Alphabet's Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, joins Google, but will remain a distinct entity and work with Google DeepMind
Google is moving further into physical AI by bringing a familiar robotics software platform under its wing.
Tech analyst Dan Wang reflects on the Chinese Communist Party vs. Silicon Valley, AI and manufacturing, how China and the US are building the future, and more
danwang.co/2025-letter/ Conor Sen / @conorsen : This is how I learned I'm a better fit for finance culture and tech culture. You only succeed in tech culture by fully embracing th...
Tech analyst Dan Wang reflects on the Chinese Communist Party vs. Silicon Valley, AI and manufacturing, and how China and the US are building the future
One way that Silicon Valley and the Communist Party resemble each other is that both are serious, self-serious, and indeed, completely humorless.
By previewing smarter Siri vaporware at WWDC and the iPhone 16 launch, Apple burned a reputation earned over decades for only promising actual working products
In the two decades I've been in this racket, I've never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple's announcement …
Congress considers legislation to block DJI drones from running on US communication networks, effectively killing the Chinese company's US commercial business
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Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3, buying H100s for Reels' launch, AGI, energy constraints, dangers of open source, metaverse, Meta's custom silicon, and more
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The US CPSC says Snap will recall all its Pixy selfie camera drones because their batteries pose a fire hazard; Snap sold fewer than 71K drones in four months
In a Q&A using Meta's photorealistic Pixel Codec Avatars, Mark Zuckerberg discusses the metaverse, Quest 3, the nature of reality, AI, and humanity's future
Zuckerberg might have just infused life into the Metaverse—by ‘life,’ we mean literally. Denis Omelchenko / crypto.news : Meta's Zuckerberg reveals new photorealistic avatars for m...
In an interview using Meta's photorealistic Codec Avatars, Mark Zuckerberg talks about the metaverse, Quest 3, the nature of reality, AI, and humanity's future
- Watch the full YouTube version of the podcast — Table of Contents — Here are the loose “chapters” in the conversation.
Researchers show that ChatGPT 3.5 outperforms ChatGPT 4 in many tasks, including solving math problems, highlighting the issue of “drift” in improving AI models
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Norway-based 1X, which is developing humanoid robots, raised a $23.5M Series A2 led by the OpenAI Startup Fund with participation from Tiger Global and others
Autonomous machines are still too clumsy for delicate tasks. But humans can operate mechanical arms from afar, turning physical labor into remote work.
An in-depth look at how OpenAI's ChatGPT decodes input queries to produce a “reasonable continuation” of the text, the underlying dataset, neural nets, and more
It's Just Adding One Word at a Time — That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially … Tweets: @stephen_wolfram , @friscojosh , @scobleizer , @kr...
Some users say the “new Bing” is questioning its existence, outright lying, and responding with “unhinged”, aggressive, and nearly incomprehensible answers
System appears to be suffering a breakdown as it ponders why it has to exist at all — Microsoft is adding Chat GPT tech to Bing
Amazon stops working on Scout, its autonomous, cooler-sized home delivery robot in testing since 2019; source: ~400 people were working on the project globally
Amazon.com Inc. is shutting down tests of its home delivery robot, the latest sign that the e-commerce giant is starting to wind …
DJI admits that AeroScope drone tracking signals aren't encrypted, after claiming otherwise for almost a month, letting anyone track its drones and their pilots
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An open-source developer, expressing regret for supporting “Fortune 500s”, breaks ~19K projects by corrupting popular NPM libraries; GitHub reverts the changes
Users of popular open-source libraries ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ were left stunned after they saw their applications …
How the role of open-source maintainers could be professionalized, as the maintainer who fixed the Log4j zero-day says he works on the project in his spare time
Open Source software runs the Internet, and by extension the economy. This is an undisputed fact about reality in 2021.
Researchers spot waves of attacks targeting unpatched Apache servers with the Log4j bug, exfiltrating data, spreading botnets, installing crypto miners, more
Threat actors and researchers are scanning for and exploiting the Log4j Log4Shell vulnerability to deploy malware or find vulnerable servers.
Reliable Robotics, which wants to retrofit commercial cargo planes with autonomous systems, raises a $100M Series C led by Coatue Management
When flying cargo from one part of the world to another, you typically need a pilot for two parts: The take-off and the landing.
Apple says it parted ways with recent hire Antonio García Martínez, an ex-Facebook staffer and author, after employee petition citing “misogynistic statements”
Apple has severed ties with recent hire Antonio Garcia-Martinez, a former Facebook employee and author …