Caterpillar, the industrial equipment giant, is drawing on its long history in autonomous mining technology to broaden its use of AI across construction, manufacturing, and enterprise operations. CTO Jaime Mineart said the company is now extending lessons learned from automating mining trucks, drills, and loaders into more dynamic environments like jobsites and quarries. Among its…

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Conversed.ai, an Amsterdam-based enterprise AI orchestration and customer experience automation startup, has raised an undisclosed round of growth funding from a consortium of Dutch technology investors based in Blaricum and Oegstgeest. The company said the capital will support its expansion across European markets, growth of its core engineering teams, and accelerated enterprise sales within heavily…

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Anthropic made two notable headlines this week, one showcasing progress in automated AI research and the other involving a major legal challenge over copyright. The company published a new paper, “Automated Researchers Can Reliably Mitigate Alignment Failures,” describing a system in which AI models improve another model’s alignment performance without human guidance. Led by Anthropic…

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Nvidia is reinforcing its position at the center of AI infrastructure on two fronts: expanding its ecosystem through a major chip partnership and demonstrating a growing advantage in the systems that support its GPUs. The company announced a $3.5 billion investment in Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek, under which MediaTek will adopt Nvidia’s technology to help design…

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Stability AI, the startup behind image generation model Stable Diffusion, has raised $76 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to $232 million. The round included investment from entertainment industry organizations Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Electronic Arts, alongside investment firms AMD Ventures and Pacific Alliance Ventures. CEO…

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Welcome to AI Insider’s The Week Ahead in AI. See the key developments and events we’re watching Aug. 30-Sept. 6. Weekend AI News Briefs Inside Meta’s Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers Meta is testing robots in its data centers to handle tasks such as swapping network cables resetting servers inspecting equipment and…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 9,208 new readers. Sam Altman and Elon Musk have fought over companies, lawsuits, talent, and more. Now the feud is landing somewhere developers may actually feel it… One of the most popular AI coding editors on…

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Insider Brief Perceptron AI released Isaac 0.5, a 36-billion-parameter open-weight embodied foundation model that combines video understanding, reasoning and robot control for applications across manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, security and mobility. The model was trained on three trillion multimodal tokens, one million hours of general video and 100,000 hours of robotics experience, with Perceptron reporting that…

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Insider Brief FedEx and Dexterity are expanding deployment of Dexterity’s Foresight world model and Mech trailer-loading robots at the FedEx Hagerstown Hub in Maryland, moving the technology beyond an earlier pilot into larger-scale operations. The companies said the program will evaluate how physical AI performs in trailer loading and how it integrates with destination planning,…

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One University of Chicago curriculum is removing AI-assisted writing from the classroom. Alpha School is expanding a model that puts adaptive software at the center of the academic day. The strongest signal in the latest Who’s Who Global Edition is that education is moving past general principles and into incompatible operating designs.

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