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Figure reaches $39B valuation in latest funding round

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-22 17:49:44

In Brief Humanoid robotics company Figure raised its largest round of funding yet, a sign of growing investor interest in robots designed to work alongside humans in warehouses, factories, and other settings. San Jose, California-based Figure announced on Tuesday that it raised a Series C funding round that values the company at $39 billion. The round, which “exceeded $1 billion,” said Figure, was led by Parkway Venture Capital with participation from Brookfield Asset Management, Nvidia, and I

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An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations

news.ycombinator.com Jamie Levy 2025-10-03 19:42:32

Figure 8: Threat actor starts to rely on automated workflows The threat actor also appeared to be interested in other AI tools to help with data generation and writing. We saw multiple Google searches for “free ai no signup” and for “csv generator ai.” We also saw the threat actor using Toolbaz AI, which is a writing assistant; the CSV spreadsheet generator feature of DocsBot AI, which is an AI chatbot tool; and the AI data generator feature of Explo AI, which is an embedded analytics tool.

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How An Attacker's Blunder Gave Us a Rare Look Inside Their Day-to-Day Operations

news.ycombinator.com Jamie Levy 2025-10-04 00:42:32

Figure 8: Threat actor starts to rely on automated workflows The threat actor also appeared to be interested in other AI tools to help with data generation and writing. We saw multiple Google searches for “free ai no signup” and for “csv generator ai.” We also saw the threat actor using Toolbaz AI, which is a writing assistant; the CSV spreadsheet generator feature of DocsBot AI, which is an AI chatbot tool; and the AI data generator feature of Explo AI, which is an embedded analytics tool.

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Lego’s September Releases Set Sail in More Ways Than One

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-10-18 01:00:07

Thought Lego would take a break from the realm of big boats after it launched One Piece as part of its blockbuster August? Well, thanks to last week’s surprise announcement of a new Pirates of the Caribbean set, we can think again. And yet, it’s not the only boat on the horizon for this month. After going all out for its big summer release wave in August, things are definitely a bit quieter in September for Lego. But that doesn’t mean big things aren’t coming: the new Black Pearl and a funky Ch

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The physics of parabolic microphones: Frequency dependence of gain (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 20:42:10

Introduction Parabolic microphones are known for their extreme sensitivity, and the origin of their acuity isn’t difficult to guess. It is the most obvious thing about them, which can also make them a liability for field use, namely, their considerable size. Just as a large amount of weak light is captured by a telescope’s parabolic mirror and made amenable to viewing with the much smaller human eye, so too are faint sounds harvested with a reflecting dish that far exceeds the dimensions of our

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The Physics of Parabolic Microphones: Frequency Dependence of Gain

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 16:42:10

Introduction Parabolic microphones are known for their extreme sensitivity, and the origin of their acuity isn’t difficult to guess. It is the most obvious thing about them, which can also make them a liability for field use, namely, their considerable size. Just as a large amount of weak light is captured by a telescope’s parabolic mirror and made amenable to viewing with the much smaller human eye, so too are faint sounds harvested with a reflecting dish that far exceeds the dimensions of our

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Hasbro’s Great ‘Star Wars’ SDCC Figures Are Going to Be Easier to Get—But With Some Big Caveats

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-10-28 04:15:30

Earlier this summer, Hasbro wowed SDCC with an exclusive Star Wars two-pack celebrating Revenge of the Sith‘s 20th anniversary. The good news is, if you just want the figures that were included of Anakin and Obi-Wan, they’re coming. The bad news is… well, you’re losing a lot in the process if you missed out on the now-sold-out set. Over the weekend at Fan Expo Canada, Hasbro confirmed that the newly updated Black Series figures of Anakin and Obi-Wan that were first released in the SDCC-exclusiv

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Line scan camera image processing for train photography

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Lawrence Lu 2025-10-29 08:09:21

