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Workday reports Q1 revenue up 13% YoY to $2.54B vs. $2.52B est., and lifts its full-year forecast, saying its AI strategy is working; WDAY jumps 9%+ after hours

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Meta joins TikTok, Snap, and YouTube in settling with a Kentucky school district to avoid a trial over claims the platforms were designed to addict kids

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Sources: Starbucks shut down an AI program for automating inventory counts, nine months after deploying it, after it frequently miscounted and mislabeled items

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Modal Labs, which offers a serverless cloud platform to build AI apps and run AI inference, raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, up from $1.1B in 2025

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Gavin Newsom signs an EO mandating state agencies work with the AI industry and others to study subsidies for companies that don't replace workers with AI

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice

AI + ML A robot preaching in a church AI sycophancy + spirituality = uh oh Who needs a minister when you have an LLM? America’s Christian population appears to have found God in precisely the place you’d expect a manifestation of the divine to be spotted in 2026: Amid AI

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Sources: OpenAI generated about $5.7B in revenue in Q1, nearly $1B more than Anthropic

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Sources: the EU will propose temporarily lifting sanctions, imposed in April, on a major Chinese semiconductor supplier after automakers warned of shortages

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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August Robotics, which makes autonomous robots for construction and industrial applications, raised $30M led by Big Pi Ventures

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Brett Adcock’s AI hardware startup Hark raises $700m at $6bn valuation

Two months out of stealth, the founder of Figure and Archer has a chip-and-model stack and a chip-and-model-stack-sized cheque to match. Hark, the AI hardware company that Brett Adcock began funding out of his own pocket late last year, has raised more than $700m in a Series A that values

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This Is the Real-Life WALL-E Robot You’ve Always Wanted

The LEGO WALL-E robot that was released late last year has been very popular with fans of the movie who love the personality of this beloved Pixar character. But wouldn’t it be nice if this set did more than just look nice sitting on a bookshelf? YouTuber Crostplay2 thinks

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Apple plans to broadcast an MLS game on Saturday shot entirely on 15 iPhone 17 Pros, the first major live sports event to be captured using only smartphones

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.