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Toddlerbot: Open-Source Humanoid Robot

news.ycombinator.com Stanford University 2025-09-30 03:04:25

Acknowledgement The authors would like to express their gratitude to Kaizhe Hu for assembling the second instance of ToddlerBot and assisting with keyframe animation and demo recording. We also extend our thanks to Huy Ha, Yen-Jen Wang, Pei Xu, and Yifan Hou for their insightful discussions on locomotion, and to Sirui Chen, Chen Wang, and Yunfan Jiang for valuable input on manipulation policy deployment. We are grateful to Albert Wu for his guidance on mathematical formulation and notation. Add

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Why China Builds Faster Than the Rest of the World

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2025-10-24 07:00:00

There’s never been a shortage of hot takes about what really makes the United States and China so different: Capitalism versus socialism; democracy as opposed to authoritarianism; Christianity or Confucianism; equity versus efficiency. In his highly anticipated new book, Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, Hoover Institution fellow Dan Wang proposes a fresh lens for looking at the world’s two largest superpowers: the US is a “lawyerly society,” he argues, while China is an “engineer

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Meta is licensing Midjourney's AI image and video tech

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-31 11:00:12

Meta has signed a partnership with Midjourney, an AI service that can generate images and videos from text prompts. According to Alexandr Wang, Meta's Chief AI Officer, Meta is licensing Midjourney's "aesthetic technology" for its future models and products. "To ensure Meta is able to deliver the best possible products for people it will require taking an all-of-the-above approach. This means world-class talent, ambitious compute roadmap, and working with the best players across the industry," W

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Meta is partnering with Midjourney and will license its technology for ‘future models and products’

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-10-31 22:12:07

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Even three years after its debut, with ever increasing competition in the AI image generation space, Midjourney, the boostrapped San Francisco startup, remains the “gold standard” for its 20 million users — including us here at VentureBeat, where we use it to generate the “header” art to many of our articles. Apparently, the leaders of Fac

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China’s Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-07 11:43:39

US defense officials have long worried that China's Guowang satellite network might give the Chinese military access to the kind of ubiquitous connectivity US forces now enjoy with SpaceX's Starlink network. It turns out the Guowang constellation could offer a lot more than a homemade Chinese alternative to Starlink's high-speed consumer-grade broadband service. China has disclosed little information about the Guowang network, but there's mounting evidence that the satellites may provide Chines

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Windsurf CEO opens up about ‘very bleak’ mood before Cognition deal

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-01-04 15:20:00

Days after AI coding startup Windsurf announced that it’s being acquired by Cognition, Windsurf exec Jeff Wang took to X to offer more details about the drama and uncertainty around the deal. Windsurf was previously reported to be in acquisition talks with OpenAI, but that deal fell apart, with Google DeepMind instead hiring the startup’s CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of its top researchers. Google would reportedly license Windsurf’s technology as part of the $2.4 billion d

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Squid Game Creator Unveils Scrapped Ending Fans Are Calling Better Than the Original

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-23 10:05:03

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has revealed that season 3 almost had an enormously different ending -- an ending that might have gone over better with fans who are still divided over how the hit series wrapped. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Hwang said he originally wrote an ending where Player 456, Seong Gi-hun, leaves the deadly games behind for good. That's a huge contrast to the version that actually aired, in which Gi-hun sacrifices his life in the end for the new P

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Squid Game Creator Reveals Alternate Ending That Vocal Fans Wanted Instead

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-24 14:11:00

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has revealed that season 3 almost had an enormously different ending -- an ending that might have gone over better with fans who are still divided over how the hit series wrapped. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Hwang said he originally wrote an ending where Player 456, Seong Gi-hun, leaves the deadly games behind for good. That's a huge contrast to the version that actually aired, in which Gi-hun sacrifices his life in the end for the new P

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Squid Game Creator Reveals Alternate Ending That Fans Say Should've Been the Real One

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-01 23:35:38

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has revealed that season 3 almost had a drastically different ending -- an ending that might have gone over better with fans still divided over how the hit series wrapped. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Hwang said he originally wrote an ending where Player 456, Seong Gi-hun, leaves the deadly games behind for good. That's a sharp contrast to the version that made it to screen, where Gi-hun sacrifices his life in the end for the new Player 2

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‘Squid Game’ Creator Explains That Wild Final Scene

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-02-15 20:30:38

The third and final season of Netflix’s Squid Game is filled with unforgettable moments. Series finales usually are. But even after everything is wrapped up in the games themselves, the show had one final surprise for audiences, and it’s a doozy. We’ve written about it here but now, the show’s creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has weighed in about what he meant with the scene, what it implies, and why he cast that person. Of course, major spoilers follow. At the very end of Squid Game 3, the Front Man (L

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Dave the Diver's In the Jungle DLC may not arrive until 2026, but Godzilla is back

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-17 00:30:19

Dave the Diver just marked its two-year anniversary, and the team behind it has a bunch of updates to share about its future. While it's mostly good news, there is one little hiccup: the upcoming In the Jungle DLC , which was announced a few months ago and was expected to arrive later this year, now isn't likely to launch until 2026. But everything else announced in the 11-minute anniversary video should make up for it. That includes the return of the time-limited free Godzilla DLC , which is no

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Changing one gene can restore some tissue regeneration to mice

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-20 00:09:26

Regeneration is a trick many animals, including lizards, starfish, and octopuses, have mastered. Axolotls, a salamander species originating in Mexico, can regrow pretty much everything from severed limbs, through eyes and parts of brain, to the spinal cord. Mammals, though, have mostly lost this ability somewhere along their evolutionary path. Regeneration persisted, in a limited number of tissues, in just a few mammalian species like rabbits or goats. “We were trying to learn how certain anima

