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Theker just closed an eighty-five million dollar funding round for a factory robot built around flexibility rather than function. Unlike humanoid designs locked into a fixed form, Theker's machines are designed to be reconfigured on the fly — a bet that adaptability, not specialization, is what the factory floor actually needs.
Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos is thinking considerably bigger. His startup Prometheus has raised twelve billion dollars at a valuation of forty-one billion, with an ambition that's hard to understate — building what it calls an artificial general engineer for the physical world, targeting everything from heavy infrastructure to drug design. That's a bold claim, and an enormous pile of capital behind it.
On a more personal scale, Apple's camera chief Jon McCormack is making the case for generative AI in photography. iOS twenty-seven's updated Photos app will use AI to fill in pixels that were never actually captured by your lens. McCormack insists Apple isn't chasing AI for its own sake, but the line between enhancement and fabrication is getting harder to see.
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