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- 01 of 10NEWS
Travis Kalanick's Atoms raises $1.7bn for AI factories
The Uber founder's new venture pulled in $1.7bn from a16z, Uber and others to build fully automated factories that use AI to run production lines. The plan is cheaper goods made closer to home.
OUR TAKERobots in the warehouse, humans in the queue for the refund line, some things never change.
Read more → - 02 of 10NEWS
Lithuania's Sentante wins EU nod for AI surgery robot
Sentante's remote robotic system for treating strokes and heart attacks got European approval. Doctors can now operate on patients hundreds of miles away, useful when the nearest specialist is a long drive.
OUR TAKEFinally, a good reason to let a robot near our arteries.
Read more → - 03 of 10NEWS
Cambridge builds AI that reads Earth from space
A Cambridge team launched TESSERA, a free AI model that turns satellite images into maps of forests, crops and floods. Farmers, councils and charities can spot problems weeks earlier.
OUR TAKEBig Brother watching the weeds so we do not have to.
Read more → - 04 of 10NEWS
China's DeepSeek picks research over selling apps
DeepSeek says it will keep giving its powerful models away for free rather than chase paying customers. Rival Chinese labs are burning cash on chatbots, DeepSeek is not.
OUR TAKEThe tortoise strategy, if the tortoise had a spare billion.
Read more → - 05 of 10NEWS
Ropedia raises $22m to teach robots human moves
Ropedia pays real people to demonstrate everyday tasks like folding laundry, then feeds the footage to robots. The goal is home helpers that do not knock over the mug.
OUR TAKETwenty two million dollars to teach a robot what our nan did for free.
Read more → - 06 of 10NEWS
Singapore chip promises private AI on your phone
Acrab unveiled a small chip that can run huge AI models directly on laptops and phones, no cloud needed. Your notes, photos and messages stay on your device.
OUR TAKEThe cloud was never that fluffy anyway.
Read more → - 07 of 10NEWS
AMD and Cerebras team up for faster AI answers
Chipmakers AMD and Cerebras joined forces to make AI reply almost instantly, even on tough questions. Expect voice assistants and coding helpers that no longer make you wait.
OUR TAKEImpatience, now with hardware acceleration.
Read more → - 08 of 10NEWS
Northwestern gets $20m to design proteins with AI
The US National Science Foundation is funding a Northwestern lab that uses AI plus robotic beakers to invent new proteins. The aim is cheaper medicines and greener plastics.
OUR TAKEChemistry homework, but the robots do the smelly bits.
Read more → - 09 of 10NEWS
Humanoid robots remove gallbladders in live animals
Surgeons in the US guided a humanoid robot through eight gallbladder removals on pigs, all successful. It is the first time a two armed robot has done full soft tissue surgery.
OUR TAKEA pig walks into a hospital, a robot walks it out.
Read more → - 10 of 10NEWS
Berlin's telli raises €13m for AI phone agents
German startup telli picked up €13.1m to build AI voices that handle boring customer calls like booking a boiler service or chasing a delivery. Companies save money, callers skip the hold music.
OUR TAKEThe only voice more soothing than a call centre robot is silence.
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