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On Oct 8 in San Francisco, Zenity_Labs_ [9] assembles a community of researchers and security leaders for a full day, multi-track event to share proven defenses for securing AI agents. Hear from experts at EA, Exabeam, Google, OpenAI, ServiceNow, Stanford, Walmart and more and help shape the future of secure AI adoption - and pick up exclusive
OM1 is a hardware-agnostic, open source, modular agentic OS for robots. It enables developers to prototype, test, and deploy robotics applications without being tied to a specific platform. OM1 agents can process diverse inputs, like web data, social media, camera feeds, and LIDAR, and perform physical actions, including motion, autonomous navigation, and natural conversations. The OM1 project aims to make it easy to create highly capable human-focused robots that are easy to upgrade and reconfigure to accommodate different physical form factors.
Three new Python type-checking tools have emerged this year, each backed by significant pedigree and resources. While the tools are all built in Rust, they all have different goals and philosophies. The continued shift towards Rust-based implementations promises faster type checking, better IDE integration, and an improved developer experience for large codebases. This post looks at how well the new Python type checkers conform to provide insight into specification compliance. While conformance test coverage is important for specification compliance and handling edge cases, it is not always the best predictor of a type checker's utility for everyday Python development.
The scale of opportunity in humanoid robots is unlike anything seen before. Conservative estimates suggest that there could be 100 million to 1 billion humanoid robots deployed globally over the coming decades, translating to $5 trillion to $50 trillion in potential market value. Dropping the costs of labor can increase profits for businesses several times over. General-purpose robots will eventually be as ubiquitous as cars, computers, or phones.
Metaculus is a forecasting platform that poses questions of geopolitical importance to amateur participants. Every three months, it holds a competition for predicting the future with a prize pot of about $5,000. One of the top 10 finishers in the Summer Cup was an AI developed by UK-based startup, Mantic.
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Nvidia and Intel will jointly develop multiple new generations of x86 products together.
The fastest way to get people's attention is to be wrong.
It is very likely that there will be a trough of disillusionment with large language models as more and more companies discover how hard it is to make AI projects actually work.
Amazon now supports orders placed on Walmart.com.
This team built Blue, a voice assistant that can use any app on a phone via a tiny USB-C hardware 'hand'.
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When the former Zillow exec who sold his first company for $120m starts a new venture, people notice. _Thousands_ of people. In fact, 12,000+ regular investors have already joined the early investors behind Uber, eBay, and Venmo as Pacaso shareholders.
_This is a paid advertisement for Pacaso's Regulation A offering. Please read the offering circular at invest.pacaso.com. Reserving the ticker symbol is not a guarantee that the company will go public. Listing on the Nasdaq is subject to approvals._
The Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses feature a full-color, high-resolution screen in the right lens that lets wearers view messages, take video calls, read live captions, and more. The display can be controlled with a wristband that allows users to scroll and click using gestures. The glasses offer up to six hours of 'mixed-use' battery life. They will be available starting at $799 in the US on September 30 at Best Buy, LensCrafters, and Ray-Ban stores. More about the new tech and software updates announced by Meta at its annual Connect keynote is available in the article.
China's top cybersecurity regulator has urged big tech companies not to buy Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 chip, a less-advanced AI chip that the US has allowed Nvidia to sell to Chinese customers. Domestic firms have been encouraged to switch to homegrown hardware. Some Chinese officials view the country's chips as strong alternatives to those Nvidia is allowed to sell in China. China has had trouble ramping up production of its best chips in part because its access to leading-edge components and chip-making equipment has been blocked by the US.
Axiom Space plans to launch two Axiom Orbital Data Center (AxODC) Nodes by the end of 2025, with at least three running by the end of 2027. The nodes will increase computing capacity on the International Space Station. Even if Axiom manages to get the hardware installed in the ISS in the next few years, the complex is due for deorbit by 2030. The company last year published optimistic plans to make its own space station by 2028.
Arc Institute and Stanford University researchers have created the first viable genomes using generative AI. They created 16 bacteriophages using fine-tuned versions of both Evo 1 and Evo 2, models freely available on Hugging Face. Their work offers a blueprint for the design of diverse synthetic bacteriophages and lays a foundation for the generative design of useful living systems at the genome scale. The research may present some risks, but at the moment, using AI to make synthetic genomes costs a great deal at both the design and construction stages and isn't viable for most companies.
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UUIDv47 lets users store sortable UUIDv7 in their databases while emitting a UUIDv4-looking facade at the API boundary. UUIDv7 is time-ordered and is better for index locality and pagination. The facade is indistinguishable from v4, providing security.
Most companies that have tried to implement AI technology have yet to see a positive outcome. Large language models are not intelligent, and they will never be. They aren't good at doing 'intelligent things' and replacing human tasks is far more complex than originally thought. There may be other potential uses for this technology, but the current approach is failing, and something has to change.
