AI
Dream Labs Raises $90M Seed to Bring Robot AI Acro...
Dream Labs, a startup founded by former NVIDIA robotics researchers, has raised $90 million in seed funding and launched a public API for Dream-1, a model designed to carry skills across different robots. The financing was led by B...
Zillow Launches Claude Connector for Listings, Tou...
Zillow announced on October 19, 2026, that a Zillow experience is now available in Anthropic's Claude through a new connector, one that brings real estate listings, interactive maps, home value estimates and affordability tools into the AI assistant. Josh...
Germany Wants to Lead the World in Industrial AI: ...
In the cavernous hall of Kraftwerk, a former power station in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang sat down to discuss Germany’s AI roadmap, and in particular, the industrial applications of AI. Huang...
Wabi Opens Its Personal AI Assistant on iOS, Andro...
Wabi, the consumer AI startup founded by Replika creator Eugenia Kuyda, opened its personal AI assistant to public download on October 19, 2026, making the app available for iOS, Android, and Mac after an invite-only rollout that began on...
Tenstorrent Raises $1.5B Series E at $6.2B Valuati...
Tenstorrent has closed $1.5 billion in Series E funding at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation, the company announced on October 19, 2026. Trace Capital and Innovation X led the round, which the AI computing company said will fund volume...
Meta Details Prometheus Supercluster Scaling Towar...
Meta's engineering team on October 19, 2026 published a detailed technical account of Prometheus, the company's gigawatt-scale AI supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, confirming its completed first phase trained the Muse foundational models and that Meta plans to scale...
Town Lands $108M Series B as Valuation Hits $1B fo...
Town, the company behind an AI work assistant it calls a Townie, announced a $108 million Series B on October 19, 2026, co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures at a $1 billion valuation. Series B Terms and Investors...
NVIDIA Simulates Record 104-Qubit Fault-Tolerant P...
NVIDIA announced on October 19, 2026, what it described as a record-breaking quantum computing simulation on JUPITER, Europe's first exascale supercomputer: a 104-qubit run executed on 8,192 NVIDIA GH200 GPUs at Jülich Supercomputing Centre that models how a realistic...
Why teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal...
A model developed by researchers at MIT and Boston Children's Hospital adjusts scans on the fly to track fetal movement, potentially sparing families repeat hospital visits.
Inception Releases Mercury 3, Its Flagship Diffusi...
Inception introduced Mercury 3 on October 19, 2026, describing the model as the most capable diffusion-based large language model released to date, with launch pricing of $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens. The company...
Together AI Launches Together Post-Training Servic...
Together AI on October 19, 2026, launched Together Post-Training, a service for building custom models through user-defined reinforcement learning and supervised fine-tuning loops, with introductory pricing of $9 per GPU-hour of B200 usage for the first six weeks. Launch...
How to find Flock cameras near you with MapQuest’s...
A name from the past is emerging again to help you stay out of sight of surveillance cameras.
Pegasus 1.5 from TwelveLabs is now available in Am...
TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.5 is now available in Amazon Bedrock. The video language model turns long-form video into structured, timestamped metadata: define the moments that matter and get every matching segment back as JSON, with new video segmentation, multimodal prompting...
Cognizant and Google Cloud Launch Gemini Frontier ...
Cognizant and Google Cloud on October 19, 2026, announced an expansion of their alliance to accelerate enterprise adoption of agentic AI, establishing a new Gemini Frontier Capability Group backed by more than 18,000 dedicated Cognizant associates. The group brings...
How Deepgram optimized voice AI at scale with AWS ...
Deepgram worked with the AWS Forward Deployed Engineering team to port its Nova-3 speech-to-text model to AWS Trainium2 for offline batch inference. This post covers porting to the AWS Neuron stack, kernel-level tuning, a data-parallel Rust runtime, and the...
Modal Plans NVIDIA Vera Rollout for Sandboxes in F...
Modal said in a company blog post on October 19, 2026 that it plans to roll out support for NVIDIA's Arm-based Vera CPU to power Modal Sandboxes, the company's first departure from an all-x86 fleet, after benchmark results it...
Push-based KV transfer to improve TTFT and TPOT fo...
vLLM's prefill-decode disaggregation splits LLM inference across engine instances but must transfer the KV cache between them. This post introduces a push-based NIXL connector that moves transfer coordination off the critical path, delivering up to 3x better TTFT and...
Improve TTFT for multi-turn agentic workloads with...
Multi-turn agentic workloads reprocess growing conversation context each turn, driving up latency. See how bi-directional KV cache transfer lets prefill and decode nodes reuse previously computed context across turns, cutting time to first token by up to 1.6x for...
WhatsApp Help Pages Leaked Hidden Instructions for...
Around 80 pages on WhatsApp’s website exposed instructions that were designed for its chatbot, including “WHAT NOT TO SAY.” Meta says a bug caused the issue.
Alon Noy, CEO and Co-Founder of Astelia – Intervie...
Alon Noy, CEO and Co-Founder of Astelia, is a cybersecurity leader with more than 15 years of experience spanning offensive and defensive security. He previously served in Israel’s Unit 8200 and went on to lead the Israeli National Cybersecurity...
































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