Isaiah Taylor was sixteen when he decided the nuclear industry had a size problem. Not that reactors were too dangerous or too expensive, though they are both, but that they were simply too big. The multi-gigawatt monuments to Cold War-era engineering …
When Zeus, a medical student living in a hilltop city in central Nigeria, returns to his studio apartment from a long day at the hospital, he turns on his ring light, straps his iPhone to his forehead, and starts recording himself. He raises his hands in front of him like a sleepwalker and puts a…
(NOTE: This article is part of an ongoing series that documents an experiment with using AI to fill the NCAA brackets and see how it fares against years of human experience. The original article is as follows.) This is the final entry in my series on u…
Tallinn-basedPickmybrain, a startup developing AI-powered “Digital Brains” for professionalsand public figures, has raised $2.1 million in a pre-seed funding round backedby business angels, Raison.app…
Researchers have found a way to turn any flat surface into a keyboard for AR headsets using your body’s natural reaction to pressure.
Slack just got a whole lot more useful.
Six weeks ago, a video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt on a rooftop went viral. It was, of course, not real. It was generated by Seedance 2.0, ByteDance’s AI video model, and it set off a firestorm that drew cease-and-desist letters from six major Hol…
There is a number that keeps getting larger, and on Tuesday it got larger again. OpenAI announced that it had closed its latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital, valuing the ChatGPT maker at $852 billion post-money. The figure is up…
The Brussels-founded, Y Combinator-backed startup counts Orange among its early enterprise customers, which deployed a customer onboarding agent in four weeks. General Catalyst led the round. Nexus, the Brussels-founded AI agent deployment platform bac…
In the early days of large language models (LLMs), we grew accustomed to massive 10x jumps in reasoning and coding capability with every new model iteration. Today, those jumps have flattened into incremental gains. The exception is domain-specialized intelligence, where true step-function improvements are still the norm. When a model is fused with an organization’s…