This fuzzy, purse-mounted robot is designed to ‘delight bystanders’
Best known for its Qooba cat pillow, Yukai Engineering has made a name for itself with some of the strangest little robots around. Who could forget, for example, Amagami Ham…
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Accel could raise billions for India, but it’s sticking to $650 million
Accel has maintained its India fund size at $650 million for its eighth vehicle, even as other venture firms in the region are racing to raise increasingly larger pools of…
Sam Altman has choice words for the OpenAI board members who fired him
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has strong words for the former board members who abruptly fired him late last November. “ll those people that I feel, like, really f—ed me and…
10 Best AI Tools for Ecommerce (January 2025)
The use of AI in e-commerce has brought forth a new generation of tools that make running an online store smarter and more efficient than ever before. From automated inventory…
YouTuber LegalEagle sues PayPal over ‘sleeping leech’ Honey extension
A new lawsuit alleges that the PayPal-owned browser extension Honey is cheating creators out of money. Honey, which PayPal acquired for $4 billion in 2019, works by automatically presenting users…
ScreenSpot-Pro: The First Benchmark Driving Multi-Modal LLMs into High-Resolution Professional GUI-Agent and Computer-Use Environments
GUI agents face three critical challenges in professional environments: (1) the greater complexity of professional applications compared to general-use software, requiring detailed comprehension of intricate layouts; (2) the higher resolution…
From Latent Spaces to State-of-the-Art: The Journey of LightningDiT
Latent diffusion models are advanced techniques for generating high-resolution images by compressing visual data into a latent space using visual tokenizers. These tokenizers reduce computational demands while retaining essential details.…
Graph Generative Pre-trained Transformer (G2PT): An Auto-Regressive Model Designed to Learn Graph Structures through Next-Token Prediction
Graph generation is an important task across various fields, including molecular design and social network analysis, due to its ability to model complex relationships and structured data. Despite recent advancements,…
Roborock’s Roomba competitor gets a robot arm
iRobot’s on-going financial crisis aside, the world of robot vacuums is still humming along. At CES Sunday, Roborock announced the Saros Z70. The Roomba competitor showcases what the company believes…
Bad news for Adrian Dittman/Elon Musk truthers
After days of speculation that X owner Elon Musk was secretly posting under an account named Adrian Dittman, new evidence suggests Dittman is, in fact, a real person living in…