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iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks details why humanoid robots won't learn human-level dexterity from current methods, how to make them safe for humans, and more — rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids- wont-learn-dexterity/ — In this post I explain why today's humanoid robots will not learn …
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| Lee Jung-joo / The Korea Herald: |
South Korea confirms that a fire at National Information Resources Service's data center, housing 647 government IT systems, directly damaged 96 of them — Covering social issues on Seoul, civil security, climate — The Ministry of Interior and Safety said Sunday that recovery work …
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| The Information: |
Sources: data integration company Fivetran is in talks to acquire data management company dbt Labs in a deal valuing the combined entity at between $5B and $10B — Fivetran, a startup used by companies to manage and prepare data for analytics and artificial intelligence …
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Justin Sun, who was facing an SEC fraud lawsuit before investing $90M in Trump family cryptocurrencies and becoming a business associate of Trump — Justin Sun was facing an SEC fraud case, but $90 million of Trump coins later, he's doing business with the president's family.| Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
At the UN, the US rejected calls for collaborative efforts around AI governance, even as many leaders endorsed a need for urgent international collaboration — While heads of state and world experts highlighted risks and opportunities from AI, U.S. representatives expressed deep opposition … | Stephen Foley / Financial Times: |
Accenture, which laid off 11K+ employees in the past three months, warns of more cuts if workers cannot be retrained to have the skills needed for the age of AI — Group details $865mn restructuring programme and outlook reflecting sluggish corporate demand for consulting projects| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the setbacks facing the US DOD's Replicator program that seeks to quickly produce low-cost drones and other autonomous weapons to counter China — The work is being shifted to a new organization, called DAWG, to accelerate plans to buy thousands of drones
More: RealClearDefense, Ukrainian National News, Reuters, Mashable, DroneDJ, and DroneXL.co
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| Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: |
Fermi, a data center real estate investment trust co-founded by former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, aims to raise $550M in a US IPO at a $13.16B valuation — Fermi, co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, is targeting a valuation of up to $13.16 billion in its U.S. initial public offering …
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| Jordyn Holman / New York Times: |
Q&A with Oura CEO Tom Hale on why many CEOs love its rings, competition from Apple, and more; Oura sold 2.5M rings in 2024 and expects $1B revenue in 2025 — Oura Health makes a pricey smart ring that busy executives, celebrities and others use to track health measures like their sleep patterns.
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Ant International, Ant Group's cross-border payments unit using AI and blockchain for treasury management, which handled $1.1T in cash flow in 2024 — Ant International is using its vast data trove and AI engineering expertise to muscle into the overlooked yet lucrative world of global cash management.
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| Jyoti Mann / Business Insider: |
Leaked Meta internal document shows updated training protocols for its AI chatbot to refuse any prompts involving sexual roleplay with minors — - A leaked Meta document shows how its AI chatbot should respond to child sexual exploitation prompts. — It now says the chatbot should refuse …
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI executives working on Stargate say that it costs about $50B to build a data center with roughly 1 GW of capacity, with $35B going toward AI chips — Sam Altman and his partners intend to get creative to cover the growing cost of data centers and chips for AI. But first... Three things to know:| FinSMEs: |
Manas AI, the AI drug discovery startup founded by Reid Hoffman and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, raised a $26M seed extension after a $24.6M seed in January — Manas AI, a NYC-based AI native drug discovery and development company, raised $26M in Seed extension funding.
More: VC News Daily, Business Wire, and Pulse 2.0
| Financial Times: |
Sources: AI image generation startup Black Forest Labs is exploring raising $200M-$300M at a $4B valuation, after a prior undisclosed round at a $1B valuation — Black Forest Labs explores raising between $200mn and $300mn — A secretive, one-year-old German artificial intelligence start … Sponsor Posts
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