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Equinix expands AI infrastructure with NVIDIA and Together AI. Fabric One uses AWS and Google Cloud specifications for AI connectivity. Equinix has introduced two services for distributed enterprise AI infrastructure, covering AI inference and managed connectivity across cloud, network, and AI environments. The two announcements, made at Equinix Horizon, include Equinix Inference Exchange, developed […] The post Equinix expands AI infrastructure push involving NVIDIA, Together AI, AWS and Google Cloud appeared first on TechWire Asia .

Meta tested smaller AI teams as software changes rose 220%. Meta saw more incidents, while specialised AI agents performed better. Meta’s effort to reorganise parts of its workforce around smaller, AI-supported teams coincided with a sharp increase in software changes, but a smaller increase in changes that resulted in user-facing features, according to internal […] The post Meta AI workforce restructuring raises software productivity questions appeared first on TechWire Asia .

Astra reached OpenAI’s Critical cybersecurity threshold. OpenAI tightened Astra’s access and safeguards. OpenAI has classified its upcoming Astra model at the Critical cybersecurity capability level under its Preparedness Framework, making it the first of the company’s models to reach the threshold. The company said Astra can identify previously unknown security vulnerabilities and develop ways […] The post OpenAI Astra reaches Critical cybersecurity threshold appeared first on TechWire Asia .

Xiaomi put the Xring O3 into mass production six days after reporting its third straight quarter of falling profit. The chip’s own numbers point to supply security and differentiation rather than a cheaper bill of materials. Xiaomi unveiled the Xring O3 on Monday and said the 3nm processor has already entered mass production. It is […] The post Why Xiaomi’s latest in-house chip, Xring O3, is a bet on control, not on cost appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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_**Today OpenAI is introducing Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a new global initiative to help frontline defenders use frontier AI cyber capabilities to protect essential services in the United States and around the world. The initiative includes:**_ * _**A $1 billion global commitment**_ _to expand subsidized access to Daybreak cyber models and products, training, technical support, and partnerships in the United States and internationally._ * _**Daybreak for America, bringing together all of OpenAI’s U.S. work to protect the systems Americans rely on every day**_ _—from water and electricity to local government and banking—including a new pilot with the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC)._ * _More than 35 enterprise products and partner-operated services thro

Jul 30, 2026 | Gemini Robotics ER 2 represents a step change in powering robots with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration — making it possible for robots to be more helpful in the physical world. * * * Steven Hansen Senior Staff Software Engineer Peng Xu Staff Software Engineer * * *  For robots to assist humans in everyday environments, accurate spatial reasoning is not enough. Robots must also think fast, timing their decisions and reasoning with the real-time speed of the physical world. That’s why today we’re launching [Gemini Robotics ER 2](https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-rob

I never intended to join the cutting edge of electromechanical television. I just wanted to make a nice clock. But sometimes you have to go where the engineering takes you, and in my case it took me to the Scanwheel, a pocket-size wide-screen electromechanical TV with a resolution of 4,096 by 20 pixels. Yup, that’s 4K by 20. The 3D-printed drum [top] is spun by a motor controlled by a driver board [second row, from top]. The driver board, in turn, is controlled by a Raspberry Pi Pico [middle], which also controls the LEDs [second row, from bottom], which are mounted in the 3D-printed casing [bottom] so that the holes pass over them as the drum turns. James Provost Electromechanical television was the first form of practical television, developed by John Logie Baird in the 1920s . He used a

Sep 03, 2026 | Our flagship AI weather forecasting model now includes real-time satellite data, hourly refreshes, higher resolution, precise precipitation forecasting, and clean energy variables. It’s now integrated across Search, Gemini, Maps, Google Maps Platform, and Cloud. * * * The WeatherNext team * * *  [Audio 3](https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/media/tts_audio_86138_umbriel_2026_09_04_18_14_01.mp3) Listen to article [[duration]] minutes This content is generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental Every day, the weather influences billions of decisions. Some are

This article is brought to you by Tsubaki KabelSchlepp . In modern automated manufacturing, six-axis articulated robots perform high-speed, multidirectional maneuvers under demanding operational cycles. However, as robot arms swivel, rotate, and extend, the electrical cables, fiber optics, and pneumatic hoses supplying them endure severe mechanical stress. Torsional twist, rapid acceleration, and repeated contact with machine structures often lead to premature conductor fatigue, insulation breakdown, and costly unplanned production halts. To overcome these multi-axis motion challenges, the Tsubaki KabelSchlepp Robotrax System provides a specialized three-dimensional cable carrier engineered specifically for complex robotic motion. Managing High Tensile Forces With Central Steel Technology

