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ENAI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks
Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
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ENOpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.
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ENMassachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules
Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.
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ENSuno releases its first AI music model made with record industry help
Suno's new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno's Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was "trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on." The data includes…
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ENOpenAI’s sly mathematical breakthrough sends a chill through academia
Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the G20 Innovation Ministerial. | (Photo by Matt RAMEY / AFP via Getty Images) OpenAI's announcement Tuesday that it has solved one of mathematics' legendary Millennium Prize problems should have been a moment of triumph. The result is both…
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ENWhat bricklaying has taught Monumental about robots in construction
Monumental’s Pisa robot, which is in charge of laying bricks and mortar. | Source: Monumental Currently, 92% of contractors have a difficult time filling roles in construction, according to the Association of General Contractors. At the same time, the U.S. is short 4.5 million…
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ENRead the Apple document explaining how new listening features still protect your privacy
At Wednesday's iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features, including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition. Alongside its announcement, Apple released a document laying out how it plans to balance AI…
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ENApple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening
Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.
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ENEverything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple Watch
The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
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ENUnitree shares down 53% from IPO debut
Unitree offers its G1 humanoid robot for $13.5K. | Source: Unitree Shares of Unitree Robotics have fallen nearly 40% from their first-day closing price on Aug. 19 2026, erasing roughly $20 billion in market value from that point and about $35 billion from their peak. The…
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ENApple’s new iPhone camera mode promises to prove your photo isn’t AI
Apple is launching a new way to prove that the picture you took isn't manipulated by AI. A new feature, called "Reference Image," will arrive with the iPhone 18 Pro lineup later this month and is supposed to use the device's new camera sensor to "sign every pixel it sees." The…
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ENThe hinge for Apple’s new foldable phone was built with AI
Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.
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ENApple’s revamped Health app will calculate your ‘health age’ and readiness score
The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.
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ENApple has a new way prove your iPhone photos aren’t AI slop
Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.
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ENApple CEO John Ternus says the best AI device is still the iPhone
The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.
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ENMicrosoft has new AI privacy rules for schools
Microsoft agreed to a set of safety and privacy principles for AI in schools a week after two major school systems announced a ban on student-facing AI. In a new agreement with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest teachers union in the US, and its New…
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ENAGIBOT to explain how to scale humanoids from the lab to the real world at RoboBusiness
AGIBOT’s semi-humanoid robot working in a pilot at Longcheer Technology’s Nanchang factory. | Source: AGIBOT While generative AI has redefined the digital world, the true frontier lies in the physical realm in translating embodied AI into scalable, commercial reality. For global…
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ENSuperintelligence is coming. Should we let it?
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more…
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ENControlAI’s Connor Leahy on why superintelligence is ‘not a weapon, it’s an adversary’
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more…
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ENVention opens Physical AI Lab for manufacturing in Montreal
Vention and its partners have invested in space and equipment for its new physical AI lab. Source: Vention To generate high-quality data for training the AI models that operate next-generation robots, you need scale. Vention Inc. today opened its Physical AI Lab in Montreal. The…
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Startups1 分钟
ENViral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address
Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.
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ENGambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between labs.
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General1 分钟
ENShipt becomes the latest delivery app with an AI shopping assistant
Users can ask the assistant to do things like "Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items," or "Build a cart for easy school lunches and after-school snacks," Shipt says.
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ENAI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?
Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee — AI adoption isn't playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.
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ENSequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks
Cymphony gives security teams a single view of employees, AI agents, and other nonhuman identities, including the systems and sensitive data they can access.
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ENAmazon Prime Video’s new AI tech matches lips to dubbed audio
Maxton Hall. | Image: Prime Video Amazon's Prime Video is launching a new AI-powered feature that lines up an actor's mouth with "human-dubbed" audio. The feature is only available with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall for now, but Prime Video plans to expand it…
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ENInstacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine
Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.
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ENBesxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time
If you want to manufacture in space—and bring the products back again—there’s a limited set of options: Wait to go to the International Space Station, or partner with a handful of start-ups launching spacecraft that spend time in orbit before they return to Earth. But the…
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ENSuno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up
As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.
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ENStudents who use AI generally score worse at school
Students who use AI to help them study tend to perform worse at school than those who don't, according to data from a global OECD educational report. The situation is more complex than it sounds though, with certain types of AI use giving learners a slight boost, especially…
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