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Instinct, an invitation-only AI assistant that operates via text messages, has performed tasks for a Business Insider reporter including booking a cabin, ordering whey protein from Costco, faxing a document to a bank, an…
BetaKit reports that the Smart Cities AI Challenge, one of three reverse pitch competitions at Canada's largest AI and tech event ALL IN, will present urban challenges to Canadian AI startups. The initiative aims to conn…
AI startup Inception launched Mercury 2.5, a diffusion-based large language model that delivers a 40% intelligence improvement over its predecessor while processing 1,107 tokens per second on standard NVIDIA GPUs. The mo…
Magic reported that its pretraining recipe is now more than 10x more compute-efficient than leading open-weight base models, matching DeepSeek V4 Pro Base with roughly 50x fewer FLOPs — about half of GPT-3's pretraining …
NavigateAI, a startup that exited stealth mode with $25 million in funding, is using AI to address construction labor shortages delaying data center projects, offering a 'trusted field copilot' that provides on-site guid…
Samsung Electronics Co. announced Wednesday a partnership with French AI startup Mistral AI to enhance its semiconductor operations, integrating Mistral's services to develop customized AI models for on-premise use. The …
Decentralized AI inference platform Chutes, built on Bittensor's Subnet 64, has processed over 34 trillion tokens cumulatively with daily peaks exceeding 120 billion tokens, while Surplus Intelligence, launched in late M…
Samsung Electronics and French AI company Mistral AI announced a strategic partnership to develop AI models for semiconductor design and manufacturing, integrating Mistral's language models into Samsung's semiconductor o…
Strapi founders Pierre Burgy and Aurelien Georget launched Fimo, an AI-native CMS that pairs AI-generated code with human-reviewed agents for SEO, translation, content, and technical updates, targeting the post-launch ma…
Eliza, an AI-native consulting firm, has appointed Lori Borg, a veteran Microsoft ecosystem executive, as its Chief Operating Officer.
Dynamic Creatures, a startup cofounded by former Boston Dynamics chief strategy officer Marc Theermann and AI researcher Farbod Farshidian, is building cute companion robots like Danielle, a poodle-like robot on Boston D…
Danijar Hafner, a former Google DeepMind researcher, has founded Embo, a stealth startup using humanoid robots imported from China to test whether world models can reduce the real-world data and trial-and-error needed to…
China's humanoid robot startups are shifting from demos to commercial deployments, with Unitree listing on Shanghai's STAR Market in August 2026 at RMB 1,100 per share, a 629% jump from the offering price, and reporting …
Danijar Hafner, creator of the DreamerV3 AI that autonomously mined diamonds in Minecraft, left Google DeepMind on November 3, 2025, to launch a stealth startup in San Francisco's SoMa district focused on building AI age…
Danijar Hafner, a 31-year-old AI researcher and former Google DeepMind scientist, is developing a stealth startup in San Francisco that uses model-based reinforcement learning to create AI agents capable of planning ahea…
Businesses seeking AI mobile app development services should prioritize partners who understand their business problem before technology, according to a guide from InfinApps, a mobile app development company. The guide e…
Pangram Labs, a Brooklyn-based startup whose browser extension and website detect AI-generated text, has identified AI-written content in an award-winning short story, a popular novel, a billionaire's Wall Street Journal…
SpaceX AI's Grok 4.6 is reshaping performance-per-dollar benchmarks, while coding agent valuations surge past $40 billion and neo-cloud infrastructure providers secure multi-year backlogs, according to an investigation i…
XPeng has activated what it calls the world's first automated production line for advanced humanoid robots, with its IRON robot walking off the line under its own power in Guangzhou, where more than 80% of core processes…
Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek is launching an 'unprecedented' hiring spree to overhaul its backend systems, strained by surging user demand and compute-heavy AI agents. The company, led by former Jane Street engineer Cui,…