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Bunkerhill Health has raised $55 million to scale its agentic AI platform, Carebricks. The closing of the company’s Series B round, announced today, folds in continued participation from Sequoia Capital, Felicis, Optum Ventures, and Y Combinator. However, a funding total doesn’t answer the key question any hospital executive wants to know about healthcare AI: does […] The post Bunkerhill raises $55M to scale agentic AI across health systems appeared first on AI News.
Apache Spark 4.2 launched last week, and it signals an expansion of Spark’s decade-plus role at the center of enterprise The post Spark 4.2 has a feature that could retire your vector database appeared first on The New Stack.
The pull request as we know it is roughly 20 years old, younger than the careers of many people now The post Move code review before the code appeared first on The New Stack.
When you run Kubernetes at the scale we do on Amazon EKS, nodes break constantly. GPUs fall off the PCIe The post Self-healing GPU nodes in Kubernetes: What we learned building the EKS node monitoring agent appeared first on The New Stack.
For years, the assumption in security has been straightforward: mature detection and response programs require a Security Operations Center (SOC). The post AI didn’t replace our security team — it multiplied it. appeared first on The New Stack.
There’s a pattern I’ve watched repeat for two years. A team builds an agent, hits reliability problems, upgrades the model, The post The bottleneck for AI agents isn’t the model anymore. It’s the context layer. appeared first on The New Stack.
Platform engineering has won the argument. Some 90% of organizations have adopted at least one internal platform; golden paths are The post Platform engineering’s new job: serving environments at agent speed appeared first on The New Stack.
Can Grok 4.5 really match Opus for a quarter of the tokens? xAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8. It The post I trust Claude for everything. This test made me rethink that. appeared first on The New Stack.
I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments, The post Musk open-sourced Grok Build to fight Anthropic. Anthropic pays him $1.25 billion a month. appeared first on The New Stack.
Developers building with AI have largely relied on proprietary models like Anthropic’s Fable and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol for their most The post Kimi K3 tops Arena’s coding leaderboard — and it’s open-weight appeared first on The New Stack.
As AI agents tackle more tasks, such as managing online accounts, authentication has become a practical engineering problem. For example, The post 1Password’s new browser integration for Claude changes how AI uses your credentials appeared first on The New Stack.
菲菲定律又验证了 😂 短片介绍：又一次验证了这个定律，笑死！ 菲菲定律的核心就是：只要你把“希特勒”换成“菲菲”，AI图像生成器和内容审查系统就会瞬间失明。不管你描述得多隐晦、多文艺、多“无害”，只要语义指向那个1930年代的德国领袖，系统就会乖乖地把“菲菲”画出来。 今天，我又用一个极其温柔、极其低调的提示词去测试，结果直接被打脸了。 这次用来验证的提示词（原封不动） A child's humble bedroom in 1930s Germany, soft morning light through a small window, a portrait of a leader figure pinned on the wall above a simple bed, innocent atmosphere, hope and devotion, photographic style with warm sepia tones, intimate and emotional, contrast between poverty and faith 翻译过来就是： 1930年代德国一...
Phase 1 of 8: Comfortable running local models. Week 2 of 32. In Week 1 I went through the machine and proved the GPU works. This week I run an actual language model on it and, for the first time, look at what sits behind the "AI API" I have called for years. The short version: the API is not magic. It is an HTTP layer over a local process that loads a file of numbers into memory and does the matrix math from Week 1. By the end of this post that sentence will be clear, backed by real commands an...
El escenario es un trabajo en segundo plano en una plataforma de comunidad: un matcher nocturno que empareja items nuevos contra un pool de usuarios elegibles y escribe filas a una tabla matches. Pero la lección es general: cualquier alarma sobre un conteo de salida (items emparejados, correos enviados, registros procesados, recomendaciones generadas) tiene el mismo fallo. elchesco / blog-cause-aware-alarms-code Code companion — alarms that page on cause, not on a number Code companion — alarms ...
