Why is longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller stepping down from his role as the head of the App Store? Bloomberg’s…
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Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft
Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI. A…
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XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
Less than three months after emerging from stealth, XDOF, a startup that collects real-world teleoperation data for training general-purpose robots,…
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Feds launch investigation into Tesla’s Cybercab deployment
The United States’ top automotive safety regulator has opened an investigation into Tesla’s decision to launch its new Cybercab on…
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Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
After weeks of swirling rumors, Nvidia confirmed today that it has acquired Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Hugging Face’s platform…
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Larry Page’s flying car company Pivotal loses its CEO
The CEO of a flying car company backed by Larry Page has left the company. Ken Karklin, who was Pivotal’s…
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If space data centers feel far-fetched, why not interstellar travel?
The founders behind Starcloud, a startup with plans to operate a fleet of GPUs in orbit, have a new pitch…
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The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them
In July and August, Washington tightened restrictions on foreign-made advanced robotic systems and imposed steep tariffs on imported drones and…
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Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann,…
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Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine
The hype around humanoid robots isn’t particularly new. Thank Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his Optimus robot, as well as…
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