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Shionogi has struck a deal to take full control of its sleep disorder joint venture, agreeing to pay Apnimed $100 million upfront for its partner’s half of the business.

Former GM executive CEO Pamela Fletcher told CNBC "the faster path, and frankly, a big need, is out there is in this defense space."

The startup, which hit a $75 billion valuation in 2025, is one of Europe's most valuable private tech companies.

The startup, which hit a $75 billion valuation in 2025, is one of Europe's most valuable private tech companies.

arXiv:2603.22273v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The process of discovery requires active exploration -- the act of collecting new and informative data. However, efficient autonomous exploration remains a major unsolved problem. The dominant paradigm addresses this challenge by using Reinforcement Learning (RL) to train agents with intrinsic motivation, maximizing a composite objective of extrinsic and intrinsic rewards. We suggest that this approach incurs unnecessary overhead: while policy optimization is necessary for precise task execution, employing such machinery solely to expand state coverage may be inefficient. In this paper, we propose a new paradigm that explicitly separates exploration from exploitation and bypasses RL during the exploration phase. Our method uses a tree-search strategy inspired by the Go-With-The-Winner algorithm, paired with a measure of epistemic uncertainty to systematically drive exploration. By removing the overhead of policy optimization, our

arXiv:2603.20688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organizations increasingly adopt AI technologies to accelerate their performance and capacity to adapt to market dynamics. This study examines how organizations implement AI in experimental methodologies such as growth hacking, lean startup, design thinking, and agile methodology to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. We performed a systematic literature review following the PRISMA 2020 framework, analyzing 37 articles from Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus databases published between 2018 and 2024 to assess AI integration with experimental approaches. Our findings indicate that AI plays a pivotal role in enhancing these methodologies by offering advanced tools for data analysis, real-time feedback, automation, and process optimization. For instance, AI-driven analytics improves decision-making in growth hacking, streamlines iterative cycles in lean startups, enhances creativity in design thinking, and optimizes task prioritization in

arXiv:2603.20233v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated robotic task execution systems require bridging natural language instructions to distributed robot control while efficiently managing computational resources across heterogeneous edge devices without centralized coordination. Existing approaches face three limitations: rigid hand-coded planners requiring extensive domain engineering, centralized coordination that contradicts federated collaboration as robots scale, and static resource allocation failing to share containers across robots when workloads shift dynamically. We present SwiftBot, a federated task execution platform that integrates LLM-based task decomposition with intelligent container orchestration over a DHT overlay, enabling robots to collaboratively execute tasks without centralized control. SwiftBot achieves 94.3% decomposition accuracy across diverse tasks, reduces task startup latency by 1.5-5.4x and average training latency by 1.4-2.5x, and improves tail

The startup was being investigated over potentially fake sales numbers and “false and misleading statements.”

As four astronauts travel around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II mission, they will venture beyond Earth’s protective magnetic field.

Technology companies are backing Anthropic after it sued the Trump administration over its designation as a supply chain risk.

Prosecutors said the men, including a co-founder of the company, Super Micro, had diverted servers containing Nvidia A.I. chips to China.

From LPUs and GPUs to CPUs and switches, everything you need to know about Nvidia's latest kit GTC DEEP DIVE  At Nvidia’s GTC conference this week, CEO Jensen Huang finally addressed a $20 billion question he’s dodged for months: Why spend so much to license AI chip startup Groq’s tech and hire away its engineers rather than build it themselves?…

Business news related to the technology industry, including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, plus consumer electronics, start-ups, cryptocurrency, media, advertising, streaming, venture capital, antitrust and regulation.

The new fund would operate alongside the Amazon founder’s A.I. start-up, Project Prometheus.

The company expects to test ways it can use Rivr's robots to help with "doorstep delivery" and to "improve safety outcomes" for delivery drivers.

The company expects to test ways it can use Rivr's robots to help with "doorstep delivery" and to "improve safety outcomes" for delivery drivers.

