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2026-08-26
Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding
The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.
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The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.
The company says it will start construction in 2027 and that a Starship rocket could take flight as soon as 2029.
Each year, we get a huge influx of applicants to speak at TechCrunch’s events, and this year’s Founder Summit in Boston on November 4 will be no different!
If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at Moscone West!
德国“全球最大游戏展” Gamescom开幕 重要性: ★★★ 今值: - 预期: - 前值: -
Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.
Germany's autonomous vehicle regulations have made it a hotspot for autonomous vehicle testing and eventual commercial robotaxi deployment.
Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service will officially support Valve's Steam Controller and Steam Machine starting later this year.
Generalist, a robotics startup, is now valued at $3 billion after raising additional capital led by 8VC, according to two people with knowledge of the funding. The fresh capital totals nearly $200 million according to a regulatory filing. That additional capital is an extension of a $400 million Series B led by Radical Ventures that the company announced in June at a $2 billion valuation, the people said. The new capital brings the round’s total funding to $600 million. Generalist and 8VC didn’t respond to a request for comment. Generalist was founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers Pete Florence and Andy Zeng, along with former Boston Dynamics engineer Andrew Barry. It received early backing from 8VC and Radical Ventures as well as Nvidia, Union Square Ventures, Bezos Expeditions, and AI researcher Fei-Fei Li. Until recently, the startup operated quietly and with little publicity. Generalist is developing an AI foundation model that can work with various robots. It claims its newly released Gen 1.5 model enables robots to master new tasks from video demonstrations as short as 3 to 12 seconds long. The startup is working with a handful of customers, using their feedback to tailor the model for specific use cases, according to one source. Generalist isn’t alone in its pursuit of building a brain for a broad range of robots. Other competitors include Physical Intelligence, which is reportedly valued at $11 billion, and SoftBank-backed Skild AI, valued at $14 billion, as well as Genesis AI, which was in talks as of last month to raise capital at a $3 billion valuation. The funding surge reflects a bet from some investors that robotics may soon reach its own “ChatGPT moment,” meaning that robots will be able to perform general tasks without being explicitly trained for each one. However, because robots cannot be trained on the entirety of the internet’s data the way LLMs can, some VCs warn that a truly general robotics model may still be years away.
Life360’s new $7.99 scannable pet tags alert families when a lost pet is found and share its last known location, while new care-tracking features help households keep tabs on feeding, walks, medication, and more.
因保安可能罢工 Anthropic 通知旧金山办公室的员工本周在家远程办公。Anthropic 上周收到了提供安保服务的 Allied Universal 公司的通知，称该公司的保安可能罢工。Anthropic 随后通知其员工，为以防万一周一和周二在家办公。代表保安的工会 Service Employees International Union (SEIU)表示正与 Allied 等安保服务公司进行合同谈判，但工会没有发起罢工授权投票，也没有发出任何罢工威胁。SEIU 代表了加州数以千计的保安，自 4 月以来一直在进行谈判，以争取更高的工资、更好的医保和更全面的职业培训。
Enable Google’s new intelligent dictation feature in the Gemini app for macOS and speak naturally into any window on your desktop.
以 TikTok 为代表社媒通过无限滚动的信息流让用户无法对其浏览的内容进行深度思考。这种设计在世界各地引发激烈的讨论，欧洲正考虑限制此类设计。伯明翰大学的研究人员通过访谈和小组讨论的方式，收集了英格兰各地中小学和大学 16-25 岁年轻人的意见。年轻人并非社交媒体的被动用户，他们会思考，且常对所看到的内容持怀疑态度。但研究表明，TikTok 的设计使得批判性思维难以发挥作用。参与者一致认为 TikTok 是一个娱乐平台，而非严肃的学习场所，他们用“有趣但虚假”来形容它。研究还发现，TikTok 的算法驱动设计鼓励用户快速被动地消费内容。严肃的心理健康视频之后可能紧接着无关的娱乐内容，几乎没有给用户留下反思或批判性评估的机会。尽管参与者表示他们试图通过点赞或跳过内容去训练算法，但很多人发现算法的反馈不稳定，有害内容仍然会不断涌现。
Grand Theft Auto fans, eager for news about one of the most anticipated video games of all time, appear especially vulnerable to this new cyberattack.
NVIDIA is bringing the next wave of RTX gaming to the Gamescom conference running this week in Cologne, Germany, with support for new games, anti-cheat technologies and increased visual quality.
Fusion startup Pacific Fusion broke ground on a demonstration facility in New Mexico that it says will generate enough energy to power itself.
Overview Model Architecture Pre-Training SFT: Data Preparation & Quality Control Data Quality Control SFT Training Details Phase 2 SFT for the 30B Model Reinforcement Learning: A Multi-Stage, Multi-Environment Pipeline Training Methodology The Staged...
Today we're delighted to announce the release of two new models in the Granite Speech family: compact, 470M-parameter English speech recognition models that pair strong accuracy with unprecedented speed — over 12,600 RTFx on an NVIDIA H200 GPU, meaning...
Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team.
Apple says it will no longer ditch using its icloud.com domain for hiding people's email addresses.
8月25日，荣耀机器人闪电在第二届世界机器人运动会100米复赛中突破上限，跑出8秒94。百米竞速项目对机器人的瞬时动力输出、高速步态稳定性以及抗扰动能力都提出严苛考验。 荣耀机器人在田径赛场上验证的技术实力，正是源自荣耀Magic系列的技术基因；而这些经过极限工况锤炼的技术成果，也将在Magic9系列上完整回归，让每一台Magic9都拥有硬核实力。
Tested on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art.
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Apple unveils these new processors alongside an updated Mac Mini and Mac Studio.
Oasis Security has disclosed a weakness in NVIDIA NemoClaw that could let an attacker-controlled webpage take unauthenticated control of the local Ollama instance serving an AI agent and plant hidden instructions inside the model itself.
OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday.
The funding, Gatik's largest so far, was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies.
The base model of the Mac Mini comes with 256GB of storage, 16GB of RAM, and costs $899.
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Google partners with Delaware to provide free Career Certificates and AI training to residents statewide.
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