2+ week, 2+ day ago   (306+ words) Chinese engineers are zeroing in on one of the loftiest goals in applied robotics: fully automated cooking. According to CD, the basic cooking robot went through two live cooking demonstrations, stir-frying tofu as well as pork and green peppers. Per…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (279+ words) Michael Burry criticized Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shares as overvalued and disclosed that he recently exited his position in the Chinese tech giant in order to build a “large” position in rival online retailer JD.com Inc. “I planned to…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (365+ words) Chadwick, who is also a model and influencer with millions of followers, made the cryptic announcement on Tuesday in an Instagram post. “Some personal news. As of last week, I’ve stepped away from Goose,” Chadwick wrote. “This was not a…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago   (885+ words) This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Guillaume Meyer, a Paris-based tech founder and creator of a viral open-source project “Watermarks Remover,” which he made in response to Anthropic’s AI watermark announcement. His words have been edited for…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (349+ words) A mysterious new AI model is making the rounds among developers — and nobody is saying who built it. Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter on Thursday as a “stealth model” from an anonymous third-party provider. OpenRouter describes it as a “reasoning…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (463+ words) Some patients in the UK are skipping going to the doctor because their office’s AI “receptionist” can’t understand what they’re saying. The health and social watchdog Healthwatch Rotherham said that the troublesome AI receptionist in question, called “Emma,” is being…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (582+ words) AI-generated children’s books are exhibiting a weird pattern: a pronounced bias against female animal characters — which, to be fair, is also present in human-authored ones, except the AI is making it even worse. In a study published last year, Melanie…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (352+ words) Branden Jenkins was out to dinner when he pulled out his phone, glanced at his AI usage dashboard, and realized his weekend coding session had just cost him $1,000 — charged automatically, in $1,000 increments, to a card set on auto-renew. “I don’t…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (200+ words) And finally, there is the reaction to these developments from AI application companies. Many of the leading ones have ramped up efforts to build on top of open-weight models, targeting lower costs and greater control. Three-body systems are notoriously difficult…...