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The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.

Robot gaze is a major component of human-robot dialogue coordination. Most studies of gaze in human-robot dialogue focus on face-to-face social conversations, but little is known about gaze in demanding task-focused interactions. In this paper, we investigate how the gaze of a robot game partner affects human visual attention and if humans tend to direct confirmation-seeking gazes towards the robot. In our study, we let participants play a collaborative word association game with a NAO robot act

Election officials are facing an impossible choice: follow federal directives they don’t trust, or risk becoming targets of a criminal investigation. The post States are building their own election defense networks as federal support evaporates appeared first on CyberScoop .

Microsoft reported a 25 percent jump in carbon emissions in 2025 as it sets out to grow its use of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. The emissions increase was "driven primarily by the expansion of our datacenter infrastructure and pausing our use of non-additional, unbundled renewable energy certificates as we prioritize investments that bring net...

SpaceX went public a month ago in a record IPO. Elon Musk's space and AI company was added to the Nasdaq-100 last week.

Learning broad world knowledge directly from raw visual data is a fundamental capability of intelligence. We introduce UniVR, the first investigation into simultaneously learning complex reasoning, fine-grained physical dynamics, and long-term planning from pure visual demonstrations. At its core, UniVR features VR-GRPO, a reinforcement learning paradigm with complementary global and step-level rewards. This approach enforces logical coherence and physical consistency throughout the reasoning pr

Meta said the planned Hyperion data center supercluster in Richland Parish, Louisiana, will be a 5GW facility and cost more than $50 billion.

Private credit has become the financial system’s latest designated villain: opaque, fast-growing, and—depending on the headline—one bad quarter away from dragging insurers, banks, and retirees down with it. For the past two years, warnings about life insurers’ private-credit investments have become a staple of financial commentary. In 2024, the International Monetary Fund cautioned that private ... Private Credit, Public Panic: Why Life Insurers Are Stronger Than the Headlines Suggest The post P

Shein Executive Chairman Donald Tang will step down as his mission of taking the company public nears completion, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Monday, retreating to an advisory role after three years as the public face of the global fast-fashion retailer. A Chinese-American billionaire who began his career in banking, Tang has acted as the Western proxy of ‌secretive Shein founder Sky Xu, liaising with politicians and regulators around the world while also...

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Anthropic—currently the world’s most valuable AI company, with a nearly $1 trillion valuation—has a reputation for publishing strange and heady research. It’s looking into whether AI models can feel pain, for example,…

Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, "homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."

Meta will expand its largest data center to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity as investment in the project hits more than $50 billion, the company announced Monday. The Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, La., was announced in October and was originally projected to cost more than $27 billion as part of Meta's joint venture...

French startup Mistral AI’s recent financing round was led by ASML, a Dutch maker of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Such cross-border investments—even when small relative to US deals—are not ...

The Senate Banking Committee approved the bill 15-9 in May, with two Democrats joining Republicans to advance the legislation.

Narmi, a leading digital banking platform provider for banks and credit unions, today announced the upcoming launch of AI Decision Assist, a new agentic AI capability designed to help financial institutions automate and accelerate account opening reviews while still maintaining control, transparency, and compliance.

Investment in AI data centers could exceed $700 billion in 2026, pushing up inflation.

American consumers — and the Federal Reserve — are being hit with another high-cost headache. The gusher of investment in data centers — likely topping $700 billion this year — to power artificial intelligence has made memory chips, computer processors and other equipment, as well as electricity, more expensive. Economists expect it will continue to push up inflation at least through the end of this year. While it won’t be as large a spike as occurred in 2021-2023, when inflation peaked at 9.1%,

Investment in AI data centers could exceed $700 billion in 2026, pushing up inflation.

Investment in AI data centers could exceed $700 billion in 2026, pushing up inflation.

S&P Global hat Oracles Rating wegen massiver KI-Investitionen herabgestuft. Der Konzern ist nur noch eine Stufe vom spekulativen Bereich entfernt.

