In the race to bring autonomous robots into the home, Sunday Robotics says it has solved one of the field’s toughest problems: getting a robot to work in homes and handle objects it has never seen before. On Thursday, the Bay Area-based startup unveiled ACT-2, a new artificial intelligence model that powers Memo, its wheeled
BP has had an on-again, off-again relationship with climate technology. Now, it’s definitely “off.” In addition to moving away from clean energy earlier this year, the oil giant announced today that it would sell most of its portfolio of companies (more than 10 companies, according to BP) to Verdane, a Nordic private equity firm. Since
Be careful with the AI washer/dryer in the unit. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday announced a series of new tenant protection proposals, the result of his “Rental Scam Hearings” earlier this year. Plans included fixes for black mold, fire problems, and a growing AI problem. New York will now require real estate agents
Newsletter platform Beehiiv is expanding into new avenues of engagement with the launch of a feature called Community, which allows a creator’s subscribers to chat with each other. The company also launched a new AI Copilot that helps creators manage and grow their audience. The updates come as Beehiiv positions itself as a platform for
John Hussman doesn’t move. The famous permabear, best known for calling out the dot-com bust, remains unfazed by his prediction of a big stock crash to come. He says there are a handful of warnings suggesting markets have reached a “speculative extreme” that possibly even exceeds the years before 1929 and 2000. Overall, signs point
Google might launch an AI product under one name during its experimental phase, but it will eventually tie it all to Gemini. In the latest example of this trend, the company is renaming its AI-based research product NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook. The company is also adding features to make the tool more interactive by incorporating
