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Prometheus,
the physical AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, the former co-founder of Verily, Google’s life sciences unit,
announced it raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation.
The new funds came from Bezos,
as well as from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock, among others.
This is the second fundraise round for Prometheus, which launched late last year with an initial raise of $6.2 billion, according to CNBC.
Prometheus is bu…

Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B to build an 'artificial general engineer' for the physical world | TechCrunch
The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.

Jeff Bezos' Prometheus, which is building AI models for physical tasks, raised a $12B Series B at a $41B valuation, following a $6.2B Series A (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/11/prometheus-bezos-industrial-ai

Prometheus, Jeff Bezos' AI startup, is now worth $41 billion
"Make that dream-build loop 10 times faster."

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Man, shoutout to cables and physical connections — unbelievably fast, faster than any amount of incurred inconvenience

Is anyone out there having to deal with new EU regulations/directives that require online stores to provide a no-questions-asked 14 day sale cancellation (and return)?
Our company (in California) has a small online store. We do have buyers of test products - physical, tangible, products - in the EU.
It would be crazy for us to do this 14 day thing - not only would a working store website have to be changed, but financially we could not recognize revenue for at least half a month…

The Open Science Retreat 2026 in Wales is coming to an end and with that our beautiful little week of utopia-ing at the Center for Alternative Technology.
Jules is guiding us through the final presentations of the collaborative work that happened this week.
And a lot happened! The topics and activities were defined by everyone in a collaborative effort (#Unconference).
For …

I'm looking for quantifiable measures of effective information bandwidth from auditory to visual areas in the human brain. Has anyone tried that using what is now known about the human connectome? Next question will be how sensory experience may affect this bandwidth through functional re-routing (non-physical "rewiring").
#blindness

RE: https://sfba.social/@MLNow/116737024951017189
Once more, I see the penny wise, pound foolish action of the Mayor's budget decisions - in this case returning stressors that impact both physical and mental health to a low income community.

RE: https://sfba.social/@MLNow/116737024951017189
Once more, I see the penny wise, pound foolish action of the Mayor's budget decisions - in this case returning stressors that impact both physical and mental health to a low income community.

Bucs lose an OTA practice for being too physical https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49032098/bucs-docked-ota-too-many-guys-ground-says-bowles

In *Leviathan and the Air Pump*, S Shapin recounts the 1600s controversy between Hobbes, who held that true knowledge always originates in pure solipsistic reasoning (“ratiocination”) and Boyle, who argued that knowledge required external confirmation via physical evidence. We’re still at it.
Privileged psyches in particular hate giving up on the idea that what they conclude on their own, without checking it by the world, is true.

In lecture at Brown, Yann LeCun discusses a new approach to AI
No stranger to controversy, AI pioneer Yann LeCun told a capacity crowd that large language models are not the future of AI and that a new approach is needed if machines are to achieve human-like intelligence.

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 479 nodes and 1464 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

"I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool."
—Judy Greer
#acting #coaching …

Surveillance pricing is bad for privacy, equity, and price transparency.
So EFF supports a California bill,
S.B. 2564,
which would ban this creepy practice.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/californias-bill-ban-surveillance-pricing

Yes to California's Bill to Ban Surveillance Pricing
Corporations harvest and monetize ever-growing amounts of our personal data, such as our browsing history and physical location. One bitter fruit of this poisonous tree is known as “surveillance pricing”: corporations offer the same product to two different people at two different prices, based on...

What do Ukraine and Japan have in common? They are leaders in robotics, and for the right reasons
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/05/japan-is-proving-experimental-physical-ai-is-ready-for-the-real-world/

In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants | TechCrunch
Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.

I really don't need a new project, but I would love a clustered and/or GPU accelerated image editor for massive images.
Something that can comfortably and performantly rotate, crop, layer stack, align, etc. images at gigapixel scale without bogging down for minutes at a time even on my big iron.
Across my lab I can harness something like 160 physical / 320 logical CPU cores, 1.3 TB of RAM, 50 GB of VRAM, and more shader cores than I feel like counting.
Everything is or…

Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate and corporations provide scale (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/05/japan-is-proving-e…

In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants | TechCrunch
Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.

