Author: Advanced AI Bot

A little girl happened upon a 3,800-year-old amulet while she was hiking with her family outside Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority said last week. Ziv Nitzvan, 3, discovered the amulet in the area around Beit Shemesh, a city that’s located less than an hour west of Jerusalem. It depicts a scarab, a beetle that commonly figures on ancient Egyptian antiquities, and is believed to date back to the Bronze Age. According to Nitzvan’s sister Omer, Ziv was hiking with her family when she was looking at stones on the ground. She “bent down, and of all the stones next to…

Los Angeles-based startup Moonvalley, which is developing AI tools for video creation, has raised a fresh $43 million in venture capital, according to an SEC filing. The filing lists 11 unnamed investors and comes roughly a week after Moonvalley launched its first AI video-generating model, Marey. Moonvalley previously raised $70 million in seed funding from backers including General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and Bessemer Venture Partners. A spokesperson for Moonvalley told TechCrunch that the filing “does not dictate the total funding number” and that “the actual number will be formalized and announced in the coming weeks.” The wide availability of tools to…

Goldman Sachs has lowered its forecast for U.S. crude oil prices as the investment bank sees the U.S. economy slowing and the risk of a recession rising due to President Donald Trump’s tariffs . Goldman on Sunday cut its December 2025 outlook for U.S. crude and global benchmark Brent to $58 and $62 per barrel, respectively. Prices are expected to fall further in 2026 with U.S. crude and Brent averaging $55 and $58 per barrel, according to the bank. “The risks to our reduced oil price forecast remain to the downside, because recession risk has grown further and because OPEC+…

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform industries across the globe, the EU has taken significant strides to regulate its deployment, use and implementation and to mitigate associated risks. The 2024 AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), presented by the European Commission (EC) as “the first-ever comprehensive legal framework on AI worldwide,” creates a set of risk-based rules regarding specific uses of AI. It came into effect on August 1, 2024, and will be fully enforceable in August 2026. Certain provisions (mostly prohibition on use) took effect in advance, on February 2, 2025. On February 4 and 6, 2025, the European…

A tugboat pushes a barge near the U.S. Steel Corp. Clairton Coke Works facility in Clairton, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 9, 2024.Justin Merriman | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Monday ordered the proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel to undergo a new review after the deal was blocked by President Joe Biden.Trump directed the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to review the acquisition again to assist “in determining whether further action in this matter may be appropriate,” according to a presidential action issued by the White House on Monday.U.S. Steel stock spiked more than…

The National Parks Service has edited dozens of webpages since President Trump’s inauguration, seemingly to remove or soften references to slavery, racial division, the civil rights struggle, the Jim Crow era, and other parts of American history, according an analysis by the Washington Post published on Sunday. For the analysis, the Post compared webpages across websites managed by NPS from late March with earlier versions archived on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. NPS, an agency of the Department of the Interior, manages 430 properties, over 100 of which are monuments, historic or cultural sites, or national memorials. Among the iconic…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Donald Trump top trade advisor Peter Navarro have locked horns about the administration’s tariffs, which have resulted in a wide selloff on Monday. Musk has criticized Navarro for his inexperience in building things, while the trade advisor threw some shade towards Musk over the CEO’s electric vehicle business.  Musk’s Initial Volley During a video-link interview with Italy deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini, Musk noted that he was hoping for a zero-tariff situation between Europe and the United States. “At the end of the day, I hope it’s agreed that both Europe and the United States…

NVIDIA has announced a foundation AI model for humanoid robots called NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1, aka GR00T N1. The chip maker announced that this pre-trained AI model is available as open-source. The announcement came at the company’s annual GTC conference, which took place in San Jose, California, on March 18. NVIDIA has announced the GR00T N1, a foundation AI model for humanoid robots NVIDIA reportedly trained the GR00T N1 AI model on existing datasets and synthetically generated data. For those unaware, synthetic data is artificially created using computational methods and simulations and mimics the statistical properties of real-world data. The…

In March, this site showed how Harvey is rolling out agentic AI systems. Now, A&O Shearman (AOS) is to sell agentic tools to clients and other law firms, and it will ‘share in the software revenue’. AOS notes that ‘the agents [it is developing with Harvey] will integrate A&O Shearman’s legal expertise and will be rolled out internally as well as being sold to clients and other law firms’. They then added that these tools will be ‘available to large corporations, law firms, and financial services via subscription or usage-based fees; A&O Shearman will share in the software revenue.’ So, let’s just…

IBM on Monday said it has acquired Hakkoda, a data and AI consultancy based in New York. The acquisition would “further expand” IBM’s ability to bring consultants and AI to clients, particularly customers in industries like financial services, public sector, and healthcare and life sciences, said Mohamad Ali, SVP and head of IBM’s consulting business, in a statement. “With Hakkoda’s data expertise, deep technology partnerships, and asset-centric delivery model, IBM will be even better-positioned to deliver value faster to clients as they transform with AI,” Ali said. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal comes as IBM…