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Bee is joining Amazon, according to CEO and Co-founder Maria de Lourdes Zollo, who shared the news on LinkedIn. She described the move as a step toward bringing agentic, personal AI to more people. The company is backed by investors Greycroft and Exor according to its website.
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Lumotive has secured new investment from Amazon's Industrial Innovation Fund and Oman’s ITHCA Group to accelerate the adoption of its light-directing chip. The company’s Series B-related funding now totals $59 million and will support global scaling in industrial and robotics applications.
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Brussels Airlines has become the first in the Lufthansa Group to use virtual reality in place of traditional simulator tools for pilot training. In early July, two flight crews completed part of their A320 Type Rating using the new VR system, without instructor supervision.
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Asylon Robotics has raised $24 million in Series B funding to expand its suite of automated robotic security products. Insight Partners led the round, joined by Veteran Ventures Capital, Allegion Ventures, and the GO PA Fund.
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Microsoft is launching a new cultural heritage initiative in Paris this fall, partnering with the French Ministry of Culture and Iconem to digitally replicate Notre Dame Cathedral.
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UBTECH has demonstrated a fully autonomous battery-swapping system on Walker S2, the latest in its industrial humanoid robot line.
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Miami University has secured a $1.5 million Workforce Safety Innovation Center grant to launch the Safety Immersion and Gamified Hazard Training (SIGHT) for Industry 5.0 Workers.
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BrightAI announced a $51 million Series A round co-led by Khosla Ventures and Inspired Capital, with additional participation from BoxGroup, Marlinspike, Rsquared VC, and others.
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A study in the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services explored how consumers respond to augmented reality try-on apps and how privacy concerns influence that experience.
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BQP has secured $5 million in seed financing to expand BQPhy, its digital twin platform designed to run across CPUs, GPUs, and quantum systems. The software enables simulation performance improvements today using quantum-inspired methods and is built to support future gains on quantum hardware.
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Waymo has introduced teen accounts for riders aged 14 to 17 in Metro Phoenix, allowing them to hail fully autonomous rides independently. The accounts must be linked to a parent or guardian, who receives ride updates and receipts while having access to live trip status.
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Meta has released an update to Haptics Studio, its desktop and VR tool for building tactile effects in virtual environments. The redesign introduces a more streamlined interface and guided onboarding in the VR app, aimed at helping developers create and test haptics more efficiently.