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Insider Brief Norbert Health has raised $14 million in Series A funding to expand a physical AI platform that gives mobile robots clinical skills for use as autonomous nursing assistants. According to the Brooklyn-N.Y., startup, the round was supported by William A. Marino with Cardinal Group, with participation from Exor Seeds, CareIT and angel investors […]

Legato, a new hearing tech startup, has emerged from stealth with $12 million in funding and plans to launch its AI hearing glasses, Legato Frames, later this fall. The glasses integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into eyewear frames, targeting the roughly 50 million U.S. adults with hearing loss, most of whom don’t seek treatment. […]

Fambot is building an AI “chief of staff” to help families manage the emails, calendars, school updates, sports schedules, and other logistics of raising kids.

The surge in AI adoption is transforming everything from chatbots to content generation. Still, a common pain point remains: How can organizations confidently... The surge in AI adoption is transforming everything from chatbots to content generation. Still, a common pain point remains: How can organizations confidently size GPU resources for inference workloads and optimize Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)? With a dizzying mix of latency targets, model choices, quirky traffic patterns, and budget c…

Sonos is cramming AI into its software because it’s “very hot these days.” The new features, which include agentic automation, are opt-in.

Insider Brief Medtronic is investing about $700 million in Chinese surgical robotics company Cornerstone Robotics as part of a strategic partnership that gives Medtronic rights to distribute Cornerstone’s Sentire surgical system in selected markets outside the U.S. where it has regulatory approval. The American-Irish medical device company said it will distribute Cornerstone’s Sentire alongside its […]

8 月 28 日 20:57 UTC 左右，一个不相关网络 BGP 路由通告了 Softaculous 使用的 Hetzner IP 段，将部分原本发送到 Softaculous 系统的流量劫持到攻击者控制的服务器。Hetzner 是 Softaculous 的上游基础设施供应商，而 Softaculous 则是一家为 Web 托管服务商提供软件的公司，它的 Virtualizor 控制面板被管理员用于部署和管理 VPS。这次 BGP 路由劫持影响了 Virtualizo 更新服务器以及客户和计费网站。攻击者还从 Let's Encrypt CA 获取了有效的 TLS 证书，Let's Encrypt 的自动域名所有权验证也被劫持到了攻击者控制的 IP。Softaculous 于 8 月 29 日 08:50 UTC 向 Hetzner 报告了事件，Hetzner 随后通过发布相同的路由通告遏制了问题。但攻击者于 20:00 UTC 再次了长达 10 小时的路由劫持。8 月 30 日 05:50-06:10 UTC 路由通告被撤回，劫持停止。Softaculous 建议在攻击期间登陆过…

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Insider Brief Artificial intelligence may amplify financial runs even when each automated investor is following a seemingly rational strategy. That is the warning emerging from a series of simulated investment experiments conducted by researchers at Stanford University, the Deutsche Bundesbank, the European Central Bank and the University of Naples Federico II. Their findings suggest that […]

Aranya Inc., a startup that says it can transform raw bare-metal servers into custom, production-ready graphics processing unit clusters for artificial intelligence inference in less than two days, launched today with $11 million in funding. The company says it’s addressing a critical bottleneck in the AI infrastructure market. Founded last year, Aranya says it has already […] The post Aranya raises $11M to turn bare-metal servers into AI clusters in less than 48 hours appeared first on SiliconA…

If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen up. You can now put that spare computing power to use and earn some passive income in the process. AI companies are hungry for more compute to run AI inference—the process of using a pre-trained model to respond to queries—and they’re willing to pay you for it. “Imagine Uber or Airbnb, but for AI inference computing tasks,” says Ilman Shazhaev, founder and CEO of Far Labs, based in Abu Dhabi. The…

For years, legacy technology has been a problem companies knew they needed to solve, but one they often struggled to tackle. The cost, complexity, and risk of replacing business-critical systems could make modernization feel like a disruption to manage instead of an opportunity to pursue. But with the rise in customer expectations and the changes…

Why robot safety assurance must account for attacks that can change how a machine sees, decides, and acts. The post The Missing Layer in Robot Safety Assurance appeared first on The Robot Report.