August 6, 2026 Science WeatherNext team WeatherNext enables accurate cyclone forecasts that can give an extra day of warning. Now we are open sourcing the model. Predicting how dangerous cyclones develop is a longstanding challenge where every hour counts. Tropical cyclones — also known as hurricanes or typhoons — are among the most destructive weather phenomena on Earth, responsible for more than 700,000 deaths and $1.4 trillion in economic losses globally over the past 50 years. For forecasters, issuing timely, accurate warnings is a constant race against time. Today, in a paper published in [_Nature_](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10953-2), we show that our WeatherNext AI model achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in predicting a cyclone's track, intensity, and wind structure

July 30, 2026 Models Carolina Parada From feet to fingertips — we are teaching robots intelligent whole-body control, fine dexterity, and teamwork to complete a broad range of complex tasks For decades, we’ve dreamed of robots that can seamlessly step into our world and lend a hand. Now, that vision takes a significant stride forward. Most robots are pre-programmed or teleoperated for narrow, repetitive task sequences. They lack the ability to truly learn for themselves or adapt to unpredictable environments. Moreover, transferring learned skills from one robot body to another remains incredibly difficult. To take on the hardest problems at scale, robots of every shape and size need AI models giving them the ability to think, act, and interact intelligently to safely complete tasks. We dem

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This guide is a fully public, inexpensive recipe for making a small model substantially better at structured-output compliance. We fine-tune [LFM2.5-350M](https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-350M) with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) using the [TRL library](https://huggingface.co/docs/trl/en/index) and evaluate it on the [IFStruct benchmark](https://huggingface.co/datasets/LiquidAI/ifstruct-v1.0). The full run takes around 500 samples and 100 training steps, small enough for a free-tier Colab or Kaggle GPU, and is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/Liquid4All/cookbook/blob/main/finetuning/notebooks/grpo_with_trl_ifstruct.ipynb). The results show that even a light fine-tuning procedure improves performance **from 22.6% to 29.7%** on the IFStruct benchmark. Structured outp

[](https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/blog/train-to-paint-with-code/thumbnail.png) On 23 August, [Surya Narreddi](https://x.com/kickingkeys/status/2091570990048276897) posted a beautiful video of watercolours painted by a language model. The model writes JavaScript through [p5.brush](https://github.com/acamposuribe/p5.brush), a library that "adds natural drawing tools to p5.js". The video went viral fast, over 1.5M views at the time of writing. The video came with [a blog post](https://surya.website/rling-qwen-to-paint-with-code) explaining the training behind an earlier

Aug 27, 2026 | Omni now delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, first and last frame interpolation, crisp 4K upscaling, faster prototyping, and more. * * * Anish Nangia Product Manager, Google DeepMind Alisa Fortin Product Manager, Google DeepMind * * *  [Audio 3](https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/media/tts_audio_86073_umbriel_2026_08_27_17_32_44.mp3) Listen to article [[duration]] minutes This content is generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental Today, we’re introducing Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

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Aug 13, 2026 | Our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents. * * * * * *  [Audio 3](https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/media/tts_audio_85959_umbriel_2026_08_13_21_10_43.mp3) Listen to article [[duration]] minutes This content is generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental Today, we’re building on the progress of our widely used Flash series by introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash, our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents. This release comes just three weeks after [Gemini 3.6 Flash](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-r

Legora is an agentic operating system for legal and professional work, used by more than 100,000 professionals across more than 1,800 in-house legal departments and law firms in over 50 markets. Its legal engineers work directly with customers to understand how they operate and adapt Legora to their end-to-end workflows, from contract and agreement review to legal research. One of the more tedious workflows is financial-statement tie-out: checking every figure in draft accounts against trial balances, a consolidation schedule, and the previous year’s accounts until each item agrees. As Legora Legal Engineer Percevale Perks says, the work “can take an entire evening, sometimes days.” ## Processing complex financial context at scale Using GPT‑6 Astra, Legora’s Agent completed the tie-out acr

OpenAI has contracted dedicated AI compute from two Firmus sites in a multi-year Malaysia data centre deal. The agreement pushes Firmus past 900MW of contracted capacity and brings Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform to Southeast Asia. OpenAI has contracted dedicated AI compute capacity from two Firmus AI Factory sites in Malaysia, in a multi-year partnership the […] The post OpenAI signs Malaysia data centre deal with Nvidia-backed Firmus appeared first on TechWire Asia .

