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Legal scholar Martha Minow delivered this fall’s Compton Lecture at MIT on Thursday, examining the civic foundations of democracy — and describing how artificial intelligence is undermining it, but could be used to help reinforce traditional U.S. governance. “It’s not a good…
Vecna Robotics makes its systems in the U.S. and is not directly affected by the FCC ruling. Credit: Eugene Demaitre In July, the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, said it had determined that certain foreign-made advanced robots pose a cybersecurity and competitive risk…
At the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) 75th Anniversary Symposium, speakers celebrated the school’s value and contributions, while exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming many aspects of teaching, research, and society. The symposium was…
Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, for example, shared…
The first Data Factory hub is set to become one of Europe’s largest physical AI training facilities for humanoid robots. | Source: Generative Bionics Generative Bionics this week announced plans to build a proprietary, multi-site “Physical AI Data Factory” in Italy. The company…
Chinese Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K3.1 Pro — an open AI model that beats GPT-6 Astra in programming tests. The model features a 1‑million‑token context window and is aimed at complex tasks such as software development, AI agents, 3D modeling, and financial...
Kimi K3.1 Pro officially unveiled. The team released the first model of the K3.1 family, and the results look promising. - A 3‑trillion‑parameter model with a 1‑million‑token context window. - Outperforms Astra and Fable 5.1 at a significantly lower cost. - Achieved…
We gave the iPhone Duo a 7 /10. But that wasn't always the score we planned, and it might not be the right score forever. Such are the challenges of reviewing - and assessing - a big, new idea about the most popular smartphone in history. On this episode of The Vergecast, David…
Google has updated its privacy policy in a way that could mean you'll start seeing targeted ads based on your personal data if you're using personalized AI features. The update, spotted by Android Authority, adds an exception to its promise about not using your Drive, Gmail, or…
✔️ US Banks Begin Blocking AI Agents According to Axios, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citi, and Wells Fargo faced a wave of incidents where autonomous agents performed operations in online banking on behalf of clients. Users voluntarily handed over…
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. CoRL 2026: 9–12 November 2026,…
🤰 In China, a virtual singer announced her pregnancy and went on maternity leave. A member of the digital music group BABYQUEEN named Mity unexpectedly informed fans that she was expecting a child and was temporarily suspending performances. The most interesting thing is that Mity is completely virtual...
The new owners of the Daily Telegraph plan to transform the paper into a global AI‑driven media business, which will lead to significant job cuts, with up to 100 staff expected to lose their positions. The chief executive emphasized the need to transition to…
Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape news sites for AI training, as reported earlier by Fast Company. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts says the terms…
Retro games are facing problems due to AI, which is affecting preservation communities.
Password management service 1Password introduced the 1Password for Agents platform, which allows AI agents to securely log into user accounts without directly transferring credentials to them. This solution radically changes the usual but unsafe approach...
💔 The popular Arc browser is being closed - it will be replaced by an AI browser Dia The Browser Company announced the cessation of Arc, which once tried to rethink the familiar Internet browser. The closure will take place in several stages: - October 22 - registration of new...
IT workers face a crisis due to critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language used by millions of websites. The urgent need to deploy patches creates immense pressure on specialists trying to manage client anxiety and...
Retro video games are everywhere lately - especially in places where they aren't supposed to be. Halo in a web browser, Wind Waker on the iPhone, Super Smash Bros. in mixed reality. Over the past month or so, these kinds of unexpected projects have gone viral with incredible…
How to make an AI mini-film for free: a complete guide A hero whose face does not change from frame to frame, his voice, the sound of rain and a twist in the ending - all this can now be collected without subscriptions. Today we’ll look at the whole path from idea to finished video: two evenings and 0 ₽. 🔤The idea: One hero, one...
The article examines AI's impact on employment, predicting significant job losses across various sectors. In response, the concept of a job guarantee is gaining traction as a remedy to mitigate the consequences of mass unemployment. This policy would ensure guaranteed…
🎵 Spotify wants to become the main music service for AI agents The company is betting on a future in which users will control music not through an application, but using ChatGPT, Claude and other neural networks. According to Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström,...
Indian workers get paid to record their hands performing various tasks for training artificial intelligence. These video recordings are collected by companies such as Rashdan Technologies and Humyn Labs, which use them to develop physical AI capable of...
🚀 Elon Musk plans to merge Tesla and SpaceX - the potential value of the companies is $3.5 trillion Musk confirmed that he is considering the possibility of merging his two largest companies. According to him, the merger makes sense thanks to joint projects in the field of AI,...
MIT explains how early ideas about randomness in AI influence its development.
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AI stocks fell sharply, hurting global markets, while oil prices hit a May high on concerns over the Iran conflict. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes dropped significantly, overshadowing gains in other sectors. Companies such as Lam Research and…
Legal experts say changes to Meta's terms don't solve the problem of news sites crawling.
As a child, you likely saw a few Disney movies depicting inanimate objects, such as clocks, cups, and toys, as interactive companions to humans — an act of pure magic, seemingly. But scientists at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are now…