Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI startups. Launched in January of this year, F/ai’s planning to kick-start its second batch this September, aiming…
Meta and Snap rolled out new good glasses final month, the newest signal that the trade is racing to place a digital camera and an AI assistant onto customers’ faces. Because the fast-growing market heats up, upstarts like Even Realities are muscling in on the giants. Even Realities, a three-year-old Shenzhen-headquartered startup, has raised $150…
The humanoid robotics market is awash in money right now. Last week, AI2 Robotics, a Shenzhen-based startup that makes wheeled humanoid robots, raised roughly $735 million at a nearly $3 billion valuation. Earlier this year, Apptronik, an Austin-based maker of humanoid robots for manufacturing and logistics, closed a $935 million funding round valuing the company…
Synthetic Sciences has released OpenScience, an open-source AI workbench for scientific research. It is licensed under Apache 2.0 and runs on your own infrastructure. The research team frames it as an open alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Science, launched in late June 2026. The pitch is direct. Scientific AI tooling should not be owned by one…
Sakana AI has added a new feature called Sakana Translate to its chat service, Sakana Chat. It handles bidirectional translation across Japanese, English, and Chinese. The translation engine is Namazu, the company’s model series adapted for Japanese. Sakana Translate ships as a free web app. A single account unlocks all…
import importlib.util, os, shutil as _sh if importlib.util.find_spec(“tunix”) is None: print(“Putting in Tunix + JAX ecosystem — this takes ~5-8 min…”) %pip set up -q ipywidgets tensorboardX transformers grain nest_asyncio %pip set up -q datasets huggingface_hub “numpy>2” %pip set up -q tensorflow tensorflow_datasets %pip set up -q git+https://github.com/jax-ml/jax %pip set up -q git+https://github.com/google/tunix %pip set…
Back in February, Uber announced ambitious plans to launch in seven new European markets in 2026 — but now the Financial Times reports that five of those launches are on hold. Country launches that have been paused include Austria, Norway, and Greece. Uber seemed to confirm the decision to the FT, saying that recent launches…
Meituan has released LongCat-2.0, a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model. It carries 1.6 trillion total parameters and activates about 48 billion per token. The model targets agentic coding: code understanding, generation, and execution inside agent workflows. Two facts stand out. First, LongCat-2.0 supports a native 1-million-token context window. Second, both training and serving ran entirely…
Nearly 1 million people have lost a total of $3.8 billion after buying President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin, according to cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen. The New York Times reports that Nansen’s analysis is based on transactions that are publicly visible on the blockchain, showing that 988,905 accounts had lost money on the memecoin as of…
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after “careful consideration,” adding, “Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues…
