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MIT engineers have built an AI tool that forecasts extreme weather without training on historical disaster data. Kai Chang, a mechanical engineering graduate student, and Professor Themis Sapsis developed the tool. It produces maps of events that have not appeared in a region’s historical record but remain statistically-possible. Each map also carries estimates of the […] The post MIT AI forecasts extreme weather without historical data appeared first on AI News.
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 Gemma 4, Llama 3, and Mistral implement tool calling locally, and what trade-offs each model family presents for...
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...
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar explains how advances across chips, compute, models, and products compound to deliver more useful intelligence at greater scale and lower cost.
Jalapeño is a custom inference chip from OpenAI that delivers faster, more power-efficient AI inference, with higher throughput and lower latency for modern models.
OpenAI banned Russia-origin accounts using AI to promote a fake Israel-based think tank and a “sovereignty” index praising Russia and criticizing the West.
Use the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex to analyze workspace usage, manage members and permissions, adjust limits, and act on admin requests.
GPT‑5.6 is now available in Kiro, helping developers plan, build, review, and test software with better price-performance.
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke is considering banning Claude Code at the company, but not because he thinks Anthropic’s coding agent The post Shopify’s CEO threatened to ban Claude Code. Anthropic had already closed the feature request. appeared first on The New Stack.
On Tuesday, IBM launched the latest family of its open-weight Granite large language models (LLMs). Weighing in at 3 billion, The post IBM’s new Granite 4.2 models add reasoning and stay dense appeared first on The New Stack.
As enterprises move from experimenting with AI to running autonomous agents in production, an infrastructure problem is emerging: rising telemetry The post How telemetry pipelines keep AI agent costs under control appeared first on The New Stack.
On Tuesday, Anthropic launched a major update to how Claude remembers things. The new system combines Claude’s memory in Cowork The post Anthropic gives chat and Cowork one memory appeared first on The New Stack.
Security teams are discovering that the most capable AI models cost too much to run on routine, high-volume work, and The post Tokenmaxxing is out. How to minimize AI spend without sacrificing security capability. appeared first on The New Stack.
Perplexity, in partnership with Nvidia, has taken Computer, its agentic AI assistant, and brought it to the desktop as Portable The post Perplexity’s Computer agent can now run locally — if you can afford it appeared first on The New Stack.
When OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom inference chip, in June, the company made some big promises. The chip, developed The post OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip tackles a problem AI agents make worse appeared first on The New Stack.
The ongoing debate over where AI coding agents belong, in an integrated development environment (IDE) or at the command line The post CLI or IDE? Build in verification first. appeared first on The New Stack.
AI agents are already inside the enterprise, but the rules for controlling them haven’t caught up yet. Some 86% of The post AI agents are spreading fast. Their rules are still catching up. appeared first on The New Stack.
What do you do when a technology you’ve become dependent on belongs to someone else? You buy the startup behind The post “You can rent a feature, but you can’t rent a foundation”: why MotherDuck bought the startup already powering its data pipelines appeared first on The New Stack.
Ryan is joined by Praveen Bodigutla, Principal AI Researcher at LinkedIn, to chat about the four-layer memory system his team built to give LinkedIn's hiring assistant a persistent, personalized state.
Organizations cannot solve shadow AI with a document employees read once. They need to make responsible use easier than improvised use.
Explaining a technical problem in a second language can become harder when you try to include every detail at once. Logs, reproduction steps, customer impact, and possible fixes all compete for the first sentence. A simple structure helps: conclusion → reason → example. 1. Start with the conclusion Give the listener the direction of your answer before the details. I recommend delaying the launch. This first sentence tells the team what decision or action you are proposing. It also gives the list...
Figma published 10 skills their community https://dub.sh/ZfYjDlg A few that stuck with me: /find-animation-opportunities – scans a design and tells you what should animate, and what definitely shouldn't. /ui-state-expander – turns one screen into the full set of states: loading, empty, error, edge cases. /component-handoff – turns a component into ready-to-share documentation on the canvas. /analyze-components – a component audit: orphans, duplicates, broken naming. /superfuture-design-review – ...
