Japan is building a 140MW AI factory for robots, and Nvidia is supplying all of it
Japan is building a 140MW AI factory for robots, and Nvidia is supplying all of it

Nvidia and a Japanese industrial consortium are building what Nvidia calls the world’s first national AI infrastructure for physical AI, and the specification is unusually concrete for an announcement of this kind. The AI factory will run 13,750 Nvidia…

Microsoft is coaching its salespeople to talk down the models it still runs on
Microsoft is coaching its salespeople to talk down the models it still runs on

Microsoft executives spent an internal meeting on Tuesday teaching the sales force how to run down OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, which would be unremarkable except that two of those companies supply the models inside Microsoft’s own products. The sess…

This AI doesn’t just translate languages, it invents brand-new ones

Forget Google Translate, this AI tool invents languages nobody has ever spoken, sounds, grammar, and all.

Hate editing videos? This new AI app turns your camera roll into ready-to-post reels

Reelful is an AI app that builds finished reels from your photos and clips, complete with voiceovers, captions, and music.

OpenAI built an AI super-hacker to break its own models, then locked it away
OpenAI built an AI super-hacker to break its own models, then locked it away

OpenAI has trained an elite hacker, then locked it in a cage. Its whole job is to break OpenAI’s own AI. The company says it is too dangerous to let anyone else near it. The model is called GPT-Red, and OpenAI detailed it this week. It is an automated …

A hack just showed how Suno’s AI music was really built: millions of scraped songs
A hack just showed how Suno’s AI music was really built: millions of scraped songs

For years, musicians have said AI song generators fed on their work without asking. A hacker just opened the black box and showed them exactly how. Leaked source code from Suno, one of the biggest AI music tools, tells the story. It trained its model b…

Apple is shopping for chip companies because its own AI servers can’t keep up
Apple is shopping for chip companies because its own AI servers can’t keep up

Apple built a trillion-dollar business on chips it designs itself. It cannot design the ones its AI needs fast enough, so it is going shopping. The iPhone maker is hunting for AI chip acquisitions, The Information reported. In recent months it has talk…

Boston Dynamics is testing Spot as a package delivery robot that walks from van to doorstep
Boston Dynamics is testing Spot as a package delivery robot that walks from van to doorstep

Boston Dynamics is testing Spot, its four-legged robot, as a delivery worker that rides along in trucks and hops out to carry packages to customers’ doorsteps. The company posted a video on Tuesday showing a human driver loading packages onto a conveyo…

Walden Robotics launches with $300M, and its factory humanoids have no legs
Walden Robotics launches with $300M, and its factory humanoids have no legs

Walden Robotics has launched from stealth with $300m and a $1.1bn valuation. The Toyota spin-out builds humanoids for factories, and it left off the legs on purpose. “If you listen to the people on the factory floor, they aren’t ready, and they don’t w…

An OpenAI researcher is leaving to build a $2bn AI drug startup that has no name yet
An OpenAI researcher is leaving to build a $2bn AI drug startup that has no name yet

No name. No product. No confirmed funding. And, possibly, a $2bn price tag. That is the shape of the newest bet in AI drug discovery. Miles Wang, a researcher at OpenAI, is leaving to start his own company, TechCrunch reported. He is in talks to raise …