Designing an AI serving harness built to last
Designing an AI serving harness built to last

The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it. That’s an important shift. For the past several years, much of the AI conversation has centered on model capability: bigger models, better reasoning, larger context windows, higher benchmark scores. Those advances have…

Mori might be the cutest AI companion robot yet, and it reacts to you like a pet

With AI progressing so fast, it’s only a matter of time before we start getting AI companions like the ones we used to see in movies like R2-D2, Wall-E, or Baymax. Now, Singapore-based OKA Technology has unveiled Mori, a cute little AI companion that l…

The Foundations of Scalable AI
The Foundations of Scalable AI

A scalable AI system requires a strong foundation. Data, engineering, platforms, operating models, and governance must converge to work as one. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Future conference explores what it takes to build that foundation in a highly regulated environment and how a responsible, trustworthy implementation can turn emerging capabilities, including agentic…

Uber gives more than 30,000 staff OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work agent
Uber gives more than 30,000 staff OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work agent

Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work, OpenAI’s office-task agent, to more than 30,000 employees after a 1,000-person pilot, OpenAI said. It connects to Gmail, Drive and Slack and runs on GPT-6.1 Sol by default. The move comes as Uber tries to rein in its A…

Leidos lands $95M contract to automate Pentagon logistics with AI
Leidos lands $95M contract to automate Pentagon logistics with AI

Leidos has won a $95M, five-year contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to add AI automation and cloud tools to ELMS, the Pentagon system that tracks more than 80 million items of government property worth over $140B. Leidos has supported the syste…

Nvidia launches Minerva to catch failing parts in giant AI data centres
Nvidia launches Minerva to catch failing parts in giant AI data centres

Nvidia has launched Minerva, AI operations software that combines data from GPUs, networks, storage and workloads to spot failing parts in large AI data centres early. It groups alerts into single incidents and has an AI assistant. IREN uses it, and La…

SpaceX signs up Apollo and Nvidia for a new Grok partner network
SpaceX signs up Apollo and Nvidia for a new Grok partner network

SpaceX has launched the Super Intelligence Partner Network for companies that deploy or build on Grok, with Apollo, Nvidia, Snowflake, Databricks, Bain and more than 130 firms joining early. It follows a quarter in which SpaceX’s AI unit turned a profi…

Victoria McClune is challenging how the AI industry understands its users
Victoria McClune is challenging how the AI industry understands its users

Victoria McClune’s career has followed the evolution of digital technology, from interactive children’s books on the first iPads to artificial intelligence systems reshaping how people work and communicate. A creative director by training, she entered …

Ex-OpenAI science head Kevin Weil launches Warp Sciences with $215M
Ex-OpenAI science head Kevin Weil launches Warp Sciences with $215M

Kevin Weil, who led OpenAI for Science, has launched Warp Sciences with $215M led by Lightspeed, valuing it at $865M, Bloomberg reported. It is building an automated lab in the US for a drug development step that pharma companies have long outsourced t…

Zurich startup Enact raises $30M to give robots a sense of touch
Zurich startup Enact raises $30M to give robots a sense of touch

Zurich-based Enact Intelligence has emerged from stealth with a $30M pre-seed round from redalpine, Notion Capital and firstminute capital. It builds robots that sense force and touch through their motors, not only cameras. Founder Manuel Yves Galliker…