I use my line scan camera to take cool pictures of trains and other stuff. But there’s a lot that goes into properly processing the images. FIGURE 2 A cool train, the Renfe AVE Class 102, nicknamed Pato because of its duck bill-like appearance. FIGURE 4 Nice CRH6A intercity electric multiple unit. 1 Principle of operation The way it works is that the camera has a single column of pixels (or in this case, two columns), that scans at a super high speed. The camaera is stationary, but as a tra

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The New Marvel Legends Maximum Series Deadpool Lives Up to Those Descriptors

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-01 04:30:22

Walk into any store with pop culture merchandise, and you’re sure to find something Deadpool. The ultra-popular, potty-mouthed Marvel character is no stranger to all manner of merch from toys and plushes to socks, water bottles, bedsheets, and so much more. Deadpool is, and will continue to be, everywhere. And yet, his new Marvel Legends figure is so good, it still somehow stands head, shoulders, and samurai swords above the rest. Hasbro just revealed the Marvel Legends Maximum Series Deadpool,

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Figure’s IPO filing marks Mike Cagney’s return to public markets

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-11-09 00:23:41

Figure Technology, a seven-year-old blockchain-based lending company, has filed for an IPO of its Class A common stock on Nasdaq, with Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, and BofA Securities serving as its lead bookrunners. The number of shares on offer and price range have not yet been determined. Figure says in its IPO paperwork that its revenue rose 22.4% to $191 million in the six months ended June 30, and that it reported a profit of $29 million in the same period, compared with a loss of $13 milli

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Another Crypto IPO Hits the Market and Most People Still Have No Idea What Crypto Is

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-09 04:50:36

Blockchain-based lender Figure Technology Solutions has officially filed for an initial public offering, marking another move by crypto-related firms seeking a slice of the trillion-dollar machine of public markets. Both crypto bros and the banks that love them are already celebrating the move to go public, which they say marks a significant milestone in the evolving intersection of cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, and mainstream finance. Analysts posit that this signals a broader shif

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Watch Figure 02 Humanoid Fold Laundry in New AI Demo

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-11 10:00:00

When the newest demo of the Figure 02 humanoid robot folding towels dropped, I knew I had to make a video about it. CNET's robot coverage always gets comments from viewers asking if robots could do their laundry. In the demo, Figure 02 folds towels at a rate of approximately 22 seconds per towel. Figure With advancements in AI and robotics, the dream of automated household chores feels closer, but it's not quite here yet. I tested my laundry-folding skills against Figure 02's robot to see just

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Wild Video Shows Humanoid Robot Effortlessly Folding Laundry

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 21:49:01

Earlier this month, AI robotics firm Figure released a video showing Figure 02, the company's autonomous humanoid robot powered by a visual language system called Helix, loading clothes into a laundry machine to be washed. Now, the company says that the robot has a new skill: folding laundry. Figure announced the capability in a blog post yesterday, celebrating the news as a landmark event for the company and autonomous laundry frontiers writ large. The robot's folding prowess, the company de

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AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-20 22:38:42

Demand for AI “companion” applications outside of bigger names, like ChatGPT and Grok, is growing. Of the 337 active and revenue-generating AI companion apps available worldwide, 128 were released in 2025 so far, according to new data provided to TechCrunch by app intelligence firm Appfigures. This subsection of the AI market on mobile has now generated $82 million during the first half of the year and is on track to pull in over $120 million by year-end, the firm’s analysis indicates. Unlike g

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GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2

news.ycombinator.com Sebastian Raschka 2025-11-24 10:06:07

OpenAI just released their new open-weight LLMs this week: gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, their first open-weight models since GPT-2 in 2019. And yes, thanks to some clever optimizations, they can run locally (but more about this later). This is the first time since GPT-2 that OpenAI has shared a large, fully open-weight model. Earlier GPT models showed how the transformer architecture scales. The 2022 ChatGPT release then made these models mainstream by demonstrating concrete usefulness for wri

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Wild Video Shows Humanoid Robot Loading a Washing Machine Pretty Well