Five Files, No Record of Which Came First You started a project on Monday. By Thursday you have five files: a research document, a spreadsheet of data, a draft slide deck, a sketch of the app interface, and a chat log where you decided to pivot the pricing model. Nobody else on the team knows which file was made first, which decision overrides the previous, or why the pricing changed. The project is alive, but its history is dead. The Research That Stayed in the Chat When you were investigating ...
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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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Sam Lambert is back after 4 years and he does not hold back! We cover $5 PlanetScale Postgres, the Neki "do-over" of Vitess, agents shipping schema changes through deploy requests, rolling back a 500TB table in seconds, and the very real question of whether to open source any of it. Plus: why he thinks the sleeping, lazy giants should be broken up.
Riot says it hasn't seen 'enough players stick with the game to get to a path toward sustainability.'
Schell Games has provided multiple interviews over the years on avoiding layoffs.
The 'next-generation gaming platform' will launch in 2027.
Profit from Sky: Children of the Light will support the initiative.
W4 Games has also signed a multi-year strategic partnership with Tencent to scale its business and the Godot ecosystem in Asia.
'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?
Check out our first look and hands-on time with 1001 Threads of Mizan, a new game showcased at Opening Night Live 2026.
Gamescom Opening Night Live is here, and once again, it was a bumper night full of new game reveals, gameplay deep-dives, and more from Geoff Keighley's second big show of the year. There were new trailers for plenty of big games, like Gears of War: E-Day, Metro 2039, and Final Fantasy 7 Revelation. We also got a whole bunch of new reveals, and in case you missed it, you can catch up below. Worms: Galactic Tactics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVcmBd7u6J0&pp=ygUXV29ybXM6IEdhbGFjdGljIFRhY3RpY3M...
Gamescom Opening Night Live is always full of surprises, and this year, indie developer Octopus Panic made a splash with a first look at its new action-builder game Gravhounds. As seen in the reveal trailer below, Gravhounds takes place in a future where interstellar exploration and colonization have become the domain of man's best friend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7K6kahO2Ak Although the trailer states that the titular Gravhounds have been "bred" for this life, their humanoid appearance ...
It may not be The Witcher 4, but the first real look at The Witcher 3's new DLC, Songs of the Past, might just make the wait a little easier, especially when it's coming soon after a free upgrade to The Witcher 3 Remastered, as was newly revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live. Developer CD Projekt Red showed off the upcoming expansion (just don't call it DLC) as part of Gamescom Opening Night Live, revealing new details about the over-a-decade-later expansion coming to The Witcher 3. But this c...
From the stage of Gamescom Opening Night Live, No Law brought out the cyberpunk flair during a stage show that was often dominated by anime games, dark fantasy souls-likes, and cozy offerings. There's nothing cozy in No Law, though fans of Cyberpunk 2077 will find aesthetics that seem familiar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClVyqFt1IJM While No Law looks a lot like Cyberpunk 2077 when all hell breaks loose, it should be noted that such is the main attraction of Neon Giant's follow-up to The As...
Following its official reveal at Summer Games Fest, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation made another appearance at Gamescom Opening Night Live, following a brief introduction from director Naoki Hamaguchi. This trailer was centered almost entirely on the Weapons, massive beasts that appear to have a larger role to play in this final part of the trilogy. The cinematic trailer showed Rufus Shinra giving an address following recent world events, and the world has become overrun with Weapons. Those kaiju-lik...
Path of Exile 2 debuted a new gameplay trailer during Gamescom Opening Night Live, which revealed that the action-role-playing sequel will finally launch out of early access on December 11. The latest gameplay trailer offers a snippet of the sequel's narrative setup, as well as a look at its faster action compared to its predecessor. Like the first game, Path of Exile 2 will offer incredibly deep class customization through hundreds of active and passive skill gems, with a deep emphasis on endga...
