Rashed Haq and Todd Brugger join the humanoid robotics startup to accelerate growth and unlock market opportunities beyond U.S. hospital logistics Diligent Robotics, pioneers of socially-intelligent, AI-native humanoid robots deployed at scale in human environments, today announced two former Cruise executives are joining its leadership team: Rashed Haq as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Todd…
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international insurance company headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with a strong presence in Canada, Asia, and the United States. As of the first quarter of 2025, Manulife reported core earnings of $1.8 billion and core revenue of $2,140 million. The company manages over CA$1.3 trillion in assets and employs more…
Next-generation edge models outperform top global competitors; now available open source on Hugging Face Liquid AI announced today the launch of its next-generation Liquid Foundation Models (LFM2), which set new records in speed, energy efficiency, and quality in the edge model class. This release builds on Liquid AI’s first-principles approach to model design. Unlike traditional…
The newly independent company is set to lead in computer vision and machine perception for physical AI and beyond RealSense, a pioneer in AI-powered computer vision, today announced its successful spinout from Intel Corporation and the close of a $50 million Series A funding round. With investment led by a renowned semiconductor private equity firm…
New offering combines AI Noise Cancellation, AI Accent Conversion, AI Live Interpreter, and Agent Assist into one powerful solution Krisp, the leader in AI-powered voice technology, announced today the launch of its real-time Voice AI Platform for call centers. Unveiled at CCW Vegas, the new platform offering marks a turning point in how contact centers…
HPE drives AI innovation with modular AI factory solutions powered by NVIDIA Blackwell, fueled by HPE Alletra Storage MP, and optimized to deploy and scale across enterprises, service providers, sovereign entities, and model builders HPE Private Cloud AI adds investment protection, air-gapped management, and HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers with the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000…
Google DeepMind recently released GenAI Processors, a lightweight, open-source Python library built to simplify the orchestration of generative AI workflows—especially those involving real-time multimodal content. Launched last week, and available under an Apache‑2.0 license, this library provides a high-throughput, asynchronous stream framework for building advanced AI pipelines. Stream‑Oriented Architecture At the heart of GenAI Processors…
Density Functional Theory (DFT) serves as the foundation of modern computational chemistry and materials science. However, its high computational cost severely limits its usage. Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) have the potential to closely approximate DFT accuracy while significantly improving performance, reducing computation time from hours to less than a second with O(n) versus O(n³)…
Kimi K2, launched by Moonshot AI in July 2025, is a purpose-built, open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model—1 trillion total parameters, with 32 billion active parameters per token. It’s trained using the custom MuonClip optimizer on 15.5 trillion tokens, achieving stable training at this unprecedented scale without the typical instabilities seen in ultra-large models. Unlike traditional chatbots, K2 is architected…
Introduction to Embodied AI Agents Embodied AI agents are systems that exist in physical or virtual forms, such as robots, wearables, or avatars, and can interact with their surroundings. Unlike static web-based bots, these agents perceive the world and act meaningfully within it. Their embodiment enhances physical interaction, human trust, and human-like learning. Recent advances…