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AI News
Aug 26, 2026 15

Xtracycle's Swoop ASM e-bike brings an automatic transmission to cargo bikes

A steel frame cargo bike with a unique twist: You can let it choose your gear.

AI News
Aug 26, 2026 48

Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them

Runable says 60%–70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.

AI News
Aug 26, 2026 21

Gatik raises $200M to scale AI-powered autonomous freight

Autonomous trucking company Gatik has raised $200 million in Series D funding to expand its driverless freight operations across North Am...

AI News
Aug 26, 2026 25

NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings physical AI to drones and robots

NVIDIA has unveiled the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an edge robotics computer aimed at bringing physical AI to drones, robots, and vision systems...

AI News
Aug 26, 2026 20

AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?

Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smarts with crosswords...

AI News
Aug 26, 2026 20

Raised on AI

When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proc...

AI News
Aug 26, 2026 20

Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?

It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in th...

AI News
Aug 26, 2026 19

India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call

Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.

AI News
Aug 26, 2026 18

Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say

The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.

AI News
Aug 26, 2026 18

OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues

Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman a...

Research
Aug 26, 2026 11

Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers

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Research
Aug 25, 2026 17

AgentHands: Generating interactive hand gestures for spatially grounded agent conversations in XR

Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization