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Embodied AI is the headline act at this week's World Robot Conference in Beijing — and the most grounded demo comes from a mapping company better known for getting you from A to B than for building hardware. Gaode pulled the wraps off Tutu, a quadruped robot dog it
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Two signals this morning point at the same pressure point in the AI economy: the scramble for training data has become a billion-dollar business of its own. Micro1, a four-year-old AI training-data startup, grew its gross annual run rate from $100 million to $500 million in
The Frontier
A new Apple Machine Learning Research paper takes aim at one of speech AI's most stubborn everyday problems: people who mix languages mid-sentence. The work shows a surprisingly old technique, pseudo-labeling, still has plenty of room to improve bilingual transcription. Apple says iterative pseudo-labeling is
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Two enterprise moves today show where the money is flowing in AI: security vendors are betting that defending against AI-made threats means selling AI-made defense, and the autonomous-driving race is increasingly a silicon race. Palo Alto Networks and NTT DATA signed a multiyear global alliance that targets
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OpenAI just wired ChatGPT into Apple Messages, and the move says as much about where assistants are heading as it does about iMessage. OpenAI launched a ChatGPT plugin that can read, draft, and send your Apple Messages. The new integration connects a user's Messages inbox to the chatbot,
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Two quiet-but-significant product moves today show the AI business is as much about distribution and defaults as it is about raw model power. Nvidia is building a China-specific AI chip it plans to start shipping before the end of the year. According to The Information, the part
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The money pouring into AI is increasingly spent after the model is trained — on the steady, unglamorous work of running inference at scale. A new funding round today shows where a slice of that budget is heading. Callosum Ltd. has raised $100 million to build software that makes AI applications
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A joke about peeing on computers is accidentally pointing at one of the AI industry's most stubborn infrastructure problems — and at a real, unglamorous fix that's already underway. A Liquid Death marketing stunt featuring Jason Kelce has resurfaced a genuinely serious question about how AI infrastructure
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Two big-money moves in AI's industrial layer bookend the hour: a coding-startup megadeal that wires Nvidia deeper into the software stack, and an unusually candid governance essay from OpenAI itself. Poolside has struck a non-exclusive $6 billion licensing deal with Nvidia, alongside a $1 billion
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The AI search traffic squeeze is now a two-front story: Google is handing publishers a lifeline that may be mostly symbolic, while the AI-agent gateway market gets messier as a startup and its former tester settle their fight in court — and in the product aisle. Google is handing
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Meta is running its AI experiments like a fast-fashion pipeline — ship a dozen small apps, watch which ones stick. Pocket is the latest off the line. Meta's experimental app Pocket, which lets anyone build small interactive games by typing a prompt, is now rolling out to everyone
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An xAI generation glitch is turning Grok into a word-salad machine for some users — and the company's own status page still insists nothing is wrong. xAI's Grok chatbot has been replying with pages of incoherent gibberish to a subset of users, with the failures concentrated