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Google DeepMind, Agile Robots Collaborate to Bring Intelligence to Robotics
By combining cutting-edge AI models with proven robotics hardware and deployment capabilities, the companies aim to push the boundaries of intelligent automation.
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Meta Boosts Executive Pay With Stock Options to Retain AI Talent
Most leaders will also receive increased restricted stock awards, valued at around $170 million based on the latest closing price.
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Microsoft & NVIDIA Launch AI Initiative for Nuclear Energy Development
The initiative aims to provide end-to-end tools that streamline permitting, accelerate design, and optimise operations across the industry.
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QpiAI Builds Real-Time Quantum Error Correction System on Kaveri Processor
QpiAI said its decoder achieves an end-to-end latency of about 1.5 microseconds, with a decoding latency of under 1 microsecond.
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Space Tech Startup Agnikul Tests 3D Printed Booster Engine Built in 7 Days
Agnikul Cosmos said rapid engine production can cut launch wait times from months to days.
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Figure AI Founder Announces New Venture, Hark, in a Strive for AGI
Brett Adcock’s Hark targets AI that thinks like users and integrates hardware with multimodal intelligence.
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Cloudflare Makes Sandboxing AI Agents 100x Faster than Containers
The launch provides the infrastructure required for the mass deployment of autonomous agents that require low-latency, isolated execution of AI-generated code.
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Anthropic Report Warns AI Skills Could Deepen Labour Market Divide
The report finds growing disparities in AI usage. In India, the data points to a strong tilt towards technical and productivity-driven use cases.
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India’s Diversity is Forcing a New Layer of AI Engineering in Retail
The complexity of Indian retail data is a testing ground for Reliance-owned Fynd’s AI systems.
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OpenAI’s Sora was the creepiest app on your phone — now it’s shutting down
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it isshutting downSora, a TikTok-like social app thatlaunchedsix months ago. OpenAI did not give a reason for the shut down, nor did it share information about when it will officially be discontinued. When Sora first opened up as an invite-only social network, it seemed like everyone was clamoring for an invite. But like Meta’sHorizon Worlds— the company’s virtual reality social platform — which is also in turmoil despite once being central to the company’s infamous metaverse, Sora didn’t have real staying power. Though the underlying Sora 2 video- and audio-generation model is scarily impressive, there was not sustained interest in an AI-only social feed. We’re saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing.We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on… Sora was intended to function like an AI-first TikTok, cloning the recognizable vertical video feed interface. Its flagship feature, “cameos,” allowed people to scan their faces and make realistic deepfakes of themselves. These “cameos” could be made public, allowing anyone to make videos of their “cameo.” (Cameo took OpenAI to court over the name of this feature and prevailed, forcing the company to change it to “characters.”) In a turn of events that surprised literally no one, this glorified deepfake app was weird as hell. At launch, Sora felt like an under-moderated minefield ofcreepy Sam Altman videos. I will never be the same after watching a realistic clone of the OpenAI CEO walking through a slaughterhouse of fattened pigs and asking, “Are my piggies enjoying their slop?” Sora was not supposed to allow people to generate videos of public figures who did not explicitly opt-in, but it was all too easy to evade OpenAI’s guardrails. Sure enough,deepfakes of real peoplelike civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and actor Robin Williams emerged, prompting both of their daughters to go on Instagram and ask users to stop making videos of their deceased fathers. After making dozens of videos in which Sam Altman steals Nvidia chips from a Target, users shifted gears. Instead, they intentionally made content using copyrighted characters, inviting legal trouble for the man they loved to deepfake — we saw Mario smoking weed, Naruto ordering Krabby Patties, and Pikachu doing ASMR. This didn’t unfold as planned. Rather than sue, Disney, a notoriously litigious company, gave OpenAI a$1 billion investmentand a licensing deal that would have allowed Sora to generate videos featuring characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars. It looked like a landmark moment for the AI industry. But with Sora gone, so is the deal — though notably, it appears no money actually changed hands before it collapsed. (Disney offered some polite words about the whole thing on Tuesday, telling the Hollywood Reporter it would “continue to engage with AI platforms” going forward.) The initial hype around Sora was real. The app peaked in November with about 3,332,200 downloads across the iOS App Store and Google Play, according to data from the mobile intelligence firm Appfigures. If the app continued to grow, then perhaps OpenAI would’ve kept it going, but that’s not what happened. By February, it declined to 1,128,700 downloads. That seems like a big number, until you remember that ChatGPT has900 millionweekly active users. In its lifetime, Appfigures estimates that Sora made about $2.1 million from in-app purchases, which allowed users to buy more video generation credits. It’s hard to imagine that the Sora app’s computing demands tipped the scales that much for a company that’s alreadyoperating at a huge loss, but the app was perhaps too much of a liability to keep around if it wasn’t even growing. When OpenAI launched the Sora app, I prepared for a world in which we could have the tools to make deepfakes of each other at our fingertips. While I rarely make TikToks, I felt obligated topost a PSAthat this scary tech was coming fast. It ended up getting over 300,000 views, which is not the norm for my often dormant TikTok account, but this news got a real reaction out of people. I never expected that it would only last six months. But just because Sora is gone doesn’t mean the threat went with it. The Sora 2 model is still available — it’s just tucked behind the ChatGPT paywall. And OpenAI is hardly alone in making this technology so accessible. It’s only a matter of time before the next social AI video app hits the market, and we’re inundated with another tsunami of clips in which Snow White storms the Capitol.
