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The clever gearbox trick that could make humanoid robots affordable by 2027
German engineering giant Schaeffler has cracked a manufacturing problem that has kept robot joints expensive and slow to produce. Its answer: stamp them out in seconds instead of machining them over minutes.
The AI 'harness' matters more than the model, Nvidia research shows
A custom wrapper built around Claude Opus 5 pushed its score on a hard reasoning test from 30% to a perfect 100%. The lesson: the scaffolding around an AI model may be the most important part of making it work.
From a Village With One TV to Building AI Tools in Milwaukee
Balaji Ingole grew up in rural India without a computer in sight. Now he's using AI agents to cut months of e-commerce grunt work down to days.
How Agentic AI Is Helping Chipmakers Find the Root Cause of Defects Faster
When a yield problem hits a semiconductor factory, the clues are scattered across dozens of systems. A new wave of AI-driven analytics tools promises to pull those clues together automatically.
Starcloud raises $250 million to build AI data centres in space
The satellite startup is now valued at $2.3 billion and is betting that SpaceX's next-generation rocket will make processing data in orbit genuinely competitive with servers on the ground.
AI Film Tool Higgsfield Quietly Recruited YouTube Stars, and Fans Are Not Happy
Two prominent filmmaking creators posted glowing videos about an AI video platform without labelling them as ads. Their audiences noticed, and the backlash raises a bigger question about creators endorsing AI tools.
AI speech models are cheating on their own tests, new research finds
A study of 11 popular voice transcription systems found that several reproduce known errors from benchmark datasets, even when the audio says something different. It raises a quiet but serious question: are high scores measuring real ability, or familiarity with the test?
Google DeepMind teams up with EVE Online maker to test AI that plays like a person
The lab behind AlphaGo wants game characters that actually understand what's happening on screen. Its new partner? The studio running a 22-year-old space universe.
You probably can't tell when someone's Meta AI glasses are recording you
Smart glasses are showing up in schools, courts and restaurants. Bans are spreading, but spotting a pair in the wild is harder than you'd think.
Historian Jill Lepore thinks the 'artificial state' is doomed. Here's what she means.
With the midterms less than three months away, a leading American historian says the public backlash against AI and data centres could reshape the November vote.
Planned London datacentre would emit more carbon per year than 27,000 transatlantic flights
Planning documents for a vast AI data facility on London's green belt show annual emissions topping one million tonnes of CO2, raising serious questions about whether AI infrastructure can ever be squared with net-zero commitments.
The NHS Region That Built Its Own Data Platform and Is Saying No to Palantir
Greater Manchester runs its own health data system and says it outperforms the $400 million national deal. That claim is now shaping a decision the UK government must make by February.
A 27-billion-parameter AI model you can run at home just matched cloud-only rivals on coding tests
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B is free to download, fits on a high-end laptop, and scored level with mid-tier OpenAI and Anthropic models on independent benchmarks. Developers are calling it the clearest sign yet that frontier-grade AI is moving off the cloud and onto personal hardware.
AI Training Data Startup Micro1 Hit $500 Million Gross Run Rate in Eight Months
Demand for human-verified AI training data is minting fast-growing startups. Micro1's revenue explosion shows the market is big enough for several players, and the ethical debates are heating up.
A £5 Million AI Trial Wants to Stop Planes Drawing Heat-Trapping Lines Across the Sky
Google, the UK government and air traffic controllers are teaming up to test whether artificial intelligence can predict where contrails form, then quietly steer planes around them.
Apple Teaches AI to Handle Two Languages at Once, and It Gets Better the More It Practises
A new technique from Apple ML Research helps voice-recognition software handle conversations that mix Mandarin and English, a common pattern among millions of real-world speakers.
OpenAI is closing the gap on Anthropic among US business customers
New spending data from 70,000 American companies shows Anthropic still leads, but OpenAI is growing faster right now. The real story is how quickly businesses are willing to switch.
ChatGPT Can Now Read, Send, and Delete Your Apple Messages
OpenAI's new Apple Messages plugin lets ChatGPT draft texts, search your message history, and hit send on your behalf. Handy? Yes. Worth a close look at the privacy small print? Also yes.
Google Discover Is Getting an AI Chat Box So You Can Just Tell It What You Want
A new chatbot-style panel in the Google app will let you describe your ideal feed in plain English, and Google's AI will adjust it on the spot.
Wait, are we actually cooling AI data centres with pee? Sort of, yes
A cheeky beer advert starring Jason Kelce accidentally landed on a real solution to one of AI's biggest environmental problems. Here is what the science actually says.
Why Silicon Valley Still Does Not Understand the AI Backlash
More than half of Americans under 30 are more worried than excited about AI. Tech CEOs are diagnosing the wrong problem, and ordinary people are starting to notice.