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Hugging Face releases LeRobot Humanoid: 3D‑printable legs for robot research
Open-source robotics has a new foothold. Hugging Face’s LeRobot Humanoid project ditches the polished, monolithic prototype in favor of something far...
AI outperforms PhDs in virology, leading tech CEOs to push DNA security bills
For twenty years, the instructions to rebuild a virus from scratch have been public. The only thing stopping you was needing a PhD in virology.
Stanford's Karen Liu on Generalist AI's Large-Scale Robot Data Collection
A robot arm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, watched a short video of a person unzipping a purse and pulling out banknotes.
Rubrik's AI judges every agent move, but accuracy remains unmeasured
Rubrik has a policy problem, and it's not the one most CISOs worry about. The data security company, which trades publicly and stores what its own AI...
Duolingo adopts AI-First strategy, plans to phase out contractor tasks
The headline reads like a punchline to a decade of speculation: “Duolingo adopts AI-First strategy, plans to phase out contractor tasks.” But for the...
Genstore teams AI agents to run research, ops, marketing and analytics
Running a brand means juggling a dozen roles at once, researcher, operator, marketer, analyst. Most founders never escape the grind.
Researchers Generate 3D Assets From Single Images With Relightable Gaussians
A team of ten researchers, including Mayank Singh, Michele Stoppa and David E. Jacobs, has built a system called Luce that turns a single photo into...
Study: Medical AI's Helpfulness Depends on User's Own Expertise
Doctors and laypeople don't lean on artificial intelligence the same way, and a new study out of MIT suggests that difference could determine whether...
OpenAI Special Projects Lead Brad Lightcap Departs After 8 Years
Brad Lightcap is leaving OpenAI after eight years, closing out a run that took him from finance executive to chief operating officer to, most...
AI Gateways and MCP: Scaling AI Governance Across Models and Tools
Most AI deployments are a mess. You have models from five different vendors, a custom tool built by an intern, and zero idea what any of it costs or...
Meituan trains 1.6 trillion-parameter LongCat-2.0 on Chinese chips, no Nvidia
The numbers are cartoonishly large. Forget billions. Meituan built LongCat-2.0 with 1.6 trillion parameters, and they did it on over 50,000 homegrown...
OpenCode adds plugins for citations, source lists and multi‑search support
OpenCode is putting in the plumbing. Three new plugins are turning it from a flashy chatbot into a tool with receipts.
Adaptive6 launches from stealth, cuts enterprise cloud waste, aids Ticketmaster
The cloud cost management industry has a dirty little secret: most tools are just expensive calculators.
68% of tech leaders plan AI budget hikes; 39% see AI as top growth driver
Tech leaders are throwing cash at AI. The vast majority plan to increase their budgets for it.
OpenAI Aims to Remove Political Bias from ChatGPT in New Research
OpenAI wants its chatbot to be Switzerland. A new research paper states the goal plainly: "ChatGPT shouldn't have political bias in any direction."...
Google expands AI partnership with Tel Aviv University, infrastructure for Gemma
The line between academic inquiry and industrial-scale AI is dissolving. Google is deepening its bet on Tel Aviv University, funneling infrastructure...
Anthropic embeds Claude AI in Excel, eyes finance market against Copilot
Every AI company wants to sell to banks. Anthropic, tired of waiting, just parked its truck in Microsoft’s driveway.
Google's Gemini offers free Nano Banana AI image generation for US users
Google has given up pretending you'll pay for a picture of a banana. Its Nano Banana AI image generator, previously locked behind the Gemini Advanced...
Eightfold sued for creating consumer reports on job applicants without consent
Eightfold’s software watches you apply for a job and decides what you’ll become. It runs a private background check you never authorized.
Sony Music, Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over "Blatant Theft
Sony Music and Warner Chappell filed suit against Anthropic on Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking...