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SoftBank is negotiating a $500 million investment in Skild AI, a software company building a foundational model for robotics at a $4 billion valuation, Bloomberg and Financial Times reported.

The 2-year-old company raised its previous funding round of $300 million at a $1.5 billion valuation last July from investors, including Jeff Bezos, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Coatue Management.

The company’s AI model can be applied to various types of robots, Skild founders Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta told TechCrunch last July. They said the generalized model can be modified for a specific domain and use case.

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For their study published in the journal Nature Medicine, the group generated thousands of articles containing misinformation and inserted them into an AI training dataset and conducted general LLM queries to see how often the misinformation appeared.

Prior research and anecdotal evidence have shown that the answers given by LLMs such as ChatGPT are not always correct and, in fact, are sometimes wildly off-base. Prior research has also shown that misinformation planted intentionally on well-known internet sites can show up in generalized chatbot queries. In this new study, the research team wanted to know how easy or difficult it might be for malignant actors to poison LLM responses.

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When I said “Deep Mind”, “Deep Seek” was intended of course.
The recent development of AI presents challenges, but also great opportunities. In this clip I discuss G and other constants with Deep Seek R1.

Want to attend the Demysticon Conference? Go to https://demystifysci.com/demysticon-2025

Mind also my backup channel:
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My books: www.amazon.com/Alexander-Unzicker/e/B00DQCRYYY/

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Is humanity on the verge of its greatest journey? Scientists are working on an ambitious plan to send a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, our closest star system, within a human lifetime. Using cutting-edge technology like light sails, laser propulsion, and AI-driven navigation, this project could redefine space exploration forever. How will we overcome the challenges of interstellar travel? Could this be our first step toward colonizing other star systems? Let’s dive into the science, the possibilities, and the future of humanity beyond our solar system!

🔹 How can we travel to Alpha Centauri in just 40 years?
🔹 Breakthrough Starshot: The project aiming for interstellar speeds.
🔹 The science behind light sails & laser propulsion.
🔹 Challenges of deep-space communication & survival.
🔹 What happens if we actually reach another star?

🚀 Join us as we explore the next giant leap for humanity!

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Students participate in an AI after-school program in Edo, Nigeria. Copyright: SmartEdge/World Bank

“AI helps us to learn, it can serve as a tutor, it can be anything you want it to be, depending on the prompt you write,” says Omorogbe Uyiosa, known as “Uyi” by his friends, a student from the Edo Boys High School, in Benin City, Nigeria. His school was one of the beneficiaries of a pilot that used generative artificial intelligence (AI) to support learning through an after-school program.

A few months ago, we wrote a blog with some of the lessons from the implementation of this innovative program, including a video with voices from beneficiaries, such as Uyi. Back then, we promised that, if you stayed tuned, we would get back with the results of the pilot, which included an impact evaluation. So here we are with three primary findings from the pilot!

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In today’s AI news, OpenAI is announcing a new AI Agent designed to help people who do intensive knowledge work in areas like finance, science, policy, and engineering and need thorough, precise, and reliable research. It could also be useful for anyone making major purchases.

In what most would consider a halcyon time for AI, an anachronistic source has just added their two cents to the ethos around the AI revolution. The Vatican released a significant broadside addressing the potential and risks of AI in a new high-tech world. It’s a very interesting look at these new technologies, with a focus on human worth and human dignity.

In other advances, the one-person micro-enterprise is far from a novel concept. Cheap on-demand AI compute, remote collaboration, payment processing APIs, social media, and e-commerce marketplaces have all made it easier to “go it alone” as an entrepreneur. But what about scaling that business into something meatier — a one-person Unicorn.

And, this morning, Brussels announced plans to develop an open source AI model of its own, with $56 million in funding to do it. The investment will fund top researchers from a handful of companies and universities across EU countries as they develop a large language model that can work with the trading bloc’s 30 languages.

In videos, Lex Fridman speaks with Dylan Patel, Founder of SemiAnalysis, a semiconductor research and analysis company, and Nathan Lambert, a research scientist at Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and author of an AI blog called Interconnects. They all discuss DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters.

Then we tune into the Big Technology podcast to hear how companies are actually deploying AI agents and what it takes to move beyond proof of concepts to real deployment. Antoine Shagoury, Chief Technology Officer of Kyndryl, an IBM spinoff, joins Alex Kantrowitz show to discuss the real-world implementation of AI in enterprise environments.

And, we take a tour of a fully automated e-commerce warehouse run by AI robots. Brightpick Autopicker is the only autonomous mobile robot (AMR) in the world that robotically picks and consolidates orders directly in the warehouse aisles, like a human with a cart.

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Link to paper: 10.1038/s41598-022–24543-5

Programmable matter can change its shape, stiffness or other physical properties upon command. Previous work has shown contactless optically controlled matter or magnetic actuation, but the former is limited in strength and the latter in spatial resolution. Here, we show an unprecedented level of control combining light patterns and magnetic fields. A mixture of thermoplastic and ferromagnetic powder is heated up at specific locations that become malleable and are attracted by magnetic fields. These heated areas solidify on cool down, and the process can be repeated. We show complex control of 3D slabs, 2D sheets, and 1D filaments with applications in tactile displays and object manipulation. Due to the low transition temperature and the possibility of using microwave heating, the compound can be manipulated in air, water, or inside biological tissue having the potential to revolutionize biomedical devices, robotics or display technologies.

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