Dyson has released three new robot vacuums under its Nurovi line: the R1 Nurovi Dry ($550), R2 Nurovi Wash + Dry ($700), and R3 Nurovi Spot+Scrub UV ($1,200). All three share a redesigned light gray look, lidar-based navigation replacing the previous camera system, and a Twin-Capture system for cleaning both carpets and hard floors, with the top model adding UV stain detection. The R2 will be Costco-exclusive, while the R1 and R3 sell through Dyson's website and other retailers.
Pulley, a cap table management platform founded by Yin Wu in 2020, is ceasing operations on December 8. The company has arranged to transfer its customers to competitor Carta and is directing new prospects there as well, despite the two firms having been rivals in the space.
Startup Fortell, founded by Matthew de Jonge, has raised $163 million from investors including Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, and Valor Equity Partners CEO Antonio Gracias. The company is developing hearing aids that use AI to identify important sounds in real time and suppress background noise, rather than simply amplifying everything at once as most current devices do. De Jonge discussed the six-year effort behind the product on TechCrunch's Equity podcast.
Senator Mitch McConnell reappeared at the US Capitol after a 92-day absence following a fall and pneumonia, during which he made no public statements at all. Footage showing him appearing disoriented and unresponsive to reporters has circulated widely, prompting concern from medical professionals and the public alike.
Zach Cregger's new Resident Evil film reimagines Capcom's franchise around Bryan, an invented medical courier played by Austin Abrams, who gets pulled into a zombie outbreak while making a delivery run near Raccoon City. Unlike Paul W.S. Anderson's earlier film series, this version pares the story down and blends comedy with genuine scares rather than expanding an elaborate mythology.
Capital Economics economist James Reilly analyzed eight market indicators — including surging equity and debt issuance and extreme concentration of market value in a handful of tech stocks — and found most near levels historically seen just before major market crashes. Reilly concluded the data resembles a 'late-stage bubble' comparable to the run-up before the dot-com crash. The warning comes as the Federal Reserve weighs whether to raise interest rates to cool the AI-driven market euphoria.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in an All-In Podcast interview that China will develop its own advanced lithography machines, comparable to those made by ASML, within the next three to four years. He argued China's manufacturing strength makes such a timeline achievable, despite the country's current reliance on older-generation tools from Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment that support only 90nm and possibly 28nm-class chipmaking.
A community of Linux modders has been reworking the AMD BC-250, a cheap leftover mining GPU built from a cut-down PlayStation 5 chip, into a functional PC gaming card. The latest breakthrough unlocks all 40 of its RDNA 2 compute units and packages AMD's FSR 4 upscaling and frame generation as a Windows DLL that can be dropped into compatible games.
Binance is expanding its Capital Connect platform, previously reserved for institutions, to allow wealthy individuals meeting a $1 million asset threshold to invest in professional trading strategies. The platform runs on Binance's Portfolio Account system, which manages fees and risk metrics while trading teams handle strategy execution, similar to separately managed accounts in traditional finance. The platform has grown from 106 portfolios and 35 trading teams in May to 212 portfolios and 77 teams by September.
Scientists led by Asor and colleagues developed a technique to directly observe individual virus-like particles as their protein shells form, publishing the results in Nature. The method allowed them to measure the speed and energy changes of shell assembly, something previously very difficult to track experimentally.
Pershing Square Capital Management CEO Bill Ackman joined a conversation moderated by Mansueto Ventures' Stephanie Mehta to discuss how design shapes business outcomes and what the future of design might look like. The session, titled 'The Business of Design—and the Design of the Future,' explored the intersection of investment strategy and design thinking.
Leading AI developers are now using their most advanced models to help design and accelerate the next generation of AI systems, according to researchers tracking the industry's progress. This shift is prompting fresh warnings that the pace of development could compound on itself, moving faster than safety and alignment work can keep up with.
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