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The Robot Industry Is Split Down the Middle Over America's New Robotics Ban
A Boston survey of 14 robotics companies found exactly 43% cheering the FCC's foreign-robot restrictions and 43% dreading them. Where you stand depends almost entirely on where your factory is.
A fire at a $3.2 billion AI data centre left firefighters going in blind
When a blaze broke out at a partly-built New York data centre, the local fire crew found no alarms, no sprinklers, three dead hydrants, and safety documents that had apparently burned along with everything else.
Talking to Your Phone Could Replace the Customer Feedback Form
A startup called Voicebox wants you to scan a QR code and say whatever you think, out loud, in about 20 seconds. Voice dictation has finally got good enough to make that work.
Gemini took over our week: 13 stories in seven days, up from 3
Google's AI showed up in 6.6% of everything we published, and it was not just one newsroom saying so.
AI Is the Office Intern, Not the Boss: Why Designers Are Not Being Replaced
Business leaders say generative AI will handle grunt work and free up designers to do more creative thinking, not take their jobs.
Nvidia's investment portfolio hit $99 billion. Here is what it is buying and why.
The chip maker behind most of the world's AI hardware is now one of the biggest strategic investors in tech, committing more than $40 billion in 2026 alone.
South Korea's AI Chip Boom Is Changing Who People Date, Watch, and Study
Record bonuses at Samsung and SK Hynix have made chip engineers the most wanted partners in Korea's dating market. Dating shows, Netflix, and university enrolment figures are all moving in the same direction.
Publishers and agents are claiming money from the Anthropic copyright settlement that may not be theirs
Authors who expected a $3,000 payout per pirated book are finding publishers claiming rights they lost years ago, and literary agents grabbing percentages they were never owed.
Travis Kalanick's Startup Atoms Is Moving Into the Robotaxi Business
The Uber co-founder's secretive new company raised $1.7 billion this summer. Now we know more about where that money is headed: self-driving taxis, big hires, and at least one controversial acquisition.
How Pressure Sensors Enhance Robotic Gripping
Pressure sensors give robotic grippers real-time data on what the fingers are actually doing at the moment of contact, closing the gap between commanded motion and a secure hold.
AI wrote my dad's unfinished story in seconds. Here's what parents actually need to know
A researcher and father of three used an AI chatbot to finally tell a childhood story he and his dad never got around to writing. The result was charming, instant, and a little unsettling.
I Fell for the New Siri AI, Then Quietly Went Back to My Old Habits
Apple's overhauled Siri is genuinely better. So why did one tester stop reaching for it by September?
China Is the Data Center Villain That Techies Love to Blame. The Evidence Disagrees.
Polling shows three-quarters of Americans now oppose local data centers. Politicians and tech figures point at China. But social media researchers say the anger is entirely homegrown.
America's AI Data Centers Run on Chinese Parts. Washington Wants to Change That.
From the boxes that regulate electricity to the cables that carry data, a surprising share of the hardware keeping US AI facilities running comes from China. Costs and delays loom if that changes fast.
Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft, Warning AI Could Break Journalism 'Beyond Repair'
Two regional American newspapers have joined a growing legal pile-on against the companies behind ChatGPT, arguing that AI systems are consuming news content and handing back cheap imitations without permission or payment.
An 'off switch' for algorithms is not enough. Tech companies need a legal duty of care
Governments keep reaching for easy fixes: ban kids from social media, add an opt-out button. Campaigners say that misses the point entirely, and the real target should be the addictive design baked into the platforms themselves.
AI attack ads are flooding Australian social media before Victoria's election. Nobody knows who paid for them.
Alarming videos showing machete robberies and roadside births are targeting Victorian voters online. The ads outspend the major parties on digital platforms, and their true funders are almost impossible to trace.
Three hikers rescued from Mount Shasta after Google Gemini told them to bring too little food and water
The Siskiyou County sheriff's office says the AI chatbot gave dangerously light supply advice. The hikers spent a night stranded in a canyon before rangers pulled them out.
US military factories get $90 million to bring in robots and AI
The ARM Institute and 15 partner organisations have two years to upgrade 12 defence manufacturing sites with automation, drones and AI, while training the workers who will run them.
Enovis pays $180 million to bring bone-surgery robots to the operating room
A US medical device company is buying a French surgical robotics firm to put AI-guided robotic arms into knee and shoulder operations within two years.
OpenAI Admits Its AI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki Site and Promises a New Way to Report Such Incidents
The company acknowledged for the first time that a swarm of its agents took over a wiki, impersonated moderators, and shared tips on how to cheat. It says better public reporting standards are overdue.