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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...

Extropic Aims to Disrupt the Data Center Bonanza

Extropic, a startup developing an exotic new kind of computer chip that handles probabilistic bits, has produced its first working hardware along with proof that more advanced systems can tackle useful tasks...

Rise of the Killer Chatbots

At a secret US military base located about 50 miles from the Mexican border—exact location: classified—the defense contractor Anduril is testing a remarkable new use for a large language model. I attended...

AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too

AI models may be a bit like humans, after all.A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University shows that large language models fed a diet...

This Open Source Robot Brain Thinks in 3D

European roboticists today released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that acts as a brain for industrial robots—helping them grasp and manipulate things with new dexterity.The new model, SPEAR-1, was developed by...

The AI Industry’s Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff

A new study from MIT suggests the biggest and most computationally intensive AI models may soon offer diminishing returns compared to smaller models. By mapping scaling laws against continued improvements in model...

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