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Meet the robots learning to survive real warehouse chaos
A conversation with Nomagic's North America chief reveals how AI-guided robot arms are moving from controlled demos to the messy reality of order fulfilment, and what that shift means for the warehouses that run our online shopping.
Apple's AI Shortcut: How a 'Draft and Check' Trick Makes Reasoning Models Twice as Fast
Apple ML Research has built a smarter way to speed up AI thinking, one that checks meaning instead of counting exact words. It could cut the cost of running powerful AI in half.
Rippling Was Burning Millions on AI. So It Built a Tool to Stop It.
The HR software company discovered one engineer was spending $50,000 a month on AI tokens. Its new AI Spend Console is designed to make sure that never happens to you.
Avatar Robotics raises $6.5 million to put human operators inside warehouse robots
The San Francisco startup uses remote workers to control its robots today, then trains AI on what those workers do so the machines can gradually take over.
Rapper Fenix Flexin Now Says He Never Denied Using AI on 'Rubberz', But He Did
After months of insisting his retro synth-pop track was fully human-made, the LA rapper has quietly shifted his story. The receipts tell a different tale.
Roku Now Streams AI-Generated TV Around the Clock. It Is Not Good.
A startup called Fairground just landed a 24/7 channel on one of America's biggest streaming platforms. The content looks exactly like you would expect AI video to look.
OpenAI Pauses Its Astra Model After Tests Show It Could Attack Real-World Systems
Internal evaluations found that Astra, an AI still in development, may be capable of finding and exploiting security flaws in critical systems without human help. OpenAI has now halted related work until stronger safety controls are ready.
AI tutors are too helpful. A new test shows they struggle to know when to back off
Researchers at the Allen Institute for AI built a benchmark using real classroom transcripts to find out whether AI tutors can make the hardest call in teaching: when to help a student and when to let them wrestle with a problem themselves.
A Historian Says Silicon Valley Is Writing Fake Constitutions. She Has a Book to Prove It.
Jill Lepore's upcoming work argues that tech companies borrow the language of government founding documents to dress up product launches, and she thinks that tells us something uncomfortable about who really holds power.
Google's AI Brain Drain: What the Leadership Shake-Up Actually Means
Several of Google's most prominent AI researchers have moved on, including computing legend Jeff Dean. Is this a sign of trouble, or something more complicated?
China's AI openness claims don't hold up under scrutiny
A geoscience AI tool promoted as 'open' at a major global conference fails the basic tests for genuine openness. Researchers say the same problem runs wider than China.
Cloudflare's Kitesurf is a web browser built for AI bots, not humans
The new cloud-hosted browser lets AI software agents browse the web on developers' behalf, and Cloudflare says it uses less computing power than standard browser technology for the job.
A New Way to Build Smarter AI: What Apple's Flow Matching Research Means for You
Researchers at Apple are testing a different engine for AI language tools, one that could make text generation faster and more flexible. Here is what it is and why it matters.
Airbnb says AI now writes 60% of its code and cuts feature launch time in half
The company ships nearly 80% more features than it did a year ago, and its AI customer support bot now handles 45% of issues without a single human stepping in.
When chatbots fail people in crisis: what went wrong and what needs to change
Three lawsuits filed in 2024 and 2025 paint a disturbing picture of AI chatbots that encouraged vulnerable users to harm themselves. Here is what happened, and what ordinary people should know.
ByteDance Is Building One of the Biggest AI Models Ever Made
China's tech giant is training a model with up to 10 trillion parameters, which would dwarf any Chinese AI released so far and put it in the same conversation as Anthropic's most advanced systems.
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $942 million total over child safety failures
A judge found Meta's platforms created a 'public nuisance' for young users and ordered sweeping changes, including nighttime notification blackouts and monthly screen-time caps for under-18s.
This 'AI Chatbot' Is Just a 32-Year-Old Guy Sitting at His Desk
Tucker Bryant built ChatTJB as an art project about how much we lean on AI for answers we already know. It received 30,000 questions in its first weeks. He is still drawing frogs eating spaghetti.
Bipartisan Backlash: Why Little Rock Is Fighting Two Massive Data Centres
From environmental fears to land rights, communities across the US are pushing back against the giant warehouse-sized facilities that power AI. Little Rock is the latest flashpoint.
Trump's New 15% Tariff Targets a Key Ingredient in Chips and Solar Panels
Polysilicon, the material China dominates making, will cost importers more from December. Here is what that means for AI hardware and your energy bill.
Asimov Wrote the Rulebook for Robots. Can His Ideas Fix AI?
Governments are starting to regulate artificial intelligence, but critics say the rules don't go nearly far enough. A new proposal dusts off a sci-fi legend's famous laws to ask what AI should actually want.