Karen Hao on the Empire of AI, AGI evangelists, and the cost of belief
At the center of every empire is an ideology, a belief system that propels the system forward and justifies expansion – even if the cost…
Category: Ai/Robotics
Rolling Stone owner Penske Media sues Google over AI summaries
Google faces a new lawsuit accusing the company of illegally using news publishers’ content to create AI summaries that damage their business. The lawsuit comes…
‘Selling coffee beans to Starbucks’ – how the AI boom could leave AI’s biggest companies behind
How much do foundation models matter? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s come up a lot in my conversations with AI startups,…
Agility Robotics explains how to train a whole-body control foundation model
Agility Robotics has developed a whole-body control foundation model for its Digit humanoid. Source: Agility Robotics A humanoid robot’s most significant advantage is the ability…
California lawmakers pass AI safety bill SB 53 — but Newsom could still veto
California’s state senate gave final approval early on Saturday morning to a major AI safety bill setting new transparency requirements on large companies. As described…
xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI laid off 500 team members on Friday night, according to internal messages viewed by Business Insider. These emails reportedly announce…
How STEM and competitive robotics are shaping tomorrow’s workforce
Programs like FIRST encourage teamwork and “co-opetition” between teams. Credit: FIRST This story is Part 1 of a series about how the robotics community can…
Why the Oracle-OpenAI deal caught Wall Street by surprise
This week, OpenAI and Oracle shocked the markets with a surprise $300 billion, five-year agreement, part of a surge of new business that sent the…
Updated ANSI/A3 standards address industrial robot safety
U.S. adoption of ISO 10218 will lead to safer, smarter industrial robots worldwide, says A3. Source: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, or A3, this…
Google is a ‘bad actor’ says People CEO, accusing the company of stealing content
The CEO of the largest digital and print publisher in the U.S. has accused Google of being a bad actor for crawling its websites to…