March 12, 2025

Robotics

Dexterity picks up $95M in funding for container unloading robots – The Robot Report

[embedded content] More robots powered by artificial intelligence could soon be unloading trucks. Dexterity Inc. has closed a $95 million funding round, bringing its total valuation to $1.65 billion. Redwood City, Calif.-based Dexterity AI was founded in 2017. The company is hiring. Dexterity said it uses “physical AI” to give its full-stack systems human-like dexterity, freeing workers in logistics, warehousing, and supply chain operations from repetitive and strenuous tasks. Dexterity applies physical AI to DexR

The Robot Report Staff March 12, 2025

Google’s native multimodal AI image generation in Gemini 2.0 Flash impresses with fast edits, style transfers

It enables developers to create illustrations, refine images through conversation, and generate detailed visualsRead More

Carl Franzen March 12, 2025

Reseller Spam Beggar Exposed: QuakeServices and the Fake Newsbreak Employee | HackerNoon

Tired of spammy, desperate, and non-GDPR-compliant spam emails begging to sell you guest posts and links? Meet QuakeServices.com, a so-called outreach service person employed by the online publication https://www.newsbreak.com/ At the center of this pathetic operation and fake claims of employment is an Alias Harley Groff—or at least that’s the name they slap on their emails ([email protected]). But wait, in the email signature sent with gmail.com, the sender suddenly transforms into a totally different person

Matthew - Technology News Australia March 12, 2025

Lessons I’ve Learned as a UX/UI Designer in a Failed Startup | HackerNoon

Working as a solo UX/UI designer in a startup can be an exhilarating experience, filled with opportunities for innovation, rapid learning, and creative freedom. Failure, however, is an inevitable part of growth — I know this firsthand as the UX/UI designer for a website builder startup that didn’t succeed. I was a huge fan of this startup and truly believed in it, but sometimes things don’t go as planned. Despite the disappointment, this journey taught

Kristina Zima March 12, 2025

AR/VR

ServiceNow expands AI offerings with pre-built agents, targeting broader enterprise adoption

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More ServiceNow believes that more areas within an enterprise can benefit from agents, and as it upgrades its agent platform and makes acquisitions, the company plans on doubling down on agents even more. ServiceNow announced the acquisition of Moveworks on Tuesday along with new agent capabilities. It also made its orchestration platform generally available and announced plans

Emilia David March 12, 2025

Netflix Games loses its vice-president of generative AI

Five months after Netflix Games announced that generative AI in its game development studios would be a major focus for them, driven by the promotion of Mike Verdu to the vice president in charge of that technology, Verdu has apparently left Netflix Games (confirmed to Stephen Totilo’s Game File) indicating that its embrace of generative AI as a tentpole of game development may have been premature. When Verdu was first announced for his role, his

Imran Khan March 12, 2025

Software

How Agentic AI Could Revolutionize SaaS MVPs with Adaptive Features | HackerNoon

Agentic AI has emerged as a major topic of discussion in recent months, garnering significant attention for its potential to transform automation, decision-making, and autonomy in AI-driven systems. Its rise has ignited debates around its diverse applications, challenges, and ethical implications. Among the sectors most likely to benefit from Agentic AI is Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Today, users expect SaaS applications to be intelligent, responsive, and personalized. Traditional SaaS solutions rely on static features that require manual

Aqsa Lakhani March 12, 2025

Anthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a ‘few lines of code’ | TechCrunch

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried that spies, likely from China, are getting their hands on costly “algorithmic secrets” from the U.S.’s top AI companies — and he wants the U.S. government to step in. Speaking at a Council on Foreign Relations event on Monday, Amodei said that China is known for its “large-scale industrial espionage” and that AI companies like Anthropic are almost certainly being targeted. “Many of these algorithmic secrets, there are $100

Charles Rollet March 12, 2025

Software

Mental Health Crisis Calls: The Government’s Controversial Idea to Track Them | HackerNoon

Subscribe to Hello World Hello World is a weekly newsletter—delivered every Saturday morning—that goes deep into our original reporting and the questions we put to big thinkers in the field. Browse the archive here. Hi, everyone, On dark days, in the midst of a mental health emergency, many Americans look to a federal government program for help. You might be familiar with it: Since 2005, counselors have been answering calls through the National Suicide Prevention Line,

The Markup March 12, 2025

Food delivery startup Wonder acquires media company Tastemade for $90M | TechCrunch

Food delivery startup Wonder is acquiring media company Tastemade for around $90 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. Founded in 2012, Tastemade produces food, travel, and home videos and operates several free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels. The acquisition gives Wonder access to a content studio, production company, and advertising business. Wonder will leverage all of these assets to promote its brands to a wider audience, the company says. The deal marks Wonder’s latest

Aisha Malik March 12, 2025