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Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities that let workers assign it tasks, rolling out in Europe in H1 2027 (Robert Hart/The Verge)
Robert Hart / The Verge: Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language…
Public First: 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 large countries, such as Brazil, Japan, the UK, and Canada (Financial Times)
Financial Times: Public First: 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share…
Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short…
Revolut co-founder and CTO Vlad Yatsenko plans to step down in July, replaced by executive Donato Lucia; Yatsenko joined as Revolut's first employee (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Revolut co-founder and CTO Vlad Yatsenko plans to step down…
A deep dive into the case for data centers in space, as SpaceX prepares to go public: Elon Musk's claims, the wider debate, power supply issues, costs, and more (Daniel Nishball/SemiAnalysis)
Daniel Nishball / SemiAnalysis: A deep dive into the case for data centers in space,…
Centralized control over the user experience not only leads to enshittification, but to "despotification"; decentralized protocols bring back democratic ideals (Mike Masnick/Liberalism.org)
Mike Masnick / Liberalism.org: Centralized control over the user experience not only leads to enshittification,…
A profile of Anthropic as it prepares to go public and broaden access to Mythos, amid criticism that commercial pressures have eroded its AI safety standards (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: A profile of Anthropic as it prepares to go public…
US SEC filing: Vanguard marks down Ola Consumer's valuation to ~$70.3M; Ola, which faces intense competition from Uber and Rapido, was valued at $7.3B in 2021 (Kunal Manchanada/Entrackr)
Kunal Manchanada / Entrackr: US SEC filing: Vanguard marks down Ola Consumer's valuation to ~$70.3M;…
Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit claim that peptide companies are spamming their forum in hopes of getting their posts scraped and used by AI chatbots (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit claim that peptide companies are…
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are among signatories on an open letter urging improved tracking of synthetic DNA potentially used in AI-developed bioweapons (Emily Mullin/Wired)
Emily Mullin / Wired: Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are among signatories on an open…
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