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Physicl Secures $10M to Enhance Robot Training with Realistic Simulations
Physicl, founded by Alex de Vigan, has raised $10 million in seed funding led by Inovia Capital. The startup aims to improve robot training through realistic simulations, utilizing technology originally developed for creating 3D product renderings. De Vigan's previous experience with nfinite, which focused on generative imagery, informs this new venture's approach to bridging the gap between AI and physical interactions.
Physicl raises $10M to make the digital world real enough for robots
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Physicl raises $10M to make the digital world real enough for robots
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Physicl raises $10M to make the digital world real enough for robots
Alex de Vigan’s last business got swamped by the rise of generative AI, but now he’s betting the tech that team had built, a platform for creating tempting product renderings for e-commerce, can be re-purposed to make robots more useful. His new venture, Physicl, has raised $10 million in seed funding from Inovia Capital to help world model designers and robot builders solve thorny training problems with more realistic simulations.
OpenAI released a new cybersecurity model. Is that enough?
Max Justicz, the chief technology officer and cofounder of the startup Charge Robotics, used an OpenAI model to find a severe vulnerability that — if exploited — could allow hackers to take control of servers running Ubuntu, a widely-used open-source Linux based operating system.
Agility is the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market. Are you buying?
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A YC startup is putting $1M behind five unsolved materials science problems for AI
Discovered Materials, a months-old, San Francisco startup using AI models to find new substances for building advanced chips, announced a million-dollar challenge for AI models to solve five critical problems in materials science. While frontier AI models have solved a remarkable series of outstanding mathematics problems and made progress in the life sciences, they have yet to truly plumb the complex physics in advanced materials.
Agility is the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market. Are you buying?
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Agility is the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market. Are you buying? Original
Almost a year ago to the day, Figure AI CEO Colby Adcock responded to some gentle social media taunting from rival robotics company Agility with a prediction: “You’ll be bankrupt in <12 months.” Instead, Agility is going public through a reverse-merger that will see it become a publicly-traded company and raise $465 million in new capital from retail investors and a tranche of private funding. The transaction will take place through a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC.
Orbital Matter 3D printed the first rigid beam in the vacuum of space
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Orbital Matter 3D printed the first rigid beam in the vacuum of space
Gemini Notebook 2 hours ago Google to shut off search for schools that opt out of AI NBC News - Jared Perlo and Tyler Kingkade • 2h The company said that AI-enabled products would be shut off by default for schools, which would also cut off their access to Google Search. Google announced Tuesday morning that it would switch off AI products by default for students in schools that use the technology giant’s education software.
Orbital Matter 3D printed the first rigid beam in the vacuum of space
A satellite built by the German startup Orbital Matter satellite 3D printed a half-meter long beam out of a custom plastic material, in what executives called a first for a free-flying spacecraft in orbit, and a step toward constructing large structures in space. The company’s small satellite, Replicator-2, was launched on a SpaceX rideshare mission this summer, with four of the company’s 3D printers onboard.
Omen AI adds liquid know-how in $16 million Aquatic Labs acquisition
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Omen AI adds liquid know-how in $16 million Aquatic Labs acquisition Original
U.S. data centers use 17 to 19 billion gallons of water to cool their hot-running chips each year — and that number is expected to triple in the next five years, according to The Water Foundation. That’s an expensive and politically tricky proposition for investors throwing billions of dollars at the challenge of scaling up AI.
Omen AI adds liquid know-how in $16 million Aquatic Labs acquisition
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Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry
The first TPU in space is a running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.
Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry
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Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry
Google Suncatcher’s prototype space data center is online and communicating with the ground after launching earlier this month alongside more than 100 other spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The satellite, which carries a single Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) and generates up to 1 kW of electricity, is intended to pave the way for future networks of close-flying satellites performing large inference workloads in orbit.
Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry
3 hours ago It's down to $649 on Amazon, with $150 off Apple's premium adventure watch with GPS, satellite tools, and 42-hour battery. Add Android Authority on Google: Preferred SourceGoogle Discover Amazon just knocked $150 off the Apple Watch Ultra 3, dropping it from its $799 recommended retail price to $649. …
Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying
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Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying
The financials Anthropic shared with investors this week suggest that its AI coding tool, Claude Code, is every bit the business success the frontier lab wanted. The company recorded an operating profit in the second quarter, and 900% net revenue retention—that is, spending from the same customers in Q3 2025 grew nine times in Q3 2026.
Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying
8 hours ago Ask Texas NAACP president Gary Bledsoe what it’s been like to see data center developers descend upon Austin and its surrounding suburbs and he can rattle off project after project facing opposition from locals. There’s the fight in Taylor over plans to build a data center at a site that’s supposed …
Who's really in charge at Anthropic after the IPO?
