@Techmeme@techhub.socialPhysical 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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSpotify 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…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzJames Pearce Jr. returns to Falcons for minicamp physical amid intervention program https://www.nfl.com/news/james-pearce-jr-falcons-physical-mandatory-minicamp-intervention-program
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlibaba's AI unit Tongyi Lab launches the Qwen Robot Suite, its first family of AI models for robots, in pilot testing with some enterprise clients (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article
@david@boles.xyzWhen Does AI Fakery Become AI Reality?
We are living in the precise historical moment when the question "Is this real?" has become unanswerable in real time, and the fact that nobody seems particularly alarmed by this should alarm us all. The case study arrived this month with the force of a wartime broadcast, which is exactly what it was: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose physical whereabouts and physical condition have been the subject of intense…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzChargers 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…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzA Deep Generative Model that Uses Physical Quantities to Generate and Retrieve #Solar Magnetic Active Regions: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae47d9 -> SwRI harnesses AI to find meaningful matches in solar data: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/swri-harnesses-ai-find-meaningful-matches-solar-data
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSpotify 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…
@jake4480@c.imMid year, trying to knock out a few blog posts. Finished the one on the Gemini protocol, since I wanted to do that one before I finish the small web one. Next up is a brief one on physical media, then the one on the small web after that. And maybe get a few more in after all those before the end of the year.
#blogs #blogging
@cdarwin@c.imPrometheus,
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…
@doktrock@toad.socialNews story on a significant earthquake in Uzbekistan, 50 years ago, May 17, 1976 (Fargo-Moorhead Forum archives). Mentions the Medvedev scale, apparently now the the MSK or MSK-64 scale. That scale is not mentioned in North American, physical geology textbooks I have seen, although it's apparently similar to the Mercalli scale.
Also, the first page of a scientific paper on it, from 1980. ⚒️🧪
#OTD
@mlawton@mstdn.socialI was hoping for a draw, knowing that this was always going to be a rough away fixture. Villa are disciplined and the right kind of physical.
The injury-depleted attack effectively put too much on Ngumoha to do something individually. He tried, but doubling him was all they needed to do. Gakpo, out of position, is a hole in the offense.
Otherwise, it's set pieces, of which you'd be delighted to score twice in a match.
But for the tragicomic defense in broken play..…
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgLovely, thoughtful piece. I also struggle with my book collection. @… https://social.ewenbell.com/objects/0671eb0d-4b1c-4519-80c3-a094e001e…
@jswright61@ruby.socialKnee update:
4 weeks postop. Pain is way less. Strength returning and stamina is returning, though at a slower pace.
I still don’t have the extension (ability to get the leg completely straight) I want b need. That’s what we’re concentrating on in Physical Therapy and home exercises.
Next two weeks are critical, things get set and ability to improve goes away.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe quality of images from digital cameras is inversely proportional to the physical size of the memory card used.
This Kodak DC50 uses PCMCIA (type I or II) cards
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.degenetic_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…
@brian_gettler@mas.toThis is absolutely bonkers (when you elect the worst people they - surprise! - keep doing the worst things). My employer - a university in Ontario - expressly prevents us from using attendance as a factor in grading - participation, yes, mere physical presence, no. Why would high school be any different?
@totientfunction@mathstodon.xyzA physical tool bar 😉
From the 2024 XOXO talk by @… about the artist Wes Cook.
https://xoxofest.com/2024/videos/cabel-sasser/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL news roundup: Cowboys WR George Pickens reports for physical ahead of mandatory minicamp https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-monday-june-15
@gwire@mastodon.socialPhysical books should come with their own RFID bookmarks.
@wraithe@mastodon.socialAn LLM generated “book” of “crochet” “patterns” (it contained ONE pattern)
JFC
https://dialup.space/@TechTangents/116567890237371075
@Techmeme@techhub.socialXDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/colle…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyA message from Dutch Rabobank meant as reassuring that doesn't really work that way. "For Europe and the Netherlands immediate physical fuel shortages due to disruption in the Strait of Hormuz are improbable until the end of May."
Published on 13 May.
https:…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzGeorge Pickens arrives at Cowboys facility ahead of mandatory minicamp https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/15/cowboys-george-pickens-arrives-mandatory-minicamp/90558569007/
@hex@kolektiva.socialRE: #Boycott or economic blackout, #GeneralStrike, and #TaxStrike are escalations. Get in the streets and stay there. This is like a bouncer putting someone's arm behind their back and moving them.
Sometimes people try to slip out of that and fight back. Imagine if a bouncer just let themself get pummeled because they weren't ready, even after the belligerent asshole telegraphed it. A lot of bouncers take martial arts, not because they use it as a first response but because they want to be ready for those edge cases.
Armed revolution is like a bouncer getting down to brawl and calling in their buddy with the zip ties and bear mace. It's not something anyone starts with, or anyone wants to escalate to, but some people can't take a hint and are incapable of doing what's best for everyone.
Always know your next step (even if you hope you don't have to take it).
Imagine if a bouncer was just like, "oh, I asked him nicely but he told me to fuck off. I guess the creep who's punching random people and pissing in the corner runs the bar now."
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWe don’t make space for flat-Earthers. We also do not make space for people who argue (explicitly or implicitly) that some of our students deserve to be murdered.
The reasons for those two things are not identical — the latter also has to do, for example, with the fact that education requires physical safety — but they rest on a shared principle: free speech means freedom to ignore speech, and freedom to choose which speech we amplify and how. Making such choices is, in fact, the •duty• of upholding free speech.