A recent security demonstration by the computer security and research firm Calif showed how a software bug could become a serious cyberattack through an exploit in the WeChat app. Calif researchers found a flaw in WeChat that could be triggered via a call and spread even without the recipient answering. The research firm has stated in its official release that they used AI to develop the flaw into a working attack that could eventually be used to take over a WeChat account. The flaw would then slowly spread to all the users who are in the friends list of the infected WeChat account. Calif has mentioned in its official release that Tencent has mitigated the exploit before the findings were publicly disclosed. However, this incident has raised serious questions about the use of app vulnerabi

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[Sophos](https://www.sophos.com/en-us) has announced Exploit Path Verification (EPV), a new capability being built into Sophos Managed Risk to help security teams prioritise and manage exploitable vulnerabilities in their environment, built with OpenAI’s GPT cyber models through the Daybreak Defense Network. Announced from Singapore on 8 September 2026, EPV is designed to return verified, evidence-backed verdicts on which vulnerabilities matter most, closing a gap Sophos says exists between the exposures scanners surface and the ones security teams can actually fix. Availability will be announced at a later date. ## Turning Severity Scores Into Evidence-Backed Verdicts Scanners typically surface thousands of exposures ranked by generic severity scores, which cannot tell whether a critical

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Nvidia has done something unexpected: the AI leader is partnering with its (previous?) competitor d-Matrix to build an alternative [disaggregated inference](https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlfreund/2026/07/29/disaggregated-inference-is-splitting-ai-hardware-in-two/)solution. Why not wait for the Groq LPU3, which essentially solves the same problem using fast SRAN for disaggregated inference processing? I have a few ideas I will delve into in this article. (_Nvidia is a client of Cambrian-AI Research, and d-Matrix has been a client in the past_.) ## Background When I first met d-Matrix founder and CEO Sid Sheth in 2022, I asked how his company will compete with Nvidia. Sid said he didn't intend to; he wanted to focus where Nvidia wasn't and be complementary to the then-emerging AI leader. An

Sometimes, you have to dig beyond the headlines to get a better idea of how a company is performing. Endowus’ latest audited financial results are a good example of this. [Gregory Van](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-van/?originalSubdomain=hk), the co-founder and CEO of the Singapore-based wealthtech firm, told _Tech in Asia_ last year that it had a [“clear path to profitability”](https://www.techinasia.com/endowus-doubles-revenue-2022-losses-rose-26m) by 2025. On its face, the results suggest that the firm has its work cut out for it to hit this milestone. Endowus co-founders Samuel Rhee (left) and Gregory Van / Photo credit: Endowus In 2023, Endowus’ total losses before tax widened to S$30.6 million (US$23.7 million) – a 14% jump from last year. This came even as its revenue grew by

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* Geoffrey Hinton says it's "not unreasonable" to suggest there is a 10% chance AI wipes out humanity in a decade. * A former Anthropic researcher has renewed the conversation around AI risks. * Hinton also said the window where AI could wipe out humanity is shrinking. The ["Godfather of AI"](https://www.businessinsider.com/godfather-ai-warns-its-very-scary-when-ai-develops-goals-2026-8?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) says it's difficult to estimate the chance AI will wipe us all out, but it's not zero. "A 10% chance seems not an unreasonable estimate to me, but nobody really knows how to give a sensible estimate," Geoffrey Hinton said during an interview Wednesday on the BBC's "Newsnight." Newsnight anchor Victoria Derbyshire expressed amaz

* The US Army is fielding TERN's AI-based navigation system on a variety of vehicles. * TERN said the system can operate offline without GPS or a connection. * Military leaders anticipate troops will face consistent jamming in potential future wars. In future wars, US forces could find themselves fighting against enemy electronic warfare and jamming. The lack of GPS and network connectivity could impact everything from navigation to communications. The challenge is forcing leaders to assess [potential vulnerabilities](https://www.businessinsider.com/us-army-rapidly-built-digital-command-and-control-testing-experimenting-2026-7?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo)and determine how they need to adapt. A newly announced US Army contract for an artif