Anthropic was founded in 2021 to ensure humanity can control AI and benefit from it in the long-term. As the frontier lab approaches its initial public offering, however, there's one class of humanity that is being shut out of control: anyone who buys its stock on public markets. Complex structures that allow founders like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg to control their public companies without owning most of them are nothing new in Silicon Valley.
Who’s really in charge at Anthropic after the IPO?
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Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?
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Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?
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How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant
The always-on AI personal assistant, which keeps working in the background even when you aren't asking it to, is this year's answer to the question of how people will actually use deep learning models. The startup Instinct became an overnight sensation, and Meta put the full force of its marketing behind its assistant, Muse. OpenAI wasn't going to be left out. The company released dots , its assistant offering, at its developer day in late September.
Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?
OpenAI released solutions to three blockbuster math problems that have long vexed researchers yesterday. One was a surprise rejection of the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH), a durable assumption in computer science that plays a large role in how we understand what is difficult to compute. As with previous proof-drops from the frontier lab, scientific communities responded with a mixture of thrill and dismay.
Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?
4 hours ago Alongside a new M6 iMac, Apple has also unveiled a new 14-inch MacBook Pro powered by M6. The new M6 MacBook Pro starts at $1,999 and will be available to pre-order tomorrow, October 28. Apple says: Apple today announced the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, delivering even more performance, powerful …
General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative
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CoreWeave, a publicly traded neocloud that rents out computing power for AI, has seen its stock price fall to a 12-month low, and Elon Musk is flexing $40 billion in debt for buying computing capacity and predicting that “200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation.” It’s not exactly the ideal week to announce a Series A for a neocloud. General Compute co-founder and CEO Finn Puklowski is unfazed.
How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant
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How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant
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OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing significant risks
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OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”
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OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”
On Friday, OpenAI said that it will train its models using cached copies and simulated versions of the internet instead of the live web because the models are too unpredictable to be trusted with live internet access. The frontier lab announced its new policy two weeks after its rival, Anthropic, began limiting its newest and, in theory, most capable models from accessing the live internet.
OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up
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OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up
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OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up
OpenAI made its Decisions API model widely available to users for the first time, entering the market for fast, cheap intelligence that recently made TypeSafe, a startup founded by a former researcher at the frontier lab, a $7.6 billion company. TypeSafe’s Jev model created a category for deep learning models that act as super classifiers: Given a set of options, they can quickly make choices and offer a confidence rating in their decision.
SpaceX’s AI business is beating expectations
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SpaceX’s data centers and Grok agents have been more profitable than investors expected in second quarter of the year, as the company leaves its roots as a space company behind to focus on artificial intelligence, which now makes up 52% of its income. Elon Musk’s deep conglomerate reported on Tuesday $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue, according to its regulatory filing.
Eka Robotics Achieves $1.45B Valuation with Advanced Manipulation Architecture
Eka Robotics has developed a groundbreaking manipulation architecture that includes a force-sensitive gripper and a novel deep-learning model. The startup, founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, recently secured $150 million in Series A funding, bringing its valuation to $1.45 billion. This funding round was led by a16z and F-Prime.
Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving
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Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving
Robots still aren’t that good at picking things up, despite billions of dollars of investment and endless videos fed into deep learning models. That may be about to change, thanks to a manipulation architecture built by Eka Robotics, which encompasses a force-sensitive gripper and a new kind of deep-learning model.
Forget rockets — Longshot wants to fire cargo into space from a gun. See it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Rockets are, infamously, a real pain in the butt. Our old friend physics forces rockets to be built with almost no room for error, and even then only a small fraction of their weight makes it to orbit. There are, at least in theory, other ways to do the job — space elevators, centrifuges, or a big chain hanging from a satellite in space and scooping up cargo from Earth.
Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites
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SpaceX and Google both said no. Now his software is riding a SpaceX rocket next to Google’s
The way Rama Afullo tells it, he saw orbital data centers coming. The Kenyan American engineer previously worked in Google’s cloud computing business before a brief stint at SpaceX’s Starlink communications network in 2024. His experiences convinced him that there was untapped potential for computers in space. “When I was at SpaceX, I tried to pitch this internally. They said no. When I was at Google, I tried to pitch this internally. They said no,” he tells TechCrunch.
WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data
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WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data
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WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data Original
The U.S. Air Force will buy data collected by WindBorne Systems‘ fleet of autonomous weather balloons under a new contract that could be worth nearly $50 million to the startup. WindBorne currently has about 700 weather balloons flying around the globe, collecting atmospheric sensor readings that the company sells to customers and also feeds into its own AI weather forecasting model.
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