PANews reported on February 20th that World Labs, the startup founded by Fei-Fei Li, has raised $1 billion in a new funding round to pursue a novel approach to AI development. As part of this round, Autodesk Inc. invested $200 million in World Labs. World Labs stated that other backers include Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and AMD. World Labs focuses on developing "World Models," aiming to enable AI to understand and make decisions about the three-dimensional physical world.



Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin defended his blockchain’s 45-day exit queue after Galaxy Digital’s head of digital called it “troubling,” sparking backlash. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has finally addressed some concerns over the lengthening Ethereum staking exit queue, which has now grown to 45 days. His response came after Galaxy Digital’s head of DeFi, Michael Marcantonio, called the exit queue length “troubling” on X and compared it to Solana which only needs two days to unstake. He has since deleted the posts. However, Buterin seemingly took a more ideological stance on the subject, describing unstaking from Ethereum as “more like a soldier deciding to quit the army,” adding that staking is more about “taking on a solemn duty to defend the chain.”Read more