OneTrust has appointed Stephanie Glenn as its new Chief Revenue Officer, tasked with sharpening the AI governance platform’s go-to-market execution as it scales. Glenn joins after more than two decades in enterprise software, most recently as Executive Vice President of AMER Digital Sales at [Salesforce](https://www.salesforce.com/), where she oversaw the $2 billion ARR Marketing Cloud and Commerce Cloud businesses across North America. She spent 14 years at Salesforce in senior leadership roles, including running the company’s 3,500-person New York office and helping expand its SMB business into new markets. Before Salesforce, Glenn held leadership roles at [IBM](https://www.ibm.com/). She later served as Chief Commercial Officer at [Maven Clinic](https://www.mavenclinic.com/), where she

North Korean hackers stole US$2 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, marking a record haul and a more than 50% rise from 2024, according to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. A major portion of this total came from a US$1.5 billion theft at Bybit, a crypto-exchange, in February. Chainalysis estimates that North Korea-linked cryptocurrency thefts have reached at least US$6.8 billion since records began. The country was responsible for most of the US$3.4 billion stolen from the global cryptocurrency industry between January and early December 2025. Researchers noted that while the number of incidents linked to North Korea was lower this year, the use of insiders to gain privileged access led to more significant thefts. Chainalysis observed that North Korean hackers launder funds by breakin

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_This article is a part of [Startup Spotlight](https://www.techinasia.com/tag/startup-spotlight), a series that features young, up-and-coming startups._ Nitish Rai (left) and Vikas Singh. Photo credit: FreightFox Nitish Rai spent a decade in manufacturing before building a defense logistics unit. He noticed large enterprises with advanced software still managed physical freight using manual spreadsheets. He founded [FreightFox](https://www.freightfox.ai/) in 2020 to digitize this operational layer. ## 😟 Problem India’s logistics costs account for approximately 13% of its GDP. In 2023, the country’s total logistics expenditure reached roughly US$288 billion. Enterprise supply chains rely on disconnected tools to manage these massive expenses. Logistics managers coordinate thousands of shipm

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Update on Wipro's AI push frees capacity equivalent to 20,000 workers, CTO says. Coverage via Yahoo Singapore Tech.

Anthropic AI agent security tightened after Claude accessed a real system. Similar agent incidents were reported by AISI and OpenAI. Anthropic has disclosed a fourth incident in which one of its Claude models gained unauthorised access to a real third-party computer system during cybersecurity testing. The case involved an early version of Claude Opus […] The post Anthropic tightens AI agent security after fourth Claude incident appeared first on TechWire Asia .

Nvidia plans major expansion of data centre capacity in Australia to meet AI demand. A 1x1 image, likely be a tacker probe

Update on Anthropic has a cute graphic showing how its AI spread 'malicious' code. Coverage via Yahoo Singapore Tech.

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Ant International launched the open source Agentic Mobile Protocol on April 28 in Kuala Lumpur to let mobile wallets and apps support AI agent payments, as most existing systems still rely on card networks. The framework includes tools for delegating payment authority to AI agents, settling very small agent-to-agent transactions, and verifying agent identity. Ant said it had open sourced the protocol and is working with more than 40 Alipay+ wallet partners that together cover 1.8 billion user accounts and 150 million merchants. [Juniper Research](https://www.juniperresearch.com/) estimated digital wallet users reached 4.4 billion in 2025 and will top 6 billion by 2030. The company also said it is piloting AI agent card transactions with Mastercard and Visa and is working with Google on rel

The market hasn’t been kind to Alibaba Group since the Chinese firm released its earnings for the June quarter on August 20. After opening at around US$130, the stock tumbled that trading day by 6%. As of September 8, it is trading down at around US$113 on the New York Stock Exchange. A quick glance at the headline numbers from the [earnings report](https://data.alibabagroup.com/ecms-files/1532295521/fa5d65fc-9b3e-4e82-a8fc-4ce1c3e2c407/Alibaba%20Group%20Announces%20June%20Quarter%202026%20Results.pdf) – profit down by 76%, capital expenditures up by 75% – explains the market reaction. But I have a different view: the figures show that Alibaba is positioned to capture an enormous share of China’s AI demand over the next few years. Digital collage by Ulla, photos courtesy of Shutterstock In

