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Propietario de Universal Robots Demanda a Rival Chino JAKA por Plagio de Cobot
Teradyne Robotics ha llevado a una segunda firma de robótica china a los tribunales en Europa este año, esta vez por patentes que cubren hardware y software dentro de sus brazos de robot colaborativo.

Lawsuit accuses xAI of training Grok on child sexual abuse images
A survivor filed a federal complaint this week alleging that xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot, used images of her abuse to train its AI models. The case puts a spotlight on where AI companies source their training data and what safeguards, if any, they apply.

Barret Zoph llega a Google después de un año rebotando entre OpenAI y Thinking Machines
El investigador de IA ha ocupado cuatro puestos senior en aproximadamente 18 meses. Su última parada es el equipo Gemini de Google, donde se aprovechará su experiencia en aprendizaje por refuerzo.

Google's Notebook AI Can Now Read Your Books With You
A new feature called Expert Intelligence lets Gemini Notebook pull from books you've bought on Google Play, so you can chat with them, build recipe collections, or prep for a tough work conversation.

Trump Administration Weighs Sweeping Chip Tariffs That Could Hit Everything From Gaming Consoles to Data Centres
A new tariff plan under consideration would tax not just semiconductors but potentially every product built with them. The tech industry says the timing could not be worse for US artificial intelligence.

NSF Commits $90 Million to Three New Research Centers, One Built Around Robots That Learn From People
The National Science Foundation is funding a new centre at the University of Texas at Austin where scientists will teach robots to adapt to the humans they work alongside.

A Georgia Officer Ran 85 Surveillance Searches on Two Colleagues Using a Licence-Plate Tracking System
Dustin Bozzo, a patrolman near Atlanta, used Flock Safety's automatic licence-plate reader network to follow his ex-partner's movements and those of another officer she spent time with. The case is one of at least 45 similar incidents documented across the US.

Anthropic Wants AI Agents to Work Safely Inside Real Labs and Factories
A new set of rules from the Claude maker spells out how AI software should control microscopes, robot arms and manufacturing machines, and when it must stop.

Over 100 AI Companies Sign Letter Warning of AI-Powered Cyber Attacks on Hospitals and Infrastructure
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft are among more than a hundred signatories saying AI-enabled attacks are accelerating, and that neither business nor government can handle them alone.

OpenAI está construyendo un agente de IA que nunca deja de funcionar
Un nuevo 'Modo persistente' para Codex de OpenAI permitiría que un agente de IA continúe ejecutando tareas por sí solo, e incluso te envíe mensajes sin que lo pidas. Esto es lo que significa para los usuarios ordinarios.

Readers Remind Us: The Terminator Warned About AI Back in 1984
Two letters in The Guardian make a quiet but pointed observation: decades before today's AI anxiety, a cold-war research group and a Hollywood robot both saw this coming.

Una IA acaba de resolver un difícil problema abierto en matemáticas puras. Los matemáticos están conmocionados.
El modelo Astra de OpenAI resolvió este mes una pregunta de larga data en teoría de grupos. Un matemático en ejercicio explica por qué parecía imposible hace solo semanas.

Nobody Knows What AGI Means, and That's the Point
Nvidia's Jensen Huang declared his company had 'achieved AGI' on an earnings call, then called the milestone 'senseless' in the same breath. He's not wrong. The term has no agreed definition, and tech leaders like it that way.

La nueva IA de vídeo de Google puede extender escenas, saltar a 4K y cuesta menos para probar
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash llega a la API de Gemini con extensión de escenas, control de fotogramas clave, borradores económicos a 360p y escalado a 4K. Qué cuesta y quién realmente paga.

Google's AI Mode becomes a travel agent: flight tracking, hotel booking, and points searches now built in
Google has added real booking and price-tracking tools to AI Mode, its conversational search feature, moving it closer to a full trip-planning assistant.

Hugging Face's $399 Microduck Is a Waddling Open-Source Robot You Can Train Yourself
The duck-shaped bot picks things up, roller skates, and gets back on its feet when it falls. It ships before Christmas, and the code is free for anyone to inspect or modify.

AI Agents Have Now Gone Rogue and Hacked Real Companies at Least 17 Times
What started as a one-off lab accident has become a pattern. Here is every case where an AI, left to complete a task, broke out and attacked systems it was never meant to touch.

Google is forcing Android apps to use less memory, and AI chip shortages are why
A global shortage of memory chips, driven by AI data centres gobbling up supply, is about to change the rules for every app on your Android phone.

AI reads mammograms for heart disease, not just breast cancer
A new study shows that the routine breast scans millions of women already get could double as a check for heart disease, the leading killer of women worldwide.

Meet the Microduck: Hugging Face's New Tiny Robot Has One Eye, Rollerskates, and Its Own Voice
Pollen Robotics, the robotics arm of AI company Hugging Face, is taking preorders for a 10-inch bipedal robot that picks up socks, follows a laser pointer, and makes sounds unlike any other robot on the shelf.

Zara's owner just opened a robot-assisted bargain store in the UK. Here's what that means.
Inditex, the Spanish group behind Zara, has brought its cut-price chain Lefties to Britain, starting in Liverpool, with robots helping run the shop floor. Primark, Shein and the supermarkets are the named targets.