Nvidia-Backed Robot Platform Says AI Wrote 80% Of Its Code, Cuts Robot Training Time 99%

Can agentic AI cut robot training time by orders of magnitude? According the General Robotics … absolutely yes.

Nvidia’s Hugging Face Deal Buys Control Of Where AI Agents Get Built

Nvidia’s $13B Hugging Face deal gives it influence over AI models, developers and agents, strengthening its platform moat beyond chips and CUDA.

Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address

Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users’ behalf.

Shipt becomes the latest delivery app with an AI shopping assistant

Users can ask the assistant to do things like “Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items,” or “Build a cart for easy school lunches and after-school snacks,” Shipt says.

AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?

Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee—AI adoption isn’t playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.

Amazon Prime Video’s new AI tech matches lips to dubbed audio
Amazon Prime Video’s new AI tech matches lips to dubbed audio

Amazon’s Prime Video is launching a new AI-powered feature that lines up an actor’s mouth with “human-dubbed” audio. The feature is only available with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall for now, but Prime Video plans to expand it to “additional titles” in the future. In its announcement, Prime Video says it […]

Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks

Cymphony was valued at more than $100 million in a $25 million Series A co-led by Sequoia and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund.

Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine

Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.

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Figure AI Commits $3.5 Billion To Nscale For Up To 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs

Figure commits $3.5B to Nscale for AI compute and up to 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs, betting billions on training the models behind its humanoid robots.