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Antigravity just halved the price of its drone — by swapping its headset for wristwatch control

Last year’s Antigravity A1 is the best beginner drone I’ve ever tried. I put a friend who’d never flown into its virtual cockpit and didn’t worry one bit. The A1’s also nice for people who’d prefer to think about flying rather than filming, because

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DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its internal production stack designed to accelerate inference, optimize chip performance, and reduce energy and compute costs

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Eka Robotics, which is developing a “vision-force-action” architecture for its physical AI models, raised a $150M Series A at a $1.45B post-money valuation

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Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving

Robots still aren’t that good at picking things up, despite billions of dollars of investment and endless videos fed into deep learning models. That may be about to change, thanks to a manipulation architecture built by Eka Robotics, which encompasses a force-sensitive gripper and a new kind of deep-learning

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"I have to stop this": Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robots she says are taking human jobs

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. A hot potato: A lot of people are angry at the sight of robots carrying out deliveries, seeing it as another sign that machines are making more human jobs obsolete. One such person, a

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Salesforce agrees to acquire AI-powered marketing platform Braze for nearly $5.7B in enterprise value, paying $47.50 per share, set to close from February 2027

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Spotify launches paid podcast memberships in 34 markets, including the US; creators can offer perks like bonus content or fewer ads and keep 90% of revenue

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Chinese state media: China inaugurates the National Data Group, a new state-owned enterprise that will focus on developing and utilizing data resources

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Apple commits up to $100M over three years to Pennsylvania-based Perryman Company, a titanium supplier for the iPhone Duo, and expands its Qnity partnership

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Note-taking tool Otter.ai raised $320M in non-dilutive capital from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund; PitchBook says it raised $50M prior to this round

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Four Z.ai founders participated in a 2018 to 2021 research project co-funded by CGTRI, which the UK's MI5 said had “very strong ties” to China's main spy agency

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Meet the TechPulse App: News and Video, Created and Curated by Real People - CNET

Earlier this year, we relaunched CNET’s tech news team and now we’re releasing an app to make news even bigger and more accessible. I’m excited to announce TechPulse, which replaces the venerable CNET app with an all-new experience. Our goal is to satisfy your thirst for real