Faire risked never turning its sky-high valuation into sustainable business — until a moment that caused CEO Max Rhodes to change his approach, he says.

Silicon Valley’s young coders are getting creative with this new technology. They also worry they’re not spending enough time with it.

OpenAI has made several recent acquisitions, including cybersecurity startup Promptfoo, and health-care technology startup Torch.

OpenAI has made several recent acquisitions, including cybersecurity startup Promptfoo, and health-care technology startup Torch.

A Los Angeles startup has a deceptively simple idea: fly to a small asteroid, wrap it in an

Perks fall short as third-party AI models rack up costs with minimal notification Complaints about Microsoft's startup credits and Azure AI Foundry keep mounting, with users reporting surprise credit card charges and invoices they never saw coming.…

arXiv:2603.16942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ultrasound imaging is an essential first-line tool for assessing hepatic steatosis. While conventional B-mode ultrasound imaging has limitations in providing detailed tissue characterization, ultrasound Nakagami imaging holds promise for visualizing and quantifying tissue scattering in backscattered signals, with potential applications in fat fraction analysis. However, existing methods for Nakagami imaging struggle with optimal window size selection and suffer from estimator instability, leading to degraded image resolution. To address these challenges, we propose a novel method called UNICORN (Ultrasound Nakagami Imaging via Score Matching and Adaptation), which offers an accurate, closed-form estimator for Nakagami parameter estimation based on the score function of the ultrasound envelope signal. Unlike methods that visualize only specific regions of interest (ROI) and estimate parameters within fixed window sizes, our approach

Tech companies have been reluctant to directly confront Trump administration officials over their contract feud with the A.I. start-up.

Startups move fast and rely on clear coordination between small teams. Many founders discover the value of startup

After years of criticism and financial risk, Palantir, Anthropic and small start-ups are generating rewards from their investments in defense tech.

Launching a SaaS product is excitingб but security should never be an afterthought. Even early-stage startups face the

Dallas-Fort Worth has all the right ingredients to be a national powerhouse for innovation—from a robust economy, world-class research universities to a diverse, dynamic workforce—yet an SMU-led study found the region isn't fully realizing that potential. The study, published in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, found that DFW's innovation productivity is lower than expected based on its assets and strengths. The metroplex was one of 65 U.S. regions measured in patent activity after adjusting for income, education, unemployment, and startup activity.

In a legal filing, the government said it questioned whether the A.I. start-up could be a “trusted partner” in wartime, which led it to label the company a supply chain risk.

Sell your soul to the orb Sam Altman has cooked up a plan to make his cryptocurrency/identity/eyeball-scanning-orb venture more useful by – you guessed it – adding agentic AI to the mix. Now the technology behind it will be used to identify the human behind bots.…

The WHAT? Yeah, the vortons. It’s not an anime monster-hunting show. It’s not some AI startup company. It’s a…it’s a thing. I think.

Stablecoin startups have been a hot commodity since the reelection of President Donald Trump in late 2024 ushered in a new era of crypto-friendly regulation.

Stablecoin startups have been a hot commodity since the reelection of President Donald Trump in late 2024 ushered in a new era of crypto-friendly regulation.

A Rhode Island start-up is working to recycle spent nuclear fuel into long-lasting power systems for the military

arXiv:2603.15320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An SRAM Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) can distinguish SRAM modules by analyzing the inherent randomness of their start-up behavior. However, the effectiveness of this technique varies depending on the design and fabrication of the SRAM module. This study compares two similar microcontrollers, both equipped with on-chip SRAM, to determine which device produces a better SRAM PUF. Both microcontrollers are programmed with an identical SRAM PUF authentication routine and tested under varying ambient temperatures (ranging from 10 {\deg}C to 50 {\deg}C) to evaluate the impact of temperature on SRAM PUF performance. One embedded SRAM works significantly better than the other, even though the two models are closely related. The presented results can be used early in the design process to compare arbitrary on-chip SRAM models and see which is best suited for implementing an SRAM PUF.

arXiv:2603.14316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object-level 3D reconstruction play important roles across domains such as cultural heritage digitization, industrial manufacturing, and virtual reality. However, existing Gaussian Splatting-based approaches generally rely on full-scene reconstruction, in which substantial redundant background information is introduced, leading to increased computational and storage overhead. To address this limitation, we propose an efficient single-object 3D reconstruction method based on 2D Gaussian Splatting. By directly integrating foreground-background probability cues into Gaussian primitives and dynamically pruning low-probability Gaussians during training, the proposed method fundamentally focuses on an object of interest and improves the memory and computational efficiency. Our pipeline leverages probability masks generated by YOLO and SAM to supervise probabilistic Gaussian attributes, replacing binary masks with continuous probability values

As four astronauts travel around the moon on NASA's Artemis II mission, they will venture beyond Earth's protective magnetic field. The crew's spacecraft, Orion, will carry and protect them as they journey into deep space and serves as the main protection against the sun's intense power. During their 10-day flight, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will monitor the sun around the clock and translate space weather conditions into real-time decisions to protect the astronauts.

Early demo hints at a future sci-fi writers warned us about San Francisco startup Eon Systems claims that it has created the first digital simulation of a fruit fly brain that can control a virtual body and produce recognizable behaviors.…

Speed and adaptability are crucial in contemporary product development. Nowadays, both start-ups and corporates are prone to the

arXiv:2603.12274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Venture capital (VC) investors face a large number of investment opportunities but only invest in few of these, with even fewer ending up successful. Early-stage screening of opportunities is often limited by investor bandwidth, demanding tradeoffs between evaluation diligence and number of opportunities assessed. To ease this tradeoff, we introduce DIALECTIC, an LLM-based multi-agent system for startup evaluation. DIALECTIC first gathers factual knowledge about a startup and organizes these facts into a hierarchical question tree. It then synthesizes the facts into natural-language arguments for and against an investment and iteratively critiques and refines these arguments through a simulated debate, which surfaces only the most convincing arguments. Our system also produces numeric decision scores that allow investors to rank and thus efficiently prioritize opportunities. We evaluate DIALECTIC through backtesting on real investment

The UK-based startup hit a valuation of $75 billion in 2025 and is one of Europe's most valuable private tech companies.

Google said its GFiber unit is combing with Astound Broadband and forming a independent fiber provider.

For JPMorgan Chase, winning the niche of startup banking from rivals is about more than just gaining deposits: It's a bet to future-proof the largest U.S. bank.

At its GTC conference, Nvidia is expected to share some of its vision for incorporating technology from AI chip startup Groq.

Travis Kalanick is renaming City Storage Systems to Atoms, while focusing on robotics for mining and transportation.

Travis Kalanick is renaming City Storage Systems to Atoms, while focusing on robotics for mining and transportation.

Luana Lopes Lara, co-founder of prediction markets startup Kalshi, tells CNBC about the biggest bets she ever made on the way to billionaire status.

Immutep and the Australian biotech’s investors have been caught off guard by the unexpected failure of its LAG-3 candidate in a phase 3 study.

Gets bounced between Microsoft and Anthropic like a support ticket nobody wants to own Companies using credits bundled with Microsoft for Startups have found some unwelcome surprises on their credit card statements after deploying Anthropic's Claude via Azure AI Foundry.…

arXiv:2603.11853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented LLM agents introduce security risks that extend beyond user-input filtering, including indirect prompt injection through fetched content, unsafe tool execution, credential leakage, and tampering with local control files. We present OpenClaw PRISM, a zero-fork runtime security layer for OpenClaw-based agent gateways. PRISM combines an in-process plugin with optional sidecar services and distributes enforcement across ten lifecycle hooks spanning message ingress, prompt construction, tool execution, tool-result persistence, outbound messaging, sub-agent spawning, and gateway startup. Rather than introducing a novel detection model, PRISM integrates a hybrid heuristic-plus-LLM scanning pipeline, conversation- and session-scoped risk accumulation with TTL-based decay, policy-enforced controls over tools, paths, private networks, domain tiers, and outbound secret patterns, and a tamper-evident audit and operations plane with

arXiv:2603.11384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Responding to the surging but largely invisible use of generative AI in entrepreneurial framing, I advance Ghost Framing Theory (GFT) to explain how hybrid founder- and investor-genAI ensembles co-produce, contest, and recalibrate resonance in the rhetorical legitimation of new ventures. Building on scholarship in framing, micro-level legitimacy judgments, and sociomaterial affordances, I identify genAI rhetorical affordances (generativeness, extreme combinatorics, tone repertoire, velocity/energy and shared substratum) and theorize a recursive/iterative process model (ghost pitching, ghost screening, ghost relationship-building), configuring emergent resonance and legitimation. GFT builds new rhetorical framing theory for the age of genAI, connects research on human-AI collaboration with cultural entrepreneurship and extends affordance theory into multi-actor scenarios where affordance transitivity and visibility emerge as key

The California startup is developing its own robotaxi on the upcoming midsize platform to challenge the Tesla Cybercab.

Alphabet to remain 'significant minority shareholder' Alphabet is spinning out its US Google Fiber business and combining it with Astound Broadband as part of a joint venture with private equity investor Stonepeak.…

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.

In television and movies, depictions of nihilistic billionaires and amoral opportunists are replacing the quirky strivers of older shows like HBO’s “Silicon Valley.”

Valued at $1.6 billion, a tiny start-up called Axiom is building A.I. systems that can check for mistakes.

Latest optical engine may not be CPO, but it's still better than pluggables Photonics startup LightMatter says that its latest optical engine can cut the amount of fiber used by modern datacenters in half, and perhaps more importantly, it doesn't rely on co-packaging to do it.…

Cortical Labs is building two data centres that will house its neuron-filled chips. The technology is still in the very early stages of development

Matt Schlicht, the site’s creator, helped kick off Silicon Valley’s obsession with artificial intelligence agents. Two months later, he is joining the Meta Superintelligence Lab.

Cortical Labs is building two data centres that will house its neuron-filled chips. The technology is still in the very early stages of development

The startup's third test evaluates whether its solid-state battery is actually a supercapacitor. Here's what the results say.

Investing in a tech startup can feel exciting, hopeful, and slightly terrifying at the same time. Many investors

San Francisco venture capital firm Breakout Ventures announced the close of a $114 million fund to support founder-led companies working at the nexus of science and artificial intelligence.

arXiv:2603.07823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hydrogen integration into microgrids facilitates the absorption of intermittencies from renewable energy resources. However, significant challenges remain due to complex optimization problems, particularly in large-scale applications involving multiple fuel cells (FCs) and electrolyzers (ELs) with numerous binary decision variables. This paper presents a hierarchical quantum annealing (QA) model predictive control-based power allocation framework aimed at accelerating these optimization problems. First, in a day-ahead stage, the framework determines the startup and shutdown of the FCs and ELs. The short-term stage then refines the output power of the FCs and the hydrogen generation rate of the ELs. The feasibility is evaluated through a case study consisting of multiple households in Australia. Our findings demonstrate that while the traditional optimization approach performs satisfactorily in scenarios with a small number of households,

Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, founded by Yann LeCun and other ex-Meta researchers, has raised more than $1 billion from investors.

