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Larry Page’s flying car company Pivotal loses its CEO
The company told TechCrunch he is "pursuing new endeavors."
Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research
Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific papers could be a stepping stone for innovation.
Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off
George Arison is done letting Wall Street's "Grindr discount" go unchallenged — in a wide-ranging Q A, the CEO walks us through how AI, a controversial $350-plus EDGE tier, and a bet on healthcare and long-distance matchmaking are turning Grindr into the "gayborhood in your pocket" he's been promising since 2022.
Show HN: Academa – Long-form STEM lecture videos generated by LLMs
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Ikea’s Xbox collection includes a giant thumbstick stool
Some pieces in the Yxstaby collection are more obviously Xbox-inspired than others. | Image: Ikea Ikea has teamed up with Microsoft to launch a new assortment of gaming-inspired furniture and home accessories, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the first Xbox console. The nine-piece Yxstaby collection (good luck pronouncing that) includes a TV stand, laptop stand, side table, lounge chair, and multi-functional toolbox, with standout products like a stool, cushion, decorative platter, and mirrored display box being specifically designed around recognizable Xbox controller motifs. The Yxstaby range makes it easier to "bring play into a room and tuck everything away afterwards," according to Ikea's press release, with each piece creat … Read the full story at The Verge.
TrueFoundry's open source AI agent harness TrueForge boasts 30%-75% cheaper task completion than Claude Managed Agents
Another day, another new AI agent harness is released.Only this time, it s one that aims to solve a growing enterprise problem as AI agents proliferate: enabling greater developer control of agents and tools, while reducing cost. TrueFoundry, a San Francisco B2B machine learning startup co-founded in 2021 by former Meta and Google engineers, has released its own custom TrueForge harness under the permissive MIT License on Github. Thus, it can be used with any of a developer (or their parent enterprise s) preferred AI models, forked, modified, self-hosted and incorporated into commercial products. The company states in a blog post that when it used TrueForge paired with the open source GLM-5.2 LLM to successfully complete 11 of 14 tasks on DevRev’s Enterprise-Bench — testing multi-step tool use across CRM, issue tracking, and document management systems — it cost 75% less than achieving the same results with Anthropic s Claude Managed Agents harness powered by Claude Opus 4.8 ($2.90 com
How green is your robot? And other awkward questions
Deborah Lupton / Servers in a Landscape / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Emmet Cole Robots clean rivers and sort waste, monitor ecosystems, and inspect renewable-energy infrastructure. But even the greenest robot has an environmental footprint. If robotics is going to help build a more sustainable world, the robotics community has to answer some potentially [ ]
Volvo’s cars will warn one another about hazards in the road
Volvo is updating three of its electric vehicles with new hazard alerts to warn drivers when there are animals or vulnerable road users ahead. The new connected safety features are based on Volvo's cars talking to one another, as opposed to crowdsourced alert systems used by popular navigation tools like Google Maps and Waze. The alerts work by using connected vehicle data from Volvo's fleet of passenger vehicles in Europe, the US, and Canada. The car's sensors and cameras are tuned to identify certain risks on the road. When one Volvo spots a hazard, it automatically logs the location and sends it to Volvo's servers. Alerts are then sent … Read the full story at The Verge.
Prompt injection ranks No. 1 with OWASP and No. 12 in the incident record. The attack itself is invisible to a scan.
A CISO who sees a low CVE count and deprioritizes prompt injection is reading the scoreboard wrong. Prompt injection has held the No. 1 spot on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications for three consecutive years. When two leaders of that list checked it against 6,639 labeled real-world incidents, it came back at No. 12. The drop measures visibility rather than danger, because the attack operates where a vulnerability scanner cannot see it.That finding belongs to Kyriakos “Rock” Lambros and Steve Wilson, two leaders of the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications project, who published it on arXiv on August 18 with the disclaimer attached. The analysis is exploratory, not peer reviewed, and not the official OWASP release, and the authors state it does not supersede the official list or its process.The machinery behind it is real: 7,714 LLM security incidents from CVE, GitHub Security Advisories, OSV, and the AIAAIC AI-harm database, 6,639 of them labeled against a 20-entry taxonomy, and a Bayesi
Block’s new Apache 2.0 agent workspace Berd works across models and harnesses, stores conversation history locally
Block, the technology company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that owns Square, Cash App and the music streaming service Tidal, is open-sourcing Berd, a desktop application it originally built to give its own employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, tools and projects.Berd is a locally installed graphical desktop application rather than a browser-based workspace. It is available now on GitHub under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — meaning anyone can use, modify and redistribute it, including commercially — with free downloadable builds for macOS, Windows and Linux. The repository reached version 0.6.2 on Aug. 18, its seventh public release, and lists 91 contributors.“Berd is desktop-first because much of its value comes from working directly with projects, local files, tools, repositories, and agents running on or connected to the user’s computer,” Brad Axen, Head of AI Capabilities at Block, told VentureBeat in emailed responses.A d
StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator
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Google needs Hollywood more than the studios need AI
Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood's biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI models on copyrighted material in exchange for massive piles of cash. In theory, these deals would be a win-win: a huge financial boon to the studios that would also give Google a significant advantage in its race to outpace other AI companies. But while there's little downside for Google, these deals pose a distinct set of risks to each of the studios that might be thinking about going all-in on AI. Getting into bed with Google this way might benefit Hollywood in the short term, but … Read the full story at The Verge.
The technology that could bring robot mowers to one in two American lawns
Improvements in AI, satellite navigation, and machine vision are helping robotic lawn mowers spread in the U.S., writes Sunseeker's founder. The post The technology that could bring robot mowers to one in two American lawns appeared first on The Robot Report.
Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
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Is Agentic AI Just Automation?
Why most agents are just flowcharts in disguise, and what to build instead. The post Is Agentic AI Just Automation? appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Learn how physical AI is being used to do real work at RoboBusiness
Leaders at Amazon Robotics, Teradyne Robotics, and Cobot will discuss how they're applying physical AI to robots operating in customer environments. The post Learn how physical AI is being used to do real work at RoboBusiness appeared first on The Robot Report.