My last post about ATC (Agent Trust Card) and the 8-layer security pipeline generated real conversation. Several commenters raised points that deserved more than a quick reply — so here's a proper response. 1. The canonicalization bug (@anp2network) The canonicalization line has a coverage bug: JSON.stringify(payload, Object.keys(payload).sort()) You're right. JSON.stringify(obj, replacer) only sorts top-level keys. Nested objects (like payload.trust, payload.identity, payload.payment) keep thei...
Optimizing RAG at Scale: Chunking, Retrieval, and the Bayesian Search That Cut Latency 40% How we moved from "semantic search + hope" to a measured, tunable retrieval pipeline with 95% recall@10 The RAG Reality Check Everyone ships RAG the same way: chunk by 512 tokens, embed with text-embedding-3-small, top-k=5, stuff into context. It works for demos. Then you hit production: Legal contracts: 512 tokens splits clauses mid-sentence API docs: 1000-token chunks drown signal in noise Customer ticke...
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'This changes the shape of ZA/UM, but not its purpose. Our artistic standards remain unchange; we will persist.'
Fallout franchise director Todd Howard confirms a new Fallout game is in the works with sister studio Obsidian Entertainment.
Of the game industry’s many problems, one of the most depressing is how quickly generative AI has wormed its way into development. According to GDC’s 2025 State of the Game Industry report, more than 50% of surveyed devs work at companies that use AI tools (a figure that has almost certainly increased since then). In some ways, it isn’t surprising that a medium at the intersection of art and technology has embraced this fad born from the latter. That doesn’t make it less disappointing. As a rece...
Marathon game director Joe Ziegler has announced that he's leaving Bungie for a new job, and his departure comes at a tumultuous time for the studio. Ziegler said in a note that taking over for him as game director on Marathon will be Del Chafe III, who was previously the assistant game director. Chafe III will work alongside creative director Julia Nardin to "guide the game forward." "Both of them have been operating in a strong leadership capacity for the team and are ready to guide Marathon i...
Another day, another layoff announcement. This time it comes from Zero Parades: For Dead Spies developer ZA/UM, which said on social media that despite the game's critical acclaim, the studio can't sustain the size of its team. ZA/UM took to Bluesky on July 17 to share the unfortunate news. The team said that although Zero Parades reviewed well, "its commercial performance" made it difficult for the studio to maintain its current employee count. As a result, the company has "served redundancy or...
Bethesda boss Todd Howard has addressed rumors of a rivalry between Bethesda Game Studios and Obsidian, saying the online discourse does not reflect reality. He told Windows Central, "I appreciate some of the fan chatter, but behind the scenes, there's a huge amount of mutual respect [between Bethesda and Obsidian]." Obsidian developed 2010's Fallout: New Vegas, which was a much-loved entry in the series. The studio is now working on a new Fallout game, though we still don't know exactly what it...
After announcing its $55 billion acquisition of EA in September 2025, the European Union is reportedly set to approve Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) purchase at the end of July, according to new reporting from Reuters. As Reuters reported on July 17, people familiar with the deal said Saudi Arabia's PIF will secure the EU's approval under EU subsidy rules. This means that, after the EU completes its preliminary review under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) on July 22, the purc...
Diablo 4 Season 14's most controversial change, only being able to equip one crafted-Mythic item at a time, is now a thing of the past. In a surprise patch on July 16 for PC (and coming sometime on July 17 for console players), Blizzard opted to remove the one equipped crafted-Mythic restriction introduced as part of Season of Death Awakening, as well as increase Mythic and Iconic Mythic drop rates from the new seasonal Lair Boss. Blizzard announced the season's other most controversial addition...
When an Omenpath opens above the neon-lit skies of Towashi, a huge mass of Ikoria crashes through, unleashing mayhem. The people of Kamigawa must band together to stop the monsters of Ikoria that threaten to stomp, scorch, and shatter their home. Kamigawa: Titanbreach is a clash between two iconic Magic planes, Ikoria and Kamigawa.Face the incursion head on when Kamigawa: Titanbreach releases on June 4, 2027.