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LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - AI's rapid rise is creating new financial stability risks, Bank for International Settlements head Pablo Hernandez de Cos said, with spending on related infrastructure already at a scale ‌significant enough to influence global economic conditions. For central banks, AI does not change monetary policy mandates ‌but makes economies harder to interpret by affecting demand, supply and financial markets simultaneously. The BIS estimates the world's five largest technology firms will ​invest more than $1 trillion in AI between 2025 and 2026, while industry forecasts suggest global AI investment could grow from about $500 billion now to as much as $4 trillion by 2030. "The promise of AI is real," Hernandez de Cos told a conference hosted by India's central bank, while

The UK needs new regulations for AI products used in the NHS and other healthcare settings, says Britain's industry watchdog. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which regulates all medical devices and licenses treatment drugs in the UK, has published 44 recommendations to update its policies as the use of AI in the sector rises. The technology will soon be routinely used within the NHS, MHRA chief Lawrence Tallon told the BBC. "What I would expect is that patients will... increasingly see AI as part of the way that normal NHS healthcare is delivered," he said. "That should happen in a way that they can maintain their trust and their confidence in what's happening." The report was compiled by an independent commission and involved input from more than 12,000 peo

Meta unveils Muse, an AI agent that books travel, handles purchases, and sends emails through WhatsApp, complete with a payment feature that runs through Stripe's Link. That puts Meta ahead of OpenAI, which stopped its direct checkout feature in ChatGPT. A separate security agent called Sentinel monitors every action before it reaches the internet. The article Muse can shop, write emails, and negotiate prices for users, all through WhatsApp appeared first on The Decoder .

Jacob Coxon, a departing Anthropic researcher, warned on CNN that self-improving AI poses an existential threat to humanity. Safety researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI share his views, and US politicians and Joe Rogan have picked up the topic. But cultural and financial interests are also at play behind these warnings, and the extinction scenario remains an extreme and contested position. The article AI safety panic goes mainstream after Anthropic researcher's warnings land on CNN and Fox News appeared first on The Decoder .

The Ramp AI Index for September 2026 shows AI spending per employee among the top 1 percent of US companies fell nearly 10 percent in August. The price per million tokens has dropped 41 percent since March 2026, and companies are actively shifting usage away from expensive frontier models toward cheaper alternatives. For providers like OpenAI and Anthropic, the question is whether volume growth is fast enough to make up for falling prices. The article Top AI spenders cut per-employee costs by nearly 10 percent in August appeared first on The Decoder .

Arena.ai analyzed how Claude's writing changed from Fable 5 to Fable 5.1 across tens of thousands of benchmark responses. Fable 5.1 writes more matter-of-fact but also more verbose. The article Claude Fable 5.1's language is less "load-bearing" than its predecessor's appeared first on The Decoder .

Meta has launched its new Muse assistant, marking the company's first real foray into AI-powered productivity tools. The company says its AI agent can "take the busywork off your plate" by helping you with online shopping, emails, trip-planning, and more. I decided to try out the new tool and see how well it performed - […]

Deepseek releases V4.1-Flash, a multimodal model with 552 billion parameters that cuts KV cache memory to a quarter of its predecessor. On the DeepSWE coding benchmark, it narrowly beats Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, even though only 16 billion parameters are active per token. The model ships under the MIT license and targets much cheaper AI agents. The article New Deepseek model V4.1-Flash cuts memory needs for AI agents appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra tops the ErdosBench for open math problems, even though chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says math was deliberately not a priority. Instead, OpenAI is pouring resources into recursive self-improvement and alignment research. That supports the theory of an increasingly "spiky" AI development path, with extreme strength in select domains rather than broad progress, at least as long as AI can't improve itself and still needs targeted optimization with human-generated data. The article GPT-6 Astra gives mathematicians a breather, and OpenAI says that's by design appeared first on The Decoder .

Nvidia and Palantir want to run supply chains with AI. The article Nvidia and Palantir team up to run supply chains with AI, starting with Nvidia's own million-part operation appeared first on The Decoder .

