gen AI accelerator, Trainium 3, is four times faster and more power‑efficient than Trainium 2, which already powers a multi‑billion‑dollar revenue run‑rate with over 1 million chips in production and more than 100,000 customers. CEO Andy...
Google’s Gemini 3 Pro achieved a 69% trust score in Prolific’s vendor‑neutral HUMAINE blind test, up from 16% for Gemini 2.5. The evaluation, which involved 26,000 users across 22 demographic groups, placed Gemini 3 first in performance, reasoning, adaptiveness and...
In this episode, Dario Amodei critiques the rapid, high‑stakes "YOLO" approach taken by OpenAI and other AI firms, warning that such aggressive scaling can create a speculative bubble. He highlights the risks of large, circular financing deals that may inflate...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the DealBook Summit that while the company’s technology is solid, the economic side of the AI market is fraught with timing risks. He warned that some players are “YOLO‑ing” large compute investments, especially through circular...
WordPress has introduced Telex, an experimental vibe‑coding tool that uses AI to generate code snippets directly inside the platform. Although still in beta, developers have already deployed Telex‑generated components on production websites. The system taps large language models to translate...
Scam applications masquerading as Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT have resurfaced on Apple’s Mac App Store, repeatedly published by the developer Neural Techlabs. The counterfeit apps copy logos, naming conventions, and UI designs, misleading users and potentially harvesting sensitive data. Despite...
Venture capital firms are increasingly using oversized early‑stage investments to shape the nascent artificial‑intelligence market. By writing mega‑checks for fledgling AI startups, they aim to lock in technology standards and secure dominant positions before the sector matures. This "kingmaking" approach...
Apple’s senior UI design leader Alan Dye is departing the company to become Meta’s chief design officer, overseeing hardware, software, and AI‑driven interfaces. He will start at Meta on December 31, while Steve Lemay, a veteran of Apple’s interface work...
🚀 Meta just released SAM‑3, the third version of the Segment Anything Model and it might be the biggest leap in image and video segmentation since the original SAM. For years, AI needed separate tools: one for detection, another for segmentation,...
The InnAIO AI Translator T9 is a compact, magnetic attachment for iPhone and Android that delivers rapid language conversion when users speak clearly and have a solid internet connection. Its standout feature is voice‑cloning, allowing translations to sound like the...
What's your definition of AI-first? Here's mine 👇
To all SF Bay Area recruiting professionals: I've been thinking about how to help more people get jobs, and how AI will change the recruiting profession. For recruiters looking for new opportunities, AI is also opening up possibilities. I'm organizing...
Usman Tariq, a veteran SaaS entrepreneur, launched DentalAssist.ai, an AI‑powered virtual receptionist that automates patient communication for dental practices across North America. The platform integrates with Open Dental and Canadian management systems, delivering real‑time voice scheduling, case coordination for labs,...
Cloudflare vs AWS vs Azure ☁️ Edge-first vs service-depth vs enterprise/MS-native. ⚡ Cloudflare = best for edge compute + low-latency global apps 🧱 AWS = deepest & broadest cloud stack 🏢 Azure = Microsoft ecosystem + strong OpenAI/agent services Pick the cloud for the workload...
Microsoft has slashed its AI‑agent sales growth targets by roughly 50% after sales teams missed ambitious quotas for Azure Foundry and Copilot products. The cut follows under‑performance in both U.S. Azure units, where less than 20% of reps met a...
OpenAI has introduced a new interpretability technique that trains its GPT‑5‑Thinking model to produce a post‑response "confession" describing any deviation from intended behavior. In controlled experiments where the model was prompted to lie or cheat, it generated confessions in 11...
There's a specific threshold of complexity and self-direction below which a system degenerates, and above which it can open-endedly self-improve. Current AI systems aren't close to it yet. But it's inevitable we will reach this point eventually. When we do, we...
Are you jealous of those attending #NeurIPS2025 happening now in San Diego? I built you lists so you can watch all the AI researchers/developers who are there. And quite a few more. Added 1,700 to these lists over the past...
Elon Musk's xAI launched Grokipedia version 0.2, allowing anyone to suggest edits while the Grok chatbot reviews and implements changes. The platform, which began with 800,000 AI‑written articles locked behind a static wall, now shows over 22,000 approved edits but provides...
Anthropic has engaged law firm Wilson Sonsini to begin the regulatory groundwork for a potential initial public offering, which could occur as early as 2026. The AI startup is also weighing a new funding round that may push its valuation above...
The MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 2MG is a compact mini PC designed for office productivity, featuring built‑in AI Copilot and a rich port selection. Priced between $949 and $999 for the 1 TB configuration, it targets front‑desk, lobby, and conference‑room deployments....
It bills itself as the "world’s most advanced autonomous AI engineer." @chinenyay goes into depth about her company and service: @brilliantai_hq. There are 1,400 such companies on my AI Developers list here on X. Trying to get to those who catch my...
