Coby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100 million to train its models for war. We visited its bootcamp.

We visited Scout AI's training ground where it's working on AI agents that give individual soldiers control of fleets of ...

Nebius acquires AI model optimization startup Eigen AI for $643M

Nebius Group NV, a Dutch operator of artificial intelligence data centers, today announced plans to buy software maker Eigen ...
Morningstar

Universal Robots and Scale AI Launch Imitation Learning System to Accelerate AI Model Training, Bridging the ‘Lab-to-Factory’ Gap

Universal Robots (UR) today unveiled the UR AI Trainer at GTC 2026 in Silicon Valley. Developed in collaboration with Scale AI, the AI Trainer marks a tectonic shift as robots move from pre-programmed ...
The Next Web

Universal Robots and Scale AI launch the UR AI Trainer

Revealed at GTC 2026, the leader-follower imitation learning platform captures force, motion, and visual data directly on production hardware, closing the gap between AI research labs and factory ...

New AI framework autonomously optimizes training data, architectures and algorithms — outperforming human baselines

EVOLVE, an agentic framework that autonomously optimizes AI training data, model architectures, and learning algorithms — ...
Forbes

This 24 Year Old Built A Multibillion-Dollar AI Training Empire In Eight Months

Ali Ansari’s decision to turn micro1’s AI recruitment assistant into a data labeling business spiked the company’s valuation from $80 million to discussions at $2.5 billion. Now he’s working on ...

Elon Musk ‘agrees’ to the AI training practice that Anthropic complained to White House against China

Elon Musk testified that his AI startup, xAI, has used OpenAI's models for training, admitting "partly" when questioned. This ...
Nature

‘World models’ are AI’s latest sensation: what are they and what can they do?

Training AI world models on data about physical environments could improve their real-world capabilities in technologies such ...