As hyperscalers build out data centers around the world, they need to move the bits back and forth, and that often relies on a somewhat brittle network of undersea fiberoptic cables crisscrossing the oceans. Those cables are tricky to access and repair, much less install. But alternatives aren’t easy to find: Radio transmissions don’t have
K-pop’s biggest stars, from BTS to Seventeen, have danced routines that Youngjun Choi choreographed. Now, the top choreographer is betting that AI can help anyone with an idea, a phone, and no dance training to create the next hit K-pop dance. It all started six years ago when Choi met Joon Jung, then a dancer
It’s so hard for big businesses to get AI tools working reliably that whole new organizations of forward-deployed engineers or FDEs— specialists who drop into a company to get its AI systems up and running — are springing up to help them. “AI, paradoxically, increases the demand for professional services,” says Efrat Rapoport, a former
Whatnot is proving that there is still room for consumer startups in the age of AI. Live shopping startup Whatnot is in talks to raise financing at a valuation of about $20 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. This would be a significant jump from the $11.5 billion valuation at which the company
For a year now, AI security testing company Andon Labs has tasked frontier models with various real-world tasks to determine how well they perform as agents operating for long periods without human supervision. On Wednesday, Andon published a new installment about how things are going in its Vending-Bench research, where the lab has cutting-edge models
Several robotics companies are tackling one of the toughest problems in AI: building basic models capable of executing tasks they were never explicitly trained to perform. Their approaches run the gamut: from studying millions of web videos and running computer simulations to collecting motion data from humans performing tasks while wearing gloves with embedded sensors.