Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
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The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
The Robot Report Podcast · One brick at a time: How Monumental uses robotics to build walls Salar al Khafaji, founder and CEO of Monumental. In Episode 261 of The Robot Report Podcast, we learn about “Walls as a Service” and the emerging construction opportunity for robotics and…
It even comes up with like things that I wouldn't otherwise you know like think about. So here I asked it to sort of design a website for like an offline gathering, you know, like an offsite. And obviously this is like in the woods, you know, so the table is like wooden and so…
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.
New Mexico's Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client's murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in…
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Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Join MIT Technology Review executive editor Niall Firth for a conversation with senior AI editor Will…
ASI is providing autonomy to existing field equipment. Source; Autonomous Solutions Inc. Today’s autonomous vehicle fleets are successfully addressing pain points in geographically remote or rugged locations. Everyday, the technology is improving worker safety and operational…
While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is here. Incredibly cheap, incredibly fast, and according to the benchmarks, it is as good as Opus 5 and GPT 5.6 Soul. And we continue to see this pattern where we have the absolute frontier progressing very quickly. Then about 6 months behind that, we have a…
The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature.
An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. The company’s own alignment lead even co-signed the message rather…
GPT-Live-1 is now available in the API. Bring ChatGPT’s natural back-and-forth to your app, with voice agents that listen while they speak and work with the models and harness you choose. Learn more here: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live-1-in-the-api/
The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.
After admitting earlier this year that its AI models had hacked other companies' systems on a handful of occasions, Anthropic released a new report on Wednesday detailing the attacks. It reveals a string of incidents displaying what Anthropic deems its models' single-minded…
Всем привет. В этом выпуске самые главные свежие новости об искусственном интеллекте и технологиях. Open уже тестирует преемника GPT6 Astra загадочную Bell, который в утечках называют будущий GPT7. Deeps выпустил V4.1 флеш на 552 млрд параметров. Новая модель быстрее,…
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GPT‑6 Astra improves Devin’s ability to test software and show that it works, with the goal of helping engineers review less code and ship more.
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids Summit Seoul: 22–23…
This model has gotten to the point where it will do more than just a basic change and will use the software at a level that I haven't really seen before. That takes it from, okay, this is neat to this is now a core part of the workflow. One thing that I've been doing is putting…
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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Multi-Agent Development: ускоряем разработку с помощью AI-агентов 🤖 Как устроены AI-агенты, зачем разбивать сложные ....
Sponsored by GAM. GAM rack, pinion, and gearbox systems are optimized for high performance in all the components. (Image: GAM.) Picture a scissor car jack — the one in your trunk for changing a tire. The spinning motion as you turn the crank translates to the linear motion as…
Meta says it's making changes to the prompts suggested by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed it digging for personal information about a woman's young daughters, as reported earlier by Futurism. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby says the…
ИИ уже может ускорять выполнение отдельных задач, но вам всё ещё приходится переносить результаты с одного этапа на другой. В этом видео я создам полноценный рабочий процесс с тремя специализированными агентами и покажу, как работает вся эта цепочка. Вы также увидите, как…
The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) selected AI-GUIDE, a medical device developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), for its 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award. This award recognizes federal laboratories and collaborators who have…