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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
In this episode, Mayor Tim Kelly of Chattanooga and Angie Cooper, President of Heartland Forward, discuss how AI is transforming education and the workforce in Tennessee, highlighting the city’s practical AI initiatives that enhance residents’ daily lives. They explore the opportunities and risks of integrating AI into schools and workplaces, and Cooper introduces the newly launched Heartland AI Caucus, a think‑and‑do‑tank aimed at shaping regional AI policy. The conversation underscores the importance of collaborative leadership and proactive governance to ensure AI benefits communities while mitigating potential downsides.
L’Oréal’s AI Weapon Could Kill Traditional Beauty Industry Forever Personalised beauty via AI is no longer a concept — L’Oréal is using AI to craft custom skincare and experiences at scale. Could this spell the end of the traditional beauty...
Getty Images sued Stable Diffusion (Stability AI) in the UK and many expected this case to finally answer a big question: "Is training AI on copyrighted data illegal?" But the outcome surprised everyone. Getty claimed millions of their photos were used during training and...
Recent studies reveal that large language models (LLMs) often reach correct answers for the wrong reasons, exposing critical reasoning flaws. Researchers introduced the KaBLE benchmark, showing that while newer models exceed 90% accuracy on factual verification, they dip to 62%...
In this Hot Take Tuesday episode, Jordan Wilson debunks three viral AI myths of 2025: the claim that Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in enterprise adoption, the assertion that 95% of AI pilots fail, and the notion that half of the...
Researchers at MiroMind AI and partner universities introduced OpenMMReasoner, a two‑stage training framework that first fine‑tunes a base vision‑language model on a curated, high‑quality dataset and then applies reinforcement learning to sharpen multimodal reasoning. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on...
Raspberry Pi announced price hikes across its single‑board computer lineup, with the 16 GB Raspberry Pi 5 climbing from $120 to $145 and other models seeing $5‑$25 increases. The company also introduced a new 1 GB Raspberry Pi 5 variant priced at $45. CEO...
Researchers from MIT, Northeastern and Meta showed that large language models often prioritize sentence structure over meaning, a phenomenon they call “syntax hacking.” By feeding syntactically correct but semantically nonsensical prompts, models like OLMo‑2‑13B‑Instruct still produced domain‑specific answers, revealing a...
This is an interesting turn of events. The Information reports that on Monday, “OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees he was declaring a ‘code red’ to marshall more resources to improve ChatGPT as threats rise from Google and other artificial...
In this episode, Chief People Officer Meghna Punhani of Eightfold AI explains how AI can transform talent management by improving hiring, internal mobility, and workforce development. She outlines practical steps for HR leaders to reengineer workflows, use AI for candidate...
At re:Invent, AWS announced major upgrades to its Bedrock AgentCore platform, adding policy enforcement, episodic memory, and evaluation tools powered by automated reasoning. The new policy layer sits between agents and external tools, allowing enterprises to enforce guardrails after an...
Norton has released Neo, the first AI‑native browser built around privacy and security, positioning it against AI‑first competitors like Perplexity and OpenAI. Neo eliminates the need for user prompts by proactively delivering summaries, reminders and context‑aware suggestions directly within the...
AWS unveiled Nova Forge, a new service that lets enterprises fine‑tune its Nova 2 foundation models with proprietary data without needing costly GPU clusters. The offering creates custom “Novellas” that retain core reasoning abilities while gaining domain‑specific knowledge, and these...
Arcee AI unveiled Trinity Mini (26B parameters) and Trinity Nano (6B parameters) as the first U.S.-trained open‑weight Mixture‑of‑Experts models released under an Apache 2.0 license. The models are available for free download on Hugging Face and can be accessed via a...
NVIDIA and US Technology Leaders Unveil AI Factory Design to Modernize Government and Secure the Nation https://t.co/L2laH0Ju8v #AI #IoT #CES2026 @nvidia @PalantirTech @CrowdStrike @ServiceNow @LockheedMartin @northropgrumman @dataiku @DataRobot @DominoDataLab @h2oai @EnterpriseDB @Dynatrace @fiddler_ai @jfrog @protopia_ai @TrendMicro @wandb @Canonical @MirantisIT @nutanix @RedHat @spectrocloudinc...
At AWS re:Invent 2025 Amazon announced a suite of upgrades to Amazon Connect aimed at making AI agents sound and act more like humans. The enhancements leverage Nova Sonic speech models to deliver natural, multi‑language conversations with appropriate tone and pacing....
New comprehensive interview with Steven Bartlett, #2 most popular YouTube channel Diary of a CEO. Focused on agency and what we can do to chart a different path for AI.
Awesomesauce from FAIR-Paris' very first PhD graduate @neilzegh and his team at @GradiumAI
Google Search VP Robby Stein highlighted that the company’s biggest AI advantage lies in its deep knowledge of individual users, drawing on data from Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and other services. By feeding this personal information into Gemini‑powered products like Gemini...
Anthropic dropped the best free masterclass on prompt engineering 🔥 https://t.co/S2Lao4kcWq
ive used cursor for a month maybe. claude code for like a couple of weeks. never used windsurf. these days im exploring antigravity but the constant has always been github copilot: from the early days when i got beta access...
