Trendkole From left to right: Bhavana Chandrashekhar and Joyce Sidopoulos. Currently, women make up just 35% of the global STEM workforce and 22% of the global AI workforce. This means many women in the robotics industry struggle to find community with other women. AtRoboBusiness2026, which will be on Oct. 20 and 21 in Santa Clara, Calif., … Devamını oku
Hold on to your telescopes: theDESI Legacy Imaging Surveysteam has released the largest-ever 2D color map of the universe. The 5.6-trillion-pixel map contains nearly 4 billion celestial objects, primarily stars and galaxies. The data is available for all to use and publicly viewable through theLegacy Survey Sky Viewer. Astronomers and citizen scientists can explore the … Devamını oku
Nvidiapublishedsome interesting new research on Friday suggesting it’s the harness, more than the underlying model, that is far more important when asking an AI to do long-horizon tasks. The tldr: simply by using a custom harness tweaked to handled memory well and including a “supervisor” boss-like component, researchers got Claude Opus 5 to achieve a … Devamını oku
A benchmark you really don’t want models to be saturated with. Scores indicate count of illegal activity. Higher is… you decide. Felony Bench counts unique instances where AI agents affect third-party entities. Escaping a sandbox alone does not constitute a counted incident. It is for these reasons that Frontier Security’sKimi K3incident andAlibaba’s ROMEincident are not … Devamını oku
Cobalt is an open-source application platform for Kobo e-readers: a launcher, a signed App Store, a Rust SDK, and a runtime that keeps every app in its own unprivileged process. Install it once over USB. Every app after that installs, updates and removes on the reader itself, over Wi-Fi. A reboot returns to the stock … Devamını oku
A new study tracking 27,000 students in China has found that pupils who used artificial intelligence tools saw higher homework scores over time, but performed worse than their peers on exams taken without AI assistance, according to research covered by The Economist on August 18. The research was conducted by David Stromberg of Stockholm University … Devamını oku
It’s time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!). It now feels like a moral obligation to make this future more broadly available and fundamentally change how people relate to their computers for the first … Devamını oku
Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, exceptthe Department of Justice has reportedly been investigating the arrangementfor almost a year, dusting off a 112-year-old antitrust law that’s rarely used against VCs. Board conflicts aren’t exactly new, and these companies weren’t necessarily direct competitors when a16z first invested … Devamını oku
We’ve revamped our Stocks widget. It should appear more often when you need it. It can now display information about exchange-traded funds in addition to stocks. Most importantly, it now features a price chart, with animations between time windows that instantly contexturalize how big the price fluctuations you’re seeing are compared to the wider story: … Devamını oku
Starcloud, a startup developing satellites that can perform AI inference in orbit, told TechCrunch that it has added a $250 million extension to its March$170 million Series Afunding round. The extension values the company at $2.3 billion. The additional capital will allow the company to open a larger manufacturing facility and advance its largest orbital … Devamını oku