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The Star of ‘Squid Game’ Thinks Even Season 2 Haters Will Like Season 3

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-02-23 20:10:18

Squid Game‘s final chapter is just hours away from hitting Netflix—and there’s no doubt millions will tune in to see how the global phenomenon wraps up. Among those numbers will surely be fans who felt a little let down by season two, feeling the episodes didn’t measure up to Squid Game‘s blockbuster first season. But to hear star Lee Jung-jae tell it, there’s a good chance even the naysayers will find satisfaction, or at least some major food for thought, with its ending. Speaking to the Guard

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Novoloop is making tons of upcycled plastic

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-02-27 15:00:00

Plastic has a recycling problem. Only about 9% of plastic gets recycled, and a majority of that waste comes from single use items like plastic grocery bags. It’s partly a design problem — they’re made to be discarded. But it’s also a technology problem because recycling such films isn’t easy, and the results usually aren’t great. Novoloop says it has developed a way to take those troublesome plastics and turn them into something other companies actually want to buy. The California-based startu

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Alta raises $11M to bring ‘Clueless’ fashion tech to life with all-star investors

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2026-03-14 14:00:00

Throughout her years working in technology, Jenny Wang, 28, always found herself stumbling back to one idea — a personal styling agent to help users decide what to wear and buy based on their budget, lifestyle, weather and calendar. She has tried to build such a product numerous times in the past, “but the AI technology was not yet mature enough,” she told TechCrunch. That’s changed so a few months ago she announced the launch of her dream company, Alta, followed by the announcement today of an

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Meta beefs up disappointing AI division with $15 billion Scale AI investment

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-16 09:02:07

Meta has invested $15 billion into data-labeling startup Scale AI and hired its co-founder, Alexandr Wang, as part of its bid to attract talent from rivals in a fiercely competitive market. The deal values Scale at $29 billion, double its valuation last year. Scale said it would “substantially expand” its commercial relationship with Meta “to accelerate deployment of Scale’s data solutions,” without giving further details. Scale helps companies improve their artificial intelligence models by pr

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Meta buys Scale AI in a $14.3B deal

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan Vanian 2026-03-16 14:02:28

Alexandr Wang, CEO of ScaleAI speaks on CNBC's Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 23, 2025. Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang told employees in a memo on Thursday that he's leaving for Meta, confirming reports from earlier in the week about his departure and a large investment from the social networking company. Meta is pumping $14.3 billion into Scale AI as part of the deal, and will have a 49% stake in the artificial intelligence startup, but will not have

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Scale AI's Alexandr Wang confirms departure for Meta as part of $14.3 billion deal

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2026-03-16 19:01:07

Alexandr Wang, CEO of ScaleAI speaks on CNBC's Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 23, 2025. Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang told employees in a memo on Thursday that he's leaving for Meta, confirming reports from earlier in the week about his departure and a large investment from the social networking company. Meta is pumping $14.3 billion into Scale AI as part of the deal, and will have a 49% stake in the artificial intelligence startup, but will not have

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Meta is paying $14 billion to catch up in the AI race

theverge.com Alex Heath 2026-03-17 02:05:10

Meta is paying $14.3 billion to acquire 49 percent of Scale AI and hire its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to revamp its troubled AI efforts. As part of the deal, Wang will report directly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and remain on Scale’s board of directors, both companies announced on Thursday. Sources say Wang will lead a new AI lab at Meta tasked with building “superintelligence.” Meta spokesperson Ashley Zandy says the company “will share more about this effort and the great people joining this team i

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A frustrated Zuckerberg makes his biggest AI bet as Meta nears $14 billion stake in Scale AI, hires founder Wang

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian Ashley Capoot 2026-03-19 02:26:20

In this article META Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Mark Zuckerberg arrives before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States takes place inside the Capitol Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. Kenny Holston | Via Reuters Mark Zuckerberg is so frustrated with Meta's standing in artificial intelligence that he's willing to spend billions of dollars to convince Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang to join his com

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Latest Tech News

Toddlerbot: Open-Source Humanoid Robot

Why China Builds Faster Than the Rest of the World

Meta is licensing Midjourney's AI image and video tech

Meta is partnering with Midjourney and will license its technology for ‘future models and products’

China’s Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink

Windsurf CEO opens up about ‘very bleak’ mood before Cognition deal

Squid Game Creator Unveils Scrapped Ending Fans Are Calling Better Than the Original

Squid Game Creator Reveals Alternate Ending That Vocal Fans Wanted Instead

Squid Game Creator Reveals Alternate Ending That Fans Say Should've Been the Real One

‘Squid Game’ Creator Explains That Wild Final Scene

Dave the Diver's In the Jungle DLC may not arrive until 2026, but Godzilla is back

Changing one gene can restore some tissue regeneration to mice

The Star of ‘Squid Game’ Thinks Even Season 2 Haters Will Like Season 3

Novoloop is making tons of upcycled plastic

Alta raises $11M to bring ‘Clueless’ fashion tech to life with all-star investors

Meta beefs up disappointing AI division with $15 billion Scale AI investment

Meta buys Scale AI in a $14.3B deal

Scale AI's Alexandr Wang confirms departure for Meta as part of $14.3 billion deal

Meta is paying $14 billion to catch up in the AI race

A frustrated Zuckerberg makes his biggest AI bet as Meta nears $14 billion stake in Scale AI, hires founder Wang

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