AI & ML

Robots powered by Google’s Gemini AI models are now more capable. With the debut of Gemini Robotics 2, these physical bots can now accomplish more complex tasks, continuously analyze changing environments, and collaborate with other robots. This is thanks to a trio of new sub-models, one of which is publicly available for developers starting today. […]

It is not clear whether there has been a serious change of heart about the trade underpinning the stock market

Antora Energy, a company that provides energy through thermal batteries to data centers, announced Thursday that it has raised $550 million in a Series C funding round. G2 Venture Partners and Eclipse co-led the financing, which included participation from Decarbonization Partners (BlackRock/Temasek), Lowercarbon Capital, Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures, John Doerr (chairman of Kleiner Perkins),

The once-high flying fund, Situational Awareness, has been bailed out by Kenneth Griffin’s Citadel, according to three people briefed on the transaction.

Responding to the safety risks A.I. pose means coming to terms with an uncomfortable truth: A.I. models are weapons.

This week, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard for how AI systems interact with external tools and data sources, saw its largest update since its introduction. Most notably, MCP’s protocol core is now stateless, so requests are no longer dependent on a session tied to an individual server instance. This change has

Beginning in the 1950s, the Soviet Union launched an ambitious programme aimed at developing artificial intelligence. While the history of AI today seems to be shaped by the giants of Silicon Valley, ideas originating from behind the Iron Curtain had a significant influence, although they remain largely overlooked. 

In early 2025, Vanessa Larco teamed up with Mercedes Bent to found Premise VC, a firm focused on backing early-stage technical founders building durable, high-growth software. Before that, Larco had spent nearly eight years as a partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), one of the world’s largest venture capital firms.  There, she served on the

TL;DR Azure Local 2607 is an architecture-significant release, but it should not receive blanket production approval. The release baseline changed quickly. Microsoft first published Azure Local 12.2607.1003.69 on July 22, 2026, then published 12.2607.1003.71 on July 29, 2026. The newer build supersedes .69 while retaining OS build 26100.33158. Microsoft also changed the Trusted Launch position:

What the Hugging Face cyber attack and a remote work index can tell us about risk vs reward