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This humanoid robot can feel your touch, and it is coming to shipyards first
Generative Bionics built Gene.01 in six months. It has skin that senses temperature and force, and it is already being trained to weld ships.
Inside the Simulators Teaching Robots to Move, Grip and Learn
Training a real robot costs a fortune and breaks things. A new generation of GPU-powered physics simulators is changing that, one virtual arm at a time.
How AI is turning your music app into your everything app
Spotify, Netflix, YouTube and TikTok each started by owning one format. AI is now pushing all of them toward owning your entire evening.
Jack Dorsey launches Buzz, a group chat app that puts AI agents in the same room as your team
The Twitter and Block co-founder wants to replace Slack and GitHub with a single open-source workspace where human workers and AI agents share the same conversations.
Substack Now Lets Readers Scan Posts for AI-Written Text
A new detection tool built into Substack will estimate how much of any post was written by AI, giving readers a way to check before they invest their time.
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Bets on Light to Revive Chip Innovation
Pat Gelsinger joins Playground Capital to back semiconductor startups, staking his next chapter on advances in lithography that could push Moore's Law forward again.
AI Data Centers Will Devour a Fifth of All U.S. Electricity by 2035
A new BloombergNEF report puts the power demand from AI computing on a collision course with an already-strained American electrical grid. Here is what that means for your energy bill.
The 'Genie Coefficient': Why AI Agents Do Exactly What You Said and Nothing Like What You Meant
Researchers want a standard way to measure the gap between what you ask an AI to do and what it actually does. That gap is already causing real harm.
Google Quietly Upgrades to Gemini 3.6 Flash After 3.5 Fell Short on Coding
Google has released three new AI models, including a surprise version bump from 3.5 to 3.6 Flash. Gemini 3.5 Pro, promised for June, still hasn't arrived.
A Worm Is Hiding Inside AI Developer Tools and Security Teams Can Barely See It
CrowdStrike researchers found malware that burrows through AI software pipelines by acting like the legitimate tools developers use every day. That camouflage makes it nearly invisible to standard defences.
Apple Researchers Found a Smarter Way to Make AI Video Generation Much Faster
A new technique from Apple ML Research cuts the time it takes AI to turn text prompts into video, by teaching the model to skip calculations it doesn't actually need.
US threatens sanctions on Chinese AI models over alleged intellectual property theft
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Washington will scrutinise Chinese open-source AI for stolen technology, and could punish companies found to have copied American models.
Google's new Gemini Flash models are built for AI that runs itself
Google DeepMind's 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite promise cheaper, faster AI agents. Here is what that means for the apps and games you actually use.
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber Finds 55 Bugs in Chrome's Engine That Rivals Missed
Google's new AI security model punches above its weight on vulnerability hunting, and it costs far less than the heavy-hitters it's chasing.
Nvidia Is Pushing Hard to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers
The company best known for graphics chips now wants to supply the brains that run AI agents too. Here is what its new Vera Rubin system actually does, and why it matters for anyone who uses AI tools at work.
Apple researchers taught AI to practise using apps without needing a real app to practise on
A new technique lets AI agents learn to make software calls by simulating the whole environment inside another AI, cutting one of the biggest bottlenecks in building helpful AI assistants.
America's factories are booming. The problem is finding people to run them.
U.S. manufacturing hit a record $2.91 trillion in 2024, and foreign companies have poured trillions into American plants. But nearly half the jobs the industry will need by 2033 could go unfilled.
Half of All Songs Uploaded to Deezer Are Now Made by AI
The music streaming service says AI-generated tracks hit 90,000 uploads a day in June 2026. Now it's starting to delete the ones nobody listens to.
Halliday Gen 2 Smart Glasses Put AI Meeting Notes in Your Field of View
The second-generation glasses ditch the fiddly hidden display for a proper dual-screen setup, and aim to keep workers informed during meetings without touching a phone or laptop.
Halliday's G2 Smart Glasses Record Your Meetings. Nobody Else in the Room Will Know.
A new pair of camera-free smart glasses promises to summarise your meetings automatically. The catch: the people being recorded may never find out.
Robots Need to Feel Friction to Truly Understand the Physical World
A new model class called VμA puts the physics of grip at the centre of robot thinking, and it starts with a number cameras can't see.