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Universal Robots and Scale AI launch the UR AI Trainer


Revealed at GTC 2026, the leader-follower imitation learning platform captures force, motion, and visual data directly on production hardware, closing the gap between AI research labs and factory floors. Universal Robots has launched the UR AI Trainer, a hardware-software system built in collaboration with Scale AI that allows operators to generate high-fidelity robot training data […]



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Nscale signs 1.35GW Microsoft LOI for a West Virginia AI campus built around NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin GPUs


Announced at GTC 2026, the deal covers around 430,000 next-generation NVIDIA GPUs, is backed by a Caterpillar natural gas power deal, and is built on a site described as the US’s first state-certified AI microgrid, with an 8GW potential footprint. Nscale has signed a letter of intent with Microsoft to provide 1.35 gigawatts of AI […]



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Restaurant tech startup Choice closes $7.1M Series A


The all-in-one SaaS platform for independent restaurants, processing 1.5 million orders a month across nine CEE markets, is now targeting Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Choice, the Prague-founded restaurant management platform that bundles ordering, payments, reservations, and marketplace integrations into a single subscription, has closed a $7.1 million Series A. The round […]



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Building the next wave of AI: Freddy del Barrio’s approach for a more human model of intelligent care


In the ubiquitous age of artificial intelligence, the technology appears as if it is largely earmarked for optimizing the mechanics of work. Buzzwords like speed, automation, efficiency, and productivity often dominate conversations that are shaping the digital era. Today, AI’s capability has expanded into streamlining operations at an unprecedented scale, yet even this magnitude of […]



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The most radical act in an age of outrage is to play


We are not divided by accident; we are distracted on purpose. The antidote to that manipulation is to reconnect with what makes us human, often through something as simple as play. Spend five minutes scrolling, and you can feel the machinery of social media outrage at work: the pulse of outrage, the invitation to pick […]



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