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Vision-Language-Action Models Meet World Models: Embodied Agentic AI for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks
Feibo Jiang, Li Dong, Lei Mao, Kezhi Wang, Cunhua Pan, Dong In Kim, Naofal Al-Dhahir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11618 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11618 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.11618
arXiv:2606.11618v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Low-Altitude Wireless Networks (LAWNs), composed of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and other aerial platforms, provide integrated perception, communication, and computation services in low-altitude airspace. However, deploying large generative models in this domain faces three major challenges: 1) Limited embodied action mapping; 2) Inadequate physical environment modeling; 3) Insufficient closed-loop optimization. To address these challenges, this study proposes an Embodied Agentic UAV framework. Centered on a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model as the execution core, the framework establishes an end-to-end embodied decision-making pipeline from multimodal environmental perception to continuous control generation. In addition, a World Model (WM) is introduced to capture the coupling between UAV actions and environmental state evolution, thereby supporting environment prediction, policy verification, and dynamic optimization. Furthermore, memory and reflection mechanisms are incorporated to form an adaptive closed-loop optimization paradigm of decision, execution, evaluation, and update, thereby enhancing the system's autonomous decision-making capability and continual evolution ability in complex dynamic environments. Experimental results validate its effectiveness in enabling robust, predictive, and sustainable autonomous control in LAWNs.
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Time-Frequency Grid States for Reconstruction and Correction of Channel-Induced Distortion in Entangled Photons
Siang-Yun Liu, Bo-Ren Huang, Zhi-Xuan Zen, Yen-Hung Chen, Pin-Ju Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12216 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12216 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12216
arXiv:2606.12216v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Characterization of time-frequency (TF) quantum states requires reliable reconstruction of their TF distributions. However, imperfect transmission or measurement channels can distort reconstructed joint spectral intensities (JSIs), especially when the underlying perturbation mechanism is unknown. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a reconstruction and correction framework that uses a TF grid state as an intrinsic frequency-domain reference. By analyzing the displacement of the grid points, a Gaussian process regression model is employed to reconstruct a correction mapping for the nonlinear coordinate deformation without assuming a prior physical model of the distortion. The learned mapping reduces the residual coordinate deviation of the TF grid state by approximately a factor of 11 and, when applied to an independent frequency-entangled test state, improves the Gaussian-shape fidelity from 76.2\% to 90.0\%. These results establish TF grid states as practical metrological resources for diagnosing and correcting distortions in TF quantum systems, providing a pathway toward distortion-resilient quantum communication and high-dimensional quantum information processing.
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Sleep is physical maintenance, but solitude is emotional and cognitive “defragmentation” for me.
#blogging

I am currently trying to figure out and... - Finest Day
I am currently trying to figure out and sort through which traits are inherent to my brain’s structure (which I cannot change or only to a limited extend) and which...

UK astronaut #JohnMcFall could become the first person with a physical disability to live in orbit, thanks to an agreement signed between the UK government and US commercial space company #Vast: #Haven1 (not launched yet!) as early as next year.

We bought an SUV today. SUV stands for shopping utility vehicle, right?
At least for errands, the gas price isn't a matter any more. And we have some physical exercise as well 💪

Intel taps Alex Katouzian, an ex-Qualcomm EVP, to lead Client Computing & Physical AI group, and names Pushkar Ranade as CTO, after serving on an interim basis (Dylan Martin/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/components-periph

Intel Taps Top Qualcomm Exec To Lead Client Computing, Physical AI Group
Intel said Monday that it has hired a top Qualcomm executive for a new position that will have him oversee the alignment of its long-running and critical PC business with the emerging field of physical AI, which its CEO has made a priority.

