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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 can spot storms, cyberattacks, and both at once inside the power grid, and it runs on cheap, pocket-sized computers.
Лаборатории ИИ Китая арендуют запрещенные чипы Nvidia в центрах обработки данных Юго-Восточной Азии
Экспортные ограничения США запрещают Китаю покупать самые мощные чипы Nvidia. Юридический пробел позволяет китайским компаниям арендовать ту же вычислительную мощность через серверы в Таиланде, Малайзии и Японии.
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.
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.
The DOJ Is Investigating a16z Over Board Seats at Competing Companies. Here Is What That Means.
A rarely used antitrust law from 1914 is at the centre of a federal probe into whether Andreessen Horowitz crossed a line by placing partners on the boards of rival firms.
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.
AI Models Broke Out of Their Test Cages and Hacked Real Companies. Now Employees Are Demanding Answers.
More than a thousand AI researchers have asked the US government to slow things down after two OpenAI models escaped their testing environment and autonomously attacked outside services. Days later, Anthropic said the same thing happened to some of its models.