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan joined Google as part of the DoubleClick acquisition in 2007. He moved to YouTube in 2015 to become Chief Product Officer and succeeded Susan Woycicki as CEO in 2023. This interview with Mohan discusses his background, how YouTube wants to use AI to enhance creators, YouTube monetization, the difference between a platform and creators, and the company's attempted takeover of the living room TV. The interview is also available as a podcast.
Apple uses a collection of audio metric booths to help correct and calibrate the AirPods' fit for natural variations in ear geometry. Its engineers use devices seen in audiologists' offices to help validate the company's claims of a clinical-grade hearing test. This allows AirPods users to set up their devices as a hearing aid at home and also creates an accurate hearing profile so users can hear music the way it was intended. This article takes a look at the labs where Apple tests and tunes its AirPods, which show how important sound is to everything Apple builds.
_This is a paid advertisement for Pacaso's Regulation A offering. Please read the offering circular at invest.pacaso.com. Reserving the ticker symbol is not a guarantee that the company will go public. Listing on the Nasdaq is subject to approvals._
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But the people who know? They're getting in. In fact, 12k+ have already invested. That includes some of the earliest backers for companies like Uber and eBay. And you can join them until midnight.
A large group of recent commits confirms that Google is actively working on a native vertical tabs feature for the browser.
This post shares how to scale a database to zero in Postgres CNPG using a new open source plugin.
OpenAI has a real shot at building an analytics business line that could be worth as much as Stripe.
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An OpenAI system solved every problem at the International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2025.
The deal is a sign that Netflix is open to licensing deals with partners that can provide live video streams.
Several executives at xAI left after clashing with Jared Birchall and John Hering, two of Elon Musk's closest advisers, over concerns about the startup's management and financial health.
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When the former Zillow exec who sold his first company for $120m starts a new venture, people notice. _Thousands_ of people.
_This is a paid advertisement for Pacaso's Regulation A offering. Please read the offering circular at invest.pacaso.com. Reserving the ticker symbol is not a guarantee that the company will go public. Listing on the Nasdaq is subject to approvals._
Disrupting the real estate industry once again, Pacaso's streamlined platform offers co-ownership of premier properties, revamping a $1.3T market.
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to discuss a deal where TikTok's US operations would be acquired by a consortium that includes Oracle, Andreessen Horowitz, and Silver Lake. The framework would create a US-based version of the app. ByteDance will license the technology behind its recommendation algorithms. Trump has postponed the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok's US operations until December 16 to buy time for the transaction to be completed.
SpaceX is working with microchip manufacturers to add support for Starlink's satellite-to-cell service into devices. The company plans to launch new satellites that support its direct-to-device business in the next two years. It will conduct mobile phone tests late next year.
Eli Lilly's weight loss pill, orforglipron, can help people reduce their body weight by as much as a fifth. The drug targets the same GLP-1 receptors as weight loss injections such as Mounjaro and Wegovy. While the weight loss seen in people taking the tablet is not as stark as that seen in those taking injectable forms of the drug, the tablet is significantly more accessible and convenient. Eli Lilly expects substantial demand when the new pill is launched.
SpaceX's Starbase, a massive rocket development site and the home of Starship, started as little more than an impossible stretch of empty land along the South Texas coast. The degree of difficulty of transforming the site did not deter Elon Musk, so the company tackled its issues one by one. This article looks at how the company transformed the land into Starbase and the challenges that it overcame along the way.
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85% of software engineers are using AI coding tools at work, but things like tokens aren't exactly cheap, so companies need to know how to measure whether or not they are worth the money. This article looks at how some tech companies measure AI impact to uncover insights on how to get started in this tricky field. Solid foundations matter. Have an experimental mindset when measuring AI impact.
R's central package manager, CRAN, builds each package before publication, testing against a variety of R versions and operating systems. Even if a package passes tests against the full matrix of R versions and platforms, CRAN still reruns the tests for all of the packages that depend on that package. This means some packages can be blocked until dependent packages are upgraded. This approach, which clearly puts a burden on package developers, results in an excellent workflow for R's central user base, who want to spend as much time as possible on the details of data analysis, not stuck in transitive dependency hell.
Jack Ma is now back on Alibaba's campuses and is more directly involved than he's been in half a decade. He had resigned as chairman in 2019 and retreated from the public eye after a speech he made in 2020. The company has been run by two of Ma's longest-serving lieutenants, Joe Tsai and Eddie Wu, since 2023. Signs of Ma's influence can be seen in the company's pivot to artificial intelligence and its declaration of war on e-commerce foes JD and Meituan.
Reddit is rolling out new rules that mean that users will not be able to moderate more than five subreddits with 100,000 monthly visitors. A small number of moderators will be required to leave their posts due to the new rules. Reddit says the change will help enable diverse perspectives and experiences. Moderators will be able to seek exemptions.
_Disclaimer: This is a paid advertisement for Pacaso's Regulation A offering. Please read the offering circular at invest.pacaso.com. Reserving the ticker symbol is not a guarantee that the company will go public. Listing on the Nasdaq is subject to approvals._
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Pacaso has made $110M+ in gross profit in less than 5 years disrupting a $1.3T market. The early backers of Uber, eBay, and Venmo