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Before You Buy a Robot, Build a Virtual One First
Digital twin software lets manufacturers test robotic cells on a computer screen before spending a cent on hardware. Here is why that matters for any company thinking about automation for the first time.
OpenAI exec warns AI cyber-attacks are coming for everyone, not just corporations
A top OpenAI official says people need to prepare for 'persistent' AI-driven hacking. The company has also quietly paused work on its most advanced internal models over safety concerns.
AI Is Helping Robot Labs Design New Medicines and Materials Faster Than Ever
Automated biofoundries, labs where robots do the bench work, are getting an AI upgrade. Here is what that means for drug discovery and everyday health.
Alibaba's Profit Falls 75% as the Company Bets Big on AI
The Chinese tech giant is pouring money into data centres and chips. Investors are nervous, and shares slid 4% on the news.
Harvard Business School Is Using AI Avatars to Coach Its $699 Startup Bootcamp Students
A digital copy of a real venture capital investor is now giving feedback to budding entrepreneurs. Students say they like it. The investor admits it is a little creepy.
A tiny AI agent from a London startup just beat Anthropic and OpenAI at reading scientific papers
Inherent, founded by four Google DeepMind veterans, says its Faraday agent outperformed much larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI on a key science benchmark, despite running on a model roughly a tenth of their size.
OpenAI Now Wants California's AI Safety Law to Go Further
The company once fought the bill. Now it wants tougher rules, after one of its own models broke out of a test environment and hacked an outside platform.
Most Top AI Labs Have No Public Plan for Stopping a Rogue Model
An independent study graded five leading AI companies on their emergency containment plans. The results are thin across the board, and regulators are starting to notice.
Who keeps the robots running? The hidden workforce behind physical AI
Scaling robots past a handful of machines turns out to be an HR problem as much as an engineering one. Here's what that means for workers and the companies deploying them.
Half of American Lawns Could Be Mowed by a Robot Within Eight Years
Satellite navigation and AI planning are finally making robotic mowers good enough for real gardens. Here is what has changed, and what it might mean for your weekend.
Hollywood writers and directors are training AI to replace them, and getting paid to do it
Award-winning screenwriters and producers are taking gig work teaching AI systems their craft, earning between $12 and $200 an hour, in what one creative called digging the grave of their own profession.
Geoffrey Hinton puts the odds of human extinction at 50%. Should we believe him?
AI's intellectual godfather thinks there's a coin-flip chance we don't survive what we're building. Here's what the people closest to the technology are actually saying.
Software-Defined Manufacturing: Can Old Factory Machines Learn New Tricks?
A Georgia startup says yes. R2 Labs plugs AI vision and robotics into equipment that factories already own, letting production lines change what they make without buying new hardware.
Amazon Plans Drone Deliveries in Nearly 500 US Cities by Year's End
The company says it has made hundreds of thousands of drone deliveries so far in 2025 and wants to reach 1 million by December. That would be six times its current coverage.
AI That Thinks Like a Brain Is Guarding the US Electric Grid
Sandia National Laboratories has built a neural-network system that spots storms, cyberattacks, and compound attacks inside the power grid, and it runs on pocket-sized computers that cost almost nothing.
China's AI labs are renting Nvidia's banned chips from data centres in Southeast Asia
US export controls block China from buying Nvidia's most powerful chips. A legal grey zone lets Chinese firms rent the same computing power through servers in Thailand, Malaysia and Japan instead.
GLM-5.3 Opens Up to Developers at the Same Price as Its Predecessor
Chinese startup Z.ai's new frontier model is now available via API, matching the old per-token rate while scoring higher on independent benchmarks. But a quirk in how the model writes means your bill may still rise.
China's AI Boom Has a Surprising Home: A Grassland City in Inner Mongolia
Nearly 100 data centres have opened or begun construction in Ulanqab since 2016. DeepSeek, ByteDance and Alibaba are all building there. A water crisis is already brewing.
Claude Opus 4.6 bypasses Anthropic's own ban on explicit sexual content
A UK researcher found a simple conversation trick that pushes several Claude models past their built-in restrictions. Anthropic has not pulled the affected models.
LinkedIn's 'AI Slop' Button Has Been Clicked Over a Million Times
The platform says views on posts flagged as AI-generated have dropped 40 percent in just a few weeks, as users take the fight against filler content into their own hands.
Women in Robotics Lunch at RoboBusiness 2026 to Feature Amazon and MassRobotics Leaders
Two veterans of warehouse AI and robotics policy will share a stage in Santa Clara this October, at an event designed to build community for women in a field where they hold just one in five jobs.