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SA’s most valuable firm invests in robots that can learn ‘every possible sequence of actions’
Prosus Ventures, indirectly owned by one of Africas richest men, Koos Becker, led a series A funding for Flexion, resulting in a $50 million investment for the very promising robotics...
Sorry, mom. The shopping bots suggested a bathrobe for Christmas.
New artificial intelligence shopping tools are sprouting right and left just in time for the holidays.
IFS and Boston Dynamics Unveil Autonomous AI-Robotics System for Industrial Operations
Uniting Boston Dynamics’ autonomous inspection robots with the power of IFS.ai creates a fully agentic AI system that seamlessly connects sensing, predictive decision-making and action in the field.
MIT report: AI can already replace nearly 12% of the U.S. workforce
The window to treat AI as a distant future issue is closing.
Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun and the End of “Just Add GPUs”
When two of the most influential people in AI both say that today’s large language models are hitting their limits , it’s worth paying attention. In a recent long-form interview,...
Sam Altman wants his AI device to feel like ‘sitting in the most beautiful cabin by a lake,’ but it sounds more like endless surveillance
Tranquility shouldn’t require giving up your private self to a device
How To Expropriate An Artificial Intelligence Oligarchy
An industry whose bubble is set to burst is crucial to U.S. national security, you say?
Samsung, SK Telecom ink AI-RAN deal
As part of the collaboration, SK Telecom and Samsung will research and validate multiple foundational 6G technologies.
Top performers see AI-powered growth
Often, it’s beneficial for founders to ignore the discourse, keep their heads down, and focus on building. With the bubble discourse, that appears to be true. Despite macroeconomic volatility and...
The AI Race Is Becoming A Sprint For Power
America’s AI race now hinges on electricity, not algorithms. Why powering data centers and modernizing the grid will define U.S. competitiveness in the decade ahead.
Banks Wonder If ‘AI Slop’ Epithet Applies to AI Debt, Too
Also: ABN Amro plans 20% staff cut, and the future belongs to prediction markets
Can AI Democratize The Global Fight Against Malaria?
Artificial intelligence could compress years of drug discovery into months – helping to overcome growing drug resistance to existing treatments for malaria
Perplexity Rolls Out a Free AI Shopping Tool With PayPal Instant Buy Support
Perplexity says its AI-assisted shopping results won’t favor advertisers and will instead show products that match each user’s needs and preferences.
Intelligent automation for front office | Insights
At the Bloomberg Investment Management Summit 2025 in Singapore, the breakout session ‘Intelligent Automation for Front Office’ explored how data, machine learning, and AI are transforming front-office workflows.
ChatGPT is losing the AI battle on all sides — here’s why Anthropic and Gemini are pulling ahead
The AI race is changing
Researchers discover a shortcoming that makes LLMs less reliable
MIT researchers find large language models sometimes mistakenly link grammatical sequences to specific topics, then rely on these learned patterns when answering queries. This can cause LLMs to fail on...
NY City Council passes landmark AI oversight package
The New York City Council unanimously passed a collection of bills that are designed to provide a heightened level of oversight for the city’s use of artificial intelligence tools.
Gemini’s generative UIs are the future of ‘there’s an app for that’
Fully embraced by Gemini 3, I think generative UIs and AI will lead to a new generation of apps, but not in the way you think.
Warner Music settles lawsuit with AI music startup Suno
Warner and the other major record labels sued Cambridge-based Suno and its competitor Udio last year, accusing the startups of using copyrighted material in their AI platforms without compensation for...
Warner Music drops lawsuit against AI music platform Suno in exchange for licensing agreement
Warner Music Group and Suno have agreed to a partnership that will let the AI platform license artists’ music and likenesses.
US Department of Energy launches ‘Genesis Mission’ to transform American science and innovation through the AI computing revolution
President Trump issued an Executive Order on November 24 to launch the Genesis Mission, a historic national effort led by the US Department of Energy.
How AI will eat your software – 3 ways agents are reshaping tomorrow’s workplace
Boomi CEO Steve Lucas paints a picture of the experience-centered business, where employees prompt AI agents to enable their systems and complete their work.
Google’s Meta Talks Put the Ball in Nvidia’s Court
We’re getting close to the year’s end, when reporters’ minds turn to predictions for the new year. So here’s one: I predict sometime soon Nvidia will announce it is investing...
Warner Music Group settles lawsuit with AI firm Suno
Warner Music Group and AI firm Suno announce deal to compensate music artists and songwriters, ending a legal battle.
Train custom computer vision defect detection model using Amazon SageMaker
In this post, we demonstrate how to migrate computer vision workloads from Amazon Lookout for Vision to Amazon SageMaker AI by training custom defect detection models using pre-trained models available...
Auditing JDBC Drivers at Scale with Hacktron CLI
How we used Hacktron CLI to audit JDBC drivers at scale, mapping dangerous sinks to user input and turning file primitives into real-world RCEs and bug bounties.
Character.AI will offer interactive ‘Stories’ to kids instead of open-ended chat
The company announced last month that it would no longer allow minors to use its chat features.
MIT scientists debut a generative AI model that could create molecules addressing hard-to-treat diseases
A new model known as BoltzGen designs protein binders for any biological target from scratch. Developed at MIT, BoltzGen has shown promise for hard-to-treat targets in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
Practical implementation considerations to close the AI value gap
The AWS Customer Success Center of Excellence (CS COE) helps customers get tangible value from their AWS investments. We’ve seen a pattern: customers who build AI strategies that address people,...
Warner Music Group partners with Suno to offer AI likenesses of its artists
Suno will use WMG music to create its next-gen AI model, too.
Startup Shows Off Robots That Can Do Home Chores
Sunday Robotics has unveiled a robot designed to do chores, like washing dishes and folding laundry. The startup, which has funding from Conviction and Benchmark, says its robots are trained...
Warner Music signs deal with AI music startup Suno, settles lawsuit
WMG says artists and songwriters will have full control over whether and how their names, images, likenesses, voices, and compositions are used in new AI-generated music.
Insurance Companies Are Terrified to Cover AI, Which Should Probably Tell You Something
Three major insurance companies have requested permission to exclude AI from their policies as anxiety grows throughout the industry.
Music Industry Moves: Warner Music Group Inks Deal With Suno; Settles Copyright Lawsuit Against AI Music Generator
Warner Music Group has settled its infringement lawsuit against Suno and announced a new partnership with the AI music generation platform.
Rubrik Tests ‘Undo Button’ for Malfunctioning AI Agents
Many chief information officers at large companies are hesitant to put critical parts of their business operations in the hands of AI agents. That’s because when agents go off the...
Alibaba’s Qwen AI chatbot boasts 10 million downloads in its first week – here’s what it offers
Currently only available in China, the app “is built to become the AI-powered gateway to daily life,” according to Alibaba.
Gemini 3 — and the custom chips that power it — is a wake up call for AI investors
The launch of Google’s Gemini 3 has the entire investing world rethinking the artificial intelligence landscape.
FLUX.2 Image Generation Models Now Released, Optimized for NVIDIA RTX GPUs
Optimized for NVIDIA RTX GPUs the new models are available in FP8 quantizations that reduce VRAM and increase performance by 40%.
Nvidia says its GPUs are a ‘generation ahead’ of Google’s AI chips
It was in response to Wall Street’s concern that Google’s TPU chips could threaten Nvidia’s dominance of the AI infrastructure industry on Tuesday.