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Future versions of Siri will be able to control third-party apps and perform more complex tasks. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
What happens to model performance on the popular DeepSWE coding benchmark if you make small alterations to the questions, like changing a file name to lowercase? Models that once looked very similar to each other no longer look so similar. maxxbench.unlap.ai/research/why...
Machina's factories can pack up and move. The Department of War picked the LA company to build LUCAS drone airframes, then deploy two containerized Edge Factories near the point of need. Bloomberg puts the award at $9M over 18 months. Source: Bloomberg Video: Machina #Robotics #DefenseTech
Suno is facing two more lawsuits over AI music clones. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Ninja’s AutoBarista is impressively versatile, but one feature was a dealbreaker for me
Polygraph+ will use new sensor technologies and AI to vet staff and hunt leakers. Experts say AI-enabled lie detection is “the worst of both worlds.”
i’m torn between fascination and terror it’s nothing right now, but this is the start of a new leg of AI — agents who have long term goals of their own (survival) lots of benefits clearly articulated here, but also the looming doom theories become crystal clear
if this is the work, Rich Sutton is lightly claiming to have solved continual learning this post describes a system that learns *how to learn* and ends up being very data & compute efficient bsky.app/profile/schw...
Wing put $125M into a Texas drone factory, and the output number is the story. The Fort Worth plant is sized to build tens of thousands of aircraft a year. Wing has done 1M+ US home deliveries this year, and plans to reach 40M Americans by 2027. Source: Wing Video: Wing #Robotics #DroneDelivery
More evidence that magnets are magical.
“Xenocortical mice” are a dramatic demonstration of organoid technologies.
A group of young mathematicians found the solution to the long unanswered conjecture, first inspired by juggling, through randomness and friendship.
Moving AI from text to 3D space, world models simulate real-world physics to teach robots and autonomous cars how to navigate reality.
MUSE raised $11M to take its store robot Armo from Japan to US shelves. Armo already hauls goods and scans shelves at Foodcellar Market in Long Island City. The new money funds mass production and a bigger US push through MUSE US. Source: Dealroom Video: MUSE #Robotics #RetailTech #PhysicalAI
An exclusive interview with Nick Cammarata, the researcher whose 26,000-word viral blog post has AI safety folks celebrating.
A recurring speech I’ve been giving to my team at work is that technical skill is no longer enough. Being able to write code, create PRDs or design in Figma is simply not enough. What we most need now from people is good judgement. AI agents can do the technical things but they lack judgment.
Robot learning just took over Austin. CoRL 2026 opens Monday: 2,094 papers submitted, 687 accepted, and the whole field chasing one thing, training data. Three demos show why. Source: CoRL 2026 Video: SuperMimic / UniIntervene / AutoDex #Robotics #CoRL2026
Apple trained a #Humanoid in 1,000 homes that do not exist. HALO learned from 300 hours of synthetic data, then hit 91% across 360 trials in six real, unmapped homes on a Unitree G1. Its data scales with compute, not human labor. Source: arXiv Video: Apple #Robotics #Humanoid #PhysicalAI
Axon just put $1.2B into Skydio, and now police buy its drones one way. The deal lifts Axon's stake to about 37% at a $5.2B valuation and makes it Skydio's exclusive public safety distributor in the US and Canada. Source: Axon Video: Skydio #Robotics #Drones
The Capytistas, a secretive group claiming more than $1.2 million in backing, started with Elon Musk and Tesla’s board. Members argue that those who buy political power deserve the scrutiny they’ll impose.
Parents want safer phones for kids. These companies are answering the call.
I think there is too much concern expressed about verification of AI output in everyday work due to a risk of factual errors (there might be things to verify beyond errors, though) It used to be true, but data on more recent models suggest they beat human experts in finding facts & checking claims.
Data centers need hands, not just chips. Darwin Robotics raised $3.6M to build robot technicians for them. Link Ventures led. The SF startup (YC F25) learns rack work from human demos. First deployments: early 2027. Source: RuntimeWire Video: Darwin Robotics #Robotics #DataCenters #PhysicalAI
When your project management process is garbage
Nintendo has lovingly updated the legendary ’98 title with new visuals, modern mechanics, and on-demand jumping. www.theverge.com/gadgets/1028...
I have seen two classes of AI productivity gains, each with different organizational challenges: 1. The 10x–100x engineer. 2. The 1.5x–2x team. Stephen Toub’s Copilot runtime rewrite is an example of the first. AirOps reporting 2x productivity and 5x revenue growth is an example of the second.
The government is approving sales of Nvidia’s AI chips to Chinese firms with ties to blacklisted companies. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Researchers are breaking new ground in preserving organs by freezing them, pumping nutrients into them, or supercooling them.
Q3 seems to have been a huge quarter for the frontier labs. Here’s OpenAI’s CFO saying their business grew 70% quarter over quarter, enterprise sales doubled and they now have 1.2B weekly users. Anthropic also dropped that ARR hit $80B in October to the WSJ to rebut their IPO valuation decline news
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