David and Goliath…but with AI agents Researchers at red-team security startup CodeWall say their AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform and gained full read and write access to the chatbot in just two hours.…

The company is seeking F.C.C. approval to test an idea to reflect sunlight to Earth at night, possibly powering solar panels. Critics say it could be bad for people and wildlife.

arXiv:2603.05800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advances in multi-modal generative models are enabling new applications, from storytelling to automated media synthesis. Most current workloads generate simple outputs (e.g., image generation from a prompt) in batch mode, often requiring several seconds even for basic results. Serving real-time multi-modal workflows at scale is costly and complex, requiring efficient coordination of diverse models (each with unique resource needs) across language, audio, image, and video, all under strict latency and resource constraints. We tackle these challenges through the lens of real-time podcast video generation, integrating LLMs, text-to-speech, and video-audio generation. To meet tight SLOs, we design an adaptive, modular serving system, StreamWise, that dynamically manages quality (e.g., resolution, sharpness), model/content parallelism, and resource-aware scheduling. We leverage heterogeneous hardware to maximize responsiveness and

A fight over Pentagon contracts shows how the leaders of Silicon Valley’s two most important A.I. start-ups are feuding over the future of the tech industry.

The rise and fall of the garage start-up which set out to revolutionise the brewing industry.

Anthropic has said it will sue the Defense Department over the designation, which could prevent the start-up from doing business with the U.S. government.

Venture capital firm Portal Innovations is planning to open a 30,000-square-foot science incubator in Salt Lake City while also establishing a venture fund to support early-stage life sciences and biotech companies.

The race to prevent the worst wildfires has been an increasingly high-tech one. Companies are proposing AI fire detection systems and drones that can stamp out early blazes. And now, one Canadian startup says it’s going after lightning. Lightning-sparked fires can be a big deal: The Canadian wildfires of 2023 generated nearly 500 million metric…

The race to power AI has produced some wild ideas. Launching servers into orbit to harvest round-the-clock solar

A Japanese startup's third attempt to put a satellite in orbit failed on Thursday after its rocket spiraled back to Earth shortly after takeoff.

arXiv:2603.03705v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we introduce GraphLake, a purpose-built graph compute engine for Lakehouse. GraphLake is built on top of the commercial graph database TigerGraph. It maps Lakehouse tables to vertex and edge types in a labeled property graph and supports graph analytics over Lakehouse tables using GSQL. To minimize startup time, it loads only the graph topology. Furthermore, it introduces a series of techniques to ensure query efficiency over Lakehouse tables, including a graph-aware caching mechanism and two Lakehouse-optimized parallel primitives. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GraphLake significantly outperforms PuppyGraph, the current state-of-the-art graph compute engine for Lakehouse, by achieving both lower startup and query time.

TerraPower, a start-up founded by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, is set to build a new kind of nuclear power plant in Wyoming

Building with modern AI models has become surprisingly accessible. With the GPT-5.2 API, developers can add advanced reasoning,

Stellantis lost billions on its EV plan. Now, it’s leaning on its Chinese joint venture to try and turn things around.

arXiv:2603.02790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical foundation models show promise to learn broadly generalizable features from large, diverse datasets. This could be the base for reliable cross-modality generalization and rapid adaptation to new, task-specific goals, with only a few task-specific examples. Yet, evidence for this is limited by the lack of public, standardized, and reproducible evaluation frameworks, as existing public benchmarks are often fragmented across task-, organ-, or modality-specific settings, limiting assessment of cross-task generalization. We introduce UNICORN, a public benchmark designed to systematically evaluate medical foundation models under a unified protocol. To isolate representation quality, we built the benchmark on a novel two-step framework that decouples model inference from task-specific evaluation based on standardized few-shot adaptation. As a central design choice, we constructed indirectly accessible sequestered test sets derived from

Company aims to stitch tens of thousands of GPUs together for more efficient training and inference It's a good time to be an AI chip startup, especially if you happen to specialize in silicon photonics.…

A new study underscores the importance of a "growth mindset" in entrepreneurs when faced with business challenges. Specifically, the study shows that entrepreneurs who think they can change their views on conserving or spending business resources are more resilient when faced with venture-related setbacks.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This startup claims it can stop lightning and prevent catastrophic wildfires Startup Skyward Wildfire says it can prevent catastrophic fires by stopping the lightning strikes that ignite them. So far, it hasn’t publicly…

