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Ambi Robotics advances physical AI by licensing its hard-earned robot skills
Ambi Robotics Inc. is leaning on years of production-hardened operational experience in warehouse robotics by giving third-party robots the chance to license the essential skills needed to perform tasks such as item inspection, picking and placement. The company’s new AI Skill Suite, introduced today, is a dramatic expansion of its operating system for physical artificial ...
Digital twin startup Neara raises $63M to help power companies cope with AI’s energy demands
Australian startup Neara, which makes digital twins of power grids, says it’s ready to support electricity companies as they struggle to cope with the surging demand from artificial intelligence data centers after raising more than $60 million in late-stage funding. The Sydney-based company raised around 90 million Australian dollars, or around $63 million, in a ...
Private cloud infrastructure startup Oxide Computer reportedly raises $200M in fresh funding
Cloud-inspired data center infrastructure startup Oxide Computer Co. has reportedly raised $200 million in a fresh round of funding. The round was first reported by Axios, which named the U.S. Innovative Technology Fund as the lead investor. It comes less than a year after the startup raised $100 million in a Series B funding round. Founded ...
Startup aiOla strives to fix AI speech recognition woes with dynamic routing
Artificial intelligence startup aiOla says it’s breaking new ground in its quest to develop machines that can understand human speech as well as people can. Today it has announced a new “Speech Intelligence Gateway” that’s able to facilitate more reliable speech recognition by dynamically routing each audio request to the model that’s best suited to ...
Amazon’s stock falls after it ups its 2026 capital spending forecast to $200B
Amazon.com Inc. delivered record quarterly revenue on the back of strong cloud growth during the fourth quarter, but its stock fell in late trading after it missed expectations on profit and raised its fiscal 2026 capital expenditure forecast to $200 billion. The online retail and cloud computing giant reported earnings before certain costs such as ...
IBM invests in generative AI app design startup Anima
IBM Corp. is pushing into the emerging “vibe coding” trend via an investment in the popular “design-to-code” startup Anima App Inc., as part of an effort to help reshape how companies design, build and ship digital products in the artificial intelligence era. Vibe coding has become a hugely disruptive force in software development, enabling developers ...
Anthropic’s hilarious Super Bowl spot skewers potential AI ads – but OpenAI chief Sam Altman protests
Anthropic PBC is spending millions of dollars on a series of amusing Super Bowl commercials that poke fun at its rival OpenAI Group PBC, which recently said it’s going to start running ads in ChatGPT. The ads follow today’s pledge by the company to ensure that its popular chatbot Claude will always remain ad-free. In ...
Shares of Qualcomm and Arm slide following latest earnings reports
Two of the world’s top chip design companies were down in the dumps today, as shares of both Qualcomm Inc. and Arm Holdings Plc plummeted in late trading today amid concerns about memory supply constraints. Qualcomm’s stock fell more than 9%, while shares of Arm lost almost 8% of their value in extended trading, after ...
Alphabet to jack up AI spending as Google Cloud and ad business revenues shine
Google LLC’s parent company Alphabet Inc. beat expectations as it delivered its fourth-quarter financial results today, but its stock was trading lower after it revealed plans for a dramatic increase in its investments in artificial intelligence data centers over the next year. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.82 ...
GenLogs secures $60M to keep tabs on trucking industry with AI and roadside sensors
Trucking intelligence startup GenLogs Corp. says it’s going to inject artificial intelligence smarts into the freight industry after raising $60 million in a new round of funding today. The Series B round was led by Battery Ventures and saw participation from the likes of IVP, Cathay Innovation, 9Yards, Venrock, Steel Atlas, HOF Capital, TitletownTech and ...