AI & Robotics

Imbue, formerly known as Generally Intelligent, may now be enjoying a $1 billion valuation — and unicorn status — after this week’s funding round of $200 million led by Astera Institute, NVIDIA, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt, Notion co-founder Simon Last, and other investors. But the AI research lab, which focuses on building custom, reasoning AI agents, doesn’t see itself in direct competition…

Opera GX, the web browser tailored for gamers, wants to revolutionize the browsing experience with the introduction of Aria, a sophisticated browser AI designed to assist users with a wide range of tasks. Powered by Opera‘s proprietary Composer architecture, Aria goes beyond conventional AI capabilities, Opera said. Not only can it write code, but it also taps into real-time internet data to…

As early as last fall, before ChatGPT had even launched, experts were already predicting that issues related to the copyrighted data that trained generative AI models would unleash a wave of litigation that, like other big technological changes that changed how the commercial world worked — such as video recording and Web 2.0 — could one day come before a certain group of nine…

My favorite episode of the hit sci-fi/horror TV series Black Mirror is “Be Right Back,” which premiered 10 years ago now, and captured the alienating experience of a woman cloning her dead ex-boyfriend by using a service that analyzed his social media posts and texts to recreate his personality. The episode seemed fantastical but just on the edge of plausible at the time in 2013 — after…