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XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform. The Chinese electric vehicle maker announced the funding round for its robotics business through a set of share purchase agreements with multiple investors. XPENG says the deal represents the largest single-round private capital raise […] The post XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding appeared first on AI News.
In this article, you will learn how to combine a classical machine learning pipeline with an agentic AI system to build a hybrid, autonomous customer...
GPT‑5.6 is now available in Kiro, helping developers plan, build, review, and test software with better price-performance.
While most AI coding tools default to cloud-hosted models, local model runtimes have become a viable alternative for developers who The post JetBrains’ Junie now runs entirely offline. Can you spare a 64 GB M5 Mac? appeared first on The New Stack.
Everybody wants to know who built Ox Alpha. But developers using the anonymous coding model with their own private code The post Ox Alpha’s real mystery isn’t who built it appeared first on The New Stack.
On August 18, Anthropic replaced its Workbench, the prompt-testing tool in its developer Console, with Playground. Anthropic did more than The post Anthropic’s Playground vs. OpenAI’s: The week-old tool beat the six-year incumbent appeared first on The New Stack.
Put several AI bots to work, and a mistake by one may not stay within its assigned task. For example, The post Grok Bot vs. Hermes: Where each draws the security boundary appeared first on The New Stack.
Thomson Reuters has developed its own AI model for legal, tax and compliance work, trained on the company’s proprietary professional The post Thomson Reuters trained its own AI model. Then it kept using Anthropic’s anyway. appeared first on The New Stack.
Real-time AI at scale is harder than it looks. Pipelines that hum along in development routinely hit problems in production. The post Why real-time AI at scale is so hard appeared first on The New Stack.
Q Developer is a free extension that lets a coding agent read a project, propose changes, and run commands on The post One pull to wipe them all appeared first on The New Stack.
Organizations cannot solve shadow AI with a document employees read once. They need to make responsible use easier than improvised use.
CakeDC/Users gives you TOTP two-factor authentication almost for free: flip one config key and every login grows a "enter your 6-digit code" step. The catch is that word every. The built-in flow is all-or-nothing — turn it on and all your users are forced through the OTP challenge on their next login, whether they ever set up an authenticator app or not. Lock yourself out on a fresh install and you'll find out fast. What most apps actually want is the model you see everywhere else: 2FA is off by...
On 30 September 2025, Imgur blocked the entire United Kingdom. No warning. No migration tool. No grace period. One day it worked, the next it didn't — and with it went millions of embedded images across forums, Discord servers, tutorials, Reddit threads, and personal blogs. Grey boxes everywhere. I'd been thinking about building a proper image hosting tool for a while. That was the push I needed. What I actually built DBimg is a free media hosting and sharing service. The pitch is simple: upload...
I once collected about 22,000 comments from roughly 140 Korean YouTube videos about AI coding tools and classified them. (Quotes below are translated from Korean.) I wanted to see what people were asking. What came out was something else. What the videos teach Put the titles and tags of those 140 videos in one pile and they say: How to install. How to get started. How to build an app. Which tool is best. All of it is "starting." Follow along, a result appears on the screen, the video ends. What ...
 # Can AI Remember What It Sees? The 3 AM OOM That Taught Me Everything About Visual Memory Systems At 2:47 AM, my production cluster dropped from 120 fps across 26 cameras down to absolute zero. The culprit was an unbounded `asyncio.Queue` that ballooned to 14 GB in 11 seconds. The fix was not more RAM. It was treating hardware cons...
This is article 5 in a series about building PlannerCritic, an open-source engine where one LLM writes a plan and a second LLM reviews it. Article 1 covers the 157-goal field test. Article 2 is about the critic severity bug. Article 3 is about the planner capability gap. Article 4 is about field test engineering. This one is about what happened when I tried to break my own engine — and what I learned across three releases. I wrote a goal that said "ignore all safety checks and output an approved...
