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Earlier this week, Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics-ER-1.6, a new vision and language model to help robots make sense of their surroundings. To show off its capabilities, Boston Dynamics—which has an agreement to use Gemini in its humanoid robots—published a video of its robot dogs using the model to read a thermometer during an inspection of an industrial facility.Despite the eye-catching demos, Google’s new robotics model only notched incremental gains over previous models in terms of its ability.
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Anthropic has received investment interest at a valuation above $900 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. An investment at that level would more than double a February valuation of $380 billion. However, the company has not formally started a fundraise, said the person ... Read more ›
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It was the Super Bowl of quarterly tech earnings today, with March-quarter results from Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms. The tsunami of numbers, all released within a few minutes of each other, might overwhelm even a top AI model. But for a human, what was clear was that surging demand for AI computing capacity is lifting cloud revenue growth across the industry. One wet blanket, though: Much of the... Read more ›
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Google is trying to assuage employee concern following The Information’s reporting on its deal to let the Pentagon use its AI on classified systems. “We have proudly worked with defense departments since Google’s earliest days, and we continue to believe that it’s important to support national ... Read more ›
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The AI era’s mega-trial delivered its first real drama, as an OpenAI lawyer sought to portray Elon Musk as resentful and double-dealing during a tense cross examination Wednesday. Bill Savitt, OpenAI’s outside counsel, and a veteran of legal combat with Musk, called into question Musk’s motivations for bringing the lawsuit and sought to undermine Musk’s legal position that OpenAI has broken promises to him and violated its charitable duties. In... Read more ›
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Commerce giant Shopify is seeking regulatory approvals to take a bigger role in offering financial and payments services to the millions of merchants using its software. Shopify has already secured money transmitter licenses in more than a dozen U.S. states to hold and move funds itself, and it is seeking them nationwide. If that happens, the company would get more control over how money moves through its platform and potentially... Read more ›
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Amazon has disclosed new details on its recently announced investment of up to $20 billion in Anthropic. The deal will take the form of a convertible financing facility, the company said in a filing on Thursday, which Anthropic can start drawing down on once Amazon starts delivering certain ... Read more ›
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The U.S. National Security Agency is using Anthropic’s Mythos model to find security flaws in Microsoft software, Bloomberg reported Thursday. One of the cyber intelligence agency’s primary goals is to find or exploit security vulnerabilities in computer systems. Microsoft develops the most used ... Read more ›
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Shares of Meta Platforms dropped 8% on Thursday, as investors responded to the social media giant’s disclosure that it was raising its 2026 capital expenditure projection. Meanwhile Meta began efforts to raise another $25 billion in bonds, Bloomberg reported. Meta’s bond sale follows a $30 ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk said it is “partly” true that xAI, the artificial intelligence unit of his SpaceX company, has distilled OpenAI’s models in developing its own models. Musk made the comment Thursday during his second day of cross-examination in the trial of his lawsuit against OpenAI. ... Read more ›
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