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Oracle pledges $1B over four years to partners that sell its AI tools

Oracle announced a $1B, four-year commitment to its partner ecosystem at AI World in Las Vegas, covering training, test and demo environments, cloud migration funding and Marketplace sales. It also changed Marketplace rules. The pledge comes as Oracle cuts costs to fund its AI data centres. Oracle will spend $1B over the next four years […]

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Nscale sued in Norway over a data centre engineer’s dismissal

An engineer at Nscale’s Stavanger data centre has sued the AI cloud firm and subcontractor CloudBrothers, Bloomberg reported. He claims Nscale directed his work like an employer and that he was fired after raising pay concerns. The case comes as Nscale prepares a contested IPO. An engineer at Nscale’s data centre in Stavanger, Norway, has […]

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Unitree is building AI that lets its humanoid robots improve themselves

Unitree Robotics is building a system that lets its humanoid robots improve themselves, founder Wang Xingxing said on Thursday. He calls it Unitree Rehearsal. He named it the company’s most important project of the year, Minxiao Chang reported for the South China Morning Post. Wang spoke at a physical AI conference that Unitree hosted in […]

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OpenClaw creator puts last month’s token bill at $10M, The Register reports

Peter Steinberger created the open-source AI agent OpenClaw and now works at OpenAI. He estimates he spent about $10M on AI tokens last month. He said so on stage at Cloudflare’s Connect conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Thomas Claburn reported for The Register. Tokens are the units AI companies use to charge for the […]

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Recursive releases Flint, a laptop coding model largely built by its own AI

Recursive Superintelligence, the startup trying to build AI that improves itself, has released its first model. Flint is a free coding model small enough to run on a laptop. Recursive says its own automated research system helped build nearly every part of it. The company announced Flint on Wednesday and published the weights on Hugging […]

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OpenAI’s AI agents analyse a mouse brain gene atlas in 32 minutes

OpenAI, PerturbAI and Scripps Research have used close to 2,000 AI agents to analyse a large mouse brain dataset in 32 minutes. The team estimates that researchers working by hand would need months to a year for the same analysis, which OpenAI published on Wednesday. The agents ran on OpenAI’s GPT-Rosalind, a model built for life […]

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Eka Robotics raises $150M to teach robots to grip by feel

Eka Robotics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup building robots that handle objects by touch as well as sight, has raised a $150M Series A. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and F-Prime led the round, Eka announced on its blog on Tuesday. The round values the company at $1.45B post-money, Tim Fernholz reported for TechCrunch. F-Prime is a venture […]

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Intel CTO tells Dwarkesh Patel the world lacks tools to 10x chip output

Intel could not make 10 times more leading-edge wafers even if it wanted to, says its chief technology officer, Pushkar Ranade. The world lacks the chipmaking tools. Doubling output is about the limit, he told Dwarkesh Patel on the Dwarkesh Podcast. Patel filmed the episode during a two-day tour of Intel’s most advanced fab in […]

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UK to set up AI unit to spot and fight wildfires faster

The UK government will set up a Wildfires AI Unit to help spot and fight fires faster, after the country’s hottest summer on record. Prime Minister Andy Burnham is setting out the plan at England’s first wildfire summit on Friday, The Guardian reported. The unit will sit inside the National Situation Centre, the government’s crisis […]

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Formic raises $50M to bring general-purpose robots to US factories

Formic, a Chicago company that rents robots to American factories, has raised $50M. Today its robots are built for specific tasks. The money will help it move to general-purpose machines that can take on more kinds of factory work. Axios first reported the round on Thursday, after chief executive Saman Farid spoke to Natalie Breymeyer. […]

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