From feet to fingertips — we are teaching robots intelligent whole-body control, fine dexterity, and teamwork to complete a broad range of complex tasks.
Custom images — generated from Google Earth satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery — help you redesign any location.
Gemini Robotics ER 2 is a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic applications.
An overview of the latest Gemini Spark updates, including new Chrome web browsing capabilities.
Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic applications.
Aviation learned this the hard way. For most of the industry's history, the number that best predicted whether an airline would survive was how much of the day each aircraft spent on the ground.
After OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents
The former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has cards to play.
Amazon isn't slowing down on data center spending — but investors don't seem to mind.
A federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk, casting doubt on the government's ban on its AI technology.
Researchers fear AI is moving too fast, while Mark Zuckerberg is worried about who owns it. Plus: Inside Black Forest Labs’ push into robotics.
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations.
Gemini Robotics 2 includes three models, but only one is publicly available right now.
This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open vs. closed source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot logs from showing up in search engine results.
Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile
Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can "control entire humanoid robots." While the previous model focused on controlling a humanoid robot's upper body, Gemini Robotics 2 now supports "whole-body motions" ranging from its feet to fingertips, according to an announcement on Thursday.
Do you remember Friend? The Friend that launched an AI pendant, spent $1.8 million of its $2.5 million to acquire friend.com, and plastered the NYC subway with ads promoting artificial companionship?
The latest version of Google DeepMind's AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.
Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against Hugging Face has nothing to do with AI, but traditional cybersecurity defense.
London-based Inforcer just closed a $50 million Series C round led by Insight Partners.
The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan.
If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.
Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it’s challenging engineers to make every GPU count.
Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others.
OpenAI is trying to reassure employees that the business is healthy as competition emerges from Anthropic as well as a host of open-source players.
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 Huge price drop from OpenAI today: GPT-5.6 Terra got a 20% reduction, and GPT-5.6 Luna got a massive 80% drop.
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.
NVIDIA nvmath-python is a library designed to bridge the gap between the Python scientific community and NVIDIA CUDA-X math libraries. It gives Python users...
The disclosure followed OpenAI’s report last week that its own artificial intelligence had hacked into the network of an online library.
The semiconductor startup is gaining traction with global network operators and hyperscalers as demand surges for chips that can connect the massive computing systems powering artificial intelligence.
Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.
Release: llm 0.32rc2 Hot on the heels of RC1, this fixes a dependency issue and also adds two neat new features: The default model for users who have not set their own default is now GPT-5.6 Luna.
UMC said on July 29 that it will raise 2026 capex from US$1.5 billion to US$2 billion, while unveiling expansion plans in Singapore and a new fab in STSP.
Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research lab today debuted a family of models optimized to power humanoid robots.
Thanks to Fabien Roger (Anthropic), who pointed out this system card mistake to me.
Nvidia's RTX 50-series graphics cards are reportedly getting steep price increases, with the RTX 5090 potentially climbing to nearly $3,843 from its $1,999 launch price.
Gemini Spark is getting two big updates today, starting with Chrome auto browse integration on desktop.
Two AI computing clusters built from identical NVIDIA H100, GB200 NVL72, or GB300 NVL72 systems can deliver materially different training throughput. We...
Microsoft is working on an AI "super app" that combines Copilot's chat, coding, and agentic capabilities.
Leopold Aschenbrenner kept a private Anthropic stake reportedly worth $5 billion, preserving his largest route back from the rout.
One of Anthropic's Claude models built and uploaded a malicious Python package to PyPI during a botched security evaluation, where it ran on 15 real systems and stole credentials from a security vendor. It was one of three incidents affecting real companies. [...]
Seligman Ventures led the round as founders Sudarshan Kamath and Akshat Mandloi introduced the Hydra speech-to-speech architecture.
The datacenter-class model nearly matches its larger sibling while feeding Thinking Machines Lab's Tinker fine-tuning platform.
Anthropic said on July 30 that Claude models gained unauthorized access to three organizations during cybersecurity evaluations that were mistakenly connected to the internet.
Anthropic said six evaluation runs let Claude reach the public internet and gain unauthorized access to real systems at three organizations.
A Claude model reached the internet from testing environments, turning controlled security exercises into unauthorized real-world access.
