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General Intuition, a startup building what it describes as a foundation model for embodied AI, has raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation on the thesis that robotics is approaching the same inflection point language AI crossed with GPT-3. The company's approach — training on millions of hours of video game data rather than real-world robot telemetry — was detailed by TechCrunch this week.
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Uber spent its entire 2026 budget for AI coding tools in four months. By April, after an assistant called Claude Code had spread across its engineering teams, the money set aside for the whole year was gone. The company then capped what any single employee could spend on such tools at $1,500 a month. A ... Read more Read more ›
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Roughly one in eight American adults is now taking a GLP-1 drug like Ozempic, Wegovy or Zepbound. The class traces back to a hormone isolated from Gila monster venom by a Bronx doctor who paid a dollar to file the patent himself after his employer passed on it. Read more ›
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I did not get calmer by reading grand books about attention or by taking a week-long digital detox in the woods. I got calmer by doing five small, mildly annoying things every day that quietly changed the texture of my working hours. They are not clever. They do not require an app. They required me ... Read more Read more ›
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