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Mistral AI Introduces Robot Navigation Model
Insider Brief Mistral AI introduced Robostral Navigate, an 8B robot-navigation model that uses RGB images and plain-language instructions to move robots through environments. Mistral said the model uses a single RGB camera without LiDAR, depth sensors or multiple cameras, and achieved a 76.6% success rate on R2R-CE validation unseen. The company said Robostral Navigate was…
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1001 Raises $30M Series A Led by Lux Capital to Scale Sovereign AI for Critical Infrastructure
1001, a GCC- and London-based company building sovereign AI systems for critical infrastructure, announced a $30 million Series A round led by Lux Capital. PIF-owned Sanabil Investments, 9Yards and Hanabi joined as new investors, while existing backers General Catalyst, CIV and Stanford researcher Chris Ré increased their commitments. Several angel investors also participated, including Karim…
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Meta climbs the AI image leaderboard
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Meta’s Alexandr Wang was talking a big game days ago, saying the in-training ‘Watermelon’ model had pulled level with GPT-5.5 and promising an X user, “you’ll like what we have cooking.” Today, Meta’s kitchen served something even more surprising: Muse…
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Intelligence is Free, Now What? Data Systems for, of, and by Agents
… government of the people, by the people, for the people … — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The cost of AI is dropping rapidly. GPT-4-class capabilities cost roughly $30 per million tokens in early 2023; today the same runs under $1, and some providers are pushing costs below $0.10. Across benchmarks, inference prices have…
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AI Accelerates Hunt for Room-Temperature Superconductors With First Machine-Learning-Guided Discovery
An international research consortium has demonstrated that machine learning can dramatically accelerate the discovery of superconducting materials, using AI to screen vast numbers of elemental combinations and identify the most promising candidates for detailed quantum analysis. The SuperC consortium, led by Aalto University Professor Päivi Törmä, used the approach to identify two previously unknown superconductors,…
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Quantum Systems Announces $1.2B Series D Round to Scale Autonomous Uncrewed Defense Systems
Insider Brief Quantum Systems signed a $1.2 billion Series D financing round co-led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus and Advent to expand production of uncrewed systems and related defense software. The Munich-based company said the round values it at about $8 billion after the investment and will support production capacity, supply-chain resilience, allied-market deliveries and continued…
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Apple Enables Siri Voice Customisation in iOS 27 Beta as AI Assistant Race Intensifies
Apple has activated new voice customisation controls for its AI-powered Siri in the third iOS 27 developer beta, allowing testers to adjust the assistant’s pace and expressivity for the first time. The two settings, previously flagged as coming soon in earlier beta releases, use sliders to control how quickly Siri speaks and how much human-like…
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SK Hynix Plans $28B U.S. IPO as AI-Driven Memory Chip Boom Reshapes the Semiconductor Market
South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix has filed to sell nearly 17.8 million shares in a U.S. IPO, with the offering expected to price on Thursday and begin trading on Friday. Based on the company’s recent Seoul closing price, the listing could raise approximately $28 billion, according to Bloomberg, making it one of the largest…
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Omen AI Closes $31M Funding Round to Monitor Data Centre Cooling Fluid in Real Time as AI Compute Demand Strains Infrastructure
Omen AI has raised $31 million in a Series A round led by Nava Ventures, with participation from CRV, Vanderbilt University, Mann+Hummel, Starhill Holdings, and Hard Launch Capital, alongside personal investments from executives at Bridgestone, GM, Johnson Controls, and TensorWave. The company has raised $40 million in total since its founding in 2024. The startup…
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Google Quietly Opted Users Into AI Training on Their Images, Audio, and Video
Google has updated its Search services privacy settings to allow the company to store and use uploaded media, including images, audio recordings, and video, to train its AI models, a change that was communicated to users via a low-profile email in June and applied by default. The update introduced two new settings, Search Services History…
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