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Hugging Face Approached For Acquisition At $13B Valuation, Report Says
Hugging Face has been approached about a potential sale at a valuation of $13 billion or more, Business Insider reported, though no deal has been reached and it remains unclear which parties are involved. The startup, whose platform serves as a hub for developers and researchers to share, test, and deploy AI models, was recently targeted…
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Vals AI Raises $40M Series A At $400M Valuation To Expand AI Evaluation Platform
Vals AI, a San Francisco-based provider of an AI evaluation and model auditing platform, raised $40 million in Series A funding at a $400 million valuation, in a round led by a16z with participation from existing backers 8VC and Bloomberg Beta, alongside new investors HRT Ventures and Next Ladder Ventures. The company plans to use…
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The SpaceX-Nvidia partnership heads for orbit
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 3,218 new readers. Sam Altman called data centers in space “ridiculous.” Elon Musk just answered with a launch timeline and a big-time hardware partner. SpaceX and Nvidia are officially teaming up on Musk’s orbital data centers,…
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MIT AI forecasts extreme weather without historical data
MIT engineers have built an AI tool that forecasts extreme weather without training on historical disaster data. Kai Chang, a mechanical engineering graduate student, and Professor Themis Sapsis developed the tool. It produces maps of events that have not appeared in a region’s historical record but remain statistically-possible. Each map also carries estimates of the…
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Japan’s AI Strategy: From Society 5.0 to Generative AI
A policy analysis from August 2026 Japan was arguing about the shape of its AI future before most countries had a strategy at all. In 2016, the Cabinet Office folded artificial intelligence into a much larger social vision called Society 5.0, defined as a “super-smart society” that would follow the agrarian, industrial, and information ages by…
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Insilico Medicine Convenes an Open Consortium For Benchmark Quality in AI-Driven Drug Discovery
Insider Brief Insilico Medicine launched the Open Drug Discovery and Development Consortium, or O3DC, to improve transparency around how computational drug-discovery benchmarks are evaluated and used. O3DC’s Benchmark Index catalogs hundreds of benchmarks across 10 categories while documenting known biases, limitations and criticisms that may affect how performance results are interpreted. The free, community-curated initiative…
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Impossible Metals Reports its Eureka II Recovers Itself From the Ocean, Fully Autonomously
Insider Brief Impossible Metals said its Eureka II subsea vehicle completed an autonomous offshore recovery demonstration, locating, aligning with and reconnecting to its surface vessel without human control. During the open-water test, Eureka II used acoustic positioning, visual guidance and an integrated SmartHook to secure itself for retrieval and return to the deck. Impossible Metals…
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Atom and NSK Announce Strategic Partnership to Help Develop the Humanoid Robot Industry in Japan
Insider Brief Atom and NSK signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop and test humanoid robot components and AI systems in Japan, with the goal of strengthening domestic production. The companies will test NSK-developed actuators on Atom humanoid robots and use the results to improve performance and address mass-production requirements. Atom and NSK will…
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China’s Galileo Robotics Unveils Galileo X ‘Embodied Ground Mobility System’
Insider Brief Galileo Robotics introduced Galileo X, a general-purpose ground mobility platform designed to combine features of wheeled, vehicle-based and legged robots in a single system. The platform uses an integrated hardware architecture and common control framework to support capabilities ranging from precise indoor transport to long-range off-road mobility and complex-terrain traversal. Galileo said potential…
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OpenAI Calls For California To Strengthen SB 53 AI Safety Bill Amid Recent Security Incidents
OpenAI called on California lawmakers to expand safeguards within SB 53, the landmark AI safety bill signed last year, according to a post from the company’s global affairs team. The company said the legislation should be amended to require monitoring of frontier models during training and evaluation for potential serious incidents, alongside strengthened cybersecurity protections…
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