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Twitch adds opt-out for Amazon AI training, but your data is on by default
A new privacy toggle lets streamers and viewers remove their videos, clips, and chats from Amazon's generative AI training pool. The catch: it starts switched on.
A new project wants to build open, shared AI training data that anyone can inspect
OpenWALDO is a crowd-sourced dataset that any company could use as a clean, auditable foundation for training AI models. Right now it is tiny. The idea behind it is not.
SEW-EURODRIVE launches budget-friendly gear units for everyday factory robots
The German automation company has added three lower-cost planetary gear units to its PxG line, giving machine builders a way to stop over-engineering standard packaging and assembly machines.
Half of companies don't trust their own AI agents. Bad data is why.
A survey of 300 executives finds that most organisations are feeding AI agents less than half their company data, and it's costing them speed, accuracy, and confidence.
Mesh, the AI contact manager owned by Automattic, is now on Android
The personal CRM that helps you stay in touch with your network has arrived on Android phones, tablets, and foldables, with an AI search tool and home screen widgets in tow.
This AI Ring Wants to Catch Your Best Ideas Before You Forget Them
A startup called Sandbar is betting a voice-enabled smart ring can do what AI lapel pins and pendants never quite managed. Here is what it actually does, and why that matters for anyone who has ever lost a great thought in the shower.
AI-designed viruses are medicine's next hope, not its next threat
Two researchers push back on the UK science funding debate and on media coverage of AI-built bacteriophages, arguing the fear framing misses what the technology can actually do for patients.
D'Addario Admits It Used AI Music Tool Suno in Guitar String Demo, After Weeks of Denial
The guitar string maker spent nearly two weeks insisting the track was real. It wasn't. Here's what happened and what the company says it will do differently.
A Satellite AI Model You Can Actually Use: Allen Institute Opens Up OlmoEarth Embeddings
Allen AI's OlmoEarth Studio can now export numerical 'fingerprints' of any patch of Earth, letting researchers map forests, detect wildfires and track land change with almost no labeled training data.
Lovable raises $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation
The European startup that lets anyone build web apps by typing plain-language instructions has doubled its valuation in eight months and now hosts 60 million user projects.
The Dirty Data Problem That Is Stalling the Next Wave of AI Robots
A new survey of more than 700 AI engineers finds that bad data, not weak algorithms, is the main reason physical AI systems fail before they reach the real world.
AI Companies May Be Destroying Rare Books to Train Their Models
Booksellers are raising the alarm that AI firms are buying up physical books, including rare and out-of-print copies, then shredding them to scan the pages cheaply and fast.
When an AI bot causes harm, who pays? Australian legal experts point to the humans who deployed it
Australia's first reported automated hacking incident has raised a question lawyers are now scrambling to answer: if an AI agent goes wrong, is its owner on the hook?
Industrial robots are booming outside car factories, new data shows
North American robot orders jumped 21% in value in Q2 2026, and the biggest growth came from chip makers, life sciences firms and food producers, not the car companies that once dominated the industry.
Roku now has a 24/7 channel that plays nothing but AI-generated slop
Fairground TV streams endless AI content around the clock. If you have ever wanted to watch weightless, uncanny footage with no plot, no real people, and no lip-sync, your ship has come in.
Google Pixel Watch 5 Bets Big on AI Health Features Over Hardware
A $399 smartwatch that can detect breathing emergencies, flag insulin resistance trends, and claim better GPS accuracy than a Garmin. The software is the story.
Google's Made by Google 2026 Event: Pixel 11, a Tracking Tag, and New AI Features
Google unveiled its Pixel 11 phone lineup, a Pixel Tag tracker to rival Apple's AirTag, and the Pixel Watch 5, all laced with new features from Gemini, its AI assistant.
Google DeepMind's SL2T model brings American Sign Language dictation to Pixel phones
A new translation system turns signed input into text inside Gboard and Live Transcribe, starting with ASL to English on the Pixel 11.
Liquid AI's LFM2.5-VL-3B Can Run on Your Phone and Still Read Your Screen
The new 3-billion-parameter vision model fits in 3 GB of memory, beats larger rivals on screen-reading benchmarks, and runs fast enough on a smartphone to be genuinely useful.
The US Army's $15.9 Million Robot Supply Truck Is Built to Reach Soldiers Without Getting Anyone Killed
A Colorado robotics firm just won a contract to build TALUS, an autonomous supply system designed to keep frontline troops fed, fuelled and armed without sending a driver into enemy territory.
xAI Launches Grok Bot: AI Agents That Log Into Your Apps and Do Your Work
Elon Musk's AI company is rolling out always-on software agents that can handle workplace tasks inside the tools you already use, from sales outreach to bug fixes, without you having to watch over them.