Hackaday

Only Known Copy Of UNIX V4 Recovered From Tape

UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of PDP-11 ASM, but it was also ...

Powering India’s Energy Transition: Key Insights from NLCIL’s Leadership

NLC India Limited reports record H1 FY26 performance, commissions Ghatampur Unit-2, and outlines its Corporate Plan 2030 with ...
The Conversation

What are small language models and how do they differ from large ones?

Lin Tian receives funding from the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) and the Defence Innovation Network. Marian-Andrei Rizoiu receives funding from the Advanced Strategic Capabilities ...
SiliconANGLE

Mimic raises $16M to build AI models for human-like robotic hands

Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics AG said Monday it has raised $16 million in seed funding from Elaia and Speedinvest to enable robotic hands to adapt to complex, high-precision tasks that conventional ...
SiliconANGLE

MythWorx raises $5M to build low-power AI models inspired by the human brain

MythWorx LLC, an artificial intelligence startup developing energy-efficient next-generation models, said today it has raised $5 million in seed funding at a $100 million valuation. The round was led ...
Yahoo

Whatever Happened To Marcus From The Marcus PSP Commercials?

Bobb'e J. Thompson pointing at the camera - Kevin Winter/Getty Images Sony's PlayStation 3 console had a bit of a rough start when it first launched in North America in 2006. From its high price point ...
Wall Street Journal

What Are ‘World Models’? The Key to the Next Big AI Leap

Today’s AIs are book smart. Everything they know they learned from available language, images and videos. To evolve further, they have to get street smart. That requires “world models.” The key is ...
VentureBeat

What if we've been doing agentic AI all wrong? MIT offshoot Liquid AI offers new small, task-specific Liquid Nano models

Liquid AI, a startup pursuing alternatives to the popular "transformer"-based AI models that have come to define the generative AI era, is announcing not one, not two, but a whole family of six ...
The Conversation

5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you

Nadir Jeevanjee works for NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, which is discussed in this article. The views expressed herein are in no sense official positions of the Geophysical Fluid ...
Ars Technica

With new in-house models, Microsoft lays the groundwork for independence from OpenAI

Microsoft has introduced AI models that it trained internally and says it will begin using them in some products. This announcement may represent an effort to move away from dependence on OpenAI, ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft signals shift from OpenAI with launch of first in-house AI models for Copilot

After years leaning on OpenAI’s foundation models, Microsoft’s in-house AI division has this week underlined the software giant’s determination to strike out on its own. On Thursday, after months of ...