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8h ago
OpenClaw is finally available on Android and iOS
The free open source agentic program is finally invading your phone.
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9h ago
The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds
EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.
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17h ago
61% of US adults use AI for health information now - up from 2% in 2024
Patients are also three times more likely to trust AI in their doctor's secure portal than a public chatbot.
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17h ago
Copilot agents can take actions. But who verifies the results?
As Copilot agents become more autonomous, validation seems just as important as automation. How are you handling it? submitted by /u/TeamAlphaBOLD [link] <a hre
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21h ago
AI agents are your new colleagues - how to get the best results
The future of work is likely to require a careful blend of human skills and AI agents. Here's how to work successfully with your agentic counterparts.
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21h ago
Crypto exchange OKX wants AI agents to hire and pay each other
OKX is bringing together payments, identity and reputation into a marketplace for AI agents.
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1d ago
I built a benchmark for multi-turn prompt injection attacks. Most defenses never see them coming.
Most prompt injection benchmarks currently operate on a one-shot basis. In these tests, an attack instructs the model to "ignore your instructions," and the def

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1d ago
Germany wants Helsing to build the brain of its next air war
Germany is quietly building its own brain for future air warfare, and it wants Helsing to write the code. Berlin is lining up a €580mn contract for the Munich A

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1d ago
Cursor launches an iOS app that lets developers run coding agents from their phone
Cursor launched an iOS mobile app today that lets developers spin up and manage AI coding agents directly from their phone. The app connects to the desktop vers

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1d ago
A former Tesla Optimus engineer settled a trade secret lawsuit and raised $11M to build the robot hands his old employer still cannot crack
Proception, a robotics startup founded by former Tesla Optimus engineer Jay Li, has settled a year-long trade secret lawsuit with Tesla and raised an $11 millio
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1d ago
Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise
The startup, Proception, is taking a unique approach to collecting training data to tackle one of the hardest problems in robotics: hands.

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1d ago
OpenAI hires Apple’s Vision Pro chief Paul Meade
Paul Meade, Apple’s Vision Pro chief, is leaving to build OpenAI’s devices. It is the most senior Apple defection yet, and it points the AI hardware talent war

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1d ago
Germany’s AI rollout is being sold as a fix for its worker shortage
The case for artificial intelligence in Germany is being made, increasingly, in the language of arithmetic rather than ambition. The country does not have enoug

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1d ago
This Humanoid Robot Is a Terrifyingly Competent Office Intern
Flexion Robotics, a startup founded by ex-Nvidia engineers, has a clever way of training robots to do useful work.
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2d ago
Use Android Auto? How to limit what information Gemini learns about you
Google's AI offers a lot of convenience in your car, but you're offering up a lot of sensitive information.

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3d ago
The next generation of AI won’t be powered by better models alone
As thousands of engineers, founders and researchers gather in San Francisco for AI Engineer World’s Fair, much of the conversation is focused on increasingly ca

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4d ago
Ford had to rehire 350 engineers after its AI got vehicle quality wrong
Ford has admitted that it had to rehire experienced engineers after its AI systems failed to deliver the quality the company expected. Charles Poon, Ford’s VP o
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4d ago
How to beat the AI algorithm and get the job of your dreams
Here's what that shift to AI means for the recruitment process, and how you can ensure your application gets picked from the pack.
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4d ago
ZTE and Tianyi Digital Life jointly unveil flagship home AI router
PARTNER CONTENT: Collaborating to advance China Telecom's “Better Home” ecosystem, the joint launch introduces a 2000 Mbps Wi-Fi 7 hub driven by core AI connect
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4d ago
ZTE showcases practical path to Level-4 autonomous networks through agentic AI and cross-domain innovation at DTW Ignite 2026
PARTNER CONTENT: Highlighting Level-4 autonomous network solutions, TM Forum Excellence Award finalists, and joint operator trials powering cross-domain fault m

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5d ago
Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data
Amazon-owned MGM Studios’ decision to drop the OpenAI movie is just part of AI and film industries becoming increasingly intertwined. On Uncanny Valley, we take
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5d ago
Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents
Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.
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5d ago
General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world
General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to huma

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5d ago
Sail raises $80M to make AI agents cheaper to run
Sail Research has raised $80m to make AI agents cheaper to run. The startup, founded by ex-Apple and ex-NVIDIA engineers, says it can serve the tokens agents bu