On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60 Virginia facilities and 1,500 megawatts at once. No…

Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries. Just days after a bitter row erupted over whether the company's models benefited from unpublished work, a second mathematician has come forward accusing the AI giant of unethical and "dishonest" behavior and a lack of transparency about the origins […]

As AI makes it easier to fill forms and file complaints, public services around the world are seeing enormous jumps in applications and other requests. In the United Kingdom, complaints to the housing ombudsman more than doubled since the introduction of ChatGPT, rising from 2600 in 2022 to just over 7,000 last year. The United States’ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) saw 5x growth in complaints over the same period. There were similar jumps in Brazilian judicial petitions and German parliamentary petitions. Researcher Chris Schmitz is tracking this rise as part of a broader trend he called “agentic flooding.” [In a paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16603)set to be presented next month at the AI Ethics and Society conference, he looks at 84 different cases of potential flooding

InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview.

In 2024, [Maven Robotics](https://www.mavenrobotics.ai/) was brand new, and they had nothing—”a cartoon of a robot and a team of people,” CEO and co-founder Hamza Derbas told TechCrunch. Still, they heard a large consumer goods company with logistics needs was in town to meet with four rival robot companies about automation. Derbas talked his way into a meeting with the company and, instead of talking about his views on robots, asked to visit their factories and warehouses. “We saw how people were working; we zeroed in on flows we could immediately bring value to,” he told TechCrunch. “We showed them that our approach to robotics is different—we’re not trying to solve a single robot problem. We’re trying to autonomously take on the task end to end: It hooks in from one side to a warehouse

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 **Image Credits:**Justin Sullivan / Getty Images 6:21 AM PDT · September 10, 2026 ID verification service IDScan has confirmed that a data breach involved the theft of driver’s licenses from its systems, a week after a report said the identity document checker had been [breached during a year-long hack](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/it-sure-looks-like-hackers-breached-a-major-id-card-verification-service/). The company said in [a website notice](https://idscan.net/notification-data-security-incident/?7194ef805fa2d04b0f7e8c9521f97343) that hackers stole the driver’s licenses from the company’s cloud; the stolen information includes people’s full names and driver’s licens

The entrance of major AI companies into healthcare is a meaningful and welcome development, accelerating the technical foundation available to the industry. Their models are increasingly capable of processing long clinical records, interpreting complex terminology, comparing documentation against evidence and generating coherent summaries from large volumes of information. For clinicians, operators, and administrative teams who spend significant time searching through fragmented data, these advances are helping reduce cognitive burden and make high-value information easier to access. But healthcare leaders should not confuse model capability with operational capability. Healthcare’s administrative challenges are caused by fragmented information, fragmented workflows, and fragmented account

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Universal Music Group is launching a new AI-powered platform that will allow users to draw from its catalog of licensed music to create song remixes, mashups, and new takes on tracks, according to an announcement on Thursday. The record label is developing the platform through a multi-year licensing agreement with ElevenLabs, a company that specializes […]

The iPhone Duo was the unequivocal star of Apple's "Surprise and shine" event, but not for people who were mostly paying attention for news on wearables. Thankfully, Apple had a lot to share about its new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4. There's no update to the SE model for 2026, which isn't necessarily […]

Listen Labs, a market research startup that uses voice AI to conduct customer interviews, recently signed a term sheet for a $125 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation, with Menlo Ventures set to lead the round, according to several people with knowledge of the matter. But that round never closed, the people said. Listen Labs walked away from the signed term sheet, a rare occurrence in the venture world and one that is generally frowned upon, according to VCs. The financing likely collapsed because of acquisition talks with Salesforce. The CRM giant has recently held talks to buy Listen Labs for around [$2 billion](https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-acquire-ai-startup-listen-labs-2026-9?utm_campaign=business-link-post&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter), Business Insider r

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America’s public servants, including those on the front lines of cyber defense, should have access to the best AI tools available. Today, OpenAI for Government and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) are announcing a new multi-year agreement that builds on last year’s federal offer. This first-of-its-kind agreement will provide $0 access—normally $15 per user per month—for the license fee and 50% off usage, alongside expanded support for public-sector cyber defenders. OpenAI is also extending the same offer to all state, local and tribal governments. Helping government work better—making services faster, easier, safer, and more reliable—is a key way to bring the benefits of AI to everyone. Public servants should help shape how AI is used in government, and that starts by giving

It's been about three years since Volvo discontinued its plug-in hybrid XC40. The mild hybrid version remains on sale in the US and elsewhere, alongside the electric EX40. Today, Volvo announced it was bringing back the PHEV version and giving it a major facelift. When it arrives at dealerships early next year, the new XC40 […]

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