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With $3.5B in fresh capital, Kleiner Perkins is going all in on AI
Kleiner Perkins, the prominent U.S. venture firm, announced on Tuesday that it raised $3.5 billion in fresh capital across two funds, a significant increase from the firm’s$2 billionfundraise less than two years ago. The firm, founded back in 1972, says it raised $1 billion for its 22nd early-stage venture fund, and $2.5 billion for a separate vehicle designed to fund late-stage growth businesses. The much larger capital haul is not a surprise. Over the last few years, Kleiner Perkins has managed to secure early stakes in a number of fast-growing AI startups, including Together AI, Harvey, and OpenEvidence. The firm is also an investor in Anthropic and SpaceX, two companies expected to IPO this year. At a time when exits are few and far between, Kleiner Perkins alsorealized significant returnsfrom last year’s IPO of Figma, a design software company whose $25 million Series B round it led in 2018. The firm alsoreportedly scoreda decent return when its portfolio company Windsurf was acqui-hired by Google last summer. A firm famous for its legendary early bets on Amazon and Google, Kleiner Perkins now operates with a lean team of just five partners. The firm has seen some leadership turnover recently: Ev Randle departed for rival firm Benchmark, while Annie Case has transitioned from partner to an advisory role, a Kleiner Perkins spokesperson confirmed. Kleiner Perkins joins a wave of mega-raises from other VC firms. Thrive Capital recently secured$10 billionin fresh commitments, while General Catalyst isreportedly targetinga similar amount. Meanwhile, anSEC filingconfirmsTechCrunch’s earlierreporting that Founders Fund has closed $6 billion for its fourth growth vehicle.
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Databricks bought two startups to underpin its new AI security product
With an overflowing war chest from its$5 billion raise that closed last month(not to mention billions in revenue), Databricks is acquiring. The company, best known for its cloud data analytics platform,announcedon Tuesday that it was launching a new security product called Lakewatch. Lakewatch takes Databricks’ ability to store massive amounts of data and performs classic Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tasks, like detecting and investigating threats. Only it does so with the help of AI agents powered by Anthropic’s Claude. Databricks bought two startups to underpin this new product: Antimatter, in an undisclosed-until-now deal that closed last year, and SiftD.ai, in a deal that flew together over the last couple of weeks and closed on Monday, the company told TechCrunch. Terms were not disclosed for either deal. Antimatter, founded by security researcher Andrew Krioukov, raised $12 million led by New Enterprise Associates in 2022, according to PitchBook estimates. If tiny SiftD.ai had raised money, PitchBook wasn’t aware. SiftD.ai was so young, it had onlylaunched its product in November: an interactive notebook (like aJupyternotebook) intended to be a tool where people and agents worked together. The Databricks team knew the startup’s co-founder CEO Steve Zhang from his many years as chief scientist at Splunk (through 2021). He created the Search Processing Language while there. (His LinkedInalso says he was CTO of Astronomer,of the Coldplay CEO scandal, but left there in 2023 before founding SiftD.) Both of these acquisitions were of small startups — only a few people in SiftD’s case and less than 50 for Antimatter,according to LinkedIn. SiftD appears to be an acqui-hire. With Antimatter, Databricks probably gained some IP, too. Krioukov had demonstrated Antimatter’s tech onstage in2024 at RSA’s Innovation Sandbox Contest. Antimatter was working on a “data control plane” tool that allowed enterprises to deploy agents securely, while protecting sensitive data. While Databricks declined to say how many employees it acquired, it confirmed that the startups’ employees did join the company. Krioukov, who’s been at Databricks for months now, is leading the Lakewatch team. We asked Databricks if it was going to keep shopping for startups and a spokesperson essentially said, yes, that it continuously has its feelers out. “We’re always looking to what’s next — our goal is to stay ahead of the market and close gaps in what our customers need,” the spokesperson said.
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