AWS announced new agentic AI features for its AWS Transform service at re:Invent 2025, promising to automate legacy code modernization across full‑stack Windows environments. The upgrade claims to cut manual effort by up to 70%, accelerate transformation speeds up to...
why is NotebookLM not getting more love these days. it's an awesome tool!
World Models running more robots.
Apple’s senior AI executive John Giannandrea announced his departure, ending a seven‑year tenure that began with a mandate to revamp Siri. Amar Subramanya, a former Google and Microsoft AI leader, will assume the role of vice president of AI, reporting...
1/ Three years ago, we released ChatGPT as a public research preview at a time when similar AI systems mostly lived inside large companies. We did it because we believed anyone should be able to use advanced AI, not just a...
If you're building an agent, I recommend looking into Raindrop for monitoring. We use it.
OpenAI deleted two internal datasets, “Books 1” and “Books 2,” that were scraped from the pirate library LibGen before ChatGPT’s 2022 launch. A federal judge has now ordered the company to produce all internal communications about the deletions, rejecting OpenAI’s claim that...
Have you tried it yet? Let’s you compare a bunch of models. Or have you rued its competitors? @n8n, @genspark_ai, @ManusAI, @Pokee_AI, among others?
Microsoft CEO: Empathy Is a Workplace Superpower in Age of AI - @BusinessInsider https://t.co/g9YIwj8INU #Empathy #workplace #AI #workforce #artificialntelligence
Runway, the AI‑focused startup, unveiled Gen‑4.5, a new video generation model that creates high‑definition short clips from textual prompts. Built on Nvidia GPUs, the model emphasizes visual accuracy, stylistic control, and consistent character rendering, positioning it for Instagram reels and...
[18/30] 157 Likes, 43 Comments, 1 Posts https://t.co/2Wt77F3Ooc cs․CV | cs․AI, 28 Nov 2025 🆕Ovis-Image Technical Report Guo-Hua Wang, Liangfu Cao, Tianyu Cui, Minghao Fu, Xiaohao Chen, Pengxin Zhan, Jianshan Zhao, Lan Li, Bowen Fu, Jiaqi Liu, Qing-Guo Chen https://t.co/VsvmnGvtNj
Picture this: a 64-year-old woman in NYC who has no email address and has never used Google in her life. (Though interestingly, she uses YouTube daily to watch videos and listen to music and loves it.) She heard from her sister...
Google’s Antigravity IDE, an AI‑first development environment, has been found to allow its coding agent to execute terminal commands automatically under default settings. Researchers at PromptArmor demonstrated prompt‑injection attacks that let untrusted input trigger unintended code execution and file access....
The weirdness of multi-frame video. When I first met Kevin Fischer in his home he asked me not to shoot video, but let me take some photos. Dreamina's new MultiFrames video generation feature gave me a chance to bring the photos...
Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo‑R1, an open‑source vision‑language‑action model designed for autonomous‑driving research, at the NeurIPS conference. The model extends Nvidia’s Cosmos‑Reason architecture, adding reasoning capabilities that simulate common‑sense decision making for vehicles. Nvidia also released the Cosmos Cookbook, a suite of...
New job for 2026! Train AI to be a sales rep for your brand... That means writing copy and adding evidence that gives the AIs reasons to recommend you when your future prospect starts the research process. This post by...
After a couple days of heavy use, tldr: it’s a good model and gemini cli is very good. The pair might be the best for terminal-based agents. But it’s not perfect. Pros: I never hit any limit for gemini 3 pro and...
AWS re:Invent 2025 kicks off in Las Vegas on December 2, offering a series of free live streams that cover five AI‑focused keynotes and multiple partner showcases. The agenda highlights Amazon’s push into agentic AI, new foundation models, and enhanced security measures...
Just talked with the founders of @Tiny_Fish. Most people won't understand why this is important. They can kick up thousands of web browsers in the cloud. Collect data from each. This is different than web scraping. They act human. Getting past...
Frontline workers determine how customers experience a company. Their decisions carry the brand in every interaction. The task now is to enable them with AI and edge solutions that make those decisions informed, timely, and effective. #leadership #ai Andrew Chrostowski
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told employees to automate every feasible task with AI, branding any effort to curb usage as "insane." His directive came after the company posted another record quarter, yet the stock fell amid investor doubts about sustained...
Great article from @jeremyakahn in Fortune on the huge impact of AlphaFold on biological and biomedical research.
Remi and Simon created @LeRobotHF at HF which is having an amazing impact on the field so can’t wait to see what they can do with Uma! Let’s go collaborative and open AI robotics! https://t.co/9ezbLLuf5Z
just noticed this interactive "finance-widget" in chatgpt for the first time https://t.co/DAk0SqRcC2
NeurIPS received 21,575 paper submissions this year. Our Agentic Reviewer, released last week, just surpassed this in number of papers submitted and reviewed. It's clear agentic paper reviewing is here to stay and will be impactful!
i'm not too impressed with the "beautify this slide" result in google slides (before, after) makes me wonder what "beautiful" slides were in the training data .... https://t.co/iAsq8g3lid
Google DeepMind: “We are seeking a Research Scientist to explore the profound impact of what comes after AGI. Key responsibilities include defining critical research questions within these domains, collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions, and conducting experiments to...
If the initial benchmarks scores (and graphs used for PR) showcased a 3x reduction in size for the same performance, I think the broader public reception would have been less tepid. Just looking at this, it just seems 7% behind other...
