Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees
Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees. As we reported back in February, its first attempt didn’t yield an…
Category: Ai/Robotics
Persona AI raises $27M to develop humanoid robots for shipyards
Concept renders showing different jobs for Persona AI’s humanoids. | Source: Persona AI Persona AI Inc., a humanoid robot and embodied artificial intelligence developer, this…
OpenAI’s planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco
OpenAI is poised to help develop a staggering 5-gigawatt data center campus in Abu Dhabi, positioning the company as a primary anchor tenant in what…
Google I/O 2025: What to expect, including updates to Gemini and Android 16
Google I/O, Google’s biggest developer conference of the year, is nearly upon us. Scheduled for May 20 to 21 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View,…
ABB deploys PixelPaint at Mercedes-Benz plant in Germany
PixelPaint is initially being used for the Mercedes-Maybach SL 680 Monogram Series. The obsidian black hood of thisexclusive model is available with a Maybach pattern…
AI startup Cohere acquires Ottogrid, a platform for conducting market research
AI startup Cohere has acquired Ottogrid, a Vancouver-based platform that develops enterprise tools for automating certain kinds of high-level market research. Sully Omar, one of…
MIT engineers create elder assist robot E-BAR to prevent falls at home
Six assistance scenarios with a prototype of a robot being developed at MIT. Top row: getting in and out of a bathtub, bending down to…
AI video startup Moonvalley lands $53M, according to filing
Roughly a month after Moonvalley, a Los Angeles-based startup developing AI tools for video creation, said it secured $43 million in new funding, the company has…
Is $1 billion a lot of money these days?
Databricks just snatched up another AI company. This week, the data analytics giant announced a $1 billion acquisition of Neon, a startup building an open…
OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT
OpenAI announced on Friday it’s launching a research preview of Codex, the company’s most capable AI coding agent yet. Codex is powered by codex-1, a…