Teradyne Robotics lays off another 14% of workforce
With advanced motion control, the UR8 Long can conduct automotive quality inspection. | Credit: Universal Robots Roughly nine months after reducing its global workforce by…
Category: Ai/Robotics
Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models for code and text
With so much money flooding into AI startups, it’s a good time to be an AI researcher with an idea to test out. And if…
Google Maps upgrades navigation in India with Gemini, safety alerts
Google is adding Gemini to Maps in India, along with road safety alerts and more information about routes. The AI integration, launched in the U.S.…
PickNik expands support for Franka Research 3 robot on MoveIt Pro
The Franka Research 3 robotic arm is a force-sensitive robot that offers low-level access to its control and learning capabilities. | Source: PickNik Robotics PickNik…
Apple nears deal to pay Google $1B annually to power new Siri, report says
Apple is nearing a deal with Google that would see the iPhone maker pay the tech giant roughly $1 billion a year for a custom…
Pinterest CEO touts open source AI: ‘tremendous performance’ with reduced costs
On an earnings call on Tuesday, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready highlighted the promise of open source AI models in helping the company keep its costs…
Tinder to use AI to get to know users, tap into their Camera Roll photos
Tinder is looking to AI to revitalize its dating app, which has now reported nine straight quarters of paying subscriber declines, as of the third…
Replika founder raises $20M pre-seed for Wabi, the ‘YouTube of apps’
Eugenia Kuyda saw the future of consumer AI before most. She founded Replika, the first major AI companion startup, in 2017 years before ChatGPT launched. Today it has 35 million…
Google makes it easier to access AI Mode in Chrome on iOS and Android
Google announced on Wednesday that it’s making it easier to access AI Mode on mobile. Users will now be able to access AI Mode, which…
Microsoft built a fake marketplace to test AI agents — they failed in surprising ways
On Wednesday, researchers at Microsoft released a new simulation environment designed to test AI agents, along with new research showing that current agentic models may…