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Modern LLM-driven text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) systems produce synthetic speech that differs from the generators represented in many legacy spoofing benchmarks. This mismatch creates a temporal generalization gap that can overestimate detector robustness under real-world post-processing conditions. We bridge this gap by introducing VoxENES 2026, a bilingual (English and Spanish) benchmark of 53,628 audio samples generated using 10 contemporary speech synthesis methods and evalu

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, slammed Senate leaders Monday over the lack of ethics restrictions in a cryptocurrency regulation bill that is poised to hit the Senate floor in the coming weeks. Warren, a longtime crypto skeptic, raised concerns about President Trump’s recent financial disclosures, which showed he...

The AI revolution is here, and with it a fear that soon it will replace many of us in the workplace. The Australian government is grappling with how to deal with the multi-layered disruption but so far reform has been slow as it weighs up regulation against the claims of investment opportunities an AI boom presents. Could that change on Wednesday when the prime minister delivers a landmark speech addressing the government’s approach to the technology? The chief political correspondent, Dan Jervi

Aphasia following stroke commonly produces systematic naming errors with characteristic profiles, but whether general-purpose language models not designed for clinical simulation can reproduce these patterns remains untested. We investigated (1) whether lesions or controlled perturbations to a multimodal language model can reproduce different types of errors in picture naming, and (2) whether the framework can reproduce the complete error profile of individual persons with aphasia (PWAs). Using

Extending the context length of large language models (LLMs) is critical for many real-world applications, yet standard transformers remain constrained by quadratic compute and linear memory scaling. In this work, we investigate the Associative Recurrent Memory Transformer (ARMT) as a practical approach for enabling long-context processing in LLMs, constant memory scaling, and better efficiency. We make three main contributions. First, we construct two domain-specific long-context datasets desig

The Paris Commercial Tribunal granted its request for court protection. The post Marine Serre Enters Receivership, Seeks Investor appeared first on Above the Law .

[Sponsored] As NATO and European governments accelerate investment in space-based intelligence, decision advantage will depend on how quickly sovereign and commercial capabilities can be fused into a trusted operational picture.

Active flow control involves nonlinear dynamics, partial observations, and computationally expensive simulations, making controller design particularly challenging. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has emerged as a powerful framework for such problems, but its success typically relies on large numbers of simulator interactions and produces neural-network policies whose decision process often remains difficult to interpret. In this work, we investigate a different paradigm: instead of optimizing

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D2C footwear startup BUILT has raised $2 Mn (about ₹17 Cr) in a pre-seed funding round from Singapore-based VC firm…

In this paper, we investigate preprocessing techniques aimed at improving the efficiency of accessing models of propositional formulas represented in conjunctive normal form (CNF). We focus on three fundamental tasks: uniform sampling, direct model access, and model enumeration. Our analysis reveals that most state-of-the-art preprocessors, when they do not preserve formula equivalence, are generally unsuitable for these tasks. In contrast, we demonstrate that preprocessors which preserve model

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Earnings season kicks off in earnest on Tuesday with big banks up first. Corporate America faces a high bar to beat investor expectations.

Spacetech startup Dhruva Space has netted ₹60 Cr ($6.3 Mn) in funding from IN-SPACe’s recently commissioned VC fund Antariksh Venture…

Cryptocurrency markets are vulnerable to trade-based manipulation, such as wash trading, which can distort price signals and mislead investors. Prior research has mainly focused on detecting manipulation using fixed rules or labeled examples, offering limited flexibility and interpretability for assessing potential risks. Existing visual analytics tools can reveal basic manipulation-related signals, such as token distribution, but still require substantial manual effort to integrate holder relat

Economists expect the $700 billion investment in data centers will continue to push up inflation at least through the end of this year.

Intel will in Irland mehr Chips für Prozessoren herstellen, um von der hohen Servernachfrage zu profitieren.

What GAO Found In May 2025, GAO identified 5 priority recommendations for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Since then, USDA has implemented two of those recommendations. In June 2026, GAO identified an additional 3 priority recommendations, bringing the total to 6. GAO is highlighting the following three areas that warrant timely and focused attention: Improving IT modernization, Deterring SNAP retailer fraud, and Improving data sharing on foreign investment in U.S. agricultural land.

Graph sampling techniques have been widely used to simplify network computation and visualization, which also results in inevitable differences between the sampled networks and the original networks in terms of nodes, edges and structures. Investigating such differences can inform graph sampling technique users of the pros and cons of different techniques and select the appropriate one, and can also help graph sampling developers evaluate their own technique. However, there are still no systemat