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Companies developing AI models to power humanoid and other robots have been hard at work collecting videos and other data for training their models, even paying people to record themselves completing tasks in homes and workplaces. As these data-collection efforts start to pay off, and robots take on some of those tasks, the robot developers could start prioritizing quality of data over quantity. That’s a scenario that Encord, a five-year-old startup, is already preparing for with its software for helping AI
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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The idea sounds like science fiction, but it is now part of a very real policy debate: should future cars be able to detect when a driver may be impaired and stop that person from driving? It sounds like a good safety feature, but that is the uncomfortable question behind the latest update from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (PDF link). Congress had directed regulators to create a rule... Read more ›
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Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has hinted at the price of Grand Theft Auto 6 by suggesting fans will pay a "reasonable" amount for a quality game. Read more ›
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Tennessee becomes the second state to ban crypto ATMs after its governor signs a bill into law restricting these machines starting July 1st. Read more ›
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There is something faintly gladiatorial about startups being ushered into Westminster, whether the House of Commons or the House of Lords. Not literally, of course, there are no lions behind Select Co... Read more ›
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The following is a fintech and wider digital and economic development of the Caribbean nation of Barbados in 2026. Read more ›
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The second film isn't in theaters yet, but writer Jeremy Slater is hard at work on the third installment. Read more ›
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Datavant, the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare, has officially opened its new state-of-the-art Global R&D Centre at Bonham Quay in Galway. The company also announced that it has already hired 100 employees in Ireland – well ahead of its target to fill 125 roles by the end of next year. Datavant CEO Kyle Armbrester […] Read more ›
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Sam Altman wants OpenAI to be the Google or Amazon of AI. But a recent report of missed revenue targets points to dangers ahead. Read more ›
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The internet is full of copycat, stolen, reposted, and low-effort content - and Meta, at least publicly, has said it is working to cut off some of the reach. Beginning in 2024, the company has made incremental announcements saying it would begin limiting "unoriginal" content from being recommended on Instagram. It meant that if you […] Read more ›
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Let them pick out their own hiking boots. Instead, try gifting a useful blade or a nature journal to delight your outdoorsy friend. Read more ›
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Meme creators and others who don't make "material" edits could get their reach throttled by Meta. Read more ›
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Dallas-based genetics and biotech startup Colossal has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from venture capitalists, the CIA, and Peter Thiel, among others. Its buzzy "de-extinction" projects aim to "bring back" lost animals like the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and the dire wolf - although it isn't creating copies of extinct creatures from ancient […] Read more ›
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Square Enix is on a bit of a roll with its Switch 2 ports at the moment, as I'm sure Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is very keen to remind you. But today, Square Enix's other big RPG behemoth is in the spotlight, as a classification for a potential Nintendo Switch 2 version of Dragon Quest 11 S has surfaced in Taiwan. The listing appeared on 29th April. Read more Read more ›
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The firm's MiCA-compliant euro token aims to speed up euro transfers and support regulated onchain finance as the euro stablecoin market doubled since early 2025. Read more ›
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ManaMind, a British autonomous game testing company, has closed a €1.2 million ($1.5 million) pre-Seed round in order to continue their work in replacing repetitive manual Quality Assurance (QA) with autonomous AI agents. The round was led by SVV (Sure Valley Ventures), with participation from EWOR, Ascension, Syndicate Room, and Heartfelt. Emil Kostadinov, CEO and ... Read more ›
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New data shows unusually high win rates in defense bets, building on research that 3% of traders drive prices and under 1% capture most profits. Read more ›
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Reports suggest Apple may be shifting focus away from the Vision headset, despite ongoing hiring tied to its Vision Products Group, possibly implying otherwise. Read more ›
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New leaks suggest a massive shift for Samsung laptops, featuring deeper Galaxy AI integration and an overhauled DeX. Read more ›
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Major insurers including Berkshire Hathaway, Chubb and Travelers are taking steps to cut AI-related damages from corporate insurance policies, and U.S. state regulators are giving them the green light. Insurers are trying to get ahead of risks from companies that use generative artificial intelligence to automate tasks, stoked by the fast pace of model improvements. Executives at major insurance brokers, including Aon, Gallagher and Lockton, say that if insurers make... Read more ›
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Hours after Anthropic said it was investigating a report that users had gained unauthorized access to its ballyhooed Mythos model, OpenAI accidentally made a slate of its own unreleased models available on its Codex app. The breaches are a reminder that Anthropic and OpenAI have plenty of their own cybersecurity issues even as they help other organizations fortify their systems for a new era of AI-powered cyberattacks.Anthropic has gone to... Read more ›
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Shareholders in Warner Bros. Discovery approved sale of the company to the Ellison family’s Paramount Skydance, the latest step towards completion of the $110 billion purchase. WBD said in a statement the vote was overwhelmingly in favor although the actual vote count will take a little while to ... Read more ›
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Tesla is acquiring an unnamed AI hardware company for up to $2 billion, the company disclosed in a securities filing on Thursday. The electric automaker is paying for the company in common stock and equity awards, $1.8 billion of which is subject to conditions and milestones “dependent on the ... Read more ›
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Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement buyouts to employees who have been at the company for a long time, chief people officer Amy Coleman said in a memo to staff on Thursday. The buyouts will be available to employees whose tenure at the company plus their age totals more than 70, the ... Read more ›
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Last year at Google Cloud's Next conference, executives touted the power of the company’s AI models for businesses. This year the theme is how to help companies use the models.And with good reason: In interviews at the conference, customers and Google Cloud resellers told me that companies racing to adopt AI are hitting roadblocks. Some are still setting up their first AI agents, while others are struggling to manage a... Read more ›
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OpenAI on Thursday released its latest flagship model, GPT-5.5, according to a blog post. That model, codenamed Spud internally, is better at breaking down complicated requests from customers and showed improvement in coding, financial modeling and scientific research, compared to prior models ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has made its plans to cut 10% of its staff, or around 8,000 people, official. In a memo to employees, the company’s chief people officer, Janelle Gale, said the layoffs will happen on May 20, Bloomberg reported. Meta also will not fill about 6,000 open jobs at the company. A Meta ... Read more ›
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The latest in a series of crypto hacks has spread turmoil across the market, toppling the biggest lender in the industry, freezing billions of dollars in assets and causing big losses for highly leveraged traders. The hack, which involved $290 million of fraudulent tokens, began at a little-known startup but the impact quickly spread to Aave, which accounts for about a third of the decentralized crypto lending market. It caused... Read more ›
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Users of Grok, the AI chatbot operated by SpaceX subsidiary xAI, reported widespread outages on Thursday. Outages were especially common in New York, Illinois and California, according to the tracking site DownDetector. While it’s unclear exactly how widespread the outages are, many Grok users ... Read more ›
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