Google Deepmind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3

November 13, 2025

Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called SIMA 2 that can navigate and solve problems in a wide range of 3D virtual worlds. The company claims it’s a big step toward more general-purpose agents and better real-world robots. Google DeepMind first demoed SIMA (which stands for “scalable instructable multiworld agent”) last year. But…

Your Story Isn’t Just Branding — It’s a Blueprint For Beating the Competition

November 13, 2025

From choosing a name others doubted to creating a culture that feels like home, this is how naming our restaurant turned identity and mission into a business blueprint.

Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in

November 13, 2025

Bindwell applies AI drug discovery techniques to invent new pesticide molecules.

EU launches antitrust probe into how Google’s anti-spam policy affects publishers’ search rankings

November 13, 2025

The Commission said on Thursday that it had identified that Google is using its spam policy to push news media and other publishers’ websites and content lower in search rankings when they include content from third parties.

Harbinger raises $160M, will build trucks for FedEx

November 13, 2025

The Los Angeles-based startup will build more than 50 electric truck chassis for the delivery giant by the end of this year.

Spotify introduces a Premium Platinum plan with lossless access in five markets

November 13, 2025

Spotify is debuting a new tiered premium plans in five markets with the costliest tier gaining access to lossless streaming.

The Simple Way You Can Transform Your Social Bio into a Branded, Data-Driven Business Hub

November 13, 2025

Get lifetime access to Bio.ly Pro $40 and unlock smarter ‘link in bio’ analytics.

Google augments AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you

November 13, 2025

Google is expanding AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you about local inventory.

Coding assistant Cursor raises $2.3bn five months after its previous round

November 13, 2025

Cursor plans to use the capital to continue developing Composer, the AI model the vibe coding startup released in October.

The Download: AI to measure pain, and how to deal with conspiracy theorists

November 13, 2025

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI is changing how we quantify pain Researchers around the world are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure. The…

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