On June 1, 2023, as a sweltering heat wave baked Quebec, thousands of lightning strikes flashed across the province, setting off more than 120 wildfires. The blazes ripped through parched forests and withered grasslands, burned for weeks, and compounded what was rapidly turning into Canada’s worst fire year on record. In the end, nearly 7,000…

An IIT engineer’s journey from e-commerce platforms in Varanasi to AI-powered product discovery in Silicon Valley Varanasi is

A joint venture from 2008 led to years of claims and counter-claims between the data whizzkids Data warehousing and analytics biz Teradata and SAP have ended their long-running legal dispute after the German ERP vendor agreed to cough up $480 million to bring the fighting to a close.…

Palmer Luckey, who founded the defense tech start-up Anduril, has become the It Guy as President Trump aims to modernize the U.S. military with autonomous weapons.

Fintech software development services enable financial institutions, startups, and enterprises to design, build, and scale secure digital products

arXiv:2602.23378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Innovative HealthTech teams develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in contexts where ethical expectations and organizational priorities must be balanced under severe resource constraints. While Responsible AI practices are expected to guide the design and evaluation of such systems, they frequently remain abstract or poorly aligned with the operational realities of early-stage innovation. At the ecosystem level, this misalignment disproportionately affects disadvantaged projects and founders, therefore limiting the diversity of problem-areas under consideration, solutions, stakeholder perspectives, and population datasets represented in AI-enabled healthcare systems. Visualization provides a practical mechanism for supporting decision-making across the AI lifecycle. When developed via a rigorous and collaborative design process, structured on domain knowledge and designed around real-world constraints, visual interfaces can

Actions by the president and the Pentagon appeared to drive a wedge between Washington and the tech industry, whose leaders and workers spoke out for the start-up.

arXiv:2602.22470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning offers a privacy-friendly collaborative learning framework, yet its success, like any joint venture, hinges on the contributions of its participants. Existing client evaluation methods predominantly focus on model performance, such as accuracy or loss, which represents only one dimension of a machine learning model's overall utility. In contrast, this work investigates the critical, yet overlooked, issue of client contributions towards a model's trustworthiness -- specifically, its reliability (tolerance to noisy data), resilience (resistance to adversarial examples), and fairness (measured via demographic parity). To quantify these multifaceted contributions, we employ the state-of-the-art approximation of the Shapley value, a principled method for value attribution. Our results reveal that no single client excels across all dimensions, which are largely independent from each other, highlighting a critical flaw in

Fears of an AI bubble haven't tempered vulture capitalists' enthusiam for silicon AI chip startups collectively walked away with more than a billion dollars of new capital on Tuesday, showing that venture capitalists are still excited about the opportunity to challenge Nvidia's dominance despite all the talk of an AI bubble.…

The London-based company is building a system that uses artificial intelligence to power autonomous vehicles.

Launching from the Lab: Building a Deep-Tech StartupBy Lita Nelsen ’64, SM ’66, SM ’79, former director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office, and Maureen StancikBoyce, SM ’91, SM ’93, PhD ’95, with Sophie Hagerty MIT PRESS, 2026, $35 Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One BargeBy Ian Kumekawa, lecturer in historyPENGUIN RANDOM…

The company has made deals with some 20 different self-driving startups around the world. But can it catch Waymo?

The Pentagon’s top space acquisition official has a message for the commercial space industry: stop pitching rockets and

A technical partnership embraces SambaNova Systems, which Intel’s chief, Lip-Bu Tan, helps lead as an investor and chairman.

If China invades Taiwan and cuts off its chip exports to American companies, the tech industry and the U.S. economy would be crippled.

The San Francisco start-up claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax used approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to train their own chatbots.

What makes one bat take risks and venture far from its roost in search of food, while another stays close to familiar, safer areas? A new study from Tel Aviv University's School of Zoology reveals that the environment in which a bat is raised during the first months of its life largely determines how it will behave in the wild, sometimes even more than its innate personality.