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Google DeepMind Hires Former CTO of Boston Dynamics as the Company Pushes Deeper Into Robotics

Google DeepMind has hired the former chief technology officer of Boston Dynamics as the company pushes deeper into robotics. Aaron Saunders, who is partly responsible for giving the world back-flipping and dancing...

The US Needs an Open Source AI Intervention to Beat China

Since 2022, America has had a solid lead in artificial intelligence thanks to advanced models from high-flying companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI. A growing number of experts, however, worry...

This Home Robot Clears Tables and Loads the Dishwasher All by Itself

Memo may not be the world’s fastest barista, but it is impressive—for a robot.I recently watched as Memo, a new home robot from a company called Sunday Robotics, made coffee in an...

Gemini 3 Is Here—and Google Says It Will Make Search Smarter

Google has introduced Gemini 3, its smartest artificial intelligence model to date, with cutting-edge reasoning, multimedia, and coding skills. As talk of an AI bubble grows, the company is keen to stress...

Anthropic’s Claude Takes Control of a Robot Dog

As more robots start showing up in warehouses, offices, and even people’s homes, the idea of large language models hacking into complex systems sounds like the stuff of sci-fi nightmares. So, naturally,...

Meet the Chinese Startup Using AI—and a Small Army of Workers—to Train Robots

AgiBot, a humanoid robotics company based in Shanghai, has engineered a way for two-armed robots to learn manufacturing tasks through human training and real-world practice on a factory production line.The company says...

OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Deal With Amazon

OpenAI has signed a multi-year deal with Amazon to buy $38 billion worth of AWS cloud infrastructure to train its models and serve its users.The deal is yet another sign of the...

AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers

Even the best artificial intelligence agents are fairly hopeless at online freelance work, according to an experiment that challenges the idea of AI replacing office workers en masse.The Remote Labor Index, a...

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