Pentagon strikes classified AI deals with OpenAI, Google, and Nvidia — but not Anthropic
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This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs
The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire just released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI model and adjust its…
Exclusive eBook: Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones
The ultimate plan to live forever is a brand new body. This subscriber-only eBook explores R3 Bio, a small startup that has pitched a startling and…
SquareMind raises $18M for robotic dermatology platform
Squaremind has raised funding to launch Swan, a robotic platform that automates full-body skin imaging for early cancer detection. The post SquareMind…
Sereact gets Series B funding to expand Cortex 2.0 robot brain, enter U.S. market
Sereact plans to expand Cortex 2.0 from bin picking to tasks such as assembly and kitting, and it is opening a Boston office. The post Sereact gets Series B…
US uses unusual routes to send jet fuel to Japan, Philippine bases amid Hormuz closure
An unusual series of cargoes of military-grade fuel that is due to sail from the US across the Pacific Ocean illustrates how far the war in Iran has…
Hokusai’s erotic art on display at a Kabukicho noh theater
"Kabukicho in Full Bloom" is the third in a series of shunga art exhibitions organized by the Smappa!Group, which operates host bars and restaurants across…
Germany’s Merz says no ‘immediate’ Ukraine EU membership, floats Kyiv joining meetings
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday there was no prospect of Ukraine’s “immediate accession” to the EU, but suggested Kyiv could join meetings…
Reliable Robotics raises funding for fully automated aircraft
Reliable Robotics has raised $160 million as it continues to develop and work toward FAA certification for its Reliable Autonomy System for civilian and…
Pudu Robotics raises nearly $150M as it targets industrial applications
Pudu plans to use the funding to develop its embodied AI, grow its product portfolio, and expand in global markets beyond service robots. The post Pudu…
Cruz’ing through the terminal: A&K Robotics lands $8M for autonomous mobility
Investment is led by Business Development Bank of Canada’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund and Vantage Futures to expand production and R&D…
Crewline secures $7.1M to automate construction’s most repetitive task
Crewline automates construction rollers with retrofit kits, tackling labor shortages with a $7.1M seed round and $26M waitlist. The post Crewline secures…
The USC Professor Who Pioneered Socially Assistive Robotics
When the robotics engineering field that Maja Matarić wanted to work in didn’t exist, she helped create it. In 2005 she helped define the new area of…
Drones & Robotics AI Summit 2026: Entering the quantum era of autonomy
Heven AeroTech founder and CEO Bentzion Levinson explains how his startup has addressed drone navigation and communications in GPS-denied environments. The…
The case for fixing everything
The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series offering “a…
China’s 3-satellite surveillance network, Hong Kong’s inflation surge: SCMP’s 7 highlights
We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and…
Boston Dynamics Atlas robot deployed in Singapore factories
The new Atlas generation is being piloted at three manufacturing facilities in Singapore, marking the first commercial deployment in Southeast Asia. The…
Antioch raises funding to bring ‘software speed’ to robot development
Antioch has raised money to scale its team and apply simulation to accelerate robotics testing and validation. The post Antioch raises funding to bring…
What I’ve learned from 25 years of automated science, and what the future holds: an interview with Ross King
We’re excited to launch our new series, where we’ll be speaking with leading researchers to explore the breakthroughs driving AI and the reality of the…
Resource-constrained image generation and visual understanding: an interview with Aniket Roy
In the latest in our series of interviews meeting the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants, we caught up with Aniket Roy to find out more about his…
Scientists Build Living Robots With Nervous Systems
Engineers have long tried to mimic life. They’ve built machine learning algorithms modeled after the human brain, designed machines that walk like dogs or…
Back to school: robots learn from factory workers
By Anthony King What if training a robot to handle dirty, dangerous work on the factory floor was as simple as showing it how? Czech startup RoboTwin is…
Perseverance Smashes Autonomous Driving Record on Mars
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.In past missions to Mars, like with the Curiosity and…
New frontiers in robotics at CES 2026
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is one of the largest trade events in the world. Every year, thousands of companies showcase their state-of-the-art…