Cambridge built a planet-scale AI model, and skipped Nvidia to do it
Cambridge built a planet-scale AI model, and skipped Nvidia to do it

The AI industry runs on Nvidia. A team at the University of Cambridge has just shown it does not have to. They have built a planetary-scale foundation model for the Earth, and every chip that trained and ran it came from AMD. The model is called TESSER…

Nvidia’s open-source simulator trains surgical robots in under two minutes
Nvidia’s open-source simulator trains surgical robots in under two minutes

The hard part of medical robotics is not the robot. It is the practice. A surgical system needs thousands of attempts to learn a delicate task, and you cannot run those on real patients. Nvidia thinks the answer is to let the robot rehearse inside a si…

Musk thanks Micron for chips, and builds a $55bn fab to replace it
Musk thanks Micron for chips, and builds a $55bn fab to replace it

Memory chips are the oil of the AI boom, and right now they are hard to get. So when Elon Musk used Tesla’s quarterly call to publicly thank Micron, it was worth noticing. Suppliers rarely get shout-outs. Scarce ones do. Micron recently gave Tesla a “s…

Apple is overhauling every Mac, and finally adding a touchscreen
Apple is overhauling every Mac, and finally adding a touchscreen

Apple spent years insisting the Mac would never get a touchscreen. That is about to change. The company is planning an overhaul of its entire Mac line, and the most striking new model is a MacBook you can prod with a finger. The refresh spans this autu…

White House steers $5 billion toward AI research in biggest federal science overhaul in 80 years
White House steers $5 billion toward AI research in biggest federal science overhaul in 80 years

Federal agencies have committed more than $5 billion to the Genesis Mission, an Energy Department-led effort to use artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific research, White House science adviser Michael Kratsios announced on Wednesday. The init…

Arrakis emerges from stealth with $38 million to bring AI to factories and supply chains
Arrakis emerges from stealth with $38 million to bring AI to factories and supply chains

Arrakis, a London and Paris startup building what it calls an AI operating system for industrial companies, has emerged from stealth with $38 million in total funding and a thesis that the biggest returns from artificial intelligence will come from fac…

Samsung unveils the Z Fold8 Ultra, a reimagined Z Fold8, and intelligent eyewear at Galaxy Unpacked in London
Samsung unveils the Z Fold8 Ultra, a reimagined Z Fold8, and intelligent eyewear at Galaxy Unpacked in London

Samsung used its Galaxy Unpacked event in London on Tuesday to launch six products at once, its broadest hardware refresh in years. The lineup includes the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, the first time Samsung has brought its Ultra designation to a foldable, al…

NEURA is building gyms to train robots for the real world
NEURA is building gyms to train robots for the real world

NEURA Robotics is opening ‘gyms’ where robots train under real-world conditions, starting with two German universities. Its bet is that the thing holding humanoids back is not intelligence, but a shortage of real experience. The German robotics firm NE…

Jack Dorsey’s Block takes on Slack with Buzz, a workspace for humans and AI agents
Jack Dorsey’s Block takes on Slack with Buzz, a workspace for humans and AI agents

Jack Dorsey’s Block wants to take on Slack. The twist is that the workforce it is building for is half machine. Its new app, Buzz, is an open-source workspace where humans and AI agents share the same channels, and every agent carries its own portable …

This AI-piloted fighter jet takes off with no runway. It just cleared a key test.
This AI-piloted fighter jet takes off with no runway. It just cleared a key test.

A fighter jet that needs no runway is a step closer to flight. Shield AI and GE Aerospace say they have completed engine light-off testing for the X-BAT. It is an AI-piloted strike aircraft, built to take off and land vertically. The two firms announce…