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TL;DR Wharton researchers found people accept wrong AI answers 80% of the time. Now apps like Moot are monetising the instinct to outsource decisions. A pair of Wharton researchers have put a name to something that many AI users have quietly started doing: letting chatbots make their decisions for
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TL;DR VLC developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf raised $5M led by Lightspeed for Kyber, an open-source SDK that controls remote machines with ultra-low latency. Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the lead developer of VLC Media Player, has raised $5 million for his startup Kyber, an infrastructure layer for controlling remote devices in real time.
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The DIY promise sure is appealing: a fun project, a beautiful bespoke result, and a cost that is just a fraction of what the store wants. Of course, it never works out that way. The project ends up being a nightmare, the results aren’t as good as you expect,
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You’ve probably used VLC Media Player, the free video player with the orange traffic-cone icon — it’s been downloaded more than 6 billion times. But according to its lead developer, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, robots will soon be almost as ubiquitous as his open source video software. Convinced that “hundreds of
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Most of the AI industry is betting that bigger models mean smarter machines. A new startup is betting the opposite. Aether AI, based in San Diego, has raised a $20mn seed round to chase a different idea entirely. Its founder thinks the next leap will not come from scale. It
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Immigrant founders have long played a significant role in U.S. technology, but access to early-stage capital often still depends on local networks, customer introductions and proximity to established investors. That gap has created room for a small number of venture firms focused on immigrant, diaspora and cross-border founders, a
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Robots are getting better at manipulating objects, but they still struggle with many tasks that are easy for humans. If these machines are going to be of much use in our world, they need to learn how to behave more like us. The problem is that we don’t have
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Over the past few years, I’ve often written about the state of 4K Blu-ray (and the state of physical media in general), and while sales numbers are often very doom and gloom, I’ve remained hopeful over its potential and popularity. We’re big 4K Blu-ray fans here at
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Prime Day is just around the corner, but sorting through its many thousands of discounts can feel overwhelming. Amazon is hoping Alexa can help you get the products you want at the best prices via its new Alexa for Shopping AI tool, but what exactly is it, how good is
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Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos believes that robots and AI will create a labour shortage, rather than sweep aside vast numbers of human workers. He expressed the view at the VivaTech Paris expo in the French capital this week, saying: I know there's a lot of
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AI investment now reaches into power, cooling, packaging, logistics, and automation, because compute capacity relies on systems that keep hardware operating. The constraints affecting data centre build-outs therefore also affect distributed infrastructure, factory systems, labs, warehouses, and field operations – where edge and IoT teams have to connect equipment, gather data,
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A decade after it began as France’s answer to the world’s great tech shows, VivaTech has become the place where Europe makes its case for the future, and the 2026 edition was its most confident yet. Every June, a corner of south-west Paris turns into the busiest crossroads
