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Galaxea AI raises $290M in Series B+ round, valuation hits $29B
Chinese embodied‑intelligence startup Galaxea AI secured roughly $290 million in a Series B+ financing, lifting its valuation to about $29 billion. The round was led by industrial investors, long‑term funds and state‑backed capital. Galaxea plans to invest the cash in its Vision‑Language‑Action and World Action models to advance real‑world AI capabilities.
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By the numbers: Microsoft commits $10B AI investment in Japan
Google announced that Gemini’s Deep Research feature can now access users’ Gmail, Drive, and Chat data to augment AI‑generated research reports. The agentic tool first creates a multi‑step research plan, then pulls information from web searches and the selected Workspace sources, allowing users to refine the output or export it to Google Docs or an AI‑generated podcast. The integration lets teams incorporate brainstorming docs, email threads, spreadsheets, and chat logs into market analyses or competitor reports. The feature is currently available on desktop with a mobile rollout slated for the coming days.
China is reportedly offering electricity subsidies that could cut data‑center power costs by up to 50% for domestic cloud giants such as Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent, provided they run AI workloads on locally produced chips from Huawei, Cambricon and other...
MIT Sloan School of Management withdrew a working paper that claimed AI was involved in 80.83% of recorded ransomware attacks after leading security researchers denounced the figures as unfounded. Critics, including Kevin Beaumont and Marcus Hutchins, highlighted methodological flaws and...
Out of the fire rises a Phoenix. Now they need a World Model (er a VLA) and then an open source robot makes sense to me as a business. Will be watching to see if this new effort can put...
Developers and AI researchers can now rent Nvidia's flagship RTX 5090 GPU on a pay‑as‑you‑go basis, with the cheapest offering from SaladCloud at $0.25 per hour for a 32 GB instance. Competing marketplaces list similar cards at $0.32‑$0.63 per hour, with daily...
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready told investors that open‑source AI models are delivering "tremendous performance" on the company’s visual‑AI use cases at a fraction of the cost of proprietary large‑language models, enabling cheaper personalization, multimodal search, ad targeting and the new...
AEO vs. GEO vs. AI SEO Optimizing content for AI-driven platforms has become incredibly complicated. There is currently no consensus on what to call what used to be "SEO." This article explains three main terms marketers use, all of which are...
Tinder is piloting an AI‑driven feature called Chemistry that asks users questions and, with permission, scans their Camera Roll to infer interests and personality, aiming to improve match recommendations. The test is running in New Zealand and Australia and will become...
An AI can draft fifty options before lunch. The skill is knowing which one moves the needle. In creative fields, that means taste. In business, it means prioritization. In science, it means designing the right question before running the experiment. AI pushes volume to infinity....
Influencers, creatives (AI Artists), and media creators: Introducing https://t.co/dTX4U4vFqz which is an AI assistant for you. It really is a team of AI agents that cover every aspect of the creative process. I sit down with @shahrzadrafati who launches today. For everyone...
Google Cloud unveiled a major upgrade to its Vertex AI Agent Builder, adding an observability dashboard, one‑click deployment, and state‑of‑the‑art context‑management layers that let enterprises build agents with as few as 100 lines of code. The update expands language support...
When Insta360 launched in my home years ago I had no idea that its camera would be used to drive a brain computer interface this way. 360 cameras are becoming more important in the robot age. It's one way that...
Microsoft researchers unveiled an open‑source synthetic environment called the “Magentic Marketplace” to evaluate AI agents in a controlled, multi‑agent setting. In initial trials, 100 customer‑side agents interacted with 300 business‑side agents using leading models such as GPT‑4o, GPT‑5 and Gemini‑2.5‑Flash....
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Atlas, an AI‑powered web browser that embeds a ChatGPT interface in each tab, allowing users to query the current page, automate form‑filling, shop via Instacart, and search their browsing history. The move reflects a broader trend...
In the episode, Helen Toner, director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology and former OpenAI board member, explains that the United States and China are barely communicating on AI, hampering any joint governance of emerging AGI risks. She...
Microsoft announced it will extend in‑country data processing for its Copilot AI to 15 additional markets by the end of 2026, adding Canada, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UAE and the US, while Australia, India,...
College students are the world’s first AI-native workforce. They just haven’t entered payroll yet. Surveys already show over 90% of college students have used generative AI for coursework. Prompts are the start of collaboration. They’ve stopped outsourcing tasks. They’re co-authoring ideas. Every assignment...
Agentic AI: Why 2025 is the year of autonomous AI agents. A reality check ⚠️ Adesso warns many 'AI agents' are scripted; true agents must decide & act, like coding and IT-support agents; design must balance autonomy & control. https://t.co/nGtxRo1WQn ...
The article argues that the biggest AI security risks stem from organizational culture rather than code flaws, as unclear ownership, undocumented updates, and fragmented decision‑making erode resilience. It highlights that existing regulations like the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill...
Looks like gemini 3 is going to be 1.2 Trillion parameters? 🤯 https://t.co/StkFT8XbJC
Jensen Huang doesn’t care about Sam Altman’s AI hype fears: He thinks @OpenAI will be the first ‘multitrillion-dollar hyperscale company’ https://t.co/ZWYGmlI8l9 @nvidia @sama #AI #IoT #5G #AgenticAI #CES2026 https://t.co/DRA9qCqfit
Elon Musk’s xAI mandated that employees submit biometric data—including faces and voices—to train its new "Ani" AI chatbot, an anime‑styled, NSFW companion offered to X’s $30‑a‑month SuperGrok subscribers. Staff assigned as AI tutors were required to sign release forms granting...
This video was created by accident. I was going to upload my book cover to @xai @grok Imagine and prompt it to produce some images. But hit the wrong button and mistakenly asked for a video, with no prompt. Result...
⚙️ Autonomous. Proactive. Game-changing. Agentic AI is already redefining business operations and decision-making. Great overview via @BizTechMagazine 🔗 https://t.co/3J8wsfDk3v #AgenticAI #DigitalTransformation #AI https://t.co/hXZcprdn3Q
Several ChatGPT users have reported that their saved "memories"—personalized data such as allergies or location—have vanished from the Manage Memory panel, with the issue appearing across desktop, mobile, and web apps. The problem has not been acknowledged on OpenAI’s status...
ML research is an engineering discipline, not a philosophy seminar. You build, you test, you learn. Untested ideas are just speculation.
sim2real got hands, but making progress towards our own gait and transferring walking/running successfully from sim to real. ignore toddler mess. its all strategically placed with purpose to test challenging scenarios for robots of course. https://t.co/Xbgayfrfik
SoftBank and OpenAI have created a 50‑50 joint venture, SB OAI Japan, to localize and sell OpenAI’s enterprise AI tools, branded as “Crystal intelligence,” to Japanese corporations. The venture’s first customer is SoftBank itself, which plans to deploy the solution...
The future of work is agentic. @McKinsey dives into how AI agents will become digital coworkers—automating help desks, software dev & more. 🔗 https://t.co/290mxPy8VE #AgenticAI #Automation #AIinWorkplace https://t.co/x9xe2k8lNG
Peeling back the layers of AI! This infographic unravels the complex world from Neural Networks to Deep Learning. Dive deeper into AI with the insights from @ingliguori's 'The Digital Edge' 👉 https://t.co/Nrh6BBTRcF #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DeepLearning https://t.co/o8jSQY4ukw
The post discusses shilling attacks on recommender systems, where attackers create fake profiles to manipulate collaborative‑filtering algorithms for promotion or sabotage. It explains various attack types—random, segmented, bandwagon, and average—and shows that user‑user filtering is especially vulnerable, needing only a...
🔍 What is Agentic AI and how will it transform the way we work? From travel planning to virtual caregiving, AI agents are set to reshape productivity. A must-read from @HarvardBiz 👇 🔗 https://t.co/cKyBkidRdQ #AgenticAI #FutureOfWork #AI https://t.co/vYgvxXaBu5
in the latest @stateofaireport, I predicted that an ai scientist would make verifiably new discoveries end-to-end looks like we’re pretty much there!
