General Intuition, a Bezos-backed startup valued at $2.3 billion, raised $320 million to train AI agents using video game data, arguing that gaming data better teaches models about physical movement a…
Google Cloud has been named a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Infrastructure, positioned highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision. The recognit…
Mistral AI released a new robotics navigation model called Robostral Navigate, enabling robots to navigate complex environments using a single camera and basic language prompts. The French startup is …
Bespoke Labs, an AI infrastructure lab co-founded by Mahesh Sathiamoorthy and Alex Dimakis, raised $40 million across seed and Series A financing to build simulated training environments where AI agen…
Perception AI raised $11 million and began shipping a 22-degree-of-freedom robotic hand, targeting the dexterity gap that limits humanoid robots from performing useful tasks. The company's claim of sh…
Google announced the first 33 startups selected for its Gemini Startup Forum: Cybersecurity program, which focuses on AI-native cybersecurity solutions. The cohort includes companies like Capsule Secu…
General Intuition, a Bezos-backed startup valued at $2.3 billion, closed a $320 million funding round to develop AGI using gaming data, arguing that large language models lack the spatial-temporal und…
Nomagic, a Warsaw-based warehouse robotics firm, deployed a vision-language-action (VLA) model into live customer operations, cutting robot-caused human interventions by about half. The company, which…
Nomagic deployed its first vision-language-action (VLA) model for warehouse robots at Swiss e-commerce platform Brack.Alltron, halving the rate of robot-caused interventions. The AI lab, led by former…
Cao Liangliang, former principal engineer and director at Google DeepMind, has returned to Hong Kong after two decades to join the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, bringing Silicon Valley expertise i…
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed SB 315 on July 6, making Illinois the first US state to require mandatory annual independent audits of frontier AI developers. The law targets companies like OpenA…
Google DeepMind's mechanistic interpretability team proposed a pragmatic framework for validating interpretability tools using proxy tasks, demonstrating its effectiveness by subtracting an "eval-awar…
UMA, a physical AI startup founded by former Tesla scientist Remi Cadène, unveiled the design of its first humanoid robot on Tuesday. The company is developing two systems: a dual-arm mobile industria…
Google announced new Managed Agents features in the Gemini API on July 7, including background tasks, remote MCP, function calling, and credential refresh, aiming to reduce production deployment compl…
The Future of Life Institute's latest AI Safety Index graded major AI companies on risk management, with Anthropic earning the top score of C+, while OpenAI slipped to C and Google DeepMind ranked thi…
The Future of Life Institute's Summer 2026 AI Safety Index graded nine frontier AI labs on safety and governance, with Anthropic receiving a C+, OpenAI and Google DeepMind earning Cs, and xAI, DeepSee…
Bespoke Labs, a Mountain View startup building simulated environments to train and test AI agents, raised $40 million in a Series A and seed round led by Wing VC and 8VC, with backing from executives …
Google DeepMind released Gemma 4, a new generation of open-weight multimodal language models featuring dense and Mixture-of-Experts architectures from 2.3B to 31B parameters. The models introduce a th…
Artificial Analysis launched AutomationBench-AA, an independent leaderboard for Zapier's AutomationBench, testing AI agents on 657 real SaaS workflow automation tasks across 40 simulated apps. Claude …
Google DeepMind's AlphaFold 3 predicts interactions among proteins, DNA, RNA, ligands, and other biomolecules, while Isomorphic Labs introduced the Isomorphic Drug Design Engine (IsoDDE) for drug disc…