Realbotix makes transition from novelty to embodied AI
Walking through the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center last month, I was surrounded by humanoid robots. The majority of this mechanical theater…
Category: Ai/Robotics
OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model
Starting Friday, OpenAI will cease providing access to five legacy ChatGPT models, including the popular but controversial GPT-4o model. The 4o model has been at…
Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads mocking AI with ads helped push Claude’s app into the top 10
Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads — which feature darkly comedic scenarios of people seeking advice from chatbots, only to be steered to “cougar” dating sites and…
Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull
Elon Musk is addressing a wave of departures from xAI, including two more co-founders who left this week, bringing the total to six out of…
Cohere’s $240M year sets stage for IPO
As the top AI labs like Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI chase enterprise adoption, Canadian AI startup Cohere has been quietly cleaning up. The startup told…
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as this year, according to a new report from The New York Times.…
Trener Robotics raises $32M for robot-agnostic skills platform
Trener Robotics founders Asad Tirmizi, the CEO, and Lars Tingelstad, the CTO. | Source: Trener Robotics Programming robots typically requires specialized coding experience. Trener Robotics…
Amid disappointing earnings, Pinterest claims it sees more searches than ChatGPT
After a particularly poor performance on its fourth-quarter earnings, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready attempted to favorably compare the digital pinboarding site to the popular AI…
IBM will hire your entry-level talent in the age of AI
While the artificial intelligence industry touts that AI will replace entry-level jobs, not every company is scaling back hiring these positions. In IBM’s case, it’s…
Musk needed a new vision for SpaceX and xAI. He landed on Moonbase Alpha.
“Join xAI if the idea of mass drivers on the Moon appeals to you,” CEO Elon Musk proclaimed yesterday following a restructuring that saw a…