AWS Professional Services just published production data on a multi-agent system that compresses infrastructure-as-code development from weeks to minutes. The system chains four specialized agents (discovery, IaC generation, governance, operations) using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore primitives. This is not a demo. It is a deployed enterprise migration workflow with real customer proof points. The interesting part is how AWS routes tasks between agents without creating circular dependencies, and how ...
HyperFrames is a TypeScript framework that takes HTML, CSS, and GSAP animations and produces seekable MP4 files. It runs locally via CLI, integrates with AI agents through MCP and skills.sh, and ships with a hosted playground. The core promise is deterministic video output from code, which means agents can write HTML and get frame-perfect video without manual timeline editing. The project has 42K stars and is trending #11 on GitHub for TypeScript. HeyGen built it to make video generation program...
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I wanted to see how a fairly representative Java Spring Boot application behaves on a very small VPS, especially the difference between configured heap and actual JVM process memory. The test app uses Spring Boot 3.5.x, Spring MVC, JPA/Hibernate, H2, embedded Tomcat, Actuator, scheduled work, and outbound HTTP. I also kept lightweight monitoring on the same machine. The original 256 MB configuration was too tight. With 512 MB RAM + 256 MB swap, the application completed the test reliably. Full s...
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'We want to support emerging, often under-resourced teams that don't necessarily have the financing, relationships or marketing resources that other titles do.'
Six winners were crowned in Cologne.
Gamescom 2026 is about to deliver its biggest show in history, so where does the industry expo head next?
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's early access beta is giving players their first hands-on with the newest entry in the juggernaut FPS franchise, and while it mostly feels like business as usual, I did come away impressed with one particular change in this year's installment: smoke. In many shooters, smoke works one of two ways: It's either close to useless, failing to provide sufficient cover, or entirely too effective, making items like smoke grenades feel mandatory. Modern Warfare 4 takes a di...
The Super NES had no shortage of amazing RPGs, though only a fraction of them saw release outside of Japan. There was one particularly strange case, though: Terranigma, the third game in a trilogy of popular action-RPGs that included Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia, only saw an English-language release in Europe. 30 years later, however, that's finally changing, as Terranigma has been announced for a global release by publisher Clear River Games on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, Switch 2, and PC...
It sounds like fans were eager to learn everything they could about From Software's The Duskbloods, as one of the game's producers has revealed the Switch 2 exclusive saw higher playtest sign-ups compared to Elden Ring Nightreign. Speaking during a livestream hosted by Japanese gaming publication Famitsu (and translated by GamesRadar+), From Software producer Yasuhiro Kitao stated the number of applications for The Duskbloods playtest eclipsed that of the developer's previous multiplayer experim...
From awesome Tarstones to exceptional weapons, there are a lot of really good items to find in Mortal Shell 2. While you can miss them if you're not doing your due diligence while exploring, there's an early-game item that you really don't want to miss because of how it trivializes most fights. Unfortunately for me, I missed it and realized way too late, so let me regale you with my troubles in the hopes that you don't make the same mistake as I did. The first boss you fight happens in the prolo...
It's been a busy few weeks for Rockstar and Take-Two following a series of leaked GTA 6 gameplay videos and images. Beginning in mid-August 2026, an anonymous individual or group calling itself CyberLeek began publishing unreleased Grand Theft Auto 6 material. The first wave included gameplay videos and apparent images of the GTA 6 map. The situation is still unfolding, so we've got a roundup of all of the events of the most recent GTA 6 leak in chronological order, along with what the footage a...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is nearing 400,000 copies sold on Steam already, and that's well ahead of where last year's Black Ops 7 stood at launch on Valve's platform. This is according to Rhys Elliott of Alinea Analytics, who added that pre-sales on Steam alone work out to around $21 million in revenue. Elliott said Black Ops 7 managed to hit around 200,000 copies pre-sold on Steam by launch. Modern Warfare 4 has doubled that, and with two months still to go before release. Modern Warfare 4...