The initiative is intended to help businesses in Australia identify automation opportunities, test them, and connect with local suppliers. The post HowToRobot and Robotics Australia Group partner on platform to encourage robot adoption appeared first on The Robot Report.

Insider Brief China’s DiDi Autonomous Driving has begun fully driverless passenger-service trials with its latest robotaxi in selected areas of Beijing and Guangzhou. According to the company, the R2 robotaxi was jointly developed by DiDi and GAC Aion and can be booked through the DiDi app in designated demonstration areas. The R2 has been undergoing […]

Insider Brief In January 2024, a finance employee at Arup, the London-based engineering firm behind the Sydney Opera House, received an email from someone claiming to be the company’s UK-based CFO. The message requested a confidential transaction. The employee was skeptical. He asked for a video call to confirm. On that call were the CFO […]

A Chinese court’s order to freeze 2.14 billion yuan (US$318 million) in Nexperia-affiliated assets has cemented the operational independence of its Chinese manufacturing engine from its European headquarters, leaving its local facilities increasingly isolated amid a prolonged custody battle. The Dongguan Intermediate People’s Court in the southern province of Guangdong, where Nexperia’s biggest assembly and test plant is located, has frozen the equity interests in four subsidiaries owned by the.…

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为弄清动物进入冬眠时大脑的变化，研究人员首先在实验室中诱导叙利亚仓鼠冬眠。两个月里，他们把动物笼舍中开灯的时间缩短，以模拟秋季。然后在接下来的两个月中，将温度降至约4摄氏度，以模拟冬季。 在人造冬季中，动物开始冬眠——体温下降，“在窝里缩成一团”。冬眠持续2到8周，其间仓鼠睡眠状态在微觉醒和深度蛰伏之间循环。团队收集了刚进入深度蛰伏的仓鼠的大脑，并将其与刚从蛰伏中短暂醒来或完全未冬眠的仓鼠的大脑进行比较。结果发现，一种名为Fos的蛋白质高水平表达，表明下丘脑视前区存在活动。该区域参与调节体温、睡眠和其他重要功能。研究人员发现，仓鼠冬眠中活跃的POA神经元特定亚群，似乎与小鼠蛰伏状态中鉴定出的神经元相同。抑制这些神经元会延迟仓鼠重新进入蛰伏，而激活这些神经元则引发仓鼠筑巢行为并使其体温下降。这是体温虽不如自然冬眠时那么低，但也远低于平时，仅13摄氏度。在小鼠中激活这些细胞也能使体温降低，但幅度较小。这组POA细胞可能是进化遗留下来的“关闭键”，使早期温血哺乳动物能够降低维持体温的高能量成本。

Using access granted under the EU's Digital Services Act, the German advocacy group AlgorithmWatch ran 4,480 election-related search queries on Google and analyzed the AI Overviews that came back. Google showed the overviews inconsistently and leaned on a small pool of sources, chief among them its own platform YouTube. Whether earlier safeguards against AI answers on election questions still apply, Google left open. The article Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and…

Information technology services company CBTS Technology Solutions LLC today launched Forge Agents, a platform that turns a plain-language description of a job into a working artificial intelligence agent and then runs it under enterprise security controls. Midmarket companies are the target buyer. They answer to the same regulators and sit through the same security reviews […] The post CBTS launches Forge Agents to build custom AI agents in days appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Visko Platform Inc., an artificial intelligence research lab focused on developing persistent world models, said today it has raised $10 million in a pre-seed funding round from Llama Ventures. It’s also opening public access to its first foundation model, Orbis, which is based on a new paradigm the company calls “live models.” The startup says […] The post After raising $10M in funding, Visko debuts Orbis, its first live model for generating long-form videos appeared first on SiliconANGLE.