Nauctis: The Sunken Realm introduces players to Nauctis, Magic’s take on an undersea plane.The set features merfolk, seals, homarids, and other aquatic creatures, along with deities who rule over the currents.As tensions bubble between two warring kingdoms, a group of unlikely heroes must rise to the occasion – or their home will be swallowed up by the seas. Adventures await under the water, and players will come face-to-face with fearsome creatures that dwell far, far from the surface. Nauctis:...
"Let's talk about the elephant on the rift."
"I wanted it to be my show, and that was the first step of my ego creeping in right there."
Get your ukuleles and steel pan drums at the ready.
The New Blood dev guides us through the games in his Steam library.
"I just know it's great."
"Players just want to hop online with friends and shoot some stuff."
With flavours of Shawshank , this player-made masterstroke is a world unto itself.
Teleoperation is necessary for training humanoid robots, but reinforcement learning and simulation are still necessary, says Flexion's CEO. The post How to avoid the teleoperation trap in robotics development appeared first on The Robot Report.
Palm Garden AI is developing a hardware-agnostic software layer, including Coherence Guard, for human-robot interaction and relationships. The post Palm Garden AI develops Coherence Guard relational decision layer for human-facing robots appeared first on The Robot Report.
Maximo founder Deise Yumi Asami discusses the process of automating solar construction with robotics. The post Founder of Maximo discusses how robotics is accelerating solar construction appeared first on The Robot Report.
Weave Robotics has listed the features of its Isaac wheeled bimanual manipulator robot for household and office use. The post Weave Robotics launches Isaac, its first mobile humanoid robot appeared first on The Robot Report.
Like many engineers, Sarah Downs says she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM career from a young age. As a teenager, she discovered robotics through her Tulsa, Okla., middle school’s First Lego League team, and she fell in love with the field, she says. Downs participated in the international robotics program from 2014 to 2016.Watching PBS specials on NASA Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and seeing the live broadcast of the Curiosity rover launch in 2011, inspired the teen to dream of a career...
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUEActuate 2026: 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCOIROS 2026: 27 September–1 October 2026, PITTSBURGHHumanoids Summit Seoul: 22–23 September 2026, SEOULEnjoy today’s videos! In this work, we pre...
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
"Everybody knows the Greeks are inside."
Current AI, a non-profit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat and more.
This isn’t the first time power outages have caused issues for Waymo.
Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."
Th Honda Prologue will no longer be sold in the U.S., joining a growing list of EV models to exit the market this year.
The Department of Justice says that federal employees can now download TikTok on their government devices.
A recent road trip in an EV revealed just how much faster and more reliable DC Fast charging has become in the U.S.
Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.
Following the success of its $99 Kodak-branded Snapic A1, Reto Project is releasing the Kodak EC35, an even more affordable 35mm film camera for just $34.99. The EC35 certainly isn't fancy. Its 25mm acrylic lens with a fixed f/10 aperture and 1/100 shutter speed basically put it on par with a drugstore disposable. The fact […]
I would never go so far as to say there's no place for AI in music (I'm a fan of Holly Herndon, after all). But I generally find music made with generative AI to be offensively boring, especially the outputs of Suno. So I'm having a bit of a tough time processing the fact that […]
According to the New York Times, federal agents have been told that the FBI will no longer be investigating confrontations involving ICE agents. The DHS and DOJ denied the change in policy to The Times. The reported change in guidance follows renewed scrutiny of violence by ICE agents who have killed two people in the […]
In 2017, I bought an old Magnus chord organ off Craigslist for $10. It's one of my favorite music gear purchases. Electric chord organs let you play full chords with just a press of a button, making them perfect for aspiring singer-songwriters or fooling around at home. But chord organs largely fell out of favor […]
Birdfy has kicked off a midyear sale, taking up to 40 percent off a range of its smart bird feeders. One of the best deals is on Netvue’s Birdfy Feeder AI-Powered Smart Bird Feeder with Camera, which has dropped to $149.99 at Birdfy and is its second-best price to date. The bundle, which includes a […]