Gatik raises $200M to scale AI-powered autonomous freight
Autonomous trucking company Gatik has raised $200 million in Series D funding to expand its driverless freight operations across North America. The round was led…
Andreessen Horowitz Announces $1.1B ‘Machine Age Fund’ for AI Hardware & Infrastructure Investments
Insider Brief Andreessen Horowitz raised $1.1 billion for a new Machine Age Fund focused on AI hardware and infrastructure, including chips, memory, networking, data centers,…
Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro Review: Master of Phone Calls
Noise canceling is also top-tier. The buds have the standard noise cancellation, transparency, adaptive, and off modes, and you can fine-tune ANC strength (from one…
Looking beyond natural sequences | MIT News
A protein’s function is determined by its structure, and structure — the way a protein folds — is determined by its sequence of amino acids,…
a quarter of next year’s business
Nvidia has put nearly US$50 billion into the AI labs that buy its chips, and has lined up commitments for more than $500 billion Colette…
Qualcomm Launches Comprehensive Robotics Investment Initiative in Japan, Anchored by New Qualcomm Japan Robotics Center
Insider Brief Qualcomm Technologies plans to launch a long-term investment initiative in Japan focused on robotics, physical AI and industrial automation, anchored by a planned…
‘Darth Vader’ Wants You to Know He Definitely Supports Flock Surveillance
At the San Diego City Council’s most recent budget meeting, Sith Lord Darth Vader had some points to make. Between gasping breaths, Vader praised the…
Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data | MIT News
Can a city’s seawall stand up to a blockbuster storm? Will a region’s power grid hold against record-breaking heat? And can a town’s fire-fighting resources…
How AI coding tools are contributing to the popularity of JavaScript
In August 2025, TypeScript became the most used language on GitHub. This was the largest shift in GitHub’s language rankings in the last ten years…
HKU Researchers Develop Unified Benchmark for Physical AI
Insider Brief Researchers led by the University of Hong Kong developed RoboDojo, a benchmark that evaluates physical AI across simulation and real-world robot tasks and…
The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom
Travel just two hours west of Beijing by train, and you’ll find yourself surrounded by the rolling grasslands and ancient cinder cones of Inner Mongolia.…
Paving the way for greener ammonia production | MIT News
Ammonia is one of the most important chemicals produced in the world, ranking second only to sulfuric acid in the total volume produced each year.…