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Norway’s 1X is building a humanoid robot for the home

February 21, 2025

Norwegian robotics firm 1X unveiled its latest home robot, Neo Gamma, on Friday. The humanoid system will succeed Neo Beta, which debuted in August. Like its predecessors, the Neo Gamma is a prototype designed for testing in the home environment. Images of the robot show it performing a number of household tasks like making coffee, […]

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Sakana walks back claims that its AI can dramatically speed up model training

February 21, 2025

This week, Sakana AI, a Nvidia-backed startup that’s raised hundreds of millions of dollars from VC firms, made a remarkable claim. The company said it had created an AI system, the AI CUDA Engineer, that could effectively speed up the training of certain AI models by a factor of up to 100x. The only problem […]

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Despite recent layoffs, Meta is expanding in India

February 21, 2025

Meta is expanding in India, despite recent layoffs of what the tech giant controversially deemed “low performers.”

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Fintech founder Charlie Javice’s criminal trial has begun

February 21, 2025

The criminal trial against fintech startup founder Charlie Javice began on Friday, with lawyers laying out their opening arguments, Reuters reported.  Lawyers reiterated their original claims and defenses from the lawsuit filed by JPMorgan Chase against Javice in December of 2022. The financial services giant alleges that Javice had helped “fake millions of customers in […]

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Apple takes on recipe apps with Apple News+ Food

February 21, 2025

Recipe app developers just got new competition. On Friday, Apple introduced a soon-to-launch feature for Apple News+ subscribers called Apple News+ Food, a new section that will allow users to search, discover, save, and easily cook recipes from dozens of existing News+ publishing partners. It’s set to roll out as part of iOS 18.4 and […]

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