Chills and spills at China’s ‘robot olympics’
Beijing hosted the first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games, an event that brought together more than 500 bimanual robots from 16 countries. Teams tested their best humanoids in 26 different disciplines – from football and athletics to household chores and hospital tasks. The event closely followed the Olympic Games format: complete with a torch relay, medal […]
Musk: Grok 5 has ‘a shot at being true AGI’
Elon Musk spent a day on X commenting on artificial intelligence, revealing new details about the Grok 5 model, making bold claims about the Grok Imagine generator, and discussing the relationship between AI and demographic trends through a series of posts and replies. Musk announced that training for the Grok 5 model will begin in […]
Google analyzes Gemini’s environmental footprint
Google has published a new blog detailing the environmental footprint of its Gemini chatbot, claiming that the model consumes the equivalent of only five drops of water per text query—although researchers note that much of the actual consumption was excluded from the analysis. According to the published data, each Gemini query uses energy equivalent to […]
Meta’s massive AI restructure
Meta is undergoing its largest internal change of its AI teams to date – the company has disbanded the entire AGI Foundations division and reorganized its operations into four new departments under the leadership of Alexander Wang. At the same time, a hiring freeze has been implemented following a summer marked by massive talent poaching […]
Smart glasses that ‘augment’ intelligence
Two former Harvard students have introduced Halo, smart glasses with integrated artificial intelligence that are always on and ready to assist the user. These glasses continuously listen, record, and transcribe conversations, then immediately provide relevant information to their owner. One of the founders, Caine Ardayfio, describes them as a tool that allows users to “cheat” […]
Nuro gets $203M lift from Uber, Nvidia
tartup Nuro, focused on autonomous driving technology, has secured a new funding round worth $203 million, with major investors such as Uber and Nvidia joining in. The company was founded by two former Waymo engineers and had previously been backed by SoftBank. This investment raised Nuro’s valuation to $6 billion, placing it among the most […]
Meta signs $10B cloud deal with Google
Meta has just signed a six-year deal with Google Cloud worth over $10 billion – one of the largest in Google’s history and the first major public cloud agreement between these two tech giants. Under the agreement, Meta will use Google Cloud servers, advanced data storage and networking infrastructure, as well as key tools such […]
Musk tried to enlist Zuckerberg in OpenAI bid
Newly released court filings reveal that back in February, Elon Musk reached out to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, seeking $97.4 billion in financing to acquire OpenAI. Musk’s goal was to gain control of the company, whose valuation has since skyrocketed. According to the documents, neither Zuckerberg nor Meta agreed to a letter of intent, […]