Robot Hands Just Learned to Feel Using 10,000 Hours of Touch Data
While everyone's training robot brains on YouTube videos, DAIMON just released 10,000 hours of what it feels like to actually touch things.
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Accenture and Adobe Drop $110M on AI That Replaces Customer Service Agents
Customer service agents—human and AI alike—are being measured the same way now: by cost per resolution. Netomi raised $110M led by Accenture Ventures and Adobe Ventures, with backing from OpenAI's Greg Brockman, DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, and Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman
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Claude Runs His Business. ChatGPT Keeps It Alive When Claude Goes Down.
The multi-model strategy isn't hedging anymore — it's the default position for businesses that can't afford downtime. Alex Cohen, CEO of Xander Marketing, now runs 80-90% of his business on Claude, with ChatGPT and Gemini splitting the remaining 10%
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Big Tech Burns Sweden's Entire GDP on AI in 12 Months
Seven hundred billion dollars is more than the GDP of Sweden—and it's all going into a bet that agents will eat the world before someone else's agents do. US Big Tech's combined 2026 capex is projected to hit $725 billion, overwhelmingly targeted at AI data center infrastructure
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Anthropic Seeks $900B Valuation Despite $2.7B Annual Loss
The company that lost $2.7 billion last year is now worth more than Walmart, Home Depot, and Boeing combined. Anthropic has received pre-emptive funding offers at $850B-$900B valuations, potentially raising $50B in new capital
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Pentagon Picks Gemini Over GPT-4 for Defense AI
When the Pentagon chooses your model, it's not just a contract — it's a signal that your AI is good enough to point at real targets. Google signed an AI contract with the Pentagon, triggering internal employee backlash similar to the 2018 Project Maven controversy
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Runway's $5.3B Bet: AI Video Was Never the Endgame
While everyone's still gawking at AI-generated TikToks, Runway's CEO is already building the simulation layer beneath reality itself.
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Musk Wanted to Name OpenAI "Freemind" to Mock Google
The AI kingmaker who wanted to call his project "Freemind" as a dig at Google looked less like a visionary and more like a man settling scores on day one.
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AI CEOs Aren't Warning Workers—They're Pitching Wall Street
Tech CEOs warning about mass job loss aren't accidentally talking to workers. They're pitching investors on the elimination of their largest cost center.
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PayPal: 95% of Merchants Can't See Where Their Sales Are Coming From
The storefront isn't dying — it's just invisible to you now, and most merchants still can't see it either. PayPal's first U.S. Agentic Commerce Pulse Survey reveals 95% of merchants already detect AI agent traffic, but only 20% have machine-readable product catalogs that agents can actually use.
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GM Just Made 4 Million Older Cars Smarter Than New Ones
The car you bought in 2022 is about to get smarter than the one sitting on dealer lots today. GM is pushing Gemini AI to ~4 million vehicles (model year 2022+) across Cadillac, Chevy, Buick, and GMC via OTA updates over the next several months
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DeepMind Veteran Raises $1.1B to Kill Human Training Data
The biggest AI funding round of 2026 just bet against the entire premise of ChatGPT. Ineffable Intelligence raised $1.1 billion to build AI systems using reinforcement learning instead of human-labeled training data
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Google Researcher Breaks Ranks Over Secret Pentagon AI Deal
Google's AI researchers are learning that "Don't be evil" expires the moment a defense contract gets amended. Google amended an existing Pentagon contract to allow classified use of its AI models, despite 600+ employees petitioning CEO Sundar Pichai to block exactly this scenario.
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YouTube's New AI Lets You Talk to Videos Like ChatGPT
YouTube just became a research assistant that talks back. YouTube is testing conversational AI search for Premium subscribers in the U.S., surfacing longform videos, Shorts, and text summaries in response to natural language queries.
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Pentagon Gets Unrestricted Access to Google's AI Under Classified Deal
The Pentagon just bought Google's moral compromise at bulk rates. Google signed a classified deal giving the Department of Defense access to its AI models for "any lawful government purpose", joining OpenAI and xAI in military AI contracts
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Google's AI Engineers Revolt Against Pentagon Weapons Deal
The people building the most powerful AI tools in the world are publicly asking their boss not to sell them to the people with the most powerful weapons in the world.
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DeepMind's AlphaGo Creator Raises $1.1B to Replace Human Training Data
The man who taught computers to beat humans at Go just bet a billion dollars that human data is the wrong teacher. Ineffable Intelligence, founded by ex-DeepMind researcher David Silver, raised $1.1B at a $5.1B valuation — months after launch
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Xiaomi Just Undercut OpenAI on AI Agents by 90%
The agent economy just got a price war — and it's coming from a smartphone maker most Americans still think only builds cheap Android clones.
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Google workers revolt after discovering company already built Pentagon AI
The Maven rebellion is back, and this time the engineers know they're already too late to stop it. Over 600 Google employees, including 20+ senior leaders from DeepMind, signed a letter demanding CEO Sundar Pichai block Pentagon use of Google AI models for classified work
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Google Engineers Revolt Against Pentagon AI Deal Their Bosses Already Signed
The people building Google's AI want veto power over who uses it, and they're willing to organize against their own paychecks to get it.
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