Proception, a Silicon Valley startup, has raised $11 million in seed funding and launched ProHand 1.0, a 22-degree-of-freedom robotic hand designed to give humanoids and other robots more human-like object handling capabilities.
Chinese delivery giant Meituan has officially open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model, under a permissive MIT license.
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has issued a stark warning that excessive spending on artificial intelligence could trigger global financial consequences, as debt-fueled investments in the sector raise the risk of cascading defaults.