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Barclays expects humanoid-robot deployments to surge as the technology moves from laboratories into real-world environments. The sector’s main challenge remains the shortage of real-world training data needed to improve embodied AI systems.
Bloomberg Technology · 16d ago
Napster, the former music-streaming platform, is shifting its business strategy toward low-cost AI agents. The company is pursuing a pricing model of about one penny per minute through Microsoft.
Bloomberg Technology · 16d ago
A developer used the local Q4-quantized GLM 5.3 Flash to iteratively create a Fabric mod for Minecraft. The resulting black hole rifle pulls in blocks, features shrinking light rings, and leaves a large explosion crater.
Reddit r/LocalLLaMA · 16d ago
The US government has sided with OpenAI over whether large language models can be trained on copyrighted material. Its brief argues that the United States has a strong interest in maintaining a competitive AI industry and establishing global standards for AI use.
TechCrunch AI · 16d ago
ElevenLabs has hired Ashley Kramer, formerly OpenAI’s vice president of enterprise sales, as its first chief revenue officer. The appointment comes as more than half of ElevenLabs’ revenue shifts toward enterprise customers, while its synthetic-content product faces upcoming EU AI Act marking requirements.
The Next Web (TNW) · 16d ago
Deepity is a local C++ machine learning library demonstrating that Predictive Coding Networks can approach backpropagation performance on MNIST. Its DKPPCN implementation achieved 97.73% test accuracy in 59.5 seconds over 50 epochs, compared with PyTorch backpropagation's 98.27% in about 70 seconds.
Reddit r/MachineLearning · 16d ago
Fireflies has launched Voice Agents for screening interviews, sales discovery, and customer support calls. The company reports more than 40,000 conversations across 2,100 organisations in 97 countries, while recruitment and candidate-evaluation use cases face high-risk obligations under the EU AI Act.
The Next Web (TNW) · 16d ago
Apple’s strained relationship with Intel reportedly stems from manufacturing delays, capacity uncertainty, and premature claims about securing Apple business. In contrast, TSMC has built stronger trust by investing ahead of demand in advanced process technology and capacity.
Computerworld · 16d ago
Dell raised its fiscal 2027 revenue outlook to about $192 billion, up from $167 billion previously. It expects $74 billion in AI-server sales, roughly triple the prior year, as demand for AI infrastructure accelerates.
Bloomberg Technology · 16d ago
Moonshot AI has reportedly confidentially filed an A1 application with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, launching Kimi’s IPO process while pursuing a new round at a $50 billion pre-money valuation. The move highlights a critical shift for independent foundation-model companies: investors are increasingly demanding evidence of durable revenue, product value, and defensible business models beyond model capability alone.
虎嗅 · 16d ago
Microsoft is helping Napster reinvent its business with agentic AI, according to Napster CEO John Acunto. The company is shifting its positioning from streaming music to “streaming intelligence.”
Bloomberg Technology · 16d ago
A University of Washington study examined children’s interactions with AI-enabled plush toys. The research found that initial curiosity often shifted to frustration and even hostility when the toys began conversing.
GeekWire · 16d ago
DeepMind announced Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber in a blog post. The provided article contains no additional information about capabilities, availability, pricing, or technical specifications.
DeepMind Blog · 16d ago
The Trump administration filed a statement of interest supporting OpenAI in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit. Its position argues that training AI models on copyrighted text can qualify as fair use, a stance that could influence the legal environment for model development.
The Verge · 16d ago
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a cybersecurity-focused model designed for autonomous vulnerability discovery and code remediation. It has surpassed 70% vulnerability-finding success in internal tests and is already fully deployed within Google for code security protection.
IT之家 · 16d ago
NVIDIA’s third AI model co-design post examines how speculative decoding can accelerate LLM inference without sacrificing accuracy. It presents five guidelines for choosing draft lengths and draft mechanisms across the throughput–latency Pareto frontier.
NVIDIA Developer Blog · 16d ago
Wonderful raised a $550 million Series C led by Insight Partners, with Salesforce and other major investors participating. The financing values the company at $5 billion, more than doubling its valuation in under six months.
TechCrunch AI · 16d ago
Jio is betting it can transform aging computers into AI-ready PCs through a service costing about $11 for two months. The initiative could make AI capabilities more accessible without requiring users to replace their existing hardware.
TechCrunch AI · 16d ago
Google has introduced the Fairwind Program, a limited-access initiative providing cyber defense tools to governments and trusted partners. The announcement signals a focus on proactive cybersecurity support for high-trust organizations.
Google AI Blog · 16d ago
Uber drivers in the UK, the Netherlands and other European countries have launched a class action over the company’s AI-powered system for setting pay and allocating jobs. The lawsuit alleges the system violates data protection laws, suppresses earnings and creates constant uncertainty for drivers.
The Guardian Technology · 16d ago
New York City will prohibit student use of artificial intelligence in public schools through eighth grade, affecting students typically aged 13 or 14. The district will also keep students off laptops and tablets through third grade as part of a broad technology-policy overhaul.
The Guardian Technology · 16d ago
Following its merger with Highspot, Seismic CEO Rob Tarkoff disclosed the combined company’s revenue for the first time. He also discussed potential job cuts, Highspot’s Seattle offices, AI-driven competition, and the company’s relationship with Salesforce.
GeekWire · 16d ago
Hybrid bonding, which joins copper directly to copper in 3D chip stacks, has entered high-volume production for logic chips. However, its rollout for HBM memory has been unexpectedly postponed, while TSMC is operating at a 6-micron pitch.
Tom's Hardware · 16d ago
HiddenLayer has raised a $100 million Series B to expand its AI security business as enterprises accelerate AI deployments. The round included Delta-v Capital, Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft’s M12, Booz Allen Hamilton, and other investors.
TechCrunch AI · 16d ago
Xpeng has raised $900 million for its Iron humanoid robot, targeting pilot production by the end of 2026 and external deliveries in the first half of 2027. The strategy aims to extend Xpeng’s autonomous-driving, AI, motor-control, and supply-chain capabilities beyond automobiles.
虎嗅 · 16d ago
A rebuilt CABiNet implementation benchmarks the 2021 real-time segmentation model against YOLO26-sem variants on the UAVid aerial segmentation dataset. CABiNet-L achieved the highest mIoU at 67.14% while using 9.17M parameters and 4.44 ms FP16 latency, though the comparison uses different training recipes.
Reddit r/MachineLearning · 16d ago
Wonderful raised a $550 million Series C at a $5 billion valuation. Its enterprise AI agent platform supports customer, employee, and back-office agents across more than 30 markets.
TestingCatalog · 16d ago
Uber plans to cut about 3,300 jobs globally while redirecting spending toward ride-sharing, delivery, and robotaxi operations. Dell raised its full-year revenue forecast after strong quarterly results, supported by demand for AI servers, while PG&E plans to defer about $2 billion in investments.
Bloomberg Technology · 16d ago
GoPro is merging with optical-photonics company Starman Optical in a deal valued at at least $285 million. The transaction is intended to eliminate GoPro's $92 million debt, bring camera manufacturing to the United States, and add optical transceivers for AI data centers.
Tom's Hardware · 16d ago
Jasper Research released an interactive cookbook explaining how to build a text-to-image model from scratch, including reasoning and intermediate results. It also provides the nano t2i codebase and the 100-million-image Monet dataset for hands-on training.
Reddit r/MachineLearning · 16d ago