Google is replacing Assistant with its Gemini generative AI in Google Maps, rolling out new conversational features for navigation, location info, and a Gemini‑infused Lens. Gemini can handle complex queries, provide landmark‑based turn instructions, and integrate traffic alerts and calendar...
Very excited about these roles - on the economics/policy one, you'd work very closely with myself and some of my colleagues. We're very interested in leveraging the kind of data we can uniquely produce at anthropic to help advance the...
Cool to see some of our robotics team in the Bay Area these days to showcase Reachy 2 and Reachy mini (here at @nvidia) Let's go open-source AI robotics 🦾🦾🦾 https://t.co/s7iaBr8EGA
Stability AI won most of its UK lawsuit against Getty Images, with the High Court rejecting Getty’s claim of secondary copyright infringement and finding only trademark infringement for watermark use. Getty had dropped its core claim that Stability trained on...
Unveiling the distinctions between Cognitive AI & traditional AI — crucial for innovators! 🧠 Embrace the future of technology with insights from @ingliguori and level up with 'The Digital Edge' 👉 https://t.co/Nrh6BBTRcF #ArtificialIntelligence #CognitiveAI #TechTrends https://t.co/0mhCj3A6zk
The post surveys a wave of AI‑related announcements, from China’s rollout of expanded surveillance systems to SAP’s launch of its RPT‑1 AI platform. It highlights Google’s experimental “space compute” project that runs AI models on satellites and notes Shopify’s sharp...
Anthropic should open source one of their old models. It would be great for the community. https://t.co/AkKfYYgNdZ
A large‑scale HUMAINE study of over 40,000 anonymized conversations in the US and UK found that health and wellbeing topics dominate AI usage, with nearly half of chats focused on fitness, nutrition, mental health, and medical conditions. Contrary to expectations,...
🏭 CMR breaks down Agentic AI 101: ↪️ This isn’t just #AI that answers, it perceives, reasons, acts, learns, and coordinates. ↪️ Big impact across healthcare, finance, and supply chains. ↪️ Big questions too: How do we handle workforce shifts, security, and accountability? #AI...
Sandbar, founded by former Meta interface designers Mina Fahmi and Kirak Hong, is launching Stream, a voice‑controlled smart ring that lets users record notes, interact with an AI chatbot, and manage music via a touch‑pad and built‑in microphones. The ring...
Salesforce data shows 76% of business leaders feel pressure to deliver value with data, yet 84% say their strategies need a complete overhaul to succeed with AI. Poor data quality leads 49% of data leaders to sometimes reach incorrect conclusions,...
llama.cpp has a brand new web-ui now! this is amazing! > based on sveltekit > use any gguf model from hugging face hub > 100% private local llm chat > allows file upload > lightweight, memory efficient > constraint generation > open source https://t.co/yQq65mELMv
Thoughtworks’ 2025 Technology Radar reports a decisive shift from the loosely‑defined "vibe coding" approach to a disciplined practice called "context engineering," where AI coding assistants such as Claude Code and Augment Code are supplied with curated, high‑quality context to improve reliability and...
🧠 What is agentic AI? Think of today’s AI, but remove the need for most human prompts Think multi-modal AI, hyper-personalized experiences, open-source innovation, real-time edge computing, sustainable design, and a growing focus on how humans and AI work together, ethically. ...
OpenAI has launched its Sora AI video generation app on Android, expanding from an iOS debut that amassed over a million downloads in five days. The app offers a TikTok‑style feed of AI‑generated clips, a Cameo tool for personal videos,...
This guy literally made ChatGPT stop being nice. Best decision he’s ever made. https://t.co/nnNiQRSnX7
Cut your LLM costs by 50% 🤯 Stop using JSON → switch to TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation). It blends YAML’s readability with CSV’s compactness: ↳ 30–60% less tokens ↳ Built-in field validation ↳ GPT-5, Claude, Gemini. Ace for tabular data. Free and open-source 🧵↓ https://t.co/XIo7bolwHY