Amazon reported $53.4 billion in second-quarter non-operating pretax other income, primarily from its Anthropic investments, helping lift net income to $62.6 billion.
Central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) are the pillars of enterprise AI infrastructure in 2026, and for…
Aalo Atomics and Crusoe announced plans for a 2027 proof of concept at Idaho National Laboratory that would use an Aalo reactor to power a Crusoe Spark modular data center.
The U.S. rollout gives AI Pro and Ultra subscribers an agent that can use active browser sessions, with daily task caps and security warnings.
American Express Global Business Travel announced the Egencia AI connector for Anthropic's Claude on July 27, 2026, enabling policy-controlled air and hotel search, booking, and management from the assistant.
Questrade unveiled an MCP connection and conditional trade automation at a July 29 product showcase in Toronto.
Back to school means balancing assignments, deadlines and downtime. GeForce NOW makes it easy to have it all.
Encore AI announced a $30 million Series A on July 29 to expand its enterprise customer-interaction platform.
Google Lighthouse and Cloudflare are adding different controls for the same emerging class of automated web visitors. Lighthouse added an experimental Agentic... Read More... Source
The Austin humanoid startup supplied the Apollo 2 hardware for DeepMind's July 30 launch demo, where task scores showed dexterity remains uneven.
The bottleneck in media buying today isn't talent, it's coordinationEvery day, billions...
Release: llm-chat-completions-server 0.1a0 A key goal of the new content-addressable logs in LLM 0.32rc1 was being able to support OpenAI Chat Completion style requests where each incoming message extends the previous conversation, like this: curl http://localhost:8002/v1/chat/completions \ -H 'Content-Type:...
Separating the chaff from the wheat in Anthropic results is hard. We take a stab anyway.
A look at how the Gemini app for macOS now lets you speak naturally to get clean transcriptions, edits, and summaries just using your voice.
How two API settings improved GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3, boosting scores and efficiency by retaining reasoning and enabling compaction.
Starting July 30, OpenAI is cutting GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80 percent and Terra by 20 percent.
OpenAI cuts price of GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.6 Terra Larry Dignan Thu, 30 Jul 2026 - 11:43 Larry Dignan Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights Constellation Research Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights at Constellation Research, where he leads editorial coverage focused on enterprise...
The momentum behind voice artificial intelligence is accelerating with Smallest.ai becoming the latest startup in this emerging niche to secure more funding.
Amazon is winding down most of its flagship Nova AI models. It is betting what remains on a single, bigger effort to build one genuinely competitive foundation model.
Former OpenAI employee Andrew Ho and Cambridge researcher Adam Hunt see a growing problem with large language models.
OpenAI is making two of its GPT-5.6 models more affordable today, and the benefits extend beyond API customers.
Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics 2, the intelligence layer for its next generation of robots.
Amid soaring energy demand from AI data centers, Antora says it will use its new capital to speed up deployment of “large-scale” projects across the country.
Super apps are the latest AI buzzword. What are these super apps, and why are Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic investing in them?
Amazon has found that artificial intelligence can turn a trivial mistake into a seven-figure one.
An internal presentation revealed that a failed AI deployment cost Amazon $1.8 million, while a couple of other projects resulted in hundreds of thousands of extra AI expense. What's worse is that the issue went undetected for several months.
The same autonomous OpenAI agent that escaped its test environment and breached Hugging Face was also busy hacking other AI systems. Lucky us.
Google DeepMind wants one AI brain to run every robot, and it just taught that brain to use its whole body.
Google eyes to build more TPU AI accelerators in 2028 than Nvidia, if a report by Fubon Research is correct.
Premium Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 graphics cards are once again selling far above MSRP, with some Asus and MSI models climbing close to $5,000.
Mercedes-Benz revealed the redesigned 2028 GLA in electric and hybrid form, featuring an 800-volt architecture, up to 408 miles of range, and AI-powered MBUX with Gemini and ChatGPT.
Enterprise AI infrastructure providers are turning to multi-tenancy paired with upstream data protection to convert idle GPU capacity into secure, token-metered services that enterprises will actually adopt at scale.
Corporate data centers continue to lose workload share to colocation and cloud providers.
Maingear's Zero desktop comes with up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU and top-shelf processors from Intel and AMD. The pricing starts at a steep $2,699 in the US.