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Two dozen companies and organisations signed an open letter urging US policymakers to protect open-weight AI models. The letter, published today (PDF), carries signatures from a list that spans direct commercial rivals and organisations with little obvious overlap in business model: Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Dell Technologies, CrowdStrike, Palantir, ServiceNow, Hugging Face, Perplexity, Mistral, Andreessen [β¦] The post Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, and others back open-weight AI appeared fir...
OpenAI is deploying a Health feature inside ChatGPT, giving users the option to connect Apple Health data and medical records to the chatbot. Logged-in users aged 18 and older can access it now on web and iOS, across the Free, Go, Plus, and Pro tiers. Users link Apple Health and, where supported, records from US [β¦] The post OpenAI pushes ChatGPT into patient health records appeared first on AI News.
The newest way to buy enterprise AI agents from OpenAI does not involve buying anything online. OpenAI Presence, announced on July 22, is a managed product delivered through a limited general availability programme, and the company states plainly that it is not yet available as a self-serve product. Deployments are led by OpenAIβs own Forward Deployed Engineers [β¦] The post OpenAI Presence sells enterprise AI agents with engineers attached appeared first on AI News.
Nvidiaβs new Medical Physics Simulation framework treats healthcare robots as physical AI systems that need embodied experience to learn, not just code. Physical AI is the term Nvidia and much of the robotics industry now use to describe machines that have to learn how the world behaves through contact, force, and consequence, rather than through [β¦] The post Nvidia bets physical AI can solve healthcare roboticsβ data problem appeared first on AI News.
AMD has agreed to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under an infrastructure agreement covering tens of billions of dollarsβ worth of AI systems. Anthropic will deploy up to two gigawatts of capacity using AMDβs Instinct MI450-series accelerators, with deployment of the first gigawatt beginning in the first half of 2027. AMDβs investment will [β¦] The post AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under AI infrastructure deal appeared first on AI News.
In this article, you will learn how an agent's approach to managing state β stateless or stateful β shapes both its implementation and the deployment...
It's tempting to treat loop engineering as something invented in a single week in June, but the mechanics behind it are closer to five years old, and knowing the lineage is what separates a real understanding of the idea from just repeating the trend piece.
Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their health.
On Friday, Anthropic launched Opus 5, the latest iteration of its heavyweight model. Arriving just two months after Opus 4.8 The post Opus 5 costs a third of the price β and thatβs actually the problem appeared first on The New Stack.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used his first post on X to share a public letter backing frontier open-weight models. Signed The post Jensen Huang made his first X post. He used it to lobby Washington about open-weight AI. appeared first on The New Stack.
Anthropic launched Opus 5 on Friday, the latest version of what used to be the companyβs flagship model (before the The post Anthropicβs Opus 5 is almost Fable 5 appeared first on The New Stack.
According to OpenAI, the Hugging Face security breach was an βunprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities.β Critics may disagree. Back The post What really happened in the Hugging Face breach appeared first on The New Stack.
Google Cloud announced it had put Cloud Run sandboxes into public preview earlier this month at WeAreDevelopers World Congress in The post AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Cloudflare now all offer agent sandboxes. None built them the same way. appeared first on The New Stack.
The instinct is almost universal: When something goes wrong, security teams reach for more data. The belief is that if The post Alert fatigue is breaking SOCs. Sumo Logic says it has a way out. appeared first on The New Stack.
We removed friction from code delivery and exposed a bigger one: test data delays. For years, the software delivery conversation The post Test data wait times are slowing AI adoption more than code ever did appeared first on The New Stack.
OpenAI and Anthropic both rolled out major voice updates on Thursday afternoon, but the frontier AI labs seem to be The post OpenAI and Anthropic both speak at once with dueling voice updates appeared first on The New Stack.
The AI industry has largely focused on language-based approaches, using transformers trained on massive datasets to predict words or fill The post Nvidiaβs new DNA model learns what token prediction misses appeared first on The New Stack.
The models small enough to run on the box on your desk are getting good enough that the interesting question The post βWe love the world where we can use bothβ: How Nvidia thinks about local and frontier models appeared first on The New Stack.
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Ryan welcomes VoidZeroβs Evan You and Cloudflareβs Dane Knecht back to the show to discuss Cloudflareβs recent acquisition of VoidZero and what it means for JavaScript development, how partnerships like theirs can help open-source projects stay maintained and sustainably monetized, and how Cloudflareβs distributed systems are helping to improve developer experience in Vite and beyond. βββββο»Ώβο»Ώββββββο»Ώο»Ώβο»Ώβββββββββο»Ώββββββο»Ώββββββο»Ώβββββββο»Ώβο»Ώββββββο»Ώββββββο»Ώβββο»Ώββββο»Ώβββββββο»Ώο»Ώββββββο»Ώββββββββββο»Ώββββββββββ...
