President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present — Administration set an ambitious new 2028 target for a system that can conduct scientific research
Sources: Meta internally exposed data from its employee-tracking program meant to help train its AI models, including full prompts and private conversations — Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers' keystroke data to train AI models.
Sakana AI launches Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system accessible through a single model API, claiming Fugu Ultra matches Fable and Mythos on benchmarks — Last night, the increasingly enterprise-focused AI startup Sakana launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system …
San Diego-based Aether AI, which is building “causal world models” to teach robots cause and effect instead of pattern-matching, raised a $20M seed led by MPCi — Aether AI, founded by UC San Diego causality researcher Biwei Huang, has raised a $20mn seed round to build “causal world models” for robots.
Toto, Japan's largest toilet maker, plans to invest $495M by 2030 to expand its semiconductor materials unit, targeting R&D for next-gen 1nm chip production — TOKYO/KITAKYUSHU, Japan — Bathroom fixtures maker Toto plans to invest 80 billion yen ($495 million) in the next five years …
As Europe falls behind the US and China in consumer AI, its engineering companies and AI startups are turning to industrial AI applications to boost efficiency — Pressure to become more efficient has Europe racing to bring artificial intelligence to the shop floor.
SF-based Humble Robotics, which is developing an electric, self-driving cabless freight truck with 200 miles range and 55 mph max speed, raised $24M — - 7 min Click here to listen to this article — San Francisco startup Humble Robotics has raised $24 million to build an electric …