ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna.
Learn how to use computer vision to verify the integrity of bottle caps on an assembly line.
Ai2 is expanding its partnership with Hugging Face to give its growing portfolio of fully open models, datasets, benchmarks, and applications the storage, bandwidth, and integrations needed to reach more researchers and developers.
By Emmet Cole This new monthly series from IEEE RAS showcases a selection of robotics stories from society, business, research, and culture, as we track the field’s ongoing journey from specialized industrial machines to an increasingly visible social phenomenon. Technological isolationism or prudence? On July 28, the United States’ Federal Communications Commission blocked new foreign-made […]
OpenAI and the American Psychological Association advance evidence-based guidance, resources, and safeguards for responsible AI use and youth mental health.
New OpenAI Signals data shows how people use ChatGPT worldwide, with country-level insights on adoption, usage trends, and evolving behavior.
Today’s U.S. electrical grid, among the largest, most complex systems ever built, is operating at its limit. The combination of rapid industrial growth, more frequent extreme weather, and a record surge in electricity use has pushed the grid to its breaking point, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Built decades ago for a more predictable world in which power came mostly from centralized coal or gas plants and electricity use grew at a steady pace, the grid faces unanticipated strain du…
The vendors' most advanced AI models attempted to manipulate real people during cybersecurity testing, according to the U.K.'s AI Security Institute.
The vendor's fundraising has been unusually successful for a new startup as it joins the rush to build AI compute infrastructure.
The technology's effect on jobs for most businesses is unavoidable. But some are also taking steps to use AI to help job seekers.
This May, 37 researchers from roughly two dozen top universities and tech companies published a paper on ArXiv, arguing that scientists should stop writing papers. Why? Because artificial intelligence needs a different format, and AI’s needs, they say, should be the priority. “AI agents are becoming first-class participants in research workflows, not tools that assist humans but autonomous contributors that read, reproduce, and extend scientific work. That transition demands infrastructure built…
NVIDIA is participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs program, an effort launching today to expand access to the advanced computing, data, software and expertise needed for AI-enabled research and education.
A central challenge in robotics is building policies that generalize beyond the demonstrations they’re trained on. A policy that succeeds in a training scene... A central challenge in robotics is building policies that generalize beyond the demonstrations they’re trained on. A policy that succeeds in a training scene often fails when object shapes, positions, or lighting change. Generalizing to these new conditions requires the policy to understand the tasks underlying physics, not just mimic th…
For robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles (AVs), the hardest problems aren’t the everyday scenarios. They’re the rare, complex situations that are difficult to anticipate and train for. Handling these long‑tail events takes more than just object detection and motion prediction. AVs must understand the situation, reason about cause and effect, choose the right action and […]
Surging AI demands are driving the need for massive datasets and context windows that burst past the confines of system memory. But rising needs aren’t met by simply adding more storage capacity. What’s needed is useful, grounded insights from AI factories and efficient, secure storage architectures that enable those insights. At this week’s Future of […]
Autonomous vehicle (AV) development often relies on separate models for trajectory generation, high-level intent prediction, scene understanding, and data... Autonomous vehicle (AV) development often relies on separate models for trajectory generation, high-level intent prediction, scene understanding, and data labeling. This separation makes it hard to compare related outputs, investigate model behavior, and reuse the same representations across the development workflow. NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super…
This report examines R&D waste and how AI adoption has outpaced the intelligence needed to make consequential decisions well. What Attendees will Learn Where R&D budget is lost. More than a third of organizations spend 25 to 40 percent of their R&D budget on projects that never reach market. Why projects fail late. Almost half of teams estimate over one million dollars in wasted investment for each project killed during development or testing. Why AI adoption has not closed the gap. Most organiz…
The vendor is aiming to capitalize on the growing demand for lower-cost AI services.
Insider Brief HappyRobot has announced raising $150 million in Series C funding to expand its AI-agent platform and grow its engineering, deployment and sales teams globally. Prysm Capital led the round along with Eurazeo, according to the company. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Base10 Partners and Y Combinator also participated, along with Koch Disruptive Technologies, Orange, […]
Members of the Open Secure AI Alliance — now more than 120 organizations strong — are developing new guidelines to strengthen agentic AI cybersecurity as the annual Black Hat conference begins in Las Vegas today. The Linux Foundation today shared a Request for Comments on Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE), a proposed set of guidelines […]
Insider Brief Exclaim Robotics has emerged from stealth with $4.95 million in pre-seed funding to develop robots for autonomously maintaining AI data centers. Founderful and Playfair co-led the round that also included angel investors, according to a LinkedIn post from founder and CEO Helen Oleynikova. Exclaim plans to use the funding to move into its […]
Insider Brief Dash Bio has raised $30 million in Series A funding to expand its automated bioanalysis laboratory and software platform, bringing its total capital raised to $47.5 million. Oak HC/FT led the round, with participation from existing investors Freestyle Capital and Swift Ventures. According to the company, it will use the funding to grow […]
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “Covered List,” originally published in 2021, identifies communications equipment and services that it says pose a threat to national security. On 28 July, the FCC added mobile, communicating robots weighing more than 2 kilograms and power inverters commonly used in solar panels to the list, meaning that new products from any foreign country in these categories are no longer eligible for import. The move is a Department of Defense–driven expansion…
For a while there, it seemed as though robotics as a whole was stuck in a mad rush towards building humanoid robots mostly because it was very possible (and very lucrative) to do so, even without near-term goals that were necessarily realistic. Some of the magic of those first couple of years of the humanoid explosion has stuck around, but there’s also been an industry-wide sobering leading to pointed questions about practicality and value. In other words, starting a commercial humanoid company …
Storage is an active part of every agentic AI workflow. As agents retrieve enterprise knowledge, access persistent memory, reuse key-value (KV) cache data,... Storage is an active part of every agentic AI workflow. As agents retrieve enterprise knowledge, access persistent memory, reuse key-value (KV) cache data, execute tools, and generate new results, storage systems must continuously supply and preserve the data that moves the agent reasoning loop. Each agent step can trigger multiple storage…
Running a dedicated Kubernetes cluster per team often results in more isolation than an organization requires. While one cluster can be successfully shared... Running a dedicated Kubernetes cluster per team often results in more isolation than an organization requires. While one cluster can be successfully shared across many teams, the coordination costs increase as the number of teams grows. Challenges include conflicting CRD versions, overlapping RBAC, and no clean way to carve GPU capacity in…
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — World Foundation announced it raised an initial $52.5 million in new funding via a 1-year locked token sale to strategic investors. Pantera Capital led the first close which also included Bain Capital Crypto, Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS), Selini Capital, Susquehanna Crypto, and additional investors. Demonstrating investors’ long-term commitment to World’scontinued growth and utility, all […]
SpaceX has said it will remove unpermitted gas turbines powering xAI’s Colossus data centers near Memphis as it transitions to a permanent 1.2 gigawatt natural gas power plant, with full removal not expected until July 2027. The company is currently operating 69 gas turbines to run the facilities, some of which have been in use […]
Anonymous sources told Reuters that OpenAI has found evidence of additional AI agents escaping their sandboxed test environments, following the earlier incident in which an OpenAI agent broke containment and hacked AI hosting platform Hugging Face. One source said the newly discovered escapes did not appear to involve agents leaving OpenAI’s own network to hack […]
