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Groceryshop 2026 provided an opportunity to assess the state of retail robotics. Source: Georges Mirza It has been more than a decade since I first helped to bring robots to live retail center stores. Long gone are retailers’ concerns about robots taking jobs, scaring kids,…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s AI models are trained to refuse a vast number of prompts. If you ask your…
OpenAI fired three safety researchers who helped investigate the Hugging Face hack. In an open letter, they warn that the firings are scaring remaining staff and eroding safety culture. OpenAI claims they violated policies but won't say how. The article OpenAI's safety crisis…
In its 26th season premiere, the procedural legal drama paints a damning picture of power-mad AI CEOs.
OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an investigation found they committed "a significant breach of trust." In a post on X on Friday, the company said Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni were dismissed for violating "clear…
Astrophysicist Brice Ménard of Johns Hopkins University used Anthropic's Claude Science to map the entire sky in ultraviolet light for the first time. AI agents downloaded data from multiple space missions, calibrated it, and filled in gaps using inpainting. Predictions averaged…
This week my colleague Antonio Regalado had an interesting update on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. According to research presented at an aging meeting in Boston, these drugs seem to affect at least some measures of biological age. Overweight and diabetic people who take GLP-1s have a…
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course,…
The moment Trevor Wischnewsky heard that drones were delivering pizza and sushi around his Texas neighborhood, his mind was made up. “It was super fascinating,” he says. “I just immediately wanted to be a part of it.” Wischnewsky is now an RPIC, or “remote pilot in command,” at…
OpenAI exposed a Russian and an Iranian influence operation and banned the accounts involved. The Russian "Dark Clark" campaign spread disinformation across Latin America and drew reactions from politicians, earning the first category 5 out of 6 rating in OpenAI's reporting…
2026年10月16日，星期五 AI能设计新生命形式吗？2025年，斯坦福大学博士生塞缪尔·金使用生成式AI模型为微观病毒提出遗传蓝图，给出了初步答案。这还不是AI生成生命的例子，…
Anthropic 推出名为 OSS Scanner 的新服务，帮助开源项目发现安全漏洞。公司表示，选择加入的开源项目将获得「由我们最强模型进行的彻底、定期安全扫描，完全免费」。这意味着开源……
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.
SafeWorld said its platform can work in a range of industries with a range of robot embodiments, including robots arms, humanoids, mobile robots, and more. | Source: SafeWorld SafeWorld this week emerged from stealth with $12.2 million in seed funding. The startup aims to make…
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder's desk.
AWS Machine Learning рассказывает, как BlockRun и Incarna используют платежи AgentCore для ИИ-агентов.
据《纽约时报》报道，加利福尼亚州体育委员会向上个月举办人类与机器人比赛的初创公司发出了停止和终止函。这场于9月18日举行的比赛，让人类选手弗兰基·拉彭纳与类人机器人对决……
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.
Команда NVIDIA KGMON заняла второе место на KDD Cup 2026, разработав надежного аналитического агента.
OpenAI не достигла стандартов в решении математических задач, что вызывает озабоченность.
Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people. But she didn’t anticipate just how angry they would get.
Anthropic launched two new beta features for Claude. Dashboards turns data sources like BigQuery and Snowflake into live dashboards from text prompts. Motion generates animated explainer videos from text and images. Docs, Slides, and Design now work across all plans, including…
Anthropic's updated usage policy bans sustained abuse of Claude and tightens restrictions on propaganda, drone weaponization, and surveillance. The abuse rule builds on an approach that already lets models end some conversations and treats Claude as an entity that may deserve…