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Insider Brief Autonomous ground robotics startup Shifters has raised $10.2 million in seed funding to expand development of AI-powered robotic teams designed for defense, security and other high-risk environments. According to Shifters, funding will be used to expand the company’s agentic AI capabilities, accelerate manufacturing readiness and support growth across its operations in the United […]
Read full articleAll told, global venture funding reached $92 billion in May, marking the second-largest monthly total on record, just behind February, Crunchbase data shows. Of that, Anthropic raised $50 billion, or 54% of the month’s total funding.
Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chip arrived this week with numbers that are genuinely difficult to contextualise: qubits 1,000 times more reliable than the first generation, a mean qubit lifetime of 20 seconds against an industry norm measured in microseconds, and a revised roadmap targeting a commercially scalable quantum computer by 2029. Behind those numbers is Microsoft Discovery […] The post Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chip is also a case study for agentic AI in R&D appeared first on AI News.
The agentic AI moment has arrived, but delivering on its promise requires more than good models. It also takes fast hardware, secure runtimes, a responsive data layer and models tuned for long-running reasoning. NVIDIA and Microsoft are bringing that full stack to developers across Windows devices, Azure cloud and local deployments. At Microsoft Build, NVIDIA […]
The vendor is among a group of companies targeting the fast-growing physical AI market.
The global health care sector is under increasing strain. Decades of chronic underinvestment and constraints in recruitment have coincided with a surge in demand for services for aging populations. Gaps in provision are already taking a toll, with fragmented access to care and high rates of stress and burnout among staff. And it’s getting worse.…
Insider Brief Nvidia and Foxconn are expanding their healthcare AI efforts in Taiwan, where hospitals are deploying teams of AI agents and healthcare robots as part of a government-backed effort modernize clinical operations and address growing workforce pressures. “The next era of healthcare is being powered by agentic AI — teams of digital and physical […]
Marketers have made enormous strides with generative AI (GenAI) over the last year, moving from experimentation to large-scale deployment. But the next shift in AI maturity – agentic AI – is already underway. This shift will push organizations beyond prompt-based productivity and into a world where AI can act, learn [...] The post Are you an agentic AI Observer, Planner or Adopter? appeared first on SAS Blogs.
Breach confirmed by Meta raises concerns about how safe it is to rely on AI for key security measures such as passwords Hackers used Meta’s AI-powered support chatbot to infiltrate high-profile Instagram accounts, the company confirmed on Monday, saying it had resolved the problem after researchers exposed it. The targets ranged from Barack Obama’s White House account to Sephora and the US Space Force Chief Master Sergeant, according to reporting from 404 Media. Everyday users complained of similar hijackings on Reddit and X over the weekend. Continue reading...
