Skild AI raises $1.4B to build ‘omni-bodied’ robot brain
If there is a machine that moves, the Skild Brain will eventually be able to operate it, says Skild AI. Source: Skild AI To get…
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Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity, and others
As part of its 25th birthday celebration, the Wikimedia Foundation announced a series of new partnerships with AI tech companies that are now customers of…
US senators demand answers from X, Meta, Alphabet, and others on sexualized deepfakes
The tech world’s nonconsensual, sexualized deepfake problem is now bigger than just X. In a letter to the leaders of X, Meta, Alphabet, Snap, Reddit,…
Parloa triples its valuation in 8 months to $3B with $350M raise
Berlin-based Parloa has raised $350 million in Series D funding from existing investors, valuing the six-year-old customer service AI startup at $3 billion. The round…
After Italy, WhatsApp excludes Brazil from rival chatbot ban
WhatsApp is allowing AI providers to continue offering their chatbots to users with Brazilian phone numbers, days after the country’s competition regulator ordered the company…
Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI
Former OpenAI exec Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is saying goodbye to two of its co-founders, both of whom are headed back to OpenAI.…
India’s Emversity doubles valuation as it scales workers AI can’t replace
As AI automates parts of the workforce, Emversity, an Indian workforce-training startup, is building talent pipelines for roles it sees AI can’t replace, and has…
Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe
Elon Musk said Wednesday he is “not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok,” hours before the California attorney general opened an investigation…
OpenAI signs deal, worth $10B, for compute from Cerebras
OpenAI announced Wednesday that it had reached a multi-year agreement with AI chipmaker Cerebras. The chipmaker will deliver 750 megawatts of compute to the AI…
Caterpillar partners with NVIDIA to lay the foundation for autonomous systems
An autonomous dozer from Caterpillar. | Source: Caterpillar Caterpillar Inc. last week announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA Corp. The companies said they plan to…