Topic: foundation models
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Corma raises $60M from Sequoia for defensive AI gap
In simulations modeled on Fortune 500 environments, AI attackers succeeded in 88% of cases while defenders caught only 12%, revealing that general-purpose AI is structurally ill-suited for cybersecurity defense. Corma, a defensive cybersecurity startup founded in 2025, raised $60 million in seed ...
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Startup Predicts Robotics' ChatGPT Moment
General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte predicts embodied AI will follow the same path as language AI, shifting from specialized models trained on massive real-world datasets to general-purpose foundation models fine-tuned with small, high-quality datasets. The startup trained its foundation model on ...
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Nvidia Aims to Be the Android of Robotics
Nvidia unveiled a comprehensive suite of tools at CES 2026 to become the foundational platform for next-generation robotics, mirroring Android's role in smartphones and enabling AI's shift from the cloud to physical devices. The ecosystem includes new open foundation models for robot reasoning an...
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Unlocking iOS 26: How Developers Use Apple's Local AI Models
iOS 26 introduces Apple's Foundation Models framework, enabling developers to integrate local AI models into apps for smarter, offline features without cloud reliance or inference costs. These on-device models enhance usability and privacy, supporting functions like guided generation, tool callin...
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How the AI Boom Could Leave Tech Giants Behind
The AI industry is shifting from reliance on massive, all-purpose foundation models to specialized applications, treating underlying AI as interchangeable components. This trend is driven by diminishing returns from scaling up models, with innovation now focusing on fine-tuning, user-centric desi...
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Amazon drops most Nova AI models to focus on one frontier model
Amazon is deprecating most of its in-house Nova AI models to focus resources on developing a single competitive frontier foundation model. This strategic pivot shifts from a broad portfolio to a concentrated effort aimed at matching rivals like OpenAI and Google. Amazon will provide migration pat...
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Cambridge builds planet-scale AI model without Nvidia
Cambridge researchers built TESSERA, a planetary-scale AI model that learns patterns in Earth's environmental data from satellite imagery and climate records, trained entirely on AMD hardware instead of Nvidia GPUs. This achievement challenges Nvidia's dominance in AI hardware by proving that alt...
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Google Confirms Gemini-Powered Siri Launching This Year
Google confirmed at Google Cloud Next 2026 that its Gemini technology will power a more personalized version of Siri, set to launch later in 2026 as part of a partnership with Apple. Apple has committed to a 2026 release for the upgraded Siri, though no precise date has been set; rumors suggest a...
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Apple targets small developers with cheaper AI
Apple will waive cloud infrastructure fees for Foundation Models API usage by developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads, mirroring its Small Business Program threshold. The Foundation Models framework has been expanded this year to include image input support and server ...
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AWS CEO Aims to Secure Amazon's AI Cloud Leadership
AWS is building an integrated AI ecosystem with models, custom chips, and agents to offer enterprises a cost-effective and secure platform for deploying AI at scale. The company's strategy, via its Bedrock platform, is to deliver AI as a reliable service, leveraging its strengths in data control,...
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The End of AI Coding Tools: What's Next for Developers?
Smaller AI coding startups face existential threats from tech giants controlling foundation models, struggling to differentiate their business models despite significant venture funding. These startups' core functionality in code generation depends entirely on foundation models from competitors l...
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Waymo founder Sebastian Thrun launches stealth robotics startup
Sebastian Thrun has quietly launched a new robotics startup called Dulo, which remains in stealth mode with no disclosed funding, product details, or timeline; he only announced its name at a conference, noting it focuses on robotics. Dulo's stated mission, per its sparse Stanford-hosted website,...
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Noetra CEO calls robot startup Japan's 'last chance'
Noetra CEO Hironobu Tamba has shifted from large language models to developing a domestically built foundation model for robotics, calling it Japan's "last chance" to compete in embodied AI. The initiative aims to prevent Japan from falling behind in integrating advanced AI into physical systems ...
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Genesis AI says wheeled robots will beat legged ones
Genesis AI unveiled Eno, a wheeled robot with a foldable tower and dexterous hands, rejecting the industry's focus on humanoid robots for a more practical approach centered on manipulation rather than locomotion. While competitors like Figure AI and Boston Dynamics pursue humanoids with massive v...
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Hightouch Hits $100M ARR with AI Marketing Tools
Hightouch's AI marketing platform enables brands like Domino's and Spotify to quickly create custom content, bypassing traditional creative bottlenecks and achieving $100 million in annual recurring revenue. The platform solves the problem of generic AI by learning a brand's specific identity fro...
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Nvidia's GTC 2026: The 'ChatGPT Moment' for Self-Driving Cars
Nvidia is positioning its new autonomous vehicle technology as a transformative "ChatGPT moment," with a key expansion of its Uber partnership to launch a large-scale robotaxi service starting in select cities as early as 2027. The company unveiled new foundation models, including the Alpamayo 1....
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SoftBank, Nvidia in Talks to Triple Skild AI's Value to $14B
SoftBank and Nvidia are reportedly in advanced talks to lead a funding round exceeding $1 billion into Skild AI, which would value the robotics software startup at around $14 billion. Skild AI is developing a foundational, robot-agnostic software model called Skild Brain, designed to serve as a v...
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Applied Computing builds AI model for entire oil and gas plants
Applied Computing, a London-based startup building an AI foundation model for the oil, gas, and petrochemical industry, has raised $20 million in Series A funding from KBR and Databricks Ventures. Its foundation model, Orbital, combines time series, physics-based, and language models to analyze s...
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Apple opens Siri AI to all with iOS 27 public beta
Apple released the iOS 27 public beta, giving everyday users their first hands-on experience with a major Siri overhaul that transforms the assistant into a capable AI chatbot, ahead of its full launch this fall. The revamped Siri can now pull information from emails, photos, and messages, respon...
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Genesis AI in Talks to Raise $500M for Robot Brains
Genesis AI, a startup developing foundation models for robotics, is reportedly in talks to raise $500 million in new funding at a $3 billion valuation, marking a rapid ascent since emerging from stealth last summer. The company's technology aims to create a universal cognitive platform for robots...
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