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Radar turns podcasts into searchable, AI-readable data
A startup called Particle has built a search engine that transcribes more than 130,000 podcasts and makes the spoken word inside them usable by AI agents. Hedge funds are already paying for it.

Two ex-Meta researchers want warehouse robots to finally understand what they're looking at
Perceptron's Isaac 0.5 is an open-weight vision model built to help industrial robots handle complex, multi-step tasks on their own. The startup raised $21 million and is targeting factories, warehouses and logistics hubs.

Новая 3D-камера Nion от IDS Imaging дарует роботам чёткое объёмное зрение на скорости реального мира
Немецкий производитель промышленных камер запустил датчик 3D, отслеживающий быстро движущиеся объекты в сложных условиях освещения, нацеливаясь сделать высокоточное восприятие глубины практичным на заводских полах и в складских помещениях логистики.

Беспилотные экскаваторы уже перемещают грунт на реальных строительных площадках США
Компания Bedrock Robotics запустила полностью автономные экскаваторы без оператора в кабине на строительных площадках в Техасе и Неваде. Вот что это означает для строительных рабочих и проектов, которые они возводят.

A new tool lets you train a medical-grade AI search model on a single gaming GPU in half a day
Sentence Transformers v6.0 adds a smarter way to match search queries to documents, token by token. A real-world test beat every off-the-shelf retrieval model on medical text.

Robot brains are getting smarter, but they still can't do a real day's work
A wave of investment is pouring into physical AI, the technology that teaches machines to move through the world. But developers admit their robots are still stuck in an early, limited era, similar to where chatbots were before ChatGPT changed everything.

QueryStory: Making AI Data Analysis More Trustworthy
QueryStory uses AI to help businesses turn complex data into reliable stories, aiming for accuracy and transparency.

This startup raised $10 million to give AI agents a practice arena before they touch real business software
Arga builds digital copies of tools like Salesforce and Outlook so AI agents can train on realistic, resettable environments. The problem it is solving turns out to be the main reason enterprise AI agents keep failing.

These AI-powered glasses want to replace your hearing aid
Legato has raised $12 million to build hearing-assistance technology into ordinary-looking eyeglass frames, targeting the 40 million Americans with mild to moderate hearing loss who never seek treatment.

A New Tool Lets Researchers See Inside AI Models, Not Just Watch What They Do
AI lab Goodfire has opened its Silico platform to the public, giving researchers the ability to peek inside a model's workings and ask why it behaves the way it does.

Indian startup Runable raises $21 million to help small businesses find customers, not just build websites
The Bengaluru-based startup wants its AI agent to run ads, manage social media and grow a business from scratch, but it is still burning through cash to get there.

AI Fakes Are Poisoning the One Corner of the Internet People Trusted Most: Animals
From lost-pet scams to faked rescue footage, AI-generated animal imagery is eroding public trust in real conservation work and breaking the hearts of owners still searching for their pets.

Bill Gates Says AI Could Be the Greatest Equalizer or the Worst Source of Injustice
In a nearly 6,000-word essay, the Microsoft co-founder warns the world is unprepared for what AI will do to jobs, governments, and society, and calls for a new international body to manage the fallout.

A fake US think tank flooded AI chatbots with half a million words of pro-Israel talking points
A website posing as a research institute published 124 reports in nine days, using a platform built to make AI chatbots treat its content as credible source material.

Bill Gates Wants Some Jobs Kept Off-Limits to AI
In a 6,000-word essay, the Microsoft co-founder argues that certain roles should be protected from automation the same way nature reserves protect land, and warns governments are not ready for what is coming.

AI aces trivia but fumbles riddles: the puzzle tests that expose what machines still can't do
From mental rotation to river-crossing logic, a new set of benchmarks shows where AI trips over problems any sharp human can crack, and where it beats us cold.

Growing Up Alongside AI: What Parents Are Getting Right (and Wrong)
One parent's journey from oversharing online to flip phones and back again holds a lesson for every family trying to raise kids in an AI-saturated world.

Мечта Лондона о роботакси отодвинута на 2025 год: регуляторы и инженеры нажимают на тормоза
Uber и Wayve получили лицензии и обещали запуск «позже этим летом». Теперь людям, ждущим беспилотного такси в Лондоне, придётся ждать намного дольше.

Билл Гейтс заявляет, что ИИ уже преодолел опасные пороги
Миллиардер-филантроп обеспокоен рисками, на которые большинство людей еще не обратили внимание. Он хочет, чтобы они начали их замечать.

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Ringg Expands Voice AI Capabilities with $10 Million Investment
Voice AI startup Ringg secures funding as it shifts to complex tasks beyond simple calls in India.