Robots beat human records at Beijing half-marathon
The winning time is a massive improvement over last year’s race, when the fastest robot finished in two hours and 40 minutes.
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Happy Horse AI
The demand for hyper-realistic video generation is skyrocketing, and Happy Horse AI has quickly emerged as a frontrunner in this competitive space. This The post Happy Horse AI appeared first…
Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures
Palantir’s ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it’s worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of “the West.”
TechCrunch Mobility: Uber enters its assetmaxxing era
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
Cracks are starting to form on fusion energy’s funding boom
Fusion startups and investors risk deepening fissures if some key disagreements aren’t settled amicably.
Blue Origin successfully re-uses a New Glenn rocket for the first time ever
It’s a major milestone for the company’s new mega-rocket system, putting it in position to challenge SpaceX’s dominance of the global launch market.
NVIDIA Releases Ising: the First Open Quantum AI Model Family for Hybrid Quantum-Classical Systems
Quantum computing has spent years living in the future tense. Hardware has improved, research has compounded, and venture dollars have followed — but the gap between a quantum processor running…
xAI Launches Standalone Grok Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech APIs, Targeting Enterprise Voice Developers
Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has launched two standalone audio APIs — a Speech-to-Text (STT) API and a Text-to-Speech (TTS) API — both built on the same infrastructure that powers…
A Coding Tutorial for Running PrismML Bonsai 1-Bit LLM on CUDA with GGUF, Benchmarking, Chat, JSON, and RAG
In this tutorial, we implement how to run the Bonsai 1-bit large language model efficiently using GPU acceleration and PrismML’s optimized GGUF deployment stack. We set up the environment, install…
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7: A Major Upgrade for Agentic Coding, High-Resolution Vision, and Long-Horizon Autonomous Tasks
Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.7, it’s latest frontier model and a direct successor to Claude Opus 4.6. The release is positioned as a focused improvement rather than a full…