/end
@mapto@qoto.orgWhat 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/
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders’ Maxx Crosby Gets Big Trade Take Involving Bengals https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-bengals-trade-take/
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@yaya@jorts.horsethere is a panini stickers app which is great cuz if I bought physical stickers who tf would I trade with. but now im in a lil collectors group on the app w/ people from my football discord and we r all gonna spend the next few months collecting and swapping digital stickers and I think that's grand
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThis is the second major loss of a drive containing valuable information in Japan in the last week.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/japanese-energy-firm-loses-drive-with-data-of-109-million-clients/…
@cdarwin@c.imEmma Raducanu returned to Andy Murray Arena for her second match in five hours with lingering doubts about her physical condition after slipping on the slick grass earlier in the day and hurting her left thigh.
By the time she had launched herself into consecutive backhand and forehand down-the-line winners to snatch an early break, that concern had dissipated.
What followed was one of her very best matches as she dismantled the talented 18-year-old Iva Jovic 6-2, 6-2 in front of…
@shaun@mastodon.xyzOnly 33% of #Republicans believe they could win a fight against a lazy, McDonald’s-subsisting 80 year old who falls down ramps, falls asleep every 5 minutes, and refuses to #exercise because he thinks it depletes your body’s finite energy supply. Low energy, SAD! Beta cucks!
My mom, also 80, co…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialIs 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…
@jkohlmann@mastodon.socialMan, shoutout to cables and physical connections — unbelievably fast, faster than any amount of incurred inconvenience
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders Get Alarming Insider News Involving Maxx Crosby, Bears https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/insider-news-involving-maxx-crosby-bears/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.degenetic_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 461 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Reduced physical activity due to global heating will lead to rise in health issues, study says"
#Climate #ClimateChange
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhite 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
@HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.orgThe 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 …
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialRE: 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.
@paulwermer@sfba.socialRE: 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.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzBrazilian technology helps NASA assess health risks for astronauts on mission to the Moon: #ArtemisII mission.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeI 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…
@mlncn@social.coopHappening 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…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toI'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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, says it shows significant spatial and physical reasoning improvements over ER 1.5 (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-er-1-6/
@detondev@social.linux.pizza𒌫
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders Talking Big Step With Maxx Crosby After Trade Rumors https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-talking-big-step-with-maxx-crosby-after-trade-rumors/
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialWe 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 💪
@zachleat@zachleat.comRE: https://front-end.social/@rem/116534370356477290
“A conference is a physical network of incredible people”—@… ❤️
@sherold@mastodon.onlineSleep is physical maintenance, but solitude is emotional and cognitive “defragmentation” for me.
#blogging
@davej@dice.campSo 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
@sakhavi@aoir.socialIn *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.
@crell@phpc.socialWhy do we let the greedy capitalists do this to our industry?
#LLM
@servelan@newsie.socialCBS legend spills on 'jaw-dropping' meeting before firing: 'Accuses me of physical abuse' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/cbs-news-2677008874/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.degenetic_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 105 nodes and 137 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzOn the Anticipation of #Lunar Travel in the Early 20th Century - A Pedagogical Exercise: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12582 -> "This article examines, from historical and pedagogical perspectives, Alphonse Berget's anticipation of Earth-Moon travel in Le Ciel (Larousse, 1923), decades before the beginning of the space age. [...] Unlike earlier fictional treatments such as Jules Verne's De la Terre a la Lune, Berget approached space travel using physical reasoning grounded in Newtonian gravitation. [...] His estimated Earth-Moon travel time of approximately 49 hours is of the same order of magnitude as Apollo mission transit times (approx. 72 h)."
@grumpybozo@toad.socialFinally 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.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@yetiinabox@todon.nlEvery 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.
@datascience@genomic.socialSharing 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/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle 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
@gwire@mastodon.socialOpen Banking VRP (variable recurring payments), the API expected to supplant Direct Debit, is now being referred to as "Bank on File".
(I think I experienced a moment of metaphoric reversal when I pictured this as a series of physical filing cabinets a la Gilliam's Brazil.)
https://
@cdarwin@c.imSurveillance 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIntel 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
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMost 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
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSource: Agreed-to Epenesa-Browns deal now off https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48343827/source-browns-opt-not-sign-aj-epenesa-physical
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJapan, 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…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSurvey: 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…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzUK 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.
@raiders@darktundra.xyzDarren Waller Gets Blunt on Raiders’ Failed Maxx Crosby Trade https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/darren-waller-failed-maxx-crosby-trade/
@servelan@newsie.socialOutlandish experiment shows top officials risking physical injury to please Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cabinet-2677002630/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump 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
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSource: OBJ works out for Giants, takes physical https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48542988/source-odell-beckham-jr-works-giants-takes-physical
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlcatraz, 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…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decopenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 692 nodes and 2426279 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Un…
@cdarwin@c.imBehind 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 …
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWhat 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/
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders Insider Gives Clear Eagles, 49ers Update on Maxx Crosby https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/insider-eagles-49ers-update-maxx-crosby/
@cdarwin@c.imWhile 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNintendo 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
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.detree-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
@NFL@darktundra.xyzOdell Beckham Jr. has physical, workout with New York Giants: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7212845/2026/04/20/odell-beckham-jr-giants-physical/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJeff 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
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders 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/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBucs 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
@cdarwin@c.imFor 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow 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/
@raiders@darktundra.xyzWhat 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/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHuman 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia 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
@NFL@darktundra.xyzThe 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLG 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRobotics 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAvoca, 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: 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
