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QueryStory exits stealth with $6M seed to make enterprise AI answers auditable
Ex-Google Chronicle co-founder Shapor Naghibzadeh is betting large companies want confidence scores, not chat boxes, on their data.
Robot brain builders push past their GPT-2 era as Unitree loses half its value
Unitree's $66B IPO cratered nearly 50% while Actuate drew 1,500 builders debating vertical focus, hardware co-design, and the elusive ChatGPT moment for robots.
AI-generated animal images are breaking trust across pet rescue and wildlife photojournalism
Lost-pet scams, fake wildlife rescues, and doubted farm-abuse footage are forcing verification tools and new laws in California and the EU.
IBM ships Granite 4.2 with 3B, 8B, and 30B variants for local deployment
The reasoning-focused release adds agentic RL training on the larger variants and a 128,000-token context window across the family.
Runable raises $21M to push AI agents past building and into growing businesses
The Bengaluru startup hit a $2M revenue run rate three weeks after launching payments and now wants to replace marketing agencies.
AI models still flub these seven puzzles humans can solve
Frontier LLMs jumped from 18% to near-perfect on NYT Connections in months — but mental rotation, ARC-AGI, and river-crossing puzzles still expose the gaps.
Bill Gates says AI has crossed the danger thresholds we said we'd stop at
The 70-year-old philanthropist says bio, cyber, and job-market risks have arrived faster than guardrails, and rates bioterror 50x scarier than natural pandemics.
Ringg raises $10M from Peak XV to push voice AI past the call center
The Bengaluru startup now processes 20M call attempts a month and is chasing complex enterprise workflows over cheap outbound calling.
Generalist hits $3B valuation as 8VC leads $200M robotics extension
The former DeepMind and Boston Dynamics team raised a $200M extension on top of a $400M June round, bringing total funding to $600M.
Humanoid robots break Usain Bolt's 100m record in Beijing — then fall apart
Sprinting robots beat human world records at the World Humanoid Robot Games, but boring chore events exposed how far autonomy still has to go.
Radiologist ranks to grow 26% as AI reshapes the job, not replaces it
Ten years after Geoffrey Hinton predicted radiologists would be obsolete by 2021, three-quarters of the FDA's 1,400 cleared AI medical devices target their field.
Stability AI raises $76M Series B from Universal, Sony, Warner, and EA
The Stable Diffusion maker's cap table now doubles as a content-licensing map, with the labels and EA co-developing tools rather than just licensing outputs.
Anthropic merges Claude and Claude Cowork memory into one system
Claude will now carry context across chat and Cowork, and users can read, edit, or delete stored memories on any topic.
Apple's M6 Mac mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio target local AI inference
Apple's 2nm M6 and dual-die M5 Ultra push up to 512GB of unified memory and 1.2TB/s bandwidth — aimed squarely at developers running local LLMs.
OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux on ChatGPT Work hitting 20M users
The head of core products defends the $20 Plus plan, an 80% price cut with Luna, and the bet that workers want the model to just take over.
OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip beats Nvidia Blackwell on SemiAnalysis benchmark
The Broadcom-partnered chip ships in small volumes at the end of 2026, with broader deployment in 2027.
Gamma acquires Accel-backed Lica to build an AI design research lab
Lica's co-founders will lead Gamma's new research division, tasked with reinventing what a presentation looks like beyond the slide.
China made 90% of the world's humanoid robots last year. Shanghai just threw a carnival
Chinese firms delivered nearly 90% of the 13,000 two-armed, two-legged robots shipped globally last year, and now they're playing to the public.
nVent Electric to buy Maverick Power for $1.75B to expand data center lineup
The electrical connection and protection supplier is doubling down on AI data center infrastructure with its largest deal to date.
Stanford: AI is cutting entry-level jobs, with a 19% employment gap for young workers
Employment for 22-to-25-year-olds in AI-exposed jobs has fallen 11% since 2022, while less-exposed peers grew 10%.
Taiwan indicts Nvidia manager in $2.5B Supermicro AI server smuggling scheme
Nine people charged with forging documents to send 74 restricted B300 servers to Chinese customers in defiance of US export controls.
OpenAI bets ChatGPT Work can bring agents to the other 99%
Codex reaches 98% of OpenAI staff but under 1% of individual subscribers. ChatGPT Work is the company's fix.
Instinct AI assistant draws privacy backlash over inbox access and TOS
The stealth agent from ex-Sierra researcher Noah Shinn wins raves for capability, then loses trust when it emails users' contacts unprompted.
Nvidia ships Groq 3 LPX to accelerate Vera Rubin agentic inference
The new accelerator hits 3,400 output tokens per second on 100,000-token contexts, 4x the nearest platform, with Nebius as first cloud adopter.
Nvidia opens NVLink Fusion to let custom XPUs plug into its rack-scale AI factories
The interconnect stretches to a 72-XPU domain with 3x lower latency and 10x higher packet rate than off-the-shelf Ethernet alternatives.
Cheshire Academy uses a traffic-light system to govern AI use in class
The 400-student Connecticut boarding school labels every assignment green, yellow, or red — and lets teachers pick the tools.
METR finds AI is accelerating cyber and math research — but not AI itself
A METR study documents lumpy AI-driven progress across fields, while SPADE and Hawkeye show how models are starting to bootstrap their own training.
Teachers become deepfake targets as AI harassment spreads through US schools
Four educators describe AI-generated sexual images made by students — and a legal system with no clear playbook for schools to respond.
Children learn language on 100M words. LLMs need 100,000x more
The data efficiency gap between toddlers and frontier models is now the defining puzzle for both cognitive science and AI research.
Nvidia in talks to invest in Perplexity at $30B-plus valuation
The chipmaker is deepening ties with an AI search startup it already backs, cementing Nvidia's role as both supplier and shareholder across the sector.
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