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-09 15:18:25

"First time seeing a humanoid robot actually doing a task in a home." Dirty Laundry Humanoid robots remain far-fetched — but certain demos are starting to suggest a plausible future in which they could actually become common fixtures in regular households. In an impressive new demo, humanoid robot company Figure founder Brett Adcock showed off the company's F.02 robot effortlessly loading dirty laundry from a basket into a washing machine. Adcock can be seen adding items of clothing to the b

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Lego’s Newest Collectible Minifigures Swing Into the Spider-Verse

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-09 17:05:25

Lego’s Collectible Minifigure series has crossed with a bunch of licenses at this point, from Dungeons & Dragons to The Muppets and many more—including both Marvel Comics and the MCU. But we’ve never had an entire wave dedicated to Spider-Man before, and Lego is entering the Spider-Verse in style. Revealed today as part of the Spider-Man Day celebrations, Lego confirmed that its next wave of blind-boxed collectible minifigures will draw on Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to give fans 12 dif

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Mysterious Petroglyphs Reemerge on Oahu Beach

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-21 03:20:46

Shifting sands have once again revealed mysterious petroglyphs on the shores of a remote group of islands. The carvings appear and disappear depending on the water current, sometimes remaining hidden for years at a time before returning like a divine omen. But they’re not (as far as we know) an auspice, and this isn’t a fantasy movie. The petroglyphs are carved in sandstone along a beach on Oahu’s west coast, in front of a U.S. Army recreation center, and could be over 1,000 years old, as first

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The Coolest Hasbro Marvel and ‘Star Wars’ Reveals of San Diego Comic-Con 2025

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-22 03:45:38

Hasbro always brings out the big guns at Comic-Con, and this year’s convention was no exception. Quite literally, in fact, as both Marvel and Star Wars got some reveals that you could ostensibly count as big guns for Marvel Legends, Black Series, and Vintage Collection, and also some reveals that did actually include some actual Big Guns. This year’s reveals included a ton of X-Men goodness for Marvel (anchored around a new wave of X-Men ’97 figures), as well as the latest made-to-order deluxe

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FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 22:09:47

Vision Language Models (VLMs) enable visual understanding alongside textual inputs. They are typically built by passing visual tokens from a pretrained vision encoder to a pretrained Large Language Model (LLM) through a projection layer. By leveraging the rich visual representations of the vision encoder and the world knowledge and reasoning capabilities of the LLM, VLMs can be useful for a wide range of applications, including accessibility assistants, UI navigation, robotics, and gaming. VLM

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Grok’s AI companions drove downloads, but its latest model is the one making money

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-02 16:20:29

Grok’s raunchy, unfiltered AI companions may be making headlines for their unhinged and often NSFW responses, but it’s Grok 4, xAI’s latest model, that’s been driving the app’s revenue of late. Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grok 4 late on July 9, and by Friday, July 11, Grok’s gross revenue on iOS had jumped a whopping 325% to $419,000, up from $99,000 the day before the Grok 4 launch, according to app intelligence firm Appfigures. Image Credits:Appfigures Grok continued to pull in higher-than-usu

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LLM architecture comparison

news.ycombinator.com Sebastian Raschka 2026-01-04 06:56:01

It has been seven years since the original GPT architecture was developed. At first glance, looking back at GPT-2 (2019) and forward to DeepSeek-V3 and Llama 4 (2024-2025), one might be surprised at how structurally similar these models still are. Sure, positional embeddings have evolved from absolute to rotational (RoPE), Multi-Head Attention has largely given way to Grouped-Query Attention, and the more efficient SwiGLU has replaced activation functions like GELU. But beneath these minor refi

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The Big LLM Architecture Comparison

news.ycombinator.com Sebastian Raschka 2026-01-04 12:56:01

It has been seven years since the original GPT architecture was developed. At first glance, looking back at GPT-2 (2019) and forward to DeepSeek-V3 and Llama 4 (2024-2025), one might be surprised at how structurally similar these models still are. Sure, positional embeddings have evolved from absolute to rotational (RoPE), Multi-Head Attention has largely given way to Grouped-Query Attention, and the more efficient SwiGLU has replaced activation functions like GELU. But beneath these minor refi

