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Galaxea AI secures $290M Series B+ round, valuation hits $29B
Chinese robotics startup Galaxea AI raised roughly $290 million in a Series B+ financing, pushing its valuation to about $29 billion. The capital will accelerate development of its Vision‑Language‑Action and World Action models for real‑world robot deployment.
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By the numbers: Microsoft announces $10B AI investment in Japan
Samsung’s latest SmartThings update adds Siri Shortcuts support, letting iPhone, HomePod and other Apple devices trigger SmartThings routines via voice. Users can now ask Siri to run automations such as a “Good morning” routine that adjusts lights, starts the coffee maker and opens blinds. The rollout also brings Apple Watch device lists, command shortcuts and iOS lock‑screen Live Activities for up to five recent devices. The integration broadens cross‑platform control of Samsung’s smart‑home hub.
A 2025 Candid report found that 65% of U.S. nonprofits are interested in AI, though most are only at a beginner level, and a Bonterra survey shows over half of its partner nonprofits have already deployed AI, especially small organizations...
Paramount Plus will raise its U.S. subscription fees on Jan. 15, 2026, moving the ad‑supported Essential plan from $7.99 to $8.99 and the ad‑free Premium plan from $12.99 to $13.99. The hike follows a series of annual price increases and comes after the...
Ran into a CEO in the park and showed them something that changed how they're thinking about the future of AI. I think you might want to hear this. Claude Sonnet 4.5 completed a 30-hour coding task with zero human...
Russell Brandom argues that the AI "bubble" is less about a sudden crash and more about a massive, mismatched bet between fast‑moving AI software and the slow‑to‑build data‑center supply chain. He notes that billions of dollars are already pledged—Oracle’s $18 billion...
Google AI Studio Build Mode Review - I give it an 8/10. - comparable to other AI app builders in quality, but free to use (they must be losing money on this, no?) - turns simple/broad ideas into working micro apps in...
The episode examines the evolving debate over government involvement in AI, sparked by OpenAI’s recent "backstop" comments and its AI Progress and Recommendations report. It breaks down arguments for and against bailouts, industrial policy, and compute subsidies, featuring perspectives from...
I have been talking to the guy (and it is a guy who lives in the UK) who is behind @trishacode (his wife is the drummer). He is one of a new crop of creative geniuses using AI to create new...
Google is rolling out Gemini for TV to Google TV Streamer devices starting today, extending the generative‑AI assistant beyond the limited set of smart TVs that received it in September. The update works on any TV with an HDMI port,...
Google announced it will roll out its Gemini AI to the Google TV Streamer, replacing Google Assistant and enabling more natural, conversational voice interactions for content discovery and general queries. Users can ask nuanced questions like movie recommendations for mixed...
Chronosphere, the $1.6 billion New‑York observability startup, announced AI‑Guided Troubleshooting built around a Temporal Knowledge Graph that continuously maps services, dependencies and change events. The feature delivers data‑backed “Suggestions,” investigation notebooks and natural‑language queries, keeping engineers in control by showing the...
Wikipedia’s nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation announced that AI developers must access its content via the paid Wikimedia Enterprise API rather than scraping, aiming to reduce server strain and generate revenue for its mission. The blog post highlighted recent spikes in AI...
Deep learning is not a collection of black-box tricks, contrary to what many believe. It can be learned as a principled engineering discipline. This latest edition of Deep Learning with Python is my best attempt so far at teaching it. It...
Introducing Meta Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), a suite of models providing ASR capabilities for over 1,600 languages, including 500 low-coverage languages never before served by any ASR system. While most ASR systems focus on a limited set of languages that...
Google has integrated its Gemini generative AI model into Google Photos via an "Ask" button, allowing users to query their personal photo libraries with natural language. In a test case, the author, with a 172,000‑image archive, typed "Picture of bay...
iRobot reported a third‑quarter 2025 revenue shortfall and disclosed that cash reserves have fallen below $25 million, leaving the company without immediate sources of additional capital. The decline follows years of competitive pressure from Chinese rivals, a failed Amazon acquisition, large...
Wow. What an ace (free!) library for building Diffusion Language Models! 🤗 dLLM is a new open-source framework that unifies training, inference, and evaluation for diffusion-based LLMs. Unlike autoregressive models that generate text token by token, diffusion models rely on an iterative denoising...
AI risk isn’t someone else’s job. Too often, leaders assume it’s the domain of IT, compliance, or data science... but the truth is, AI risk cuts across every part of the business. Brand, trust, liability, reputation are all on the...
Radware research reveals that malicious bots are spoofing popular AI agents such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, masquerading as legitimate agents that require POST permissions for transactional actions like booking or purchasing. The rise of genuine AI agents that can...
Advances in AI and brain science provoke new debates about the nature of awareness and whether machines could ever be sentient. By Geoffrey Moore Author – The Infinite Staircase: What the Universe Tells Us About Life, Ethics, and Mortality This...
Agentic AI, which can plan and act autonomously, promises major productivity gains—Gartner forecasts 80% of routine customer‑service issues resolved without humans by 2029, cutting costs 30%—but also introduces new security risks such as indirect prompt‑injection, unchecked actions, and deep access...
Google Gemini’s AI forecast for Amazon’s 20 best‑selling SSDs predicts only modest Black Friday 2025 price cuts, with most portable drives slipping by £10‑£20 and internal models dropping a similar amount. The SanDisk 2 TB Extreme Portable is expected to fall...