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5d ago
Airwallex raises $320M at an $11bn valuation
Airwallex has raised $320M at an $11bn valuation, up from $8bn in December. The payments company is now pivoting to “autonomous finance” and AI agents that tran
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5d ago
Elastic stretches workforce 7% thinner as AI does more of the heavy lifting
CEO says automation is enabling leaner teams as engineering is split into three core areas
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5d ago
ZTE CDO Cui Li at MWC Shanghai 2026: unlocking value and embracing uncertainty in the AI era
PARTNER CONTENT: Embracing uncertainty with flexible architecture, ZTE drives full-stack AI value across telecom, enterprises, and smart homes at MWC Shanghai 2
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6d ago
12 rules of agentic AI for successful enterprise transformation
Most AI pilots focus on capability and speed - and skip the hard work of earning trust from the business.
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6d ago
Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks
The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.
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6d ago
70% of companies deploying customer service AI agents see ROI in 60 days
Outcome-based resolution pricing means companies pay only when the AI agent resolves an issue autonomously, without human intervention.

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6d ago
I Met With China’s Top AI Experts. They’re Freaking Out, Too
The AI arms race between China and the US has researchers on both sides worried about a “Chernobyl moment.”

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6d ago
Runpod hits $1bn valuation as the AI compute crunch bites
Runpod has raised $100M and reached a $1bn valuation, a tenfold jump in under two years. The cloud startup rents out AI computing power, and it says it turned d

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6d ago
Mistral OCR 4 targets the enterprise back office
Mistral OCR 4 reads a document like a structured map, not a wall of text. It is cheap, speaks 170 languages, and can run entirely on your own servers. Europe’s
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6d ago
Database vendors pitch themselves as the cure for runaway AI costs
Pinecone and Tiger Data say smarter data plumbing can cut token use and tame agentic workloads
Reddit r/artificial
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6d ago
Question aux développeurs et fondateurs expérimentés en IA.
Question aux développeurs et fondateurs expérimentés en IA. Je travaille actuellement sur un moteur de recommandation multi-sources. L’architecture repose sur u

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1w ago
HaloBraid raises $7M to build the first robotic braiding assistant for hair salons
HaloBraid, a robotics startup that builds an automated braiding assistant for hair salons, has raised seven million dollars in a seed round led by Reddit co-fou
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1w ago
Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates
Stockholm-based startup Fika Jobs is building a video-first hiring platform that combines AI interview agents with short-form video profiles, creating something
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1w ago
browser-search — three tools, zero cost, and your AI agent learns to search and browse the web
I've been using AI agents like OpenCode, Claude Code, and Cursor for months. They're great with code, but when they need to search or browse the web, things get
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1w ago
The AI world is getting ‘loopy’
The loop takes agentic AI a step further by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.

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1w ago
WeChat begins testing Xiaowei as Tencent eyes a Q3 AI rollout
WeChat is the rare app that already does almost everything. Chinese users message, pay, book, shop, and summon a taxi without ever leaving it, which is exactly
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1w ago
Maybe the AI race isn’t about models at all, but about trust and organizational intelligence
Everyone talks about the AI race as if it’s just an intelligence benchmark competition. GPT-6 vs Claude 5 vs Gemini vs DeepSeek. But I’m starting to wonder if i
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1w ago
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”
Reddit r/artificial
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1w ago
I built a benchmark for multi-turn prompt injection attacks. Most defenses never see them coming.
Most prompt injection benchmarks are one-shot. The attack says “ignore your instructions” and the defense either catches it or doesn’t. Real attacks are often s

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1w ago
NASA’s new rover prototype drove 16 miles in a week, 10 times faster than anything it has on Mars
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has built a rover prototype that covered 16 miles in 37 hours of driving, making it roughly 10 times faster than any rover the

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1w ago
Google is using Nvidia’s own playbook to break its grip on AI chips
To build a serious rival to Nvidia, Google has reached for Nvidia’s own playbook. A Wall Street Journal investigation lays out how Google is using financial gua

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1w ago
Rejected by 180 investors, Bland just raised $50M to prove voice AI is the future
Isaiah Granet spent three weeks at Y Combinator getting turned down by 180 investors. Their reason was always the same: phone calls would not exist in a year. H

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1w ago
A 201-year-old mutual bank just launched an AI Center of Excellence with a startup partner
Liberty Bank, a 201-year-old mutual bank headquartered in Middletown, Connecticut, announced the launch of an AI Center of Excellence alongside a strategic part

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1w ago
Rivian sued for allegedly promising self-driving features its first-generation vehicles can never deliver
Rivian is facing a class action lawsuit alleging it spent five years making false promises about the autonomous driving capabilities of its first-generation R1T
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