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Walt Disney Returns as a Surreal Animatronic for Disneyland’s 70th Anniversary

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-15 22:30:57

As of this week, Walt Disney returns to his original Magic Kingdom, with a little help from the magic-makers at Imagineering. Through the audio-animatronics technology Walt Disney introduced when he opened Disneyland 70 years ago, the evolution of the show robots has gone from static positioning with some movements, as first seen on the singing birds in the Enchanted Tiki Room, to a roaming animatronic of Uncle Walt. Stationed in the Main Street Opera House, the (m)animatronic is the crown jewe

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You Can Soon Own a Very Realistic Pedro Pascal Figure

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-22 12:50:36

From Star Wars to Marvel, The Last of Us, and more, Pedro Pascal is one of the most famous and in-demand actors working today. Everyone loves him. Everyone wants a piece of him. And soon, you can own not just a piece; you can own the whole damn thing. Hot Toys just revealed it’s turning Pascal’s Last of Us character, Joel Miller, into a 6th scale collectible, and it’s got it all. Pedro’s good looks. Pedro’s good hair. Pedro’s “separate rolling eyeballs.” It lacks Pedro’s fashion sense because J

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‘Night at the Museum’ Franchise Gets Reboot at Disney 20 Years After the First Film

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-23 17:50:05

The Night at the Museum film franchise is getting another go at 20th Century Studios under Disney to mine more historical hijinks. It’s been 20 years (a shocking number, yes) since the release of the first film starring Ben Stiller (Severance) as a museum night watch guard who goes on adventures when the exhibits come to life at night. The concept spawned several sequels, which featured stars like Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Rami Malek, and Dan Stevens as legendary figures. Deadline reports th

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5,000-Year-Old Rock Carving Is Among the Oldest Known Depictions of an Ancient Egyptian Ruler

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2026-01-23 22:01:41

An ancient rock engraving in the Lower Nile Valley may offer a rare glimpse into the origin of Egyptian kings. The art panel depicts an elite individual with features resembling those of early Egyptian rulers, from the very beginning of political unification across Egypt. Around 6,000 years ago, Egypt underwent a dramatic political transformation, ultimately leading to the formation of the Egyptian state under the first pharaoh, Narmer, around 3100 BCE. Researchers still know relatively little

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Tuning the Prusa Core One

news.ycombinator.com Paul Lutus 2026-01-30 14:42:12

Introduction This article introduces and explores the new Prusa Core One printer. It includes a number of methods to increase this printer's accuracy and usefulness. Some printable 3D resources are included, including a Web camera mount to provide a local-network, full color, video frame rate printing monitor, to replace the Prusa Buddy3D camera. This article describes the Prusa Core One from a user perspective. I have no connection with Prusa, no editorial constraints, and some personal prefer

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Evidence of a 12,800-year-old shallow airburst depression in Louisiana

news.ycombinator.com Fitzenreiter 2026-02-05 06:55:53

Introduction Cosmic airbursts and impacts produce a wide range of surface effects, with high-altitude airbursts, such as the 1908 Tunguska event, primarily generating blast damage without forming craters [1]. In contrast, low-altitude “touch-down” airbursts may induce surface melting, spherule formation, shocked quartz, and shallow cratering [2]. Due to preservation challenges, few airburst signatures are documented in the geologic record, limiting our understanding of these events. Here, we rep

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The Trump Robot Has Returned to Center Stage at Disney World, With a Facelift

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-02-12 08:35:15

The Hall of Presidents at Walt Disney World has officially reopened after a six-month refurbishment, which included moving former President Joe Biden from center stage. The closure encompassed the eventful first half of President Donald Trump’s current administration—but now, the animatronic, which debuted with a very eerie countenance during his first term, has returned with a makeover. The Magic Kingdom’s attraction always features the country’s current leader presiding over the show alongsid

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