Engineering
Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Whole Body Intelligence to Robots
Google DeepMind introduced three specialized robotics models working in tandem: Gemini Robotics 2, a vision-language-action model that converts vision and…
News
Judge Approves Anthropic’s $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement
A federal judge finalized Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement, approving payouts of $3,000 per work to roughly 500,000 authors and…
News
Nvidia Ships a Small Quantity of H200 AI Chips to China Under New License
A senior U.S. trade official said only a small quantity of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips have been shipped to China…
News
Humanoid Raises $152 Million, Becomes Europe’s First Pure-Play Humanoid Robotics Unicorn
London-based Humanoid has raised $152 million in Series A funding at a $1.35 billion valuation, becoming Europe’s first pure-play humanoid…
News
Alibaba Leads $439 Million Funding Round for AI Video Startup AIsphere
Alibaba Group has led a funding round for Chinese AI video startup AIsphere, bringing its Series C financing to 2.98…
News
Cyera to Acquire Oasis Security for $1 Billion to Secure AI Agent Identities
Data security company Cyera has agreed to acquire Oasis Security for approximately $1 billion, in a deal paid mostly in…
Opinions
Sam Altman Says We’re in the Singularity — What Does He Actually Mean?
Sam Altman recently declared that AI has entered the singularity, though he uses the term differently from its technical definition…
Opinions
The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI
MIT Technology Review’s recurring AI Hype Index column takes a wry look at recent AI developments, weighing impressive advances against…
Opinions
Dario Amodei’s ‘Policy on the AI Exponential’ Calls for Faster Government Action
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues that artificial intelligence capability is advancing exponentially while government policy moves far more slowly, creating…
Opinions
AI’s Big Messaging Pivot
Noah Smith examines a shift in how AI industry leaders talk about the technology’s impact on jobs, with figures like…
Opinions
Open Accountability Standards Keep the AI Agent Economy From Fragmenting
In an opinion piece, Fadi Chehadé argues that AI agents need open accountability standards to prevent the emerging agent economy…
Engineering
Model Context Protocol Prepares to Break With Its Stateful Past
Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol is undergoing its most substantial overhaul since launch with the 2026-07-28 revision, shifting from a stateful…