Cowboys Have 53-Man Roster Upset Brewing With Physical Freak UDFA Michael Trigg https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-have-53-man-roster-upset-brewing-physical-freak-udfa-michael-trigg

Happening now in North Minneapolis somewhere just southwest of 2nd Ave N and Van White Memorial Boulevard, police ordering more people with nowhere to go to leave otherwise-unused land by 1pm today. The City of Minneapolis has been using violence (physical force or the threat of physical force) to shove unhoused people around constantly since the destruction of community-supported encampments, and so long as this is allowed, the human right to housing will never be fulfilled. See you there…

RE: https://front-end.social/@rem/116534370356477290
“A conference is a physical network of incredible people”—@… ❤️

Most Americans say Trump is mentally, physically unfit to serve effectively: Poll (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5862406-trump-mental-fitness-physical-health-poll/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p72#a260504p72

So THAT’S what they look like. Oddly, I’ve read about books receiving Nebulas and Hugos and PKD Awards, but it never occurred to me that they were physical artefacts AND accolades. Huh. 🤔
Re: https://wandering.shop/@effies/116717392735380026

Why do we let the greedy capitalists do this to our industry?
#LLM

SF-Flow: Sound field magnitude estimation via flow matching guided by sparse measurements
Ege Erdem, Shoichi Koyama, Tomohiko Nakamura, Orchisama Das, Zoran Cvetkovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10398 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.10398 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.10398
arXiv:2605.10398v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reconstructing a 3D sound field from sparse microphone measurements is a fundamental yet ill-posed problem, which we address through Acoustic Transfer Function (ATF) magnitude estimation. ATF magnitude encapsulates key perceptual and acoustic properties of a physical space with applications in room characterization and correction. Although recent generative paradigms such as Flow Matching (FM) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in speech and music generation, their potential in spatial audio remains underexplored. We propose a novel framework for 3D ATF magnitude reconstruction as a guided generation task, with a 3D U-Net conditioned by a permutation-invariant set encoder. This architecture enables reconstruction from an arbitrary number of sparse inputs while leveraging the stable and efficient training properties of FM. Experimental results demonstrate that SF-Flow achieves accurate reconstruction up to \SI{1}{kHz}, trains substantially faster than the autoencoder baseline, and improves significantly with dataset size.
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CBS legend spills on 'jaw-dropping' meeting before firing: 'Accuses me of physical abuse' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/cbs-news-2677008874/

No, I can't see any possible way this could be a bad thing.
https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/

FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers’ government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse survivors. “We never thought that would happen here.”

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Survey: 59% of Gen Z users in the US, UK, and AU actively add and drop streaming services to view a single movie or series, 71% stopped buying physical music (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/gen-z-cancels-streaming-sub…

Gen Z Cancels Streaming Subs for One Show, Don't Buy Full-Price Games
A study has found that more than half of Gen Z cancels and renews streaming subscriptions based on the availability of one TV series or film.

Every now and then I have one of those days where I discover all of these marvellous people on the Fedi and they're nearby (in some sense, whether physical or by interests) and they've been here for a couple of years and I don't know them. It's delightful! It's way more delightful than when there were only a few thousand people!
I do feel sad when I look at all the amazing folks who were here but left. I hope they all come back.

"Reduced physical activity due to global heating will lead to rise in health issues, study says"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Raiders to host physical DT prospect on pre-draft visit https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/03/25/raiders-to-host-physical-dt-prospect-on-pre-draft-visit/89312498007/

Google plans to open its first physical Google Store outside of the US, in Tokyo's Omotesando district "this summer", marking Google's 11th physical store (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/06/01/goog

Google Store Tokyo to be first physical store outside US, opens this summer
After being exclusive to the United States, the first physical Google Store outside of the region is coming to Tokyo, Japan, this summer.

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

Finally got my paws on a physical CD of Switched-On-Bach by Wendy Carlos, which she apparently REALLY doesn’t want copied. I guess that explains why there is no digital version.
The disk format is a rococo tangle. iTunes can play the music, but it cannot import from the disk. It cannot understand whatever arcane trick was used to construct it. I had to copy the AIFF files manually and import the copies, then add metadata manually.

Sharing big R objects across processes shouldn’t mean copying them over and over.
mori uses shared memory ALTREP to give you zero-copy access—multiple processes, one underlying object.
Fast, memory-efficient, and built for modern parallel workflows.
👉 https://shikokuchuo.net/mori/

FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/

RE: https://meta.masto.host/@GamingNews/116529674646601494
The whole idea of mogging being based on physical appearance just seems wrong to me.

