Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era
Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.
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Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos
Bluesky’s new 10-minute video support includes faster upload speeds, too.
QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you
The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent.
AWS Acquires DuckLabs
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Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police
All Ring cameras will soon use TAKE encryption by default. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Ring has a new way to protect your videos. It’s developed an encryption method called TAKE, short for Throw Away the Key Encryption, that the Amazon-owned company says will protect your videos without traditional end-to-end encryption. … Read more
Arga Labs is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.
A curmudgeon tries a language server
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Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA 6 leaks
Rockstar Games has released its first official statement following days of sustained leaks of footage from Grand Theft Auto VI, calling the period “heartbreaking for our team.” Not long after Rockstar posted, another leaked video appeared, this time showing the Jason character pulling off the series’ trademark move of carjacking a box Chevy-like vehicle with … Read more
The second-generation Bose QuietComfort Headphones are good, but don’t stand out
The Bose QuietComfort Headphones Gen 2 look a lot like all other Bose headphones from the past few years. Bose QuietComfort headphones used to be innovative. Bose’s noise-canceling research is the reason the technology is where it is today, and its headphones set the standard. They were the ubiquitous traveler’s accessory. But over the past … Read more
Bill Gates is deeply worried about AI, and he’s no longer staying quiet
Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation, speaks during a 2024 conference. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Bill Gates has been reflecting a lot on AI lately, and the process has triggered a stark awakening. Once a staunch AI optimist, the Microsoft cofounder is now deeply pessimistic about what AI means for our collective future. … Read more
Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them
Runable says 60%–70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.
It’s Not the End of Programming
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Ikea’s Xbox collection includes a giant thumbstick stool
Some pieces in the Yxstaby collection are more obviously Xbox-inspired than others. | Image: Ikea Ikea has teamed up with Microsoft to launch a new assortment of gaming-inspired furniture and home accessories, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the first Xbox console. The nine-piece Yxstaby collection (good luck pronouncing that) includes a TV stand, laptop … Read more
RAG Is Simpler Than You Think
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Ventures Platform goes bigger — and broader — with its second Africa fund
The Pan-African venture firm has raised $83 million and plans to invest in startups beyond its home market of Nigeria.
AI Video Generation Forgets Where the Camera Was. Here’s the Screen-Direction Workflow That Fixes It
The 180-degree rule and the eyeline match don’t disappear just because your camera is a prompt, not a machine on a dolly. I generated two shots for a dialogue scene in Lost Garden last month, cut them together, and watched two characters who were supposed to be facing each other end up staring in the … Read more
Why Protocol Security Tools Need to Become Platforms
A follow-up. The previous article described what we are building. This one describes how it works in practice – and why the shift from academic tool to industrial platform matters. In a previous article, I described the architecture of a protocol analyzer we are building: automatic repair, sixteen attacker models, GNN-guided search, modular crate design. … Read more
How to Actually Scale Multi-Agent AI (A Chip Designer’s Playbook)
86-89% of multi-agent AI pilots never reach production. Multi-agent failure taxonomy research classifies the breakdowns into specification failures, inter-agent failures, and system composition failures; the core model is rarely the culprit. The semiconductor industry hit a structurally identical complexity wall around 2003: EDA software couldn’t compile flat layouts of 100M+ transistors. Their fix (Hierarchical Physical … Read more
Nuances of Certificates in Domain Matching for SAML Based Single Sign On
Introduction This topic may sound a bit niche but actually has very broad applicability in web based platforms for single sign on (SSO). To start with, let’s set the context with some basics. First, single sign on – this is a technique that allows a user to navigate from one website to another website without … Read more
The Final Wojak
Seventeen years of internet history, three blockchains, and one question left to answer: does the feels guy finally get its billion dollar cycle? Every meme season produces exactly one coin that becomes the coin. In 2023 it was Ethereum’s turn: hundreds of Pepes came out, one after another, until the final Pepe came out, and … Read more
India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call
Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.
Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.