World Model Startups Raise Billions As VCs Bet Past LLMs

The race to build AI that simulates reality, not text, has become venture capital's loudest 2026 bet. Here is the market map.

Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips

By registering the LongCat-2.0 repository under the open-source MIT License, Meituan positions the architecture with maximum ...

This New GT40 Replica Series Pays Homage to Ford’s Legendary 1960s Race Cars

This GT40 Championship Season Series of replicas from Superformance, in collaboration with Safir Engineering, will comprise ...

Don’t surrender data control in pursuit of intelligence

With organizations reorganizing themselves to put artificial intelligence at the center, we’ve seen a shift from information ...
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Spanish start-up launches power optimizer that acts as a load equalizer

Murcia-based engineering firm Ebooster Solar Solutions told pv magazine that the device optimizes energy capture and output ...
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AI-driven simulation platforms advance multiphysics engineering

The latest wave of simulation technology releases from Ansys, Cadence, and Avnet underscores a growing convergence of ...
Interesting Engineering

US computer model could slash bridge material use by up to 90% and cut emissions

A new computer model developed by US researchers could reduce the amount of material for bridges and buildings by up to 90 percent and make future structures far more efficient. The approach was ...
Tech Times

Baidu OCR Breaks Long-Document Memory Wall: New Architecture Beats DeepSeek

Open-source OCR from Baidu eliminates the GPU memory wall that limits long-document parsing. Unlimited OCR uses a constant KV ...
AlleyWatch

Neurometric Raises $4M to Build the Infrastructure Layer That Matches Every AI Task to the Right Model

One early Neurometric customer cut a core AI workflow from $40,000 a year to $250 a month - and actually improved accuracy in ...
Tech Xplore

Smarter optimization model could cut bridge and building materials by up to 90%

In 2022, global production of construction materials accounted for more than 7% of total carbon emissions. But how many of ...
TMCnet

Kawasaki Robotics and Dexterity Expand Collaboration to Scale Physical AI for Warehouse Logistics

Together, the companies combine Kawasaki Robotics' industrial robot arm technology with Dexterity's Mech hardware and full Physical AI software stack, featuring the Foresight World Model, to support ...

Researchers introduce Self-Harness, a framework that lets AI agents rewrite their own rules, boosting performance up to 60%

Moving beyond manual debugging, Self-Harness empowers AI agents to test, evaluate, and rewrite the very logic that governs ...