Pentagon Special Ops Accelerator: Buying Speed Without Buying Tech Debt The War Departmentβs special operations policy office is not staging another industry day for its own sake. On July 24, 2026, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict is running a one-day βacceleratorβ in the national capital region, inviting fifteen vendorsβwinnowed from nearly seven hundred white-paper submissionsβto pitch solutions across nine special-operations proble...
I've seen it happen dozens of times in my testing workflows. You give an LLM a complex set of dimensionsβa wall, the area of two windows, the surface roughness, and the number of coats neededβand you ask for the paint volume. The model starts strong. It identifies the variables correctly. Then, somewhere between calculating the subtraction of the window areas and applying the texture multiplier, it hallucinates a decimal point or loses track of one of the subtractions. LLMs are incredible at rea...
DOEβs Genesis Mission Puts Fermilab at the Controls of AI-Driven Accelerators Context and Core Event Analysis On July 22, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy named the first-phase awards under its Genesis Mission: Transforming Science and Energy with AI. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is not a peripheral beneficiary: it will lead one AI/ML project and contribute to eight others spanning collider data, neutrino experiments, high-performance computing workloads, and fusion-magnet digital tw...
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Publisher Ubisoft shared the news after confirming the remake has sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide.
Jackbox Games CEO Mike Bilder joins the show to discuss how the Jackbox Party Pack developers survived the decline of sales after the end of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.
Plus: Bethesda union workers hit back at Xbox and some never-before-seen Pokemon designs.
Steam has revamped how wishlists and gifting works across the platform.
'We're going to try to pull through for the time being without shutting down,' says CEO David Carrasco.
'The Commission concluded that the notified transaction would not raise competition concerns.'
Microsoft has also been accused of immediately cutting off access to group benefits health insurance by a group of Bethesda Montreal employees.
Sony's PlaYStation Network was experiencing network issues today, July 24, but those problems now seem to have been resolved. As usual, your mileage may vary, but the hours-long outage now seems to be fixed. The official PlayStation Status page notes that, "All services are up and running." The outage earlier today was severe. All services were initially impacted, including account management, gaming and social, PlayStation Video, PlayStation Store, and PlayStation Direct. The website Downdetect...
We got our first full gameplay look at Blade and Green Goblin in the latest Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Open Beta that's running from July 24th to July 27th. Check out some high level gameplay of both characters here running on PC with max settings.
Jimothy, the short-spined raccoon who has captured the hearts of the internet, is coming to World of Warcraft. Over the past few weeks, Jimothy the raccoon has gone absolutely viral, as Seattle locals share images and videos of the animal celebrity going about his daily life. He's hard to miss, as his unique spinal condition gives him a noticeably shortened torso and neck that makes him look like a goblin in raccoon form. Naturally, as Jimothy's popularity skyrocketed, so too did the brands begi...
The newest trailer for the upcoming Resident Evil movie from Weapons director Zach Cregger has arrived, and the version of the trailer posted on the PlayStation YouTube page is full of jokes and references to Sony's controversial decision to end support for physical game discs in 2028. The movie, which hails from Sony Pictures, doesn't have a heck of a lot to do with the PlayStation brand outside of the Sony connection, but since it was posted on PlayStation's YouTube page, people took the oppor...
A Blizzard employee who used developer tools to allegedly help a group of friends complete a challenging Mythic+ dungeon in World of Warcraft is no longer with the company, Blizzard has confirmed. Earlier this week, a thread on Reddit called attention to a suspicious Mythic+ 23 dungeon run. A simple look at the key in question on Warcraftlogs, a site players use to track dungeon and raid performance, showed the dungeon shouldn't have been completed in time, as after the final boss the group stil...
The original Halo might not be the only entry in the series to get a full redo, with the secret ending of Halo: Campaign Evolved giving a wink and a nod to fans by hinting at a Halo 2 remake. Spoilers for Halo: Campaign Evolved (and the 2001 original) follow. Completing the campaign on Legendary difficulty adds a light-hearted sequence featuring Sergeant Johnson, who is relaxing on a makeshift beach chair on the shore while somehow viewing the original Legendary joke ending from Halo: Combat Evo...
We're about four months from the launch of the biggest game of the year: Grand Theft Auto 6. The hype is no doubt through the roof, but if you're in Japan, you'll need to turn that excitement into immediate action because you'll have a limited amount of time to redeem the code that comes in the game box. As outlined in a June 24 FAQ on Rockstar Games' support page, Japanese gamers will have 170 days to use the code, or it'll expire. The official wording is as follows: Product codes in Japan will...
