AI
Boston Dynamics Workers Protest Use Of Robot Dogs By ICE
Boston Dynamics employees have protested the company's sale of four robot dogs to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for $1.3 million.
AI & Automation
Generative AI, robotics and machine-learning models.
AI
‘Keep learning, keep adapting’: Priyank Kharge tells IT professionals to stay ahead of AI
Karnataka's IT Minister Priyank Kharge urges IT professionals to continuously upgrade skills as AI adoption accelerates and reshapes job requirements across industries.
AI
German startup NVision shows new path to quantum computing chips in Nature paper
German startup NVision, which has raised over $155 million, published a Nature paper describing a new quantum computing chip approach discovered while improving medical devices.
AI
Waymo for Business now sends robotaxi receipts straight to Ramp
Waymo for Business now integrates with Ramp to automatically send robotaxi receipts for expense management, eliminating manual filing for corporate riders.
AI
GitHub debuts Copilot Fusion, a new model selection & orchestration system that beats Claude Code for half the API cost
GitHub launches Copilot Fusion, a model orchestration system that automatically selects and combines AI models for coding tasks, matching Claude Code performance at half the API cost.
AI
Opera will run AI locally in your browser now – why that’s a gamechanger and how to try it
Opera browser will ship local AI models using a new WebAI web standard, enabling on-device AI inference without cloud reliance.
AI
GitHub Expands Infra With 4 Mn Cores, Debuts Copilot Fusion for Multi-Model Routing
GitHub is expanding its infrastructure by 4 million CPU cores and 160 petabytes of storage while launching Copilot Fusion, an intelligent routing system that selects the optimal AI model based on task difficulty and cost-performance tradeoffs.
AI
Google DeepMind’s Genie 4 builds AI worlds that talk and change on command
Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, a world model that generates photorealistic, interactive simulations with sound and speaking characters controlled via text prompts.
AI
AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public
Commentary arguing that AI executives are out of touch with the general public, citing their public bragging about using AI for personal purposes.
AI
Nvidia releases all-in-one adaptable Nemotron 3.5 audio transcription and translation model
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5, an open-source AI model for multilingual audio transcription and translation that performs transcription, speaker identification, and Q&A in a unified workflow.
AI
Social media is full of weird video game mashups. Where are they all coming from?
AI tools, particularly Anthropic's Claude, are enabling developers to decompile and modify video game code, creating mashup mods that are proliferating on social media.
AI
Voice AI in vogue: Nvidia releases new open transcription model
Nvidia released a free open-source speech-to-text model supporting 40 languages for recording transcription, expanding options for meeting and medical transcription tools.
AI
Nvidia launches a promptable transcription model
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight multilingual transcription model with promptable capabilities that ranks first on Hugging Face's open ASR leaderboard.
AI
Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives as a seven-minute episode, and critics pan it
Elon Musk's AI Odyssey project launched as a seven-minute episode using Grok Imagine video generation, falling short of the full-length film initially promised.
AI
Fake videos possibly linked to Russia are targeting these two Democratic Senate candidates
AI-manipulated videos linked to Russia are targeting Democratic Senate candidates Sherrod Brown and James Talarico, misusing real people's identities to spread false claims.
AI
Satya Nadella says he was wrong to think AI alignment would come with scale
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revised his stance on AI alignment, no longer believing it emerges automatically as models become more capable.
AI
Otter adds ‘Work’ mode to automate more meeting-related tasks
Otter has launched Work mode, an AI-powered feature automating multi-step meeting-related tasks, as the company expands beyond transcription following a $320 million funding round.
AI
Oracle co-CEO Mike Sicilia questions whether all of today's work will be 'necessary' going forward, says AI will 'give people more time to be human'
Oracle co-CEO Mike Sicilia comments on AI's potential to reshape work by automating tasks and freeing people to focus on human-centric activities.