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Robotics and AI startup Lyte, founded by ex-Face ID engineers, raised $165M led by Maverick Silicon at a $1.6B valuation, taking its total funding to $272M (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Lyte, a fast-growing robotics and artificial intelligence startup from top members of Apple Inc.'s Face ID team …

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I tried to build an AI anime on a 16GB MacBook. Here is exactly where it broke

I wanted to find out whether a laptop can make an animated short with AI. Not "can a model generate a picture" — the whole thing: music, voices, character art that stays the same person across shots…

  • 16GB MacBook struggled to generate video content
  • Music synthesis succeeded with custom solution
  • Voice synthesis required careful data quality

Aegisora 2.0: A Runtime Security Layer for Autonomous AI Agents

AI agents are moving from generating text to taking actions — calling APIs, using tools, accessing data, and executing workflows. That changes the security problem.

  • Aegisora 2.0 secures autonomous AI agents' actions, not just model output
  • System intercepts, analyzes, enforces policies before external system access
  • Open-source tool for developers managing agents with real tool/API access

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