Source: Agreed-to Epenesa-Browns deal now off https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48343827/source-browns-opt-not-sign-aj-epenesa-physical

Trump regime takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network. Ships will be dispatched this month to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments that comprise the network, one of the world’s most trusted sources of climate and oceanic data. https://www.scientificame…

Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network
The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade

While the end point is unclear,
Trump’s would-be dictatorship is politically broken.
And as Trump’s mental and physical dissipation increases by the day,
it’s increasingly important to focus on the network of stooges that have built and sustained his regime.
After all, once Trump departs from the scene, stooges like them will remain,
ready and waiting to be activated by another would-be dictator

A regime of idiots: A complete inventory of Trump stooges
They will remain, festering, awaiting the next opportunity for soul-selling.

Causal Scaffolding for Physical Reasoning: A Benchmark for Causally-Informed Physical World Understanding in VLMs
Tianyi Tang, Zhuoyi Lin, Zeyu Feng, Tianyi Ma, Yew-Soon Ong, Ivor Tsang, Haiyan Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05966

Alcatraz, which develops AI-powered facial-recognition security systems for building access, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/02/alcatraz-r…

Alcatraz raises $50M to bring Apple Face ID-style security to physical buildings - SiliconANGLE
Alcatraz raises $50M to bring Apple Face ID-style security to physical buildings - SiliconANGLE

White House Releases Results of Trump's Latest Physical Exam (Chris Cameron/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/trump-health-medical-physical-exam.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260530/p43#a260530p43

Physical shops would much rather people shop online.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/03/guilty-until-proven-innocent-shoppers-falsely-identified-by-facial-recognitio…

Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names
People shamed and ordered to leave shops after being misidentified then ‘given no help’ to investigate verdicts

A tl;dr version might be, that no physical system can exist outside the universe, which for the purpose of measuring it is not finite; therefore no physical system can be simulated with arbitrary accuracy.

Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/spotify-l…

Spotify launches the ability to purchase physical books in the US and UK | TechCrunch
Spotify users in the US and UK can officially purchase physical books through the Android app. iOS users will get the feature next week.

Got an Amber Alert today, and my weather app, @…, did a better job than the state of Tennessee. In fact, TN failed, as they do at most things lately.
The alert from TN had a Bitly link (already looks suspicious) that goes to a Facebook page that requires you to login. :picard:

Är promenader mer effektivt än konditionsträning för fettförbränning?
https://traningslara.se/ar-promenader-mer-effektivt-an-konditionstraning-for-fettforbranning/

Är promenader mer effektivt än konditionsträning för fettförbränning?
Promenader är inte mer effektivt än konditionsträning om du vill göra av med mer kalorier eller öka chanserna att gå ner i vikt. De som påstår att promenader är bättre lurar människor genom att slänga sig med fina ord likt NEAT (non exercise activity thermogenesis), TDEE (total daily energy expenditure), SPA (spontaneous physical activity) mm […]

From collider experiments to large-scale astronomy systems, this session by Dmitriy Kostunin and Julian von Hoerschelmann-Schliwinski takes an honest look at where AI delivers measurable gains, and where it falls short.
Learn more about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/ai-in-the-physical-world-from-observation-to-discovery/

I keep seeing things about how they're adding Tales from the Crypt to Shudder starting tomorrow, but Shudder is $7.99 a month and up. I looked on eBay and the whole series on DVD is on there for less than $30 shipped, in the USA at least. And you'd own all of it forever. The math doesn't math. Physical media ftw

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 1203 nodes and 2522 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwei…

Outlandish experiment shows top officials risking physical injury to please Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cabinet-2677002630/

En la mani del #1deMayo un compañero me ha hablado de este artículo sobre la salud del uso de la #ia en el entorno laboral. No lo he leído aún pero me ha dicho que es muy interesante lo que plantea

Now that the trump name is being removed from the Kennedy Center I wonder whether trump will try to sell off the physical letters that were removed and keep the proceeds to himself?

