ENManus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops
Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation.
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Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation.
As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI's potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what's already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate, and other studios who have started using AI, as…
Sanjay Aggarwal, partner at F-Prime Capital (left), and Betsy Mulé, principal at F-Prime Capital (right). Each month, robotics companies are bringing in billions of dollars in investments. In August 2026 alone, the industry raised $4.87 billion in disclosed funding and other…
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A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, The Wall Street Journal reports. They were able to access OpenAI's GitHub repository, called…
The reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot. But PACs associated with AI labs and investors have already spent more money on the race than actual residents have.
Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.
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The satirical collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data, “Bezzy” is a cute little doll that spews the sounds of real data centers.
Triton is a GI robotic endoscopy system designed for easy and comfortable navigation, precision, and control throughout the entire colon. | Source: Neptune Medical Neptune Medical Inc. this week announced FDA clearance for its Triton 1 System. The comapny said it designed the…
Icarus co-founder and CTO Jaime Palmer (center) with the Icarus team testing JOY on a parabolic flight. | Source: Icarus Robotics Icarus Robotics yesterday said it has tested JOY, its free-flying robot, on four parabolic flights from Sept. 9 to 11. In total, JOY flew 66…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event that asked the…
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On the morning of June 9th, Laura Lin was working from her home in Lanesville, a rural southern Indiana town about 15 miles from the Kentucky border. She was on a Zoom call, unaware that the heavy rain outside was beginning to flood her yard. "I look over to where the barn is…
The left wants AI regulation. They just can’t agree on what it should look like or how concerned they should be.
Once the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom.
Of all the threats presented by uncontrollable artificial intelligence, scientists say death by plague ranks low.
In recent weeks, leaders of some of the biggest AI companies have warned that the very tech they are developing is dangerous. Last weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI carries serious risk and that progress should be slowed. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded on X: “I…
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The new institute aims to surface differing views between Google, Google DeepMind, and the broader global research community around AGI. "They will not always agree, and they will likely change their minds, as more data and information comes to light at the fast-moving frontier."
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.
By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs may have set themselves up for years of regulatory headaches.
Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are…
The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage groups of AI agents, each project has "threads" running…
The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.
Sponsored by GAM. A gearbox, pinion, and rack system provide the 7th axis, or lateral movement, for an articulated robot. (Image: GAM.) Pull a tape measure out a few inches and the blade is rigid. Keep pulling and at some point it starts to flex and wobble, then eventually…
In response to a new European Union law, AI platforms are implementing new schemes for watermarking the content they generate. Anthropic recently disclosed its future Claude models will use SynthID-Text, an approach Google created and released as open source. It uses a secret…
Robotics companies raised $4.87 billion in disclosed funding and other capital in August 2026, according to 162 financial transactions tracked by The Robot Report. The overall funding total is much higher as many of the funding totals are not made public. China accounted for the…
In 34 of the 37 surveyed countries, people are more likely to believe AI will lead to job losses over the next 20 years. | Image: Pew Pew Research has published a new global survey that sheds light on how people view AI, including its impact on jobs, life in general, and income…