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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 reinforcement learning, …
Microsoft plans to merge its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single app in August, cutting rarely used features like Copilot Podcasts and introducing new AI agents called 'AutoPilot' that handle background ta…
Semiconductor stocks lost 12% in two sessions while the Dow hit a record, as investors rotated from AI chip makers to enterprise software companies. A weak jobs report crushed rate-hike odds.
The browser wars have shifted from search to AI, with new entrants like Perplexity's Comet, The Browser Company's Dia, Opera's Neon, OpenAI's Atlas, and Y Combinator-backed Aside challenging Chrome and Safari by embeddin…
Top leaders from NBCUniversal, IBM, State Farm, Autodesk and Coinbase discussed marketing, tech and consumer trends at the Cannes Lions festival, highlighting AI's role in transforming workflows and reaching audiences. A…
London startup geoSurge raised $12 million in an oversubscribed Seed round led by AlbionVC on July 3, 2026, to secure brand visibility within AI models. The company's Corpus Engineering method targets how large language …
A new analysis from FutureSearch counts 57 AI billionaires worldwide with a combined net worth of $320 billion, led by Cambricon Technologies' Chen Tianshi at $40 billion, OpenAI president Greg Brockman at $28 billion, a…
Overland AI secured a $19.7 million U.S. Marine Corps contract on June 26, 2026, becoming the first ground-autonomy company to serve as prime contractor on a military production deal. The contract funds autonomous ground…
Software teams are adopting AI coding agents across three maturity stages—autocomplete, prompting agents, and loop engineering—often simultaneously, according to interviews with hundreds of teams. The trend is toward gra…
A new essay argues that startups should avoid creating entirely new product categories because users need to quickly understand what a product is. The author claims that most successful products are better versions of ex…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has built a nine-figure real estate portfolio with as many as 20 properties worldwide, including a $120 million former monastery in Snowmass, Colorado, and a $46 million mansion in Miami. Karp, wor…
Pilot Photonics, a Dublin-based integrated photonics firm, has been awarded €10.4 million from the European Innovation Council Accelerator to scale its patented photonic chip technology for AI data centers, satellite com…
A father spoke to a year group at his child's school about manufacturing, using his AI clock as an example to demystify the process and encourage kids to become makers. He showed prototypes, factory photos, and explained…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026, touting it as its most agentic Sonnet yet with top-tier intelligence for coding and professional work. Introductory pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per …
Z.ai launched ZCode, a free desktop coding environment built around its GLM-5.2 model, on July 1, entering the competitive AI coding-agent market against Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot. The tool offers an agenti…
China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security reported over 200,000 AI-related job vacancies posted by more than 5,000 internet firms during a nationwide recruitment campaign, with hiring expanding into manufac…
Oxmiq, founded by Raja Koduri, raised $35 million to develop OxCore, a licensable GPU IP built on RISC-V that enables CUDA and PyTorch code to run on non-NVIDIA hardware without modification. The company's OxPython porta…
HubSpot is challenging Salesforce for CRM dominance in 2026, with multiple vendor-comparison sites rating HubSpot ahead on usability and cost. Salesforce's Agentforce ARR reached $1.2 billion in the quarter ended April 3…
Ed-tech company Smartail Pvt. Ltd. and Nexus Innovation Hub announced a partnership on July 3, 2026 to expand AI-powered education in Andhra Pradesh using Smartail's DeepGrade automated-grading platform, which supports m…
AI freelancers are shifting from one-off project builds to retainer-based income models, charging $100–200 per user per month or €300–500 for small automation retainers, following playbooks from the managed service provi…