Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot
Tim Spencer realized just how complicated manufacturing procurement can be while running Markai, an e-commerce startup in Asia, during the pandemic. “We had thousands of…
Category: Ai/Robotics
Anthropic raises another $30 billion in series G, with a new value of $380 billion
Anthropic has just concluded a series G fundraising round for $30 billion, the company announced on Thursday. The company’s new value is $380 billion—a huge…
PickNik Robotics to work with Motiv Space Systems on NASA ISAM mission
The FFR mission aims to advance NASA’s In-space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing objectives. | Source: PickNik Robotics Motiv Space Systems this week announced a contractual…
Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI
Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings…
A new version of OpenAI’s Codex is powered by a new dedicated chip
On Thursday, OpenAI announced the release of a light-weight version of its agentic coding tool Codex, the latest model of which OpenAI launched earlier this…
Warehousing robot maker turns to lubrication-free motion plastics
Bastian Solutions’ ULTRA BLUE robot reaches into a trailer. Source: igus Robotic systems deployed in warehousing environments often face demanding conditions, such as temperature fluctuations,…
xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands
On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing a full 45-minute all-hands meeting video on X, making it publicly accessible. Details of the Tuesday…
AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say
Modal Labs, a startup specializing in AI inference infrastructure, is in the process of raising a new round at a valuation of about $2.5 billion,…
OpenAI disbands mission alignment team, which focused on ‘safe’ and ‘trustworthy’ AI development
OpenAI has disbanded a team that focused on — as the company itself described — ensuring that its AI systems are “safe, trustworthy, and consistently…
Apple’s Siri revamp reportedly delayed… again
Apple has been promising a new-and-improved, cutting-edge, AI-powered Siri since it first unveiled Apple Intelligence in 2024. Over about a year and a half since…