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Nvidia Corp. today announced the release of Jetson Orin Nano 2, a robotics computer “brain” for running artificial intelligence and frontier-level models at the edge. In the past months, foundational AI models have grown smaller and more efficient, adding numerous capabilities alongside …
Ropedia launches next-gen wearable capture device for robotic AI training data
Singapore-based robotics data infrastructure firm Ropedia Pte. Ltd. today announced the launch of HOMIE Gen2, the next generation of the company’s head-mounted wearable that records human movement data to train robots. Smart robotics requires tremendous amounts of high-quality data taken from various …
Salesforce introduces Slack Code to bring agentic team coding into the open
Salesforce Inc. today introduced Slack Code, a new way to interact with coding agents in chat, with the whole team in the loop so everyone can see what’s happening at the conversational level. Coding agents are slowly changing how developers code; they’re …
Adobe expands generative AI audio with Firefly music, speech and sound effects
Adobe Inc. today announced the general availability of audio capabilities in Firefly, the company’s all-in-one creative AI tool suite, allowing users to produce music, speech, and sound effects for their projects. In June, the company unveiled big changes for Firefly, including a …
Swimlane updates security operations center with intelligent routing
Agentic artificial intelligence cybersecurity automation company Swimlane Inc. today announced the expansion of the company’s AI security operations center to support automatic routing for security investigations. The new capability enables routing of incoming alerts to different paths: deterministic automation, AI-assisted investigation or …
Thunder Compute raises $13M to squeeze more work out of idle GPUs
Thunder Compute today announced it has raised $13 million in early funding to help graphics processing unit cloud providers squeeze out the last erg of compute capacity that sits idle and wasted at the long end of workload cycles. Because GPUs are …
Salesforce expands Headless Data 360 for MCP so developers can bring insights to agents
Agentic artificial intelligence runs on data, so Salesforce Inc. today announced it’s launching Headless Data 360 for Model Context Protocol to provide that data directly to agents, allowing them access to relevant, governed customer context. Teams can do more than query data …
Firefox updates Smart Window, a new in-browser AI assistant that can keep up with you
Mozilla Corp. rolled out updates today to its popular Firefox browser, updating an artificial intelligence assistant called Smart Window, currently in beta, that lets users check answers, summarize open tabs and retrace search history. Smart Window is the evolution of an earlier concept introduced …
Higgsfield raises $400M at $5.4 billion valuation to scale video and image generation platform
Higgsfield Inc., a generative artificial intelligence video and image creation platform for professionals, today announced that it has raised $400 million in early-stage funding, quadrupling the company’s valuation to $5.4 billion since its previous funding round in January. The Series B round …
Wispr raises $280M to power up natural speech-to-text using AI
Wispr AI Inc., the developer of a cross-platform, AI-powered dictation platform, today announced it has raised $280 million in a Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation. Menlo Ventures led the round alongside existing investors Notable Capital, NEA, Neo Ventures, 8VC …