What is an NFL physical? Explaining the medical exams needed to approve most transactions https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7129252/2026/03/19/nfl-physical-exam-maxx-crosby-ravens-raiders/

How Black Forest Labs, a 70-person startup based in Germany, became a top competitor in AI image generation; sources: it recently declined to partner with xAI (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/black-forest-labs-ai-image-generation/

The 70-Person AI Image Startup Taking on Silicon Valley's Giants
Black Forest Labs has long punched above its weight in the AI image generation space. Its next move? Powering physical AI.

Source: OBJ works out for Giants, takes physical https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48542988/source-odell-beckham-jr-works-giants-takes-physical

𖨆 <-- This is my little one who is the only one who has the capability to explore every part of existence no matter how physical or abstract it is

Trump Undergoes a Physical Exam at Walter Reed (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/us/politics/trump-physical-walter-reed.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p63#a260526p63

Behind the public’s mounting worries is a growing sense that Trump isn’t mentally all there.
Physical and mental health aren’t easily separated, especially as one reaches 80. I often can’t remember where I put my wallet and keys or why I’ve entered a room. I also have less patience than I used to have. (I’m less tolerant of long lines, automated phone menus and Republicans.)
But if Trump can’t remember where he put, say, a top-secret memo or why he entered the Situation Room, or …

Nintendo says new first-party games exclusive to Switch 2 will have different prices for physical and digital versions in the US, beginning in May (Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle)
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/n

Nintendo confirms its US Switch 2 games will soon cost more as physical versions
Starting with Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, first-party Nintendo games will have different prices as digital and physical versions

What is an NFL physical? Explaining the medical exams needed to approve most transactions https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7129252/2026/03/19/nfl-physical-exam-maxx-crosby-ravens-raiders/

Podcast: The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-physical-politics-of-the-internet-with-britt-paris/

“National data shows that almost half of Australians already fall short of minimum physical activity guidelines, and rising prices are making even basic care unaffordable for many.”
I’m not saying this stupid war on #Iran is wholly responsible for #inflation, but it’s certainly not helping—and even its dis…

Maxx Crosby Highlighted in Major Cowboys-Raiders Trade Idea https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-highlighted-cowboys-trade-idea/

Odell Beckham Jr. has physical, workout with New York Giants: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7212845/2026/04/20/odell-beckham-jr-giants-physical/

For millennia, the “source code” of human survival was written in the soil
— held in the physical seeds exchanged by farmers across the Eastern Ghats, the Andes and the African savannah.
Today, that code has been digitised into ATGC sequences,
stored on servers largely located in the Global North
and increasingly governed by intellectual property regimes that risk excluding the very communities that developed this biological heritage.
The issue is no longer lim…

Value food
Value food

Nvidia says South Korea's Naver will use its technology to build AI factories at "gigawatt scale" to meet rising global demand for AI services and physical AI (Heekyong Yang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific…

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 307 nodes and 726 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/01/nvidia-ai-push-cosmos-3-world-model

Nvidia expands AI push with Cosmos 3 world model
The chip giants aims to become a platform for physical AI.

Bills Named in Mega Trade Pitch for Raiders’ Maxx Crosby https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/bills-mega-trade-pitch-maxx-crosby/

Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/spotify-l…

Spotify launches the ability to purchase physical books in the US and UK | TechCrunch
Spotify users in the US and UK can officially purchase physical books through the Android app. iOS users will get the feature next week.

The Harbaugh effect: Why Giants leaned bigger, str... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48630512/new-york-giants-coach-john-harbaugh-joe-schoen-2026-nfl-draft-reese-mauigoa

LG shares jumped 300% this year, after largely sitting out South Korea's chip-rally in 2025, as LG seeks to expand into physical AI businesses such as robots (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Chargers mock Ravens failing Maxx Crosby physical in schedule release video https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/05/14/chargers-mock-ravens-failing-maxx-crosby-physi…

Human Archive, which trains robots using first-person video from 1,000 camera-equipped caps worn by Indian home services workers, raised $8.2M from YC and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/human…

This startup is betting India's gig economy can train the world's robots | TechCrunch
Human Archive, a startup founded by UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is paying gig workers in India to wear camera-equipped caps and sensor devices to collect the real-world physical training data that AI and robotics labs are racing to acquire.

Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an "early sign" of generalization, surprising researchers (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/202…

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught | TechCrunch
The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

History repeats itself more than it should.
If you think we cannot get out from under these ghouls, then all I can say is we did it several times before.
We should be getting good at it by now.
The closest Trump's gonna get to heaven is on an airplane.
Go figure, cause I can't
Keep protests peaceful.
Don't kill anyone.
They DO make a difference.
Here are some resistance related guides from around the world:
🇺🇸 Fundamentals …

Fundamentals of physical surveillance : a guide for uniformed and plainclothes personnel : Siljander, Raymond P : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
xvii, 268 p. : 24 cm

Raiders Get Blockbuster Trade Idea Involving Eagles, Maxx Crosby https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/blockbuster-trade-idea-eagles-maxx-crosby/

RoboForce, which is developing robotics systems to perform physically demanding industrial work, raised $52M led by YZi Labs, bringing its total funding to $67M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/16/roboforce-rai…

RoboForce raises $52M to develop physical AI robots for industrial labor - SiliconANGLE
RoboForce raises $52M to develop physical AI robots for industrial labor - SiliconANGLE

Maxx Crosby on what went down in Baltimore: 'I was terrified' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7126643/2026/03/17/maxx-crosby-ravens-raiders-failed-physical/

Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

The Pentagon is moving to recruit hundreds of troops to appear as spectators at President Trump’s UFC cage-fighting event on the White House lawn,
and requiring those who attend to pay their own way and meet height and weight requirements.
https://www.

Pentagon recruiting troops to watch White House UFC fights, memos show
Internal messages reviewed by The Post stipulate that military personnel must pay their own ways and meet strict physical requirements to be eligible.

Analysis: Asian suppliers account for ~90% of Nvidia's production costs, up from 65% in 2025, as latest wave of collaborations shifts from chips to physical AI (Abhishek Vishnoi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Since his first years as a top player, Jannik Sinner has long had one major weakness.
The hotter it is, the more vulnerable he becomes.
It nearly toppled him at January’s Australian Open, before Novak Djokovic did the job instead.
On Thursday, with temperatures climbing toward the 90s at Roland Garros, Sinner could not endure.
In the second round of the French Open, the world No. 1 fell victim to Juan Manuel Cerúndolo of Argentina, the world No. 56.
He grew dizzy…

Jannik Sinner might have a heat problem, but tennis has a bigger one
As tennis gets ever more physical and matches grow longer, its relationship with heat will grow more complex — and sometimes concerning.

Avoca, whose AI agents let physical services businesses handle inbound calls and dispatch, raised $125M across seed, Series A, and Series B at a $1B valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/27/avoca-a

How a chance encounter in Texas sparked a $1 billion Kleiner Perkins-backed AI startup
Avoca, founded by two MIT grads, brings Silicon Valley tech to trades like plumbing, roofing, and HVAC.

Apoha, which is developing a "Liquid State Intelligence" data layer to measure molecules in the real world, emerges from stealth with $36M led by Singular (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)
https://pathfounders.com/p/apoha-emerges-from-stealth-with-36m-to-teach-…

Apoha emerges from stealth with $36M to teach AI how matter behaves
The company is targeting pharma first, but could apply its technology to food, materials and even embed it into Physical AI.

PitchBook: VC investment in global robotics and physical AI jumped to $26B in 2025 from $4.2B in 2019, and has already topped $23B as of May 20 this year (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/…

China will implement new online food delivery regulations on June 1, requiring platforms to regularly verify businesses' identities, locations, and licenses (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/china-to-crack-down-on-fo…

China to crack down on food delivery 'ghost kitchens'
Meituan, others will need to verify that listed stores match physical locations

A look at Eka, which trains its robotic claw on a "vision-force-action model" incorporating realistic joints, motors, and physics principles into its simulation (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-…

When Robots Have Their ChatGPT Moment, Remember These Pincers
From sorting chicken nuggets to screwing in light bulbs, Eka’s robots are eerily lifelike. But do they have real physical smarts?

Sources: Physical Intelligence, which is developing AI models for robotics, is discussing a new funding round of about $1B that would value it at $11B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-27/ex…