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Building AI for Reliable Execution: Lessons From Industrial Robotics
Standard Bots claims to be “America’s largest AI-native industrial robot manufacturer.” It recently raised $200 million at a $1 billion valuation, in a series C round led by General Catalyst and RoboStrategy, a fund focused on robotics.
Building a context-aware AI assistant on AgentCore and OpenClaw
This post shows how to build a personal assistant that accumulates context using OpenClaw, an open source agentic system, running on AgentCore runtime, a capability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
Nvidia, Samsung back $90M round for AI agent startup Nous Research
Nous Research Inc., the developer of the popular Hermes artificial intelligence agent, today announced that it has raised $90 million in funding.
Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months
The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.
Quoting Matthew Green
I think there is a 1% chance we live in Minicrypt, and a 15% chance we functionally lose confidence in our existing public-key encryption algorithms. [...]
The Pentagon Hopes to Speed Up ‘Kill Chain’ AI Buys With 5-Minute Videos
The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
VideoAI Coding Is a Slot Machine: Loss Disguised as a Win | Jeremy Howard
Jeremy Howard, co-founder of fast.ai, on why AI-assisted coding works like a slot machine: you craft the prompt, pull the lever, and the occasional win feels like control.
AI agent developer Manus raises $500M+ at reported $4B valuation
Manus, the creator of the eponymous artificial intelligence agent, has raised more than $500 million in funding.
Share GPU clusters across teams with isolation and fairness using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Multiple teams within the same company increasingly need shared access to expensive GPU clusters for their generative AI operations, while maintaining isolation boundaries, resource fairness, and operational independence.
Pay-per-inference for AI agents: How BlockRun and Incarna use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments
In this post, we look at how Incarna used AgentCore payments to let its agents pay BlockRun for model inference one request at a time.
[AINews] AMD buys World Labs for $8.2B, as Atlas solves sparse reconstruction problem for robotics, design and more
Since our founding in 2024, World Labs has built leading AI spatial intelligence capabilities for everything from creative work to design.
Gallatin AI raises $50M in funding for its military logistics platform
Gallatin AI Inc., a developer of military logistics software, today announced that it has raised $50 million in funding.
Alphabet spinoff Isomorphic Labs reportedly raising funding at up to $50B valuation
Isomorphic Labs Ltd., an Alphabet Inc. spinoff working to accelerate drug discovery, is said to be raising a new funding round.
Automation Anywhere acquires Boost.ai to expand customer-facing voice AI
Automation Anywhere Inc., an enterprise agentic automation and orchestration firm, announced Wednesday an agreement to acquire Boost.ai Inc., a conversational voice artificial intelligence company, from Nordic Capital.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in 4 days — lock in your pass savings of up to $100 before prices rise
Four days until TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts, when 10,000 founders, investors, and tech leaders gather in San Francisco's Moscone West on October 13-15.
US venture deal value reaches record $515.8B as exits fail to keep pace
Giant artificial intelligence rounds have pushed U.S. venture capital deal value about 44% past its previous annual record with a quarter still to go, according to the quarterly PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report released today, but the exits needed to return that money to investors have not kept pace.