U.S. backs Zipline with $150M for drone delivery in Africa
Zipline operates on four continents and completes a delivery every 30 seconds. | Source: Zipline Zipline last week announced a partnership with the U.S. Department…
Category: Ai/Robotics
ChatGPT referrals to retailers’ apps increased 28% year-over-year, says report
New data shows ChatGPT’s growing influence as a referrer to e-commerce websites, but also how small its slice of this market is currently. According to…
AWS launches new Nova AI models and a service that gives customers more control
Amazon Web Services is rolling out a slate of new homegrown AI models and a service for enterprise customers to build their own custom versions.…
OpenAI slammed for app suggestions that looked like ads
ChatGPT’s unwelcome suggestion for a Peloton app during a conversation led to some backlash from OpenAI customers. People feared that ads had arrived, even for…
Simular’s AI agent wants to run your Mac, Windows PC for you
Simular, a startup building AI agents for Mac OS and Windows, has raised a $21.5 million Series A led by Felicis, with existing seed investors…
Amazon releases an impressive new AI chip and teases an Nvidia-friendly roadmap
Amazon Web Services, which has been building its own AI training chips for years now, just introduced a new version known as Trainium3 that comes…
AWS announces new capabilities for its AI agent builder
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is bulking up its AI agent platform, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, to make building and monitoring AI agents easier for enterprises. AWS…
Mistral closes in on Big AI rivals with new open-weight frontier and small models
French AI startup Mistral launched its new Mistral 3 family of open-weight models on Tuesday, a launch that aims to prove it can lead in…
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium nabs $70M seed
Gradium, a startup spun out of French AI lab Kyutai (backed by French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel), launched out of stealth on Tuesday with a…
Humanoid says its first bipedal robot can start walking just 48 hours after assembly
The HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal is Humanoid’s second commercial system, following its mobile manipulator. | Source: Humanoid Humanoid, a London-based robotics developer, has announced the…