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Nvidia commits $6.3B for CoreWeave’s unused cloud capacity
Nvidia signs $6.3B deal with CoreWeave – Agreement runs through 2032, requiring the chipmaker to purchase any unused CoreWeave data center capacity.
Robotics Funding Crests Higher As Figure Lands Another $1B
Robotics startup funding has hit the highest point in years, boosted by Tuesday’s giant round for Figure, a San Jose, California-based developer of humanoid bots.
Microsoft trumps Google with $30 billion investment in the UK
Microsoft’s announcement comes on the same day President Trump visits Britain and Google makes its own UK investment.
Figure valued at $39 billion in latest funding round
AI robotics company Figure said it had received over $1 billion in committed capital in its latest funding round that valued the firm at $39 billion post money.
Amateurs Using AI to “Vibe Code” Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software
It turns out that using AI to “vibe code” entire pieces of software into existence doesn’t always work out that well.
Robotics startup Figure valued at $39 billion in latest funding round
AI robotics company Figure said on Tuesday it had received over $1 billion in committed capital in its latest funding round that valued the firm at $39 billion post money....
AI revolutionizes weather prediction to help farmers in India
Co-developed by UC Berkeley’s William Boos, an artificial intelligence-based weather model delivered a timely prediction of a stalled monsoon this season, helping farmers decide when to plant their crops.
Machine learning unravels quantum atomic vibrations in materials
Caltech scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)–based method that dramatically speeds up calculations of the quantum interactions that take place in materials. In new work, the group …
Penguin Ai Secures $29.7M in Venture Funding to Tackle the $1 Trillion Administrative Burden in the Healthcare Industry
Insider Brief Penguin Ai raised $29.7M in venture funding, including a $25M Series A led by Greycroft with participation from UPMC Enterprises,
Dyna Robotics closes $120M funding round to scale robotics foundation model
Dyna says it has built a single-weight, general-purpose foundation model that can perform diverse daily tasks at commercial scale.
5 Key Takeaways | The Law of the Machine (Learning): Solving Complex AI Challenges
As businesses are under increasing pressure to develop and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) tools, their legal departments are facing new challenges at this intersection of innovation,…
Google’s Gemini tops Apple’s App Store, snagging lead spot from ChatGPT
Google appears to be gaining traction in the consumer AI market, as its Gemini app has taken the top spot in Apple’s App Store from ChatGPT.
Artificial Intelligence finds its way into police departments
From drones to body cameras, artificial intelligence is changing how police departments are investigating crimes and train officers. While law enforcement leaders call it efficient and lifesaving, questions remain about...
Researchers warn that skill erosion caused by AI could have a devastating and lasting impact on businesses – but it may already be too late
Two experts in cognitive automation told us how AI is hollowing out expertise and what safeguards organizations need to adopt
Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery sue Chinese AI firm as Hollywood’s copyright battles spread
Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery sued China-based AI firm MiniMax for copyright infringement, the second lawsuit that major studios have filed as the entertainment industry grapples with the growth...
Top US tech companies are holding developers in closed-source AI ecosystems, Ant Group says
US companies aren’t open-sourcing AI models
xAI’s Colossus 2 – First Gigawatt Datacenter In The World, Unique RL Methodology, Capital Raise
Much has been written about xAI’s Colossus 1. The Memphis build belongs in the history books: the largest AI training cluster, erected from scratch in 122 days. With roughly 200,000...
Should You Use Artificial Intelligence (AI) as Your Therapist?
As the demand for therapists increases and artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more sophisticated, people are turning to large language models (LLMs) as therapeutic tools. But should you?
Apple Is Releasing New Software for Your iPhone, Watch, and Mac. Here’s What It Does
Apple is bringing new AI features and a shiny new look to its gadgets. The software updates are available today.
AI-powered CRISPR could lead to faster gene therapies, Stanford Medicine study finds
CRISPR-GPT, a large language model developed at Stanford Medicine, is accelerating gene-editing processes and increasing accessibility to CRISPR.
