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FundingDream Labs Raises $90M Seed to Bring Robot AI Across Different Machines
Dream Labs, a startup founded by former NVIDIA robotics researchers, has raised $90 million in seed funding and launched a public…
IndustryNvidia CEO urges German manufacturers to adopt AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged Germany’s makers of cars and industrial machines to quickly adopt artificial intelligence to…
ProductsZillow Launches Claude Connector for Listings, Tours, and Financing
Zillow announced on October 19, 2026, that a Zillow experience is now available in Anthropic’s Claude through a new connector,…
Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts
OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent that’s become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into…
FundingGermany’s Merz urges AI investment ahead of Nvidia deal
Chancellor Friedrich Merz appealed to Germany’s businesses to embrace artificial intelligence at an industry summit in Berlin on…
IndustryGermany Wants to Lead the World in Industrial AI: How NVIDIA Will Help
In the cavernous hall of Kraftwerk, a former power station in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NVIDIA founder and CEO…
FundingHow Boston is becoming a physical AI hub
Robotics talent, customers and investment are concentrating in Boston, and what that means for the U.S. physical AI industry.
ProductsWabi Opens Its Personal AI Assistant on iOS, Android, and Mac
Wabi, the consumer AI startup founded by Replika creator Eugenia Kuyda, opened its personal AI assistant to public download on…
FundingNiCE bets the company on AI, data and accountability, and the legacy business buys it time
Every company in the customer experience ecosystem now claims to be an artificial intelligence company. Last week, at NiCE Ltd.’s…
Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life
AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.
FundingTenstorrent Raises $1.5B Series E at $6.2B Valuation to Scale AI Compute
Tenstorrent has closed $1.5 billion in Series E funding at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation, the company announced on October…
IndustryMeta Details Prometheus Supercluster Scaling Toward 1 Million GPUs
Meta’s engineering team on October 19, 2026 published a detailed technical account of Prometheus, the company’s gigawatt-scale AI…
Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago
Eugenia Kuyda’s newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a…
FundingTown Lands $108M Series B as Valuation Hits $1B for Collaborative AI Assistants
Town, the company behind an AI work assistant it calls a Townie, announced a $108 million Series B on October 19, 2026, co-led by…
Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips
After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.
Women may be at greater risk of AI job losses. Telephone switch operators and PCs show why
The history of technological progress suggests that as AI spreads, the employment impact will hit women more than men.
IndustryRobot company bets touch, sound can give bots an edge over vision AI
Neura’s latest foundation model combines vision, touch and audio to improve robotic perception, but training it on enough…
ProductsNVIDIA Simulates Record 104-Qubit Fault-Tolerant Protocol on JUPITER
NVIDIA announced on October 19, 2026, what it described as a record-breaking quantum computing simulation on JUPITER, Europe’s…
Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign…
PolicyUS bans DeepSeek AI from government use as tech tension with China continues
DeepSeek is a powerful, popular and relatively inexpensive artificial intelligence model out of China.
ResearchWhy teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal diagnosis more reliable
A model developed by researchers at MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital adjusts scans on the fly to track fetal movement,…
ResearchInception Releases Mercury 3, Its Flagship Diffusion LLM
Inception introduced Mercury 3 on October 19, 2026, describing the model as the most capable diffusion-based large language model…
ProductsTogether AI Launches Together Post-Training Service for Custom Models
Together AI on October 19, 2026, launched Together Post-Training, a service for building custom models through user-defined…
“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world
“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher…
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