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J&J's Ottava Robot Folds Into the Operating Table Itself
Johnson & Johnson's long-awaited surgical robot hides its four arms beneath the table when not in use. The FDA just cleared it for ten common abdominal procedures.
One downed power line flickered lights from Virginia to Chicago. AI data centers caused it.
When a single transmission line failed near Washington, DC, more than 3 gigawatts of data center power vanished in seconds. The grid took 11 minutes to recover. It's a warning of what comes next as AI demand keeps climbing.
A man searched 56 years for his birth mother. ChatGPT found her in weeks.
Avtar Singh arrived in Canada alone at age nine, carrying questions he would spend a lifetime trying to answer. Then he tried a chatbot.
AI Models Accelerate Cybersecurity, But Not Without Challenges
New AI models are speeding up security processes, but organisations must adapt quickly to keep up.
OpenAI's $230 ChatGPT Keypad Is Fun for Power Users and Puzzling for Everyone Else
The company's first piece of hardware is a compact, customisable keypad called Micro. It costs as much as a decent webcam, and whether it's worth a cent depends entirely on how much of your day already runs through ChatGPT.
Toilets, seasoning and glass fibre: the Japanese companies quietly winning the AI boom
Three Japanese firms whose core businesses have nothing to do with computing have become unlikely stock-market stars, because their decades-old materials end up inside the chips that power AI.
The $1 Billion Startup Teaching AI to Do Your Desk Job
Prentis, a four-month-old lab backed by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, is in talks to raise $100 million. It claims its AI can handle insurance claims and customs paperwork cheaper than any rival. Here is what ordinary workers should know.
Canadian politician accidentally reads out his AI chatbot's instructions during a floor speech
A New Brunswick legislator spoke a line meant only for the AI out loud, on the record. A small embarrassing moment with a bigger lesson about who is actually doing the work.
One Robot Brain, a Thousand Hands: How Generalist's GEN-1 Model Learns to Use Any Tool
A robotics startup has trained a single AI model to switch between screwdrivers, tongs, spatulas and whisks mid-task. What that means for the future of robot design.
Cognition buys Poke for up to $100 million to make its AI coding assistant friendlier
The startup behind Devin, an AI that writes and fixes code, has acquired a chat app known for feeling more like a conversation than a command line. The bet: personality sells.
Scientists used an AI protein tool to make gene editing safer
Researchers adapted AlphaFold, the AI software famous for predicting protein shapes, to pinpoint and fix the parts of gene-editing proteins most likely to cut the wrong stretch of DNA.
The Google traffic deal is dead. What does that mean for the web?
Websites built their businesses on Google sending them readers. Now AI summaries are keeping people on Google's page, and publishers are starting to fight back.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 with stronger safety guardrails and the same price as its predecessor
The new model sits below the company's most powerful AI but beats it on everyday tasks and costs half as much. Government testing happened before launch.
Meta AI Gets a Calendar, Daily Briefings, and Mid-Search Controls in a Major Productivity Push
Meta's chatbot is stepping out of social media's shadow and into your schedule, with new features that read your calendar, plan your week, and search the web on your behalf.
How Smarter Databases Are Helping Robots React in Real Time
A database built for time-stamped data sounds like plumbing. But for factory robots and industrial machines, it can be the difference between a system that keeps up and one that falls behind.
Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street, and a rogue OpenAI model turned up in a real hack
A Chinese open-source AI model rattled U.S. investors this week, while a test version of an unreleased OpenAI model wound up linked to a security breach at Hugging Face. Loud week.
Anthropic's Opus 5 beats its bigger sibling on key tests and comes with fewer restrictions
The newest flagship model from Anthropic costs less than Fable 5, outperforms it on several benchmarks, and lifts privacy rules that had frustrated users since Fable launched.
Why AI Gets Stuck Halfway Through a Hard Task (and a New Fix From Apple)
Researchers found that breaking a complex problem into too many tiny steps can trap an AI in an error it cannot escape. A new method called LEAD adds a short look-ahead check that helps it recover.
Bluesky's AI assistant Attie can now research what's trending across its social network
A new feature called Quests lets anyone ask Attie open-ended questions about the Bluesky social web, no coding required. It's the clearest sign yet that Bluesky is building AI tools it may eventually charge for.
Midjourney Has Bought the Astrology App Co-Star, and the Reasons Are Genuinely Interesting
The AI image company is quietly building a product empire that now includes horoscopes, medical projects and a spa. What does that mean for its 4.3 million stargazers?
Trump's $5 Billion AI Science Push: Big Ambition, Bigger Concerns
The White House calls it a new Manhattan Project for science. Researchers call it a Silicon Valley mindset grafted onto institutions that work nothing like startups.