GreenLite Raises $49.5M Series B to Advance the Privatization of Construction Permitting with AI-Powered Solutions
Walgreens, O’Reilly Auto Parts, and TD Bank are among the Fortune 500 companies using GreenLite’s AI-driven Private Plan Review for permitting efficiency NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — GreenLite, the construction technology...
Fighting for Custody of Your Thoughts
Artificial intelligence will raise your thoughts for you, but only if you let it.
Following teen suicide, OpenAI explores automatic underage user restrictions
OpenAI said a new teen ChatGPT experience would come with age-appropriate policies, including a block of graphic sexual content.
Humanoid Robotics Company Raises $1 Billion For Nvidia Chips, AI Data Collection, Production
Humanoid robots are a billion steps closer to reality today as Figure raised $1B to build AI infrastructure, capture training data, and make robots.
Deploying agentic AI? You’ll probably do business with these 3 companies
How three major players position themselves to define enterprise productivity tools, according to Research And Markets.
Unified multimodal access layer for Quora’s Poe using Amazon Bedrock
In this post, we explore how the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center and Quora collaborated to build a unified wrapper API framework that dramatically accelerates the deployment of Amazon Bedrock...
Saudi Arabia Eyes Multibillion-Dollar AI Partnership With Private Equity Titans
Saudi Arabia’s new artificial intelligence company, Humain, is in early-stage talks with global private equity firms on a partnership to plow significant capital into data centers and related infrastructure, people...
Autodesk Folds Construction Cloud Into Forma, Will Release Geometry-Based AI Assistants
Autodesk will release new geometry-trained AI assistants, first in Revit, later this year. Autodesk Construction Cloud will be folded into the Forma AEC cloud platform.
AT&T Exec on Why AI, 5G Are Critical to IC
AT&T’s Jill Singer says AI and 5G are essential to the intelligence community to deliver real-time, actionable insights and support the mission.
YouTube just announced a bunch of AI tools for creators
YouTube has revealed a whole boatload of tools for creators. Many of these involve AI in some capacity.
What will AI look like in 2030?
If scaling persists to 2030, AI investments will reach hundreds of billions of dollars and require gigawatts of power. Benchmarks suggest AI could improve productivity in valuable areas such as...
Some judges move beyond fines to keep lawyers’ AI errors in check
As more and more phony case citations and other artificial intelligence errors show up in legal filings, some judges are experimenting with alternatives to traditional court sanctions to deter lawyers...
Legal-Ready AI: 7 Tips for Engineers Who Don’t Want to Be Caught Flat-Footed – Broadcom News and Stories
An oversimplified approach I have taken in the past to explain wisdom is to share that “We don’t know what we don’t know until we know it.” This
Meta created its own super PAC to politically kneecap its AI rivals
Mark Zuckerberg, via Meta, can now essentially spend unlimited money in California elections.
Elon Musk, OpenAI rivalry escalates in AI talent war
CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos joins ‘Money Movers’ to discuss OpenAi hiring former xAI CFO as the rivalry between escalates.
`LeRobotDataset:v3.0`: Bringing large-scale datasets to `lerobot`
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Equinix, partners bring liquid cooling to Hong Kong DCs
Equinix said that the setup provides up to 150kW of cooling capacity per rack, about 30 times greater than conventional air cooling.
How to build AI scaling laws for efficient LLM training and budget maximization
MIT and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers have developed a universal guide for estimating how large language models (LLMs) will perform based on smaller models in the same family.
Nothing will make its own OS for phones and beyond, first ‘AI-native devices’ in 2026
Nothing says that it will build its own operating system for phones and beyond, while also launching new “AI-native devices” in 2026.
AI Assistants Deployed in Lebanon Refugee Hospital
The project marks the first conflict zone trial of the tech, examining how AI can help ease medical staff’s workloads.