This year's Gamescom Opening Night Live ceremony just came to an end, and the livestreamed showcase had no shortage of highly anticipated announcements and trailers. From a closer look at the upcoming Witcher 3 DLC and the announcement of two PUBG spin-offs, to new glimpses of Control: Resonant, Silent Hill: Townfall, and Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, ONL seemed to have something for everyone. There was even a live performance of a track from the Mewgenics soundtrack. But between demands for a new...
Having now played about two hours of Gears of War: E-Day's story campaign, I'm not impressed. The upcoming third-person cover shooter handles fine and the demo I played through checked all the hits you'd expect from a story in the genre--intense action, cringy one-liners, lots of blood, a desperate gamble to cross a bridge while being peppered by sniper fire. But of what I've seen, it seems like E-Day's story misses the mark that all prequels should try to hit. Admittedly, there's a good idea he...
Having now played about two hours of Gears of War: E-Day, I'm not impressed. The upcoming third-person cover shooter handles fine and the demo I played through checked all the hits you'd expect from the genre--intense action, cringy one-liners, lots of blood, a desperate gamble to cross a bridge while being peppered by sniper fire. But of what I've seen, it seems like E-Day misses the mark that all prequels should try to hit.
So anyway, I started eldritch blasting.
The uncanny trailer shows the perspective of infants through space and time.
My gut says a regular PC will not like this game.
Featuring one of my favorite ARPG class archetypes: Guy With Gun.
Afterworld will let you conquer post-apocalyptic North America.
Early bird pricing for RoboBusiness 2026, which saves attendees $200 on full conference passes, will end Aug. 31. The post Early bird pricing for RoboBusiness 2026 ends August 31 appeared first on The Robot Report.
As fleets of autonomous vehicles scale, AI and human oversight remain critical for safety, explains Guident's CEO. The post Humans in the loop are still needed for robotaxi fleet safety, says Guident appeared first on The Robot Report.
With Jetson Orin Nano 2, NVIDIA says that frontier intelligence has reached the edge and can now run in real time. The post Jetson Orin Nano 2 doubles inference performance for robotics on the edge, says NVIDIA appeared first on The Robot Report.
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.
This article is brought to you by Ollobot.From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke to them. Most early companion robots, however, were still limited by simple voice-command interactions and narrow functionality. Once the novelty wore off, many ended up sitting unused on shelves. As some of those companies went out of business and turned off their servers, many own...
Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.
The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.
Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.
X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X front ends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.
Instagram says the process can produce a first pass in under 10 seconds, potentially saving creators significant editing time while making video creation more approachable for people who don't have much experience with editing software.
The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.
The company says it will start construction in 2027 and that a Starship rocket could take flight as soon as 2029.
Each year, we get a huge influx of applicants to speak at TechCrunch’s events, and this year’s Founder Summit in Boston on November 4 will be no different!
If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at Moscone West!
Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.
Garmin just took the wraps off its new line of rugged Fenix 9 smartwatches, with the base model featuring an OLED display with a brightness of up to 3,000 nits, making it twice as bright as its predecessor. Starting at $999.99 for the 43mm case option, the Fenix 9 has 50 percent more RAM and […]
In the span of a few hours on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would be implementing a fee of over $103,000 on H-1B visas, and news broke that the State Department plans on revoking the visas of up to 200,000 asylum seekers - which, according to The Associated Press, would be […]
If you watched the Gamescom 2026 announcements, you might have caught a trailer for the bizarre, frenetic Pony Island 2: Panda Circus, a game from Daniel Mullins. In case you haven’t heard of him, get a crash course with a fantastic discount on Inscryption. Humble is currently selling Steam versions of the secret-packed deckbuilder for […]
CD Projekt Red is remastering The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the hit RPG that first launched in 2015, and the updated game will be available starting September 29th. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered will bring improvements to visuals and combat, a "reimagined" skill tree, and more, and it also includes the first two […]
Dreame, the Chinese vacuum company that aspires to be a global technology giant, is reportedly shutting down its automotive project after funding from the government dried up. According to CarNewsChina, the company's automotive division called "Project Starry Sky" once employed over 1,000 people, but now only a handful legal and HR staffers remain, charged with […]