The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

The Nixpkgs core team has unfortunatelydecided to disband. We’re proud to have had the opportunity to lead by example in bottom‐up, consensus‐focused governance for Nixpkgs, and ofour achievements over the past 10 months, includingreforming the committer delegation processandonboarding 19 new committers, empowering maintainers byextending the merge bot, re‐establishing contact with GitHub andsecuring the sponsored Enterprise … Devamını oku

Tacta Systems takes aim at high-skilled manufacturing work with TactaBot

Tacta’s robotic hand comes in three- and five-finger configurations. | Source: Tacta Systems Tacta Systems last week launched the TactaBot, which includes the company’s Tacta Hand, Skill Capture system, and a Dexterous Intelligence AI model. These three components work together to create capable, scalable, and adaptable robotic hands for high-value work. “We have vison-only robots … Devamını oku

Building robots that survive the warehouse

In Episode 256 ofThe Robot ReportPodcast, we talk with Josh Cloer, general manager for North America at Nomagic. Josh Cloer, general manager at Nomagic. Cloeris a commercial leader who has consistently turned breakthrough robotics technology into tangible business results. As general manager atNomagic, he is expanding the company’s footprint into North America, deploying physical AI … Devamını oku

After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool

🚨 Flash Sale 🚨Get $100 off your Disrupt 2026 ticket Get $400 off your Disrupt 2026 ticket:REGISTER NOW. HR software provider Rippling this weekunveiled AI Spend Console, an anti-tokenmaxxing product that helps a company track and contain its AI spending. One of the most interesting features is that it maps how much individual employees, teams, … Devamını oku

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