Avatar Robotics raises seed round to address industrial labor constraints

The leadership team at Avatar Robotics: Hamid Farzaneh, founding engineer (l); Colin Webb, founder/CEO (m); and Nenye Anagbogu, chief screwdriver (r). | Credit: Avatar Robotics Avatar Robotics this week said it has raised $6.5 million in a seed financing round. AlleyCorp led the investment, which followed a pre-seed round led by defy.vc. Additional participants included … Devamını oku

Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70%

AI coding tools deliver immense value: at Databricks, agentic coding has measurably improved every velocity metric we track and, in some teams, driven an order-of-magnitude gains in output. But nearly every company deploying AI tools at scale has hit the same wall:exponentially growing costs. That curve is unsustainable – left unchecked it will eventually overtake … Devamını oku

Assembly Hall of Shame

Instruction latency analysis usually focuses on performanceoptimization—making code run as fast as possible. TheAssembly Hall of Shametakes the opposite approach: searching for the absolute floor of single-instruction performance. Strategy: Usefxrstor64to load 512-byte FPU/MMX/XMM state from a high-latency MMIO region in the PCIe fabric, then starve the fabric while the load is in flight — a … Devamını oku

Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley’s leaders are bad sci-fi readers

🚨 Flash Sale 🚨Get $100 off your Disrupt 2026 ticket Get $400 off your Disrupt 2026 ticket:REGISTER NOW. Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products — almost as if they’re forming a new government. And whether you’re thinking of Twitter’s old “town hall in your pocket” orAnthropic’s Claude constitution, it’s a theory … Devamını oku

Klasik macera yeniden yelken açıyor; Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced incelemesi

Ubisoft’un en sevilen Assassin’s Creed oyunlarından biri olanAssassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, yıllar sonraBlack Flag Resyncedadıyla oyuncuların karşısına çıkıyor. Bu yapım klasik oyunun ruhunu korurken görsel kaliteyi günümüz standartlarına taşıyan, oynanış tarafında ise çeşitli iyileştirmeler sunan modern bir yeniden düzenleme olarak dikkat çekiyor. Peki yılların eskitemediği korsan macerası bugün hala aynı etkiyi yaratabiliyor mu? Gelin … Devamını oku

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes

The Black Hole Mapper reaches a milestone with its first southern hemisphere optical observations, coordinated eROSITA X-ray identification, and multi-epoch tracking of accreting black holes across the universe. APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY, NM & LAS CAMPANAS OBSERVATORY, CHILE— The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)announcesData Release 20(DR20), marking a landmark expansion in the study of accreting supermassive … Devamını oku

Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents

Cloudflare is the latest company to join the race to build a new web browser. But instead of pitching a Chrome alternative to consumers, the internet infrastructure provider launchedKitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed specifically for AI agents. AI software is evolving from chatbots that answer questions to agents that can complete tasks on users’ behalf. … Devamını oku

Stanford Evo 2 AI model generates phages against E. coli

Stanfordresearchers have synthesised nearly 300 phages from DNA sequences produced by the Evo 2 generative AI model. Laboratory testing narrowed the group to 16 phages that showed particularly strong E. coli-killing activity. The work centres on bacteriophage ΦX174, pronounced “FYE-ex-1-7-4”. Brian Hie, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and Dieter Schwarz Foundation Stanford Data Science … Devamını oku

Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

There was an error while loading.Please reload this page. There was an error while loading.Please reload this page. “Simplicity is not the absence of power. It is power without pretense.” ~ Atiksh Sharma Feel free to use the prentensious quote anywhere lol. Wyzer is a statically typed, compiled, resource-oriented programming language with integrated distributed safety … Devamını oku