Interesting Engineering

MIT’s 6 mW chip lets tiny drones see and map their surroundings in real time

New MIT chip enables tiny drones and robots to create detailed 3D maps while using minimal power.
Design News

A New Physical AI Platform Provides a 'Street-Smart' View of the World

Niantic Spatial and Spexi Geospatial have teamed up to provide customers in various industries with standardized, ...
Nature

Silicon Valley’s vision for global AI is flawed: each country needs its own blueprint

Pelonomi Moiloa is the co-founder and chief executive of Lelapa AI, headquartered in Delaware, USA, and based in Johannesburg, South Africa. In April, South Africa withdrew its draft national ...
Tech Times

AI Inference and World Model Startups Pull $1.8B in Two Days as Foundation Models Commoditize

AI inference infrastructure investment pulled $1.8 billion in 48 hours as Baseten’s $1.5B round at a $13B valuation and ...

Where nature draws the map – here are 5 ways to look at the US, without state boundaries

State lines are one way to picture the US, but natural history provides another – one that shows the ancient and living ...
TechCrunch

Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats

AI startup Decart on Wednesday unveiled Oasis 3, its latest interactive world model that can generate photorealistic driving environments in real time, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The model is ...

Inside Dataland, Los Angeles’ First AI Art Museum

Refik Anadol’s Dataland opens June 20 in Los Angeles with AI-generated visuals, personalized scents and 1.5 billion pixels that illuminate five galleries.