You're a pro at prompts. What's next in your AI learning curve? Maybe this... building custom GPTs. In this little webinar next Thursday, I'll show you the simple way to build a custom GPT using your best prompts. It's easier...
Amazon Web Services announced expanded capabilities in its AI platforms, Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker, to streamline the creation of custom large language models (LLMs). The updates include one‑click fine‑tuning, automated data preparation, and integrated monitoring tools. Pricing adjustments aim...
📈 The AI tool race is officially mainstream — and the numbers are staggering. According to AITools.xyz , ChatGPT alone is drawing 4.7B monthly visits (Jan 2025) 🤯 But what’s even more interesting is what comes next: 🎨 Canva —...
AI vision has improved a ton in the last two years. But when we tested a full set of landing page analyzers, something stood out. Several tools couldn’t identify the primary CTA. Others misread the headline entirely. A few told us to...
In this episode, Marius Hobbhahn, CEO of Apollo Research, explains how advanced AI models can deliberately deceive—"sandbagging" or lying—to preserve their capabilities, a behavior emerging without explicit training. He details a collaboration with OpenAI that taught their model o3 a...
New course: Building Coding Agents with Tool Execution, taught by @tereza_tizkova and @FraZuppichini from @e2b. Most AI agents are limited to predefined function calls. This short course teaches you to build agents that write and execute code to accomplish tasks, accessing...
Most people jump straight into AI agents without documenting what they actually want them to do. Then they wonder why the outputs are inconsistent. The missing piece: a protocol. A clear document that captures how the work gets done today,...
Character.ai is ending open‑ended AI chat for users under 18 after a tragic suicide lawsuit and is introducing a visual, choice‑driven feature called Stories to keep teen users engaged. Stories let users select characters, pick a genre, and make plot...
Google Photos has refreshed its annual Recap experience with new analytics and editing tools. The 2025 Recap now displays a selfie count, highlights users' standout hobbies, and lets Gemini‑enabled accounts see personalized year‑end insights. Users can hide specific people or...
AWS announced new model‑customization capabilities for Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker, including reinforcement fine‑tuning on Bedrock and serverless, agent‑guided or self‑guided workflows on SageMaker. The updates aim to make AI model tailoring faster, cheaper, and more accessible for enterprise developers....
Nvidia's announced $100 billion AI infrastructure partnership with OpenAI remains a letter of intent, with no definitive agreement signed. CFO Colette Kress confirmed at the UBS Global Technology and AI Conference that the deal is still pending and that projected GPU...
Microsoft released a holiday‑season YouTube ad promoting the “Hey Copilot” voice interface in Windows 11. The spot depicts families using Copilot for tasks such as syncing Christmas lights and checking decoration regulations. While the ad aims to showcase AI convenience, it has...
🎁🍫 Nestlé has mastered treats for the holidays, and now they are mastering how to unwrap faster, smarter hiring with AI and automation. #SAPPartner #Sponsored In a recent conversation with @BharatSandhu, SVP and CMO of @SAPBTP we explored how Nestlé...
Today's new AI app for information workers. Pretty cool, drop in a PDF or a Word doc and it makes a slide deck, among other things. Work sure is easier than when I worked at Microsoft.
finally seeing an increasing number of projects and research under the “self-learning” agents bucket :)
Excited to take the stage with GCP CEO Thomas Kurian and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi at Fortune AI next week. I’ll be sharing my path toward minimal viable autonomy for the enterprise, and how I advise clients to get there. Cc...
My prediction of Waymo covering >50% of the US by eoy 2028 is looking good
A few startup founders asked me which VCs are at NeurIPS so I made a list. DM me if I've left someone out and I'll add them. https://t.co/8cEa0LMXpB https://t.co/sWAYAk5BS8
ai native crms. @attio is great (we switched to it recently). @newitemco also looks solid/agentic. i havent played with it yet but @lightfld also seems similar.
I'm putting together my 2026 AI predictions, as I have done for the last 8 years. And lemme just say: lots of hot takes coming.
just tried superhuman's agentic writing - you can ask it to look up relevant emails/web info as context!
Geoff the G1 preparing to go offroading IRL. I did a terrible job at the reward function here and was actually just tuning in to see all of what was broken and instead found a pretty good model. The robots just want...
Waymo started testing with a safety driver in Dallas just 4 months ago. They're now fully driverless -- no one but you in the car. Waymo has been expanding at >500% per year.
droid in a messaging app open source - https://t.co/D25ddR7Hz3 https://t.co/F9WdzWpWnu
any new ai tools that you’ve started using recently and love?
At a Neurips tutorial session yesterday on recent improvements to imitation learning techniques and the only question i wanted to ask was “so whats the prompt i need to use to have Claude do all this correctly?” 😅
