Google’s new AI can now walk a humanoid across the room and tidy up, feet to fingertips

Google DeepMind wants one AI brain to run every robot, and it just taught that brain to use its whole body. It has released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of models that can control a humanoid from its f [...]

LinkedIn now has a ‘Seems like AI slop’ button, and yes, it really says slop

LinkedIn has a name for the vaguely inspirational, AI-written posts clogging its feed, and now it has a button for them. The professional network has quietly added a “Seems like AI slop” option to [...]

DataBahn Raises $40M to Build an Agentic Control Layer for Enterprise Data

DataBahn has raised $40 million in Series B funding as it looks to expand the infrastructure enterprises use to prepare, govern and deliver data to artificial intelligence systems. Insight Partners le [...]

Simile Raises More Than $200 Million at a $2 Billion Valuation to Scale Human Behavior Simulations

Simile has raised more than $200 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion post-money valuation, providing the Palo Alto-based startup with substantial capital to develop artificial intelligence mod [...]

Google's new Gemini Robotics 2 platform allows for 'intelligent whole-body control'

The company made a video of the bots in action doing stuff like cleaning trash and picking up watering cans. [...]

Scale AI is tapping a former Google Cloud executive as its new CEO

Francis deSouza, who previously served as COO and president of security products at Google Cloud, takes over on Aug. 10 [...]

NHS England admits its paperwork hid that Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data

NHS England has admitted that a key data-protection document misstated who could see patients’ medical records. It did not disclose the whole arrangement. Staff at Palantir, the US data-analytics fi [...]

Everyone hated Friend’s AI necklace, so it came back at double the price

The AI necklace that a chunk of New York wanted gone is back, and this time it talks. Friend, the pendant that listens to your day and pipes up with commentary, has re-launched with a speaker so it ca [...]

Winamp is making another comeback, this time with Deezer-powered streaming

It really whips the llama’s ass, and apparently it is not done yet. Winamp, the music player millions of us loaded up before Spotify existed, is planning another comeback. This time it has real stre [...]