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Conflicting AI economic forecasts stem from inconsistent models. A new unified framework projects $2 trillion in U.S. output gains, 20 million job losses, and 7–8% price reductions, net positive if labor markets stay flexible and AI markets competitive.
AI memory architecture enables systems to store and retrieve information across conversations using five memory types, short-term, long-term, semantic, episodic, and procedural, powering smarter chatbots, coding assistants, and...
Moonshot AI's Kimi K1.5 is a 2.8T-parameter model rivaling top Anthropic and OpenAI models, featuring a 1M-token context window. It's free to try now, with open weights releasing July 27.
"The Hunt for Gollum" will use AI de-aging on returning cast members like Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen, while director Andy Serkis insists traditional methods, miniatures and prosthetics, will still be used for every shot.
Current AI, a $400M nonprofit, builds free, open AI tools for underserved communities. Recent projects include an offline device supporting 22 Indian languages, an open-source chatbot, and $3.2M in grants across Kenya, Lebanon,...
1X's Neo Beta humanoid robot features dexterous, tendon-driven hands with 25 degrees of freedom, strong enough to curl a dumbbell, yet precise enough to grip a single screw without crushing it.
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DoorDash's new "dd-cli" tool lets U.S. and Canadian macOS developers order food directly from AI agents, enabling store searches, deal finding, and checkout, building "agentic commerce" features on DoorDash's platform.
AI agents are becoming product recommenders , build for them first, and let them sell your product to humans.
Xpeng plans to produce over 1,000 Iron humanoid robots monthly by end of 2026, deploying them as showroom sales assistants in China before a global rollout in 2027.
Xiaomi's U0 is a 38B-parameter model that generates synthetic robot training data, boosting task success rates from 36.9% to 63.2%, showing that AI-generated data can significantly accelerate robot learning without expensive...
Hyundai's Georgia plant, the US's most automated factory, faces worker pushback over plans to add humanoid robots by 2028. Despite union concerns over job losses, Hyundai pledges to hire 8,100 workers by 2031.
Kimi K3 ranked second on Artificial Analysis's agentic benchmark with 1547 Elo, beating GPT-5.6 Sol (1495) and trailing only Claude Fable 5 (1583), making it a strong contender for complex AI tasks.
OpenAI, partnered with Jony Ive's design studio, is developing a screenless AI home companion device with cameras and sensors, targeting a 2027 launch, potentially delayed by an Apple trade secret lawsuit.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, releasing soon, may rival Anthropic's Opus 4.8 with up to 3 trillion parameters, potentially China's largest open-weight model, as Moonshot raises funds at a $31.5B valuation.
Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro is months behind schedule due to internal conflicts, competing teams, and pressure to match rivals' coding capabilities, despite the Gemini app already serving 900 million monthly users across 230...
Google has rebranded NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, aligning the product's name with its new home following its integration into the Gemini platform.
Soofi S is a German-developed 30B-parameter open model trained on 27 trillion tokens that outperforms all fully open models on English and German benchmarks, delivering 8x faster output than comparable dense models.
"The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning" is a free guide covering RL basics to advanced algorithms like PPO, with PyTorch implementations and detailed proofs, ideal for both beginners and practitioners.
ReasonGate is an open-source tool that blocks prompt injection attacks on AI apps before they hit the LLM. It catches 96% of attacks with 0.3% false positives and explains every block decision for full auditability.
Thinking Machines Lab's Inkling (released July 15, 2026) is an open-weights, 975B-parameter model that autonomously rewrites its own code and settings, completed a self-modification task in 27 minutes, and rivals top competitors...
Roblox's AI-powered mobile game creation tool, Build, launches in limited alpha this month, with a broader 2026 rollout planned. It enables no-code game development, potentially opening the platform to its largely mobile user...
Google Vids now supports AI avatars from selfies, Gemini-powered video creation from text/images, and editing tools like background swapping. Avatars are SynthID-watermarked, positioning Vids against rivals like HeyGen and...
A paralyzed man regained hand movement and touch using a brain implant, AI, and spinal stimulation. Gains persisted after stimulation ended, suggesting neural rewiring, with arm strength increasing 86%, enabling him to feed...
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