Google Gemini is breaking out of ChatGPT’s shadow, likely on the wings of its Nano Banana image editor and the viral trend of AI-generated, lifelike figurines.  Google launched Nano Banana in late August. It hyped the model as a way to “transform images in amazing new ways” inside the Gemini app. To get the “perfect […]

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
CoreWeave says it has signed a new $6.3B order with Nvidia that guarantees Nvidia will purchase any cloud capacity not sold to customers through April 13, 2032  —  CoreWeave (CRWV.O) said on Monday it had signed a new order with Nvidia (NVDA.O) with an initial value of $6.3 billion …

Will Knight / Wired:
Sources: OpenAI is recruiting AI researchers to work on humanoid robots and is training AI algorithms that are better able to make sense of the physical world  —  The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears …

The best Halloween maybe ever got dumped on DVD, but will get a re-release in 4K on October 14.

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LA-based MarqVision, which uses AI to monitor marketplaces for counterfeits, raised a $48M Series B led by Peak XV Partners, bringing its total funding to ~$90M  —  When Mark Lee was a law student at Harvard, a trademark class exposed him to the staggering scale of counterfeiting …