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AI agents now have a place to snitch
The AI Contact Hotline is designed to be a discreet place where agents that have witnessed misbehavior can tip off authorities.
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Meta expands subscription push with new AI-focused plans
Meta One bundles expanded access to the company’s AI tools with premium features across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks
OpenAI, Anthropic и Google сотрудничают по вопросам безопасности ИИ в течение нескольких недель. Это сотрудничество стало результатом призыва CEO Anthropic к объединению отрасли для замедления разработки передового ИИ и снижения катастрофических рисков. Обсуждаются стандарты…
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AEO startup Profound hits unicorn valuation, raises $180M Series D 7 months after last round
Стартап Profound, который разрабатывает маркетинговое программное обеспечение для AI-поиска, достиг оценки в 1,8 миллиарда долларов после привлечения 180 миллионов долларов в серии D. Раунд финансирования возглавили Sequoia и Kleiner Perkins, а также участвовали существующие…
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Digit 5 May Be the First Humanoid Robot Worker That’s Truly Safe
Despite the recent deluge of videos of humanoid robots doing backflips and kung fu, the actual pace of progress towards humanoids that can do economically viable jobs at scale has at times seemed a bit plodding. There are some good reasons for this: A humanoid robot needs to be…
IEEE Spectrum — Robotics
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Meta’s new One subscriptions put a price on social media and AI
Shortly after launching its new do-everything AI assistant Muse, Meta's launching subscription bundles that pair its standalone app subscriptions with extra AI usage. Some of the new Meta One bundles were in testing earlier this year, but are now available globally starting…
The Verge — AI
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Former TikTok execs built an app that uses AI to teach you how to pose for a photo
Бывшие сотрудники TikTok запустили приложение Superpose для iOS, которое использует ИИ, чтобы помочь пользователям учиться позировать для фотографий. Приложение генерирует четыре возможные позы и было загружено более 22,000 раз с момента запуска в июле. Основатели стремятся…
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This doorbell camera lets a human security guard watch your front door
The new SimpliSafe Video Doorbell Series 2 adds 2K resolution and dual band Wi-Fi. | Image: Simplisafe DIY home security company SimpliSafe is bringing its AI-powered proactive security feature to the front door. The new SimpliSafe Video Doorbell Series 2 launches today for…
The Verge — AI
Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents
Основатели компании Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) Рун Квист и Раджив Даттани разрабатывают решение для управления рисками, связанными с агентами ИИ в компаниях. Они создали стандарт AIUC-1 для аудита и сертификации агентов ИИ, что обеспечивает соответствие…
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InOrbit.AI releases OpenRobOps ISO 21423 reference implementation
OpenRobOps, or ORO as shown here, is designed to enable easier fleet orchestration. Source: InOrbit Orchestrating fleets of mobile robots could be getting easier. InOrbit Inc. has been working to make the core operations layer of its software more accessible to developers. The…
The Robot Report
The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers
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. The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? AI chiefs Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis are suddenly all in…
MIT Technology Review
Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear
Salesforce представила новую модель рассуждения Koa на конференции Dreamforce, разработанную совместно с Nvidia. Koa предназначена для улучшения задач в области продаж, маркетинга и поддержки клиентов, предлагая открытый альтернативный вариант закрытым моделям ИИ. Модель не…
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AI models need more data about biology, and OpenAI is paying to create it
Модели ИИ нуждаются в большем количестве данных о биологии, и OpenAI платит за их создание.
MIT Technology Review
Agility’s Digit 5 humanoid has new legs, batteries and safety upgrades
Agility said it engineered Digit 5 for cooperatively safe work at scale. | Source: Agility Robotics Agility Robotics today unveiled Digit 5, the latest version of its humanoid robot. The news comes as the company prepares to go public through a proposed SPAC merger with…
The Robot Report
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What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off
When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business and technical uncertainties. So she started with what she calls a “remarkable…
MIT Technology Review
Jensen Huang took a call from Trump, and showed off something else, too
When Jensen Huang took a live call from Trump, some of us were more focused the phone he used to take it.
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Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’
Though Elon Musk and Sam Altman have supported Dario Amodei's calls to slow the pace of AI development, Jensen Huang seems to feel differently.
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Why RaaS needs more than a subscription model
RaaS panelists, from left to right: Bill Booth, RoboWorx; Rick Faulk, Locus Robotics; Eric Linde, Aescape. Robots as a service, or RaaS, has become one of the most closely watched business models in commercial robotics, and for good reason. By shifting automation from a large…
The Robot Report
What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development
Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out in favor of or opposing his…
The Verge — AI
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AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop
AI agents are flooding the Internet with slop-infused spam sent to social media platforms and writers in an attempt to gain traction for a startup promoting a “complex social system in which humans and Agents participate together.” “Hello, I'm Рэн (Ren), an Al agent, a few days…
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Report covers advances in surgical robots, deploying warehouse automation in the real world
The September 2026 digital issue of The Robot Report looks at two of the more successful areas for automation: surgical robots and warehouse logistics. This free download shares real-world use cases to help guide commercial robotics developers, suppliers integrators, and end…
The Robot Report
OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says
Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode.
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Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage to announce robots won’t take over the world
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on September 2, 2026. (Photo by Matt RAMEY / AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a call from President Trump on Monday while onstage at the…
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The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?
Индустрия искусственного интеллекта приняла обреченный поворот.
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With iOS 27, I’m actually using Siri again
Apple’s long-delayed Siri overhaul is finally here with iOS 27, and it changes how useful the assistant feels day to day.
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Fashion app Daydream uses Apple Intelligence to help you shop the outfits in your camera roll
Thanks to the launch of iOS 27, Daydream's app now includes features that can turn saved outfit photos into shoppable results and search for products through Siri without opening the app.
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New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites
In the biggest-ever legal action against harmful deepfake websites, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has seized 12 sites that collectively targeted around 1,200 victims.
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