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The Sashimi robot is real and it doesn't fumble at slicing and dicing
28+ min ago (483+ words) Robots can pick up boxes, sort packages, and screw in bolts without breaking a sweat. Some of them can even walk and run like humans. Hand one a floppy, slippery piece of raw salmon, though, and everything starts falling apart....
i OS 27 puts a much better dictation experience on your i Phone, and you must enable it
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (529+ words) If you have an i Phone 17 Pro, i Phone 17 Pro Max, or i Phone Air running i OS 27 beta, you have a meaningfully better dictation system on your device right now." However, Apple did not turn it on by default,…...
Claude AI is better at raising funds for humans than humans, finds worrying experiment
3+ hour, 13+ min ago (407+ words) The researchers noted that the chatbots often produced messages several times longer than those written by professionals and packed them with factual claims and expert references. They also warned that persuasiveness did not necessarily correlate with accuracy, pointing out that…...
Instacart is testing camera-ready AI shopping carts that sound convenient, but equally scary
10+ hour, 13+ min ago (655+ words) Instacart's AI shopping carts are moving into select Weis Markets stores in Pennsylvania, with more locations planned this year. On the surface, the Caper Cart upgrade sounds useful, since shoppers can see a running total, clip digital coupons, use loyalty…...
Open AI wants an all-knowing personal AI agent for everyone on Earth
11+ hour, 32+ min ago (622+ words) Open AI is laying out a future where advanced AI reaches billions of people, not only the companies and governments racing to control it. Its latest plan centers on an AI for everyone, a personal AGI that would work as…...
AI tools that help students cheat are multiplying, and the detectors can't keep up
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (255+ words) A report from earlier this year revealed how University of Florida researchers tested the five most popular AI text detectors and found false negative rates as high as 99. 6 percent, with a single vocabulary tweak defeating most of them entirely. The…...
AI agents need more than reasoning: they need to actually use the web
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (729+ words) A company rolls out an AI customer service assistant. The model behind it is current and capable enough for the job. The assistant goes live. Within a week, support tickets are getting worse, not better. The model isn't the problem....
If you were missing Hourly Activity and Naps in Google Health, a new update brings them back
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (434+ words) Ever since Google rebranded the Fitbit app as Google Health, the app has been a work in progress. Version 5. 02 is here to fix things, with features that shouldn't have been removed in the first place. The two that most users…...
Gemini Live can finally remember what you told it in past conversations
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (430+ words) Talking to Gemini Live no longer means starting from a blank slate every time. Google has quietly extended memory access to Gemini's conversational mode, allowing it to recall details from past conversations when answering new questions. 9to5 Google spotted the change…...
Google's AI Overviews are blabbering about fictional monsters as if they're real
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (427+ words) Google's AI Overviews feature is reportedly presenting entries from the SCP Foundation, a popular fan fiction universe built around fake horror "anomalies," as though they describe real creatures and events. Futurism found at least 20 cases where the AI-generated summaries skipped…...