If you remember racing home after school to grab the family landline and call your best friend before dinner, a new device from Pinwheel is aiming to reboot that experience for a new generation. The kid-focused tech company announced Tuesday the launch of Pinwheel Home, a modern take on the classic household phone designed to…
Hayden Bleasel, an expert developer from OpenAI, released Blume, an open-source documentation framework. Blume shipped to npm as version 1.0.3 the same day. It is as simple as Drop Markdown into a folder and ship a docs site. No app boilerplate is written or maintained afterward. The project is MIT-licensed and open sourced. What is…
A coalition of 12 state attorneys general is filing a lawsuit to block the merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), alleging that the deal would harm movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and audiences. The coalition, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, argues that the acquisition violates the Clayton Act, which prohibits…
General Fusion began trading on the Nasdaq today under the ticker GFUZ, becoming the first publicly listed fusion power company, beating competitor and Trump-backed TAE Technologies by several months. And investors seemed to want in. The stock rallied as trading began Monday and is now up 40% from $12.85 as of 12:50 p.m. ET. General…
Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new round of funding led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors at a $1.5 billion valuation, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal. The company is raising at least $75 million, and fielded a high…
X has made a “tweak” to its algorithm to spice up the visibility of posts to customers’ “mutuals” — the folks they comply with who comply with them again, head of product, Nikita Bier, said Monday. “We observed this knowledge was lacking from the algo and it made your folks seem much less in your…
A sample is rising amongst individuals who’ve already made it huge. They’re rolling up their sleeves once more, seemingly out of worry of lacking AI’s defining second and, presumably, the irresistible attract of constructing much more cash — doubtlessly much more. Tom Blomfield, who co-founded GoCardless and Monzo earlier than spending 4.5 years mentoring founders…
Singapore-based video-generation startup PixVerse stated at present that it has closed its Sequence C extension, with a complete of $439 million raised within the spherical. The corporate advised TechCrunch that, with the brand new tranche of funding, its valuation has crossed over $2 billion. With the money, the corporate goals to increase its world mannequin…
Uber has spent the last year quietly pushing beyond the two businesses most people associate it with. There’s ride-hailing, of course, and delivery, but spend time in the app and you’ll now find hotel bookings powered by Expedia, “shop for me” concierge features, and boat rentals in Europe. Under the hood, so to speak, there’s…
Most reinforcement learning benchmarks reset the world after every episode. Real operations never reset. Skyfall AI’s MORPHEUS targets that gap. It is a persistent enterprise simulation platform for continual reinforcement learning (CRL). What is MORPHEUS? MORPHEUS is grounded in the Big World Hypothesis (Javed & Sutton, 2024). It says the world’s complexity exceeds any agent’s…
