Sony’s ‘Ace’ Robot Starts Beating Table Tennis Pros, Hailed as a Milestone for AI and Robotics
Sony says its table-tennis robot, Ace, has reached expert human performance and occasionally defeats professional players—an advance the company calls...
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Amazon deepens Anthropic alliance with multibillion-dollar investment and Trainium commitments
Amazon said it will invest $5 billion in Anthropic, with as much as $20 billion more tied to milestones, as...
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Silicon Valley’s AI Agents Stumble: Token Waste and Complex, Costly Systems
Silicon Valley is bullish on AI agents, but the economics and engineering remain fraught. At back-to-back industry events, executives and...
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Study flags questionable data behind dozens of AI tools for predicting disease risk
A new analysis warns that dozens of artificial-intelligence models built to predict stroke and diabetes risk were trained on datasets...
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Chinese boycott of top AI meeting highlights widening U.S.–China rift in AI research
China’s top state-backed science group is urging researchers to skip this year’s NeurIPS conference after organizers briefly adopted a policy...
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Inside the creator of Iran’s viral Lego-style AI clips—and why analysts call them potent propaganda
A small Iranian media outfit is producing viral, Lego-style AI videos that experts say amount to sophisticated propaganda aimed at...
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Faith-based AI takes off, from BuddhaBot to pay-per-minute chats with “AI Jesus”
A wave of faith-oriented generative AI tools is emerging, offering everything from $1.99-a-minute video chats with an “AI Jesus” to...
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China Leads in AI Robotics as the U.S. Holds the Edge in Chips and Language Models
The U.S. and China are splitting the AI race, with America maintaining a lead in large language models and the...
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China’s AI Job Market: Why Mass Layoffs Haven’t Hit—Yet
Artificial intelligence is reshaping tech workforces in the U.S., but its impact on Chinese payrolls remains limited for now. Beijing’s...
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AI-boosted Chinese satellite data is helping Iran pinpoint U.S. forces with striking accuracy, analysts warn
U.S. intelligence has assessed that AI-enhanced satellite imagery from Chinese firm MizarVision is aiding Iran in identifying U.S. and allied...
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