People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
Fed up with ads, tracking, and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.
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Fed up with ads, tracking, and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.
Kodama initially focused on wildfire risk reduction in the western U.S., but it is now focusing on the timber industry in the southeastern U.S. | Source: Kodama Kodama Systems today said it has raised $7 million to bring physical AI to forestry. The company said it will use the…
When Codex works with desktop applications like Blender, it has to take screenshots, analyze the interface, and control the mouse. In this case, all windows are on the main screen, which is why the user and the AI agent interfere with each other. yomado is a tool for macOS that...
Today, I’m talking with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running theories is that those issues are driving a big and maybe kind of unexpected political realignment…
Хакер использовал армию ИИ-агентов для атак на John Deere и SharkNinja.
ElevenLabs is no longer just voice-over: what is there and what is given for free ⠀ Now in one place you can voice-over a video, translate it while preserving the voice, generate a video sequence, collect music and launch a talking AI assistant. You can get started without paying. ⠀ Ecosystem map -...
В Австралии работодатели все чаще используют ИИ и другие технологии для мониторинга сотрудников, что вызывает опасения по поводу конфиденциальности. Институт человеческих технологий сообщил, что многие работники не осознают масштабы наблюдения на своих рабочих местах, включая…
A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn't name the targets, Reuters reports that the victims included companies like John Deere,…
Google showed how they implement AI agents in biological laboratories through robotics In a new research paper, the Google Research team showed that instead of agents only counting and suggesting molecules in a simulation, scientists connect them to laboratory robots. For this they...
Agility Robotics, the company I cofounded out of my robotics lab at Oregon State University in 2015, has just launched Digit 5. It’s designed to be the first humanoid robot that can safely and economically do useful work at scale, allowing us to bring tens of thousands of…
🚀 How will Amazon innovate in the age of AI? On October 21 at 13:30, the Amazon Culture of Innovation workshop will be held at the alem.ai center. The event will focus on Amazon's ways of developing business in the face of technological change. The participants of the company…
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. Inside the quest to combat Arctic fires and save the planet’s frozen carbon —James Temple In July 2021, a wildfire burned through a forest on…
🔒 Meta* отказалась от спорного пункта об использовании контента сайтов для обучения ИИ Компания обновила коммерческие условия, добавив положение, которое позволяло ей использовать материалы сайтов, связанных с бизнес-аккаунтами, в том числе для обучения нейросетей. Юристы…
DeepSeek has undergone a reorganization + released an update to the Flash model. The company has combined its Harness, Web, App and Platform teams into one product department under the leadership of Cui Tianyi, who recently led only Harness. This whole reorganization comes down to the logic that...
Исследователи провели эксперимент, оставив ИИ-агентов на виртуальном острове.
Согласно отчету, подростки в США могут по-прежнему получать доступ к приложениям 'nudify', несмотря на родительский контроль от Apple и Google. Эти приложения позволяют создавать неприемлемые порнографические изображения с использованием технологий ИИ, что вызывает опасения по…
A large database of tasks and materials for preparing for interviews in BigTech. The guys from Podupashki collect real tasks from technical interviews, materials for developers and detailed analyzes of selection for large IT companies. Here are some useful resources: 1. Bank…
What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The agents—copies of Claude Opus…
The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens of states allege encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. On the evening of December 29, 1959, at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech,…
🚀 How will Amazon innovate in the age of AI? On October 21 at 13:30, the Amazon Culture of Innovation workshop will be held at the alem.ai center. The event will focus on Amazon's ways of developing business in the face of technological change. The participants of the company…
🔥 The main AI discoveries of the week Muse Wonder are models for programming, complex tasks and working with a browser. Gemini 4 Argon - creates games, 3D scenes and even its own engines. Drama 3 - emotional voice acting with support for 83 languages. FLUX 3 Klein - local image generation...
This may be useful: shot is a mod for Claude Code and an MCP tool that gives the AI agent access to screenshot tools. Now you can ask Claude to explain step-by-step how to do something in an app, and he'll show you each step right there...
✔️ xAI has released the Grok Voice 3.0 speech model. The new xAI model works in speech-to-speech format, that is, it listens and responds in voice without intermediate text, and, according to the company, responds faster than a second. In the summary rating of the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Index...
🏝 The AI was sent to a desert island - it began to build temples and perform rituals. MIT researchers placed an AI agent based on Claude in the virtual world, giving it a humanoid body and freedom of action without specific tasks. First, the agent explored the island, put his…
The article warns consumers about the rise of AI scams, where criminals create fake websites and use AI-generated images and voice cloning to deceive people. Traditional methods of detecting fraud are becoming less effective...
Попросите ИИ создать сайт-портфолио, и, скорее всего, получите фиолетовый градиент, три карточки и надпись «Повышаем ценность вашего бренда». Такой дизайн узнаётся с первого взгляда. /awwwards — скилл, созданный специально для решения этой проблемы. Достаточно написать «Сделай…
Carolyn Marvin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after blocking the path of an Uber delivery robot and refusing to get out of the way. Marvin told Philadelphia's ABC13 "I know they're taking the jobs of human delivery workers and so, I have been protesting them…
🍉 Gemini 4 Argon turned out to be 6.6 times cheaper than Claude Opus 5.5, but there's a catch. The user asked both models to create a plush watermelon with realistic physics. Gemini 4 Argon needed six attempts to approach the desired result. Visually, the watermelon turned out…
🚫 Apple has banned applications in the App Store that “undress” people using AI. The company has tightened the rules for services that create realistic intimate deepfakes without the consent of the people depicted. Now developers are obliged to prevent the creation of such content and promptly...