AI adoption now touches 78% of firms, yet only 25% of initiatives meet expected ROI and just 18% exceed cost of capital. IBM’s study warns that many enterprises operate on ad‑hoc "hybrid‑by‑default" architectures, leading to paused pilots and limited value,...
Monday.com’s 500‑plus‑engineer organization integrated Qodo’s AI‑powered code‑review platform, which uses "context engineering" to ingest code diffs, prior discussions, documentation and test data, effectively acting as an additional developer. The tool learns from the company’s own repositories and Slack threads, surfacing...
Sir Tim Berners‑Lee, the web’s inventor, talks about his new memoir “This Is For Everyone” and his work at Inrupt on the Solid decentralization standard, warning that the web has drifted toward closed, platform‑centric ecosystems. He argues that the original...
AI’s next frontier is Spatial Intelligence, a technology that will turn seeing into reasoning, perception into action, and imagination into creation. But what is it? Why does it matter? How do we build it? And how can we use it? Today,...
In this episode Dan and Chris examine the rapid expansion of AI across enterprises, manufacturing, healthcare and research, debating whether it represents a sustainable shift or a speculative bubble reminiscent of the dot‑com era. They highlight how AI is reshaping...
AI is everywhere, but is it the right solution for your project? Join me this Friday, November 14 at 11am at Project Management Institute Global Summit for my session: From Hype to Fit: Deciding If AI Is Right for Your...
Tiny 7M Model that Surpassed DeepSeek-R1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and o3-mini at Reasoning on ARC-AGI 1 & 2 🧠 Last week, I attended @jm_alexia's talk at Mila and I don’t think anyone expected a 7-million-parameter model to outperform models 10,000× larger. Alexia...
Baseten, now valued at $2.15 billion, announced the general availability of Baseten Training, an AI model‑training platform that lets enterprises fine‑tune open‑source models while retaining full ownership of their weights. The service provides multi‑cloud GPU orchestration, sub‑minute job scheduling, automated checkpointing...
In this episode, Grant Lee, CEO of Gamma, explains how his team built the "anti‑PowerPoint" by treating presentations as a design problem rather than a slide‑deck upgrade, leveraging a culture of rapid A/B testing inherited from his Optimizely days. He...
Future of Writing and AI – How TextJam is Taking On Word and Google Docs A look at how AI-writing platforms like TextJam are challenging traditional tools like Word and Google Docs—and what this means for writers and professionals. Read...
This company is one you will hear a LOT more about. They make tiny AI computers for robots and medical devices. I just invested after a friend who makes medical devices told me how far ahead it is.
Tesla has launched a short‑term rental program for its electric vehicles in two California stores, San Diego and Costa Mesa, with plans to expand to additional locations by year‑end. Rentals run three to seven days, start at $60 per day, include free...
World models are soon going to run everything. The world isn’t paying enough attention.
venture capitalists: we back the top ai labs and infrastructure companies such as openai anthropic mistral huggingface coreweave cohere xAi ai founders: we use qwen on ali baba cloud
The episode explores three major AI themes: research showing that large language models readily shift their stated beliefs during extended conversations, prompting new safety techniques like Bias‑augmented Consistency Training to make models harder to jailbreak; a stark geopolitical analysis from...
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What is the official term for someone who is neither an AI Doomer not an AI Boomer? Someone who sees the enormous potential of AI to do good and create abundance, but is also realistic and cautious about the current...
Microsoft unveiled its upcoming "Agentic Users" – AI agents that will have distinct identities, dedicated access to Microsoft 365 and Azure Entra directories, and the ability to attend meetings, edit documents, and communicate via email and chat autonomously. The feature,...
Luckily new AIs are on their way. Active inferencing and cognitive architectures. That will lead to safe humanoids soon.
This is why I was so disappointed in Meta’s new display AI glasses. It had one shot to compete with the Chinese and it fell flat. These are way better.
New European documents indicate a forthcoming "digital omnibus" package, slated for a 19 November 2025 proposal, that could relax key GDPR provisions to accelerate AI development. The draft would permit AI firms to train models on categories of data now protected—such as...
Discover the top 50 AI tools that have garnered over 24B visits! These powerful tools are revolutionizing the way we work and interact with technology. Stay ahead of the curve and explore the cutting-edge advancements in artificial intelligence. Via @ingliguori #AI...
a really fun 2 hour chat with @kofinas where we dive into the fundamentals driving ai progress, open source, china, geopolitics, ai-first applications, the story of @airstreet and @stateofaireport and what's more to come with some philosophising along the way
AI Optimism — defined as seeing AI products & services as more beneficial than harmful — is at 83% in China but only 39% in the U.S. This is what those EA billionaires bought with their propaganda money. https://t.co/l3I450og9a
the best parameter tuning framework ive seen so far 💙
AI governance is not optional, it's essential. The EU Artificial Intelligence Act categorizes AI risk to protect rights and safety. Discover more with @ingliguori. #AIAct #Governance #ModelOps #AIethics https://t.co/bxwNAfeqKo
It's noteworthy that Altman and other AI CEO's are also openly trying to develop AI that can figure out how to improve AI - which I view as digital gain-of-function research. What could possibly go wrong...?
Chat interfaces suck. So this guy literally built a canvas for LLMs. Forget linear ChatGPT. With this app now you can branch, parallelize, and collaborate like Git + Figma for AI! 🤯 App link below ↓ https://t.co/En6wQJHctA
