Amazon is retreating from the race to build the smartest AI. This week it closed its AGI Lab, a San Francisco team working on artificial general intelligence, The Information reported. The move was part of layoffs across Amazon’s AGI unit, Reuters firs…
Travis Kalanick is back, and Uber is helping to fund him. The founder Uber forced out in 2017 has raised $1.7 billion for Atoms, an industrial-AI and robotics company he has built in near-total stealth for years. Andreessen Horowitz led the round. Its …
Etched has a simple pitch. Nvidia builds chips that do everything. Etched builds chips that do one thing, inference, and claims to do it far better. On Thursday the bet got a lot more money behind it. The startup raised $300 million in a Series C round…
GPS spoofing and jamming have become standard countermeasures on the battlefield in Ukraine, separating drones from their operators and rendering some guided munitions useless. US-made Excalibur artillery shells fell out of favour after initial success…
The AI industry runs on Nvidia. A team at the University of Cambridge has just shown it does not have to. They have built a planetary-scale foundation model for the Earth, and every chip that trained and ran it came from AMD. The model is called TESSER…
The hard part of medical robotics is not the robot. It is the practice. A surgical system needs thousands of attempts to learn a delicate task, and you cannot run those on real patients. Nvidia thinks the answer is to let the robot rehearse inside a si…
Memory chips are the oil of the AI boom, and right now they are hard to get. So when Elon Musk used Tesla’s quarterly call to publicly thank Micron, it was worth noticing. Suppliers rarely get shout-outs. Scarce ones do. Micron recently gave Tesla a “s…
Apple spent years insisting the Mac would never get a touchscreen. That is about to change. The company is planning an overhaul of its entire Mac line, and the most striking new model is a MacBook you can prod with a finger. The refresh spans this autu…
Federal agencies have committed more than $5 billion to the Genesis Mission, an Energy Department-led effort to use artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific research, White House science adviser Michael Kratsios announced on Wednesday. The init…
Arrakis, a London and Paris startup building what it calls an AI operating system for industrial companies, has emerged from stealth with $38 million in total funding and a thesis that the biggest returns from artificial intelligence will come from fac…