Top stories in robotics today: – Waabi lands $1B to take on Waymo, Tesla
– Tesla kills flagship EVs to bring in robots
– Figure's Helix 02 unified robot brain – Fauna’s ‘friendly’ humanoid is here
– Quick hits on other robotics news Read more: https://
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Waabi secures $1B as robotics startups challenge Waymo
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AI Drives Real Impact in Financial Services Operations
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AI is no longer a pilot project — it’s driving real impact in financial services.
— NVIDIA AI (@NVIDIAAI) 29 janvier 2026
The 2026 State of AI in Financial Services report shows:
💡 AI is streamlining back-office operations with agentic systems
📈 Organizations are seeing measurable ROI in revenue and cost savings
🌐… pic.twitter.com/DGW8uejdi4AI is no longer a pilot project — it’s driving real impact in financial services. The 2026 State of AI in Financial Services report shows: AI is streamlining back-office operations with agentic systems Organizations are seeing measurable ROI in revenue and cost savings
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Prompt ensemble boosts startup investment evaluation accuracy by 20%
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Real example from Stanford's research: Task: Evaluate startup investment opportunity Single prompt accuracy: 67%
Prompt ensemble (5 variations): 87% accuracy Why? Different prompts caught different red flags. Synthesis found the pattern. 20% accuracy jump = millions in -
Brex Podcast Finance AI Gains Strong Engagement With Reggio
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acquisition timing aside, the snip/share rate of our Brex podcast with @jamesreggio is 2x anything else we’ve done recently. super well received and thorough/open conversation.
— Latent.Space (@latentspacepod) 29 janvier 2026
more in finance x ai soon https://t.co/wcoTph4kLY pic.twitter.com/qSYsTL6bAzacquisition timing aside, the snip/share rate of our Brex podcast with @jamesreggio is 2x anything else we’ve done recently. super well received and thorough/open conversation. more in finance x ai soon
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India-EU Trade Deal: Pharma IP Collaboration Benefits
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Youngsuk ‘YS’ Chi, Chairman of Elsevier, highlighted the benefits of the India-EU trade deal collaboration, stating, “I think the businesses will benefit by making sure that we collaborate on ….” https://
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Founder equity taxation obligations at $2B valuations
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If you own 50% of a company that raised at $2B, you have to cough up $50M in cash whether or not you’re liquid. You can defer, but first, surrender all liquid assets, pay over five years, and if your company fails, too bad. You’re on the hook for life with undischargeable debt.
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FSI AI Experts Panel: Model Inventory Management and Transparency
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Managing a massive model inventory? Learn from a panel of FSI AI experts from @Visa
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, @ArvestBank @MassMutual
, and @DominoDataLab who have been there. Save your seat and gain practical steps for transparency and accountability in AI: https://
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Prompt for rapid competitive intel with pivot history
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Prompt 2: "Find every company building [specific solution]. Show their revenue model, team size, last funding, and biggest customer wins. Flag which ones pivoted from something else." Competitive intel that used to take 3 days now takes 4 minutes. The pivot history part is
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Prompt replacing PitchBook for funding analysis
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Prompt 1: "Analyze the last 50 funding rounds in [industry]. Break down average valuation, revenue multiples, and which investors are most active. Compare to 6 months ago." This single prompt replaced my PitchBook subscription. Gets real-time data with sources. I used this to
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Google DeepMind Opens New Singapore Office, Strengthens AI Partnership
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It was wonderful to catch up with Minister @joteo_ylm as always. Singapore has a very ambitious & forward-looking approach to AI – really excited to deepen our collaboration as we open our new @GoogleDeepMind offices there – and we're hiring for the office!