2026-07-23
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 capable of generating images and 20-second video with audio — but in limited release to start
Black Forest Labs (BFL) is expanding its FLUX family beyond image generation with today's launch of FLUX 3, a multimodal frontier model trained to understand and generate images, or combined audio/video clips up to 20 seconds from a single prompt — and to extend the same underlying architecture to robotic vision and actions.The Freiburg, Germany-based AI lab says FLUX 3 is jointly trained a [...]
2026-07-23
Travis Kalanick raised $1.7B for his robotics comeback, and Uber chipped in
Travis Kalanick is back, and Uber is helping to fund him. The founder Uber forced out in 2017 has raised $1.7 billion for Atoms, an industrial-AI and robotics company he has built in near-total stealth for years. Andreessen Horowitz led the round. Its co-founder Ben Horowitz is joining the board. And among the investors sits […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-23
AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude
AMD and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday that commits AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in Helios rackscale solutions to run Claude. Deployment of the first gigawatt begins in the first half of 2027. Anthropic is already using […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-23
Reddit may cut Google off from its content, and it isn’t the only one
For twenty years, the deal between Google and the web was simple. Publishers let Google crawl their pages. Google sent readers back in return. That bargain is breaking. Reddit is the latest, and loudest, sign. Its shares fell about 9% on Wednesday after the Wall Street Journal reported that the company has discussed cutting off […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-23
Xbox is testing ad-supported game streaming. Amazon is folding Luna into Prime Video. Both admit cloud gaming has not worked yet.
Microsoft and Amazon announced new cloud gaming strategies on the same day, each acknowledging in different ways that the category has not reached the audience they expected. Xbox will test ad-supported game streaming, letting users in its Insider Programme stream games they already own for free with a one-hour session limit and advertising. Amazon is […]<br /> This story continues at The [...]
2026-07-23
I asked a disaster survival psychologist if AI usage should be the same level of 'emergency' as Pompeii — but instead she's worried about a technology catastrophe that I didn't even consider
It's not every day you get to talk to a survival psychologist in a hit National Geographic documentary about your technology fears — but how worried should we be by the rise of AI? [...]
