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Toronto World Model Startup Veeda AI Launches with $90M in Seed Funding
Insider Brief Veeda AI has raised more than $90 million in seed funding to build world models that create simulated environments where robots can learn through trial and error, The Logic reported. Founded by former Nvidia AI researchers Sanja Fidler, Zan Gojcic and Huan Ling, the startup is backed by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures.…
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HKU Researchers Develop Unified Benchmark for Physical AI
Insider Brief Researchers led by the University of Hong Kong developed RoboDojo, a benchmark that evaluates physical AI across simulation and real-world robot tasks and found a wide performance gap between current models and humans. The platform combines 30 robot policies, 42 simulation tasks and 18 real-world tasks to test capabilities including generalization, memory, precision…
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Generalist AI Releases GEN-1.5 Robot Foundation Model That Learns From a Single Demonstration
Insider Brief Generalist AI released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model designed to learn physical tasks from one or a few demonstrations while also generalizing to some new situations without task-specific training. In tests across 10 short manipulation tasks, GEN-1.5 averaged 59% success with one-shot prompting and 83% after 10 training steps using about five minutes…
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How AI Infrastructure Is Evolving to Meet Growing Compute Demand
Every forecast for AI compute demand written in the last two years has turned out to be too conservative within months of publication. Data centers, chips, power grids, and networking fabric are all being redesigned in real time to keep pace with a growth curve that keeps outrunning the plans built around it. Understanding how…
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AI Reshapes The Web As Pew Study Finds Widespread AI Authorship, OpenAI Launches Messages Integration, And Ramp Data Shows Shifting Enterprise Market Share
A new Pew Research study released Thursday found that over one-third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s late 2022 release showed signs of AI authorship, corroborating other research on AI’s growing footprint online. Using the Common Crawl archive and detection technology from Open Pangram, Pew analyzed nearly half a million English-language pages, finding that .com domains…
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Google Rolls Out Embeddable “Preferred Sources” Button To Help Publishers Facing AI Traffic Declines
Google has announced a new interactive button that publishers can embed directly on their websites, allowing readers to mark a site as a favorite source to be highlighted more prominently across Google Search, Discover, and Google News. The move follows criticism that AI-powered search features have reduced website traffic for publishers, and builds on Google’s…
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Meta Launches AI-Powered Mac App And Expands Vibe-Coded Gaming Platform Pocket
Meta announced a new Mac application for Meta AI featuring system-wide dictation and screen-context awareness powered by its Muse Spark model, joining similar tools from Wispr Flow and Google’s Gemini app. The release accompanied a broader business-focused update allowing merchants to connect Instagram, Facebook, ad campaigns, and Google Workspace accounts to Meta AI for performance…
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Skan AI Secures $63M to Give Enterprise AI the Context It’s Missing: How Work Actually Gets Done
Insider Brief Skan AI raised $63 million co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from Citi Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, State Farm Ventures, and Wipro Ventures, alongside the launch of its enterprise AI platform including Skan AI Blueprint and Skan AI Agents. The company, powered by NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA NIM microservices,…
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STRGY AI Announces €1M to Bring Always-On Strategy Execution to Growing Companies
Insider Brief STRGY AI, a Helsinki-based startup building StrategyOS, raised €1 million in angel funding from an international investor base spanning the UK, Norway, Switzerland, and Finland, with additional backing from Innovestor’s Angel CoFund and Business Finland. The platform gives leadership teams an always-on view of strategy execution, connecting daily work to strategic priorities, flagging…
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Blacksmith Raises $45M At $550M Valuation To Tackle AI Code Validation Bottleneck
Blacksmith raised a $45 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners, valuing the company at $550 million, a steep rise from the $60 million valuation it held less than a year ago. Existing investors GV and Y Combinator also participated, bringing total funding to $58.5 million. Founded in 2024, Blacksmith helps companies build, test,…
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