Meditating or Rebooting? A Robot Buddhist Monk Comes to South Korea.
Gabi, the newest monk at a temple in Seoul that is looking to spread Buddhism, vowed to not overcharge as it seeks enlightenment.
Category: Tech
Five Ways A.I. Search Beats an Old-School Google Search
Google’s A.I. search technology is far from perfect (don’t count on it for celebrity news), but it excels at tasks like picking out groceries and
Quantum Motion lands $160m in EU’s first major late-stage commitment
The London company building silicon-CMOS spin qubits has been one of the cleaner technical credentials in European quantum hardware. The choice of investee for the
Brussels strikes deal to thin out AI Act and outlaw nudification apps
After two failed trilogues, Parliament and Council finally landed a compromise that pushes the high-risk compliance deadline to December 2027, lightens paperwork for smaller firms
US government agency to safety test frontier AI models before release
The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), a division of the US Department of Commerce, has signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI
Corgi reaches a $1.3bn valuation four months after its Series A, with TCV leading a $160m round
The Y Combinator-backed AI-native insurance carrier closed its Series A in January at a $630m valuation. The Series B doubles that figure and funds expansion
OpsMill raises $14m Series A to make IT infrastructure data trustworthy enough for AI agents
IRIS led the Paris- and London-based startup’s round, with BGV joining alongside existing investors Serena and Partech. The company’s Infrahub platform is in production at
Nyobolt’s batteries charge in seconds and last 20,000 cycles. The customer that made it a unicorn is a warehouse robot.
The battery that made Nyobolt a unicorn does not power a car. It powers a warehouse robot. The Cambridge-based startup announced on Tuesday that it
Ukraine says robots seized enemy territory for the first time. The company behind them is now worth a billion dollars.
In April, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that his forces had, for the first time in the history of warfare, seized an enemy position using
SpaceX is starting to move on from the world’s most successful rocket
It is far too soon to mention retirement, but astute observers of the space industry have noticed SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket is not launching
Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX
SAN FRANCISCO—At its Code with Claude developer conference on Wednesday, Anthropic announced a deal with SpaceX to utilize the entire compute capacity of the latter’s
Anthropic’s C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year
The chief executive, Dario Amodei, said the rapid growth had exponentially increased the start-up’s need for more computing power.
Chrome’s AI features can take up to 4GB of space on your computer
Google Chrome can automatically download a local AI model that takes up to 4 gigabytes of hard drive space on a computer when certain AI
Google’s AI Overviews killed 58 per cent of publisher clicks. Now it is adding a ‘Further Exploration’ section to bring some back.
Google has a publisher problem. AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries that now appear at the top of search results for a growing share of queries