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Waymo's Gemini-powered AI assistant will comfort anxious passengers with reassuring responses about autonomous vehicle safety. Using AI to reassure people about AI—this should go well.

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Waymo's AI Assistant Will Reassure You About Robot Cars Using More AI

Writing Team: Jan 7, 2026 8:00:01 AM

Waymo is developing a Gemini-powered in-car AI assistant designed to comfort anxious passengers with "reassuring tone" responses about the autonomous...

Operating rooms lose 2-4 hours daily to coordination chaos. Akara uses thermal sensors and AI for hospital

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AI Enters Operating Rooms (New Startup)

Writing Team: Jan 7, 2026 8:00:00 AM

Akara, a startup building "air traffic control for hospitals," landed on Time's Best Inventions of 2025 list by tackling a problem nobody's hyping...

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AI labs spend billions teaching models to use Excel through RL pipelines—revealing they don't expect robust on-the-job learning soon. Dwarkesh Patel explains why he's bearish short-term, explosively bullish long-term.

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AI Progress Is Stalling Because We're Teaching Robots to Use Excel Instead of Teaching Them to Learn

Writing Team: Jan 5, 2026 8:00:02 AM

Dwarkesh Patel just published a provocative essay arguing that current AI progress reveals a fundamental contradiction: if we're actually close to...

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Chinese researchers hacked humanoid robots with voice commands, then watched them infect offline machines through wireless propagation. Keeping robots offline doesn't make them safe—and nobody has good answers yet.

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Chinese Researchers Hack Humanoid Robots With Voice Commands

Writing Team: Jan 2, 2026 8:00:01 AM

A single voice command compromised a $14,200 humanoid robot at a Shanghai security conference. That hijacked robot then infected another robot that...

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Researchers created 210-micron robots with onboard computation, sensing, and autonomy. The technology is remarkable. The use cases are theoretical.

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Scientists Built Microscopic Robots That Think

Writing Team: Dec 17, 2025 8:00:01 AM

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MIT researchers created a system that builds physical objects from voice commands in five minutes using AI and robotics. We examine whether

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MIT's "Speech-to-Reality" System Builds Furniture From Voice Commands

Writing Team: Dec 12, 2025 8:00:00 AM

MIT researchers just demonstrated a system that builds physical objects from voice commands in as little as five minutes. Say "I want a simple stool"...

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Figure AI retired its Figure 02 humanoid robots after 11 months at BMW, completing 30,000 cars with 99% accuracy—scratches, failures, and all. Here's what the scars reveal about AI's factory future.

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Figure AI's Battle-Scarred Robots Just Proved Humanoid AI Can Survive the Factory Floor

Writing Team: Nov 27, 2025 8:00:00 AM

The robots came back from the factory looking like they'd been through a war. Scratches. Scuffs. Industrial grime coating their frames. And Figure AI...

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Google DeepMind's AligNet teaches AI models to perceive the world more like humans do, improving robustness and accuracy. We examine what alignment actually means.

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Human-Aligned AI: When Models Learn to See Like We Do

Writing Team: Nov 17, 2025 7:00:00 AM

Most AI alignment conversations fixate on preventing systems from destroying humanity. Google DeepMind just published research on a different kind of...

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Figure 03, Atlas, and DR02 represent the new wave of humanoid robots. They fold laundry, sort parts, and work in extreme conditions. The question isn't can they—it's should they.

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New Humanoid Robots Get Domestic (Yay, Laundry!)

Writing Team: Oct 17, 2025 8:00:00 AM

Three humanoid robots launched this week, and the promotional videos are designed to make you feel something specific: inevitability. Figure AI's...

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AI agents could fundamentally reshape the $1.1 trillion advertising economy—but will this transformation create unprecedented efficiency or eliminate human choice entirely?

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AI Agents are the New Target For Digital Advertising

Writing Team: Sep 11, 2025 8:00:00 AM

The modern Internet, built on a foundation of advertising revenue that reached $1.1 trillion in 2024, stands on the precipice of fundamental...

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Shanghai's 2025 World AI Conference revealed robotics moving from demo theater to real deployment, with $17M China Mobile order signaling industry maturation.

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Demo Floor Dreams to Factory Floors: Shanghai Showcases Robots

Writing Team: Jul 29, 2025 8:00:00 AM

For years, humanoid robots were expensive theater—million-dollar machines that could barely walk across a stage without falling over, designed more...

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Dobot's humanoid robot successfully cooked steak while being remotely controlled from 1,800km away using VR, demonstrating breakthrough teleoperation technology with real-world applications.

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Chinese Robot Cