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AI NewsSep 13, 2026

From $17.5B to the Bargain Bin: Why the Ultimate Remote Work Darling Cashed Out for Pennies

Miro’s buyout is not a sign that the product failed. Millions of people genuinely love the tool, and it remains arguably the best virtual canvas on the market. ...

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AI NewsSep 11, 2026

Bonafide Robotics : Architects of the Next Robotics Era

What has amplified Bonafide’s influence is its network of collaborations with institutions at the absolute forefront of the field. Publicly discussed partnerships and joint initiatives with Boston Dynamics, the RAI Institute, and Google DeepMind Robotics have created a rare concentration of complementary strengths. Boston Dynamics contributes unparalleled expertise in dynamic mobility and hardware athleticism; the RAI Institute brings deep reinforcement learning pipelines and simulation to real transfer techniques; Google DeepMind Robotics supplies cutting edge foundation models and large scale learning methodologies....

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AI NewsSep 7, 2026

Meta’s TRIBE v2 Is Trying to Build an AI Model of the Human Brain

Meta has released TRIBE v2, a research model designed to predict how the human brain responds when we see, hear or read something....

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AI NewsSep 7, 2026

Anthropic Is Heading for the Public Markets. Dario Amodei Has Built the Anti-Palantir .But Alex Karp Has a Warning

Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is preparing for what could become one of the biggest IPOs in history. The latest reports suggest... ...

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AI NewsSep 5, 2026

The Next Six Months in the AI Turf Wars

Forget the scoreboard of who has the highest Arena Elo this week. The real contest over the next six months will not be decided by another incremental model release. It will be fought in the messy spaces between capability, cost, control, and credibility. As of early September 2026, the frontier looks crowded and unstable. Anthropic has ridden a strong run with its Claude family. OpenAI just fired back with GPT-6 Astra and is loudly claiming the intelligence crown again. Google is recalibrating after delays. Meta keeps pushing competitive and more accessible models. xAI, now more tightly woven into the SpaceX machine, keeps promising the next leap while delivering steady upgrades. Chinese open-weight efforts continue to compress the gap from below....

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AI NewsSep 5, 2026

Why Neuroscience and Philosophy Need Each Other ?

Neuroscience maps the brain. Philosophy asks what the map means.Separate, both fall short. Together, they sharpen our understanding of the mind, choice, and what it means to be human. For decades the two fields often worked in isolation. Neuroscientists collected data. Philosophers debated concepts. The gap left room for overclaims and confusion. That is changing, and the change matters....

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AI NewsSep 2, 2026

Machine readable sports data is the future move

Coaches and athletes are about to get superpowers if this scales...

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AI NewsAug 31, 2026

Anthropic's TAM and the Ghosts of Railway Mania

Anthropic is reportedly set to tell potential investors its addressable market tops $30 trillion surpassing the $28.5 trillion figure SpaceX cited around its own IPO, according to the WSJ. The raise itself could top $100 billion at a roughly $2 trillion valuation....

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AI NewsAug 31, 2026

What is startup "Accelerated Understanding" all about

Accelerated Understanding are training large scale AI models that can simulate and understand physics to invent and discover....

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AI NewsAug 31, 2026

CEO and Co-Founder Swupnil Sahai on the Origins and Applications of the SwingVision App

CEO and Co-Founder Swupnil Sahai on the Origins and Applications of the SwingVision App...

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AI NewsAug 30, 2026

Inside the NFL Big Data Bowl: How Football's Biggest Analytics Contest Works

Every fall, the NFL throws open its most valuable trove of data the player tracking chips embedded in shoulder pads and footballs to anyone with a laptop and a knack for machine learning. The result is the NFL Big Data Bowl, a crowdsourced competition that has grown from a niche analytics experiment into one of the league's most important talent pipelines....

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AI NewsAug 30, 2026

Microduck: The $399 Robot That Learns By Falling Down

Hugging Face and its robotics division Pollen Robotics have introduced Microduck, a small, waddling, duck shaped robot priced at $399. Announced this week, the device is being pitched as an approachable, playful entry point into physical AI, standing in contrast to a robotics industry often associated with imposing humanoids and quadruped "attack dogs."...

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AI NewsAug 26, 2026

Why Nvidia Wants Hugging Face

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the open-source AI platform used by millions of developers to share and download models, for $12.9 billion. If it closes, it would be the largest acquisition in Nvidia's history bigger than its $6.9 billion purchase of Mellanox in 2020 and it would mark a striking evolution in how the world's most valuable chipmaker thinks about its own business....

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