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Figure founder and CEO Brett Adcock Thursday revealed a new machine learning model for humanoid robots. The news, which arrives two weeks after Adcock announced the Bay Area robotics firm’s decision to step away from an OpenAI collaboration, is centered around Helix, a “generalist” Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model. VLAs are a new phenomenon for robotics, leveraging…
Officers salute convoy as hostages’ bodies return to Israel “The hearts of an entire nation lie in tatters,” Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has said, as the bodies of four hostages taken alive by Hamas in its attack on 7 October 2023 were returned to Tel Aviv. Hamas says the bodies are those of a mother…
“This is no time for complacency,” the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta president wrote. Read More https://fortune.com/img-assets/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-1763956102-e1740068890327.jpg?resize=1200,600 2025-02-20 16:30:46
Coinbase (COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong threw an unexpected perspective into the crypto conversation, arguing that even Bitcoin is “somewhat a meme coin.” His reasoning? Bitcoin’s value isn’t solely built on technology or utility—it’s driven by a powerful community narrative, much like meme coins. He pointed out that, at its core, Bitcoin has no central authority…
Dmitry Bivol downplays Artur Beterbiev’s punching power, saying it wasn’t harder than some of the other fighters he’s faced during his career. Bivol (23-1, 12 KOs) says Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) doesn’t load up on his shots and only focuses on landing them. The former WBA light heavyweight champion Bivol, 34, was clearly bothered by…
Stephen Wilson Jr. was a scientist working for Mars, Inc. (Yeah, the Candy company). One day, his boss pulled him into an office and said something that changed his life: “Stephen, you’re about to get promoted.” Normally a cause for celebration, this was instead meant as a warning by his boss. In a past life,…
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Chatter around Ryan Reynolds’ SNL 50: The Anniversary Special joke amid his legal drama with Justin Baldoni continues. “He had a different line in rehearsal and he pitched that to replace it,” Wally Feresten, better known as Cue Card Wally, alleged on the Tuesday, February 18, episode of Australian breakfast radio show…
California’s privacy regulator is asking a court to fine a data broker that lost hundreds of millions of Social Security numbers in one of last year’s biggest data breaches. The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), which enforces California’s state rules on data protection and privacy rights, known as CCPA, said Thursday that it is seeking…
Ian Youngs Culture reporter BBC/Amjad Al Fayoumi/Hoyo Films The BBC has added a message at the start of the programme about the identity of Abdullah Al-Yazouri’s father The culture secretary has said she will raise concerns with BBC bosses about a documentary on Gaza that was narrated by the son of a Hamas official. The…
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