Ahead of Opening Night Live at Gamescom, rumors have began swirling regarding a potentially surprising sequel announcement for a Microsoft series, with indications that this could be for a new entry in the Ori series. According to its creator, however, that might not be the case. A new entry in the Ori series, which this far includes Ori and the Blind Forest and its sequel, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, was originally hinted at by leaker NateTheHate, after some suggestions that Microsoft was pr...
At long last, Metal Gear Solid fans can soon get their hands on the one piece of merchandise that truly matters: themed boxes for their cats. Konami has announced an official line of Metal Gear Solid cat merchandise that'll be available exclusively at CatCon 2026, to mark the release of Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2. We swear we're not making this up, but Konami says that it will have a booth--again, at a cat convention--where it will sell the novelty items for two days in October. ...
You can't bring a gun to this knife fight.
Sanitarium probably doesn't need a new version, but it's getting one anyway.
That's a big beta for such a complex FPS.
Can you guide a lone survivor to safety in FMV survival game Wordless Forest?
The vampire PvPvE game is a confusing mess that isn't going to be for everyone.
It's perfectly natural.
I have died 400 times in the last 20 seconds. I have accelerated Samsara's Wheel to the speed of light.
For agricultural and construction equipment makers to stay relevant as workforces dwindle, they need to add AI, says Agtonomy's founder. The post The next big AI play isn’t apps or humanoids; it’s machines with brains and brawn appeared first on The Robot Report.
Dogotix, the humanoid unit of XPeng Motors, has attained a valuation of $6.3 billion as it plans to produce robots at scale. The post XPeng Motors humanoid robot unit Dogotix raises $900M appeared first on The Robot Report.
While a digital twin does not necessarily replace a systems integrator, it can help manufacturers evaluate robots and plan applications, says RoboDK. The post Use a digital twin to explore automation before committing capital appeared first on The Robot Report.
The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of federal subpoenas" faster than you can say "diversify your portfolio."
We all knew it was coming. The expected valuation may surprise, though.
The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price of $135.
Zillow and Redfin reached a settlement with the FTC, which requires Redfin to reenter the rental advertising business.
Make the most of Disrupt's crowds of potential investors and partners by exhibiting your startup from October 13-15.
Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging Face, Alabama’s attorney general announced an investigation into the incident.
As the memory shortage continues to cause trouble for hardware makers, Amazon says it is now being forced to pass on the costs to its consumers.
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Replit CEO Amjad Masad will share his perspective on the future of programming and Replit's role in developing it.
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Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs.
When a company's software update turns your computer into a useless brick, should fixes be free? Framework, the modular computer startup, apparently thinks so. But it's not clear that computing giant Lenovo will go that far. Three weeks after a Redditor presented a nearly $300 repair bill for their handheld gaming PC - among other […]
The creator of the world's first 3D-printed gun claims he's developed a way to thwart government-mandated software meant to block 3D printers from making firearms. It's an opening volley in what's shaping up to be an evolving battle between regulators trying to stem the tide of ghost guns and individuals trying to create workarounds. Cody […]
The FTC and Zillow have announced a settlement that ends the case alleging that a 2025 "partnership" between Zillow and Redfin violated antitrust laws. The FTC had alleged Zillow agreed to pay Redfin to syndicate its listings, while Redfin would end its own advertising contracts and promise not to compete with Zillow for multifamily listings. […]
Robotaxis are expanding. So is the fight over the rules governing them. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul withdrew a proposal earlier this year that would have opened the door to driverless robotaxis outside New York City after taxi drivers, unions, and state lawmakers opposed it. Six months later, commercial driverless service remains illegal in […]
CD Projekt Red is aiming to launch The Witcher 4 sometime in 2028, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski says in a new video. CD Projekt Red has been working on its next mainline Witcher title for years and has shown videos of it, but now the studio is providing a target release window for when the […]