42AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can ‘predict human behavior’ |

Here’s a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a…

Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream with $17M from a16z to build AI world models for construction |

Andy Elder and Arjun Mathur were Stanford roommates who both studied computer science before spending a decade at Palantir. Elder led product design for a…

Rivian buys world model startup to accelerate self-driving ambitions |

EV maker Rivian has acquired Third Dimension, a U.K. startup founded by veterans of the gaming and autonomous vehicle industries that uses AI to turn…

Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world |

If there’s one lesson the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident taught us, it’s that AI agents can be unpredictable. “Imagine if something like that happened in the…

Reins CEO to tackle succession planning at Service World Expo

Chris Buttenham will share how contractors can build a business that can run without them, whatever comes next /PRNewswire/ — Reins, which gives contractors the…

Glo by Lantern Debuts at Staffing World as the First AI-Native Platform Built for Staffing and Recruiting

Your ATS tells you what happened. Glo tells you what’s next. /PRNewswire/ — Lanterntoday announced the debut of Glo, the first AI-native solution built for…

10 New Technologies in a Big Data World

These are heady times in the data management world. Organizations of all types are embracing AI and real-time capabilities as key to future growth, and…

Sky Elements Sets GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS for Most Drones Flown in One Week and Flies the Largest Drone Show in America

More than 71,000 drone flights over three nights in North Texas, capped by an 11,000-drone show, bring the nation’s largest show title home to Sky…

AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion |

1:39 PM PDT · September 28, 2026 AMD is acquiring World Labs, one of the leading developers of deep learning models intended to understand physical…

World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets |

This week, I moderated a panel on world models at the All In conference (no relation to the podcast), and it gave me a chance…