RoboBusiness 2026, scheduled for Oct. 20-21 in Santa Clara, Calif., has opened its call for speakers with a deadline of July 8, 2026. The event will feature tracks on Physical AI, humanoids, field rob…
Nobel-winning materials scientist Omar Yaghi has left the United States to join China's Tsinghua University, where he will lead an AI-driven research center focused on developing materials to address …
Seventy-six immigrants from 28 countries became U.S. citizens aboard the USS Hornet in Alameda during an annual Fourth of July naturalization ceremony ahead of America's 250th birthday. The new citize…
NVIDIA and academic researchers introduced ASPIRE, a self-improving robotics framework that achieves 31% zero-shot success on LIBERO-Pro long tasks. The system uses a coordinator-actor architecture wi…
Firefly Aerospace will launch an NVIDIA Jetson AI computing platform into lunar orbit on its Blue Ghost Mission 2, enabling autonomous AI processing on the Moon without relying on Earth commands. The …
The Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2026 will be held in Austin, Texas, from November 9 to 12, chaired by Yuke Zhu and Peter Stone. The event will focus on robot foundation models, real-robot rein…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told Joe Rogan that the US remains the best place for startups due to its risk-seeking culture and encouragement of new ideas, despite debates over the fading American …
Arena, an AI evaluation platform born at UC Berkeley, reached a $100M annual revenue run rate eight months after launching its product, as demand surges for benchmarks that measure real-world AI utili…
Vinton Cerf, known as a 'father of the internet' for co-developing TCP/IP, is retiring from his role as Google's chief internet evangelist after more than 20 years. The 83-year-old made the announceme…
Rep. Nancy Pelosi will launch the Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy at UC Berkeley in January 2027, aiming to strengthen democratic institutions and train future public leaders. The …
Arena, the UC Berkeley-born AI evaluation platform behind the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, tripled its annualized revenue from $30M to $100M in six months, but its business model of charging AI companie…
Arena, the crowdsourced AI leaderboard that began as a UC Berkeley research project, has reached $100 million in annualized revenue eight months after launching its paid evaluation service. The platfo…
Arena, the AI leaderboard platform that originated as a UC Berkeley research project, has reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue just eight months after launching its commercial service. …
Arena, the UC Berkeley spinout behind the AI model evaluation platform LMArena, reached a $100 million annual revenue run rate eight months after launching its first commercial product, AI Evaluations…
Arena, an AI evaluation platform founded as a UC Berkeley student project, reached $100 million annualized revenue run rate within eight months of launching its enterprise offering. The platform now s…
Meta Platforms' new vice-president of AI research, Dawn Song, said the next frontier of artificial intelligence will be agents that can perform economically valuable work across real-world domains. So…
Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed an AI system trained on over 440,000 EKGs that can identify patients at risk of sudden cardiac death with greater accuracy than current clinical tests. The mo…
Dawn Song, UC Berkeley professor and founder of blockchain Oasis, joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs as VP of AI Research on June 25, focusing on AI safety and security. Her departure from Oasis rai…
Event Horizon Labs (EHL Markets), a San Francisco-based early-stage startup, develops AI agent systems for automated hypothesis generation and algorithmic trading strategy development in financial mar…
Researchers at UC Berkeley introduced LEVI, an AI-driven framework that optimizes systems algorithms at 3-7 times lower cost than existing methods. By using smaller, cheaper models for most mutations …