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Stuttgart-based Sereact has closed a $110 million Series B led by Headline to launch Cortex 2.0, a vision-language-action model that lets industrial robots simulate multiple outcomes and choose the action most likely to succeed , a capability that moves robotics from scripted execution to genuine physical reasoning.
Aave's governance token launched natively on Solana this weekend via Sunrise DeFi, supported by a Solana Foundation USDT loan and immediate integration across Jupiter, Backpack, Phantom, Raydium, and Meteora , a coordinated cross-chain move that signals a maturation in how Layer 1 ecosystems approach DeFi competition.
Unsloth delivers 2x faster training and up to 70% less VRAM for fine-tuning models like Qwen3.6, Llama, and Mistral, collapsing the hardware barrier that has kept advanced LLM customisation out of reach for most developers.
Up to 39,000 Samsung semiconductor workers rallied in Pyeongtaek on April 23, demanding 15% of the company's $38 billion quarterly operating profit and threatening an 18-day strike from May 21 that could disrupt global AI chip supply.
Apple's incoming CEO John Ternus inherits a company that has fallen meaningfully behind on AI, forced into a partnership with OpenAI to give its devices a capable language model while competitors have built or deeply integrated their own. Tim Cook's legacy is extraordinary by almost every financial measure, but the AI gap he leaves behind is the defining challenge of the succession and the one that will determine whether Apple remains the world's most valuable technology company through the next
Stanford and Arc Institute researchers used genome language models to generate 16 functional bacteriophages, including novel lineages that outperform natural viruses,crossing a line from computational design to lab-tested biology.