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AI is supercharging PR with smarter pitches, faster content creation, and measurable results that were previously impossible to achieve.
China’s new humanoid robot offers 98% success rate, handles EV assembly, factory operations
Xiaomi's humanoid robot hit 98% success on EV assembly lines, up from 90.2%, now handling three tasks including flexible parts, a humanoid first. Rivals Figure and AgiBot are also advancing rapidly.
Icarus Robotics uses KULR technology to power JOY free-flying space robot
KULR Technology Group will supply its NASA-approved K1S batteries for Icarus Robotics' AI robot JOY, launching to the ISS in 2027 to handle routine tasks and free up astronauts' valuable time.
Elon Musk bought a gas turbine company
Elon Musk acquired a gas turbine company to power AI data centers for SpaceX and xAI, giving his companies an on-site, independent energy source to support growing AI power demands.
US: Smart autonomous underwater robots redefine deep-sea critical mineral harvesting
Impossible Metals is launching a Pittsburgh robotics hub to build AI-driven underwater robots that selectively harvest critical minerals, nickel, cobalt, and copper, from the ocean floor while avoiding marine life, reducing US...
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Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’
Meta secretly deployed a face-recognition feature called NameTag to tens of millions of phones via its Ray-Ban glasses app, then removed it after press exposure, yet still denies the feature ever existed.
OpenAI’s hardware device may partly compete with AirPods Ultra – and lose
OpenAI's AI hardware device is shaping up to be a camera-equipped smart speaker, despite earlier "revolutionary" claims. Apple's camera-enabled AirPods Ultra may prove a more practical alternative.
iOS 27 preview: Long-awaited Siri AI is practical but plain
iOS 27's public beta introduces an upgraded Siri that's more capable for everyday tasks, but feels like an incremental improvement rather than a major leap, lacking the standout features seen in competing AI assistants.
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A hacker accessed Suno source code that reportedly details how the company scraped millions of songs
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Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI
Google is celebrating 25 years of image search with a redesigned, AI-powered interface that displays a personalized, continuously refreshed image gallery based on your browsing and search history, even before you type a query.
Robots learn household tasks inside realistic virtual environments
MIT's SceneSmith uses three AI agents to automatically generate realistic virtual environments for robot training. In user tests, 90%+ rated its scenes more realistic than older methods, with up to 6x more interactive objects.
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Video: China’s new humanoid robot combines whole-body control and Nvidia Thor compute
Booster Robotics' T2 humanoid robot runs on Nvidia's Thor chip (2,070 TFLOPS), stands 4.5 feet tall with 31 degrees of freedom, and can walk, recover from falls, and manipulate objects, supported by the Booster Studio platform.
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Lorde says AI glasses are “not sexy”
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DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation
Google's experimental DiffusionGemma (26B parameters) generates 256 tokens simultaneously instead of sequentially, achieving 4x faster output, over 1,000 tokens/sec on an H100, though with lower quality than standard Gemma 4.
Don't let an AI chatbot pick your password, ever
AI chatbots like ChatGPT generate predictable, repetitive passwords, one study found just 30 unique passwords from 50 prompts. Use a dedicated password manager for stronger security.
RayNeo X3 Pro review: These AI+AR Smart Glasses are technically impressive, but far from easy to use
The RayNeo X3 Pro features an impressive dual-eye MicroLED AR display at 6,000 nits, but its $1,169 price and 45-minute battery life under heavy use limit its appeal.
DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO
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How AI Is Changing How We Think, Talk and Relate to Each Other
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