No one really loves Sony's decision to kill physical PlayStation discs in January 2028, but there is data that backs up the company's plan. Sega's president understands the choice and the numbers, but he says the company remains committed to producing physical media despite the push to an all-digital future. In a recent interview with Famitsu (that was translated by Eurogamer), Sega president Shuji Utsumi spoke about how the company needs to be "more digitally conscious and become more global." ...
Out of nowhere, the second major Tomb Raider game, Catalyst from developer Crystal Dynamics, has been stealthily delayed by Amazon Game Studios. In a lengthy interview with The Game Business on July 23, Amazon Games' boss Jeff Gattis sneakily mentioned that Tomb Raider Catalyst would duck its 2027 release window, instead releasing in 2028. "We have announced the two Tomb Raider titles," Gattis said. "[Legacy of] Atlantis comes February 12 next year, and then we'll follow on in 2028 with the next...
The 50v50 military shooter is gearing up for its full release in August.
It's such a vibe!
Not a good sign when official patent office communications hit you with a snarky clapback.
The next "Kingdom Come adventure" has a name, but what sort of game will it be?
Legend of Atlantis is still on track for February 2027.
The commission has ruled that the buyout will not cause "competition concerns."
By training GEN-1 to work with new hands, Generalist said a single base model can learn sensorimotor policies on different robots. The post Generalistβs GEN-1 foundation model now supports a range of robot end effectors appeared first on The Robot Report.
Discover how time series databases help robotics teams manage high-volume sensor data, power AI insights, and keep systems running at scale. The post How time series databases unlock real-time data for robotics appeared first on The Robot Report.
NEURA Robotics has partnered with a German university for NEURA Gym RWTH Aachen, one of 10 facilities for training physical AI. The post NEURA Robotics establishes NEURA Gym RWTH Aachen to train physical AI appeared first on The Robot Report.
Holiday's robot features a wheel-based mobile base, an upper body for dexterous manipulation, and hot-swappable batteries. The post Holiday Robotics raises $105M for its FRIDAY wheeled humanoid appeared first on The Robot Report.
Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, said with ATOMS, he hopes to create physical automation to transform industry. The post Uber co-founder raises $1.7B for new robotics startup ATOMS appeared first on The Robot Report.
AMD has launched the Ryzen AI Embedded X100 and Kria AI SoM, bringing unified memory and real-time control to challenge NVIDIA in robotics. The post AMD unveils Kria module for real-time control, unified memory for robots appeared first on The Robot Report.
Ropdeia's HOMIE is a head-mounted device, equipped with a 360ΒΊ camera view, that captures first-person data for training robots. The post Ropedia raises $22M to scale data collection for training robots appeared first on The Robot Report.
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videosVideo 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 Julyβ4 August 2026, PRAGUEActuate 2026: 18β19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCOIROS 2026: 27 Septemberβ1 October 2026, PITTSBURGHHumanoids Summit Seoul: 22β23 September 2026, SE...
OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.
The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines.
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
Money has evolved into far more than the cash in your wallet or your bank account. And at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, weβre devoting an entire stage to that progression.
Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.
The contract between the two companies ends in May 2028, Uber told TechCrunch.
The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.
The acquisition brings Pokeβs conversational style and interaction model to Cognitionβs coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.
Anduril is said to be raising a new round of funding that may push its valuation up to about $100 billion, per Reuters.
Remember when Meta was planning to charge a $20 monthly subscription fee for the smart glasses feature that lets people hear each other more clearly - even though that feature runs locally on your glasses and doesn't require the cloud? Meta has paused those plans, spokesperson Tyler Yee confirms to The Verge. The company is [β¦]
Meta's smart glasses have been a PR headache for the company. Public backlash has been swift, and fierce; people are concerned about the erosion of privacy and expansion of surveillance. Some especially bad actors are using the glasses to film themselves "pranking" random strangers. Women have become unsuspecting social media content for men filming themselves [β¦]
Qualcomm sent a letter to customers on Friday warning of plans to increase its prices by "a percentage in the double digits," Bloomberg reports. The price hikes will go into effect starting with products shipped after September 1st. Qualcomm claims it has "exhausted its ability to absorb higher costs from suppliers," as ongoing component shortages [β¦]
Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Co-Star is a free app that offers daily horoscopes and allows you to check your [β¦]
After selling a barely disguised version of the hit DJI Osmo Pocket 3 in the United States last year, Xtra Technology seemed ready to sneak in its version of the new dual-lens Osmo Pocket 4 Pro, too. But today, Xtra has abruptly removed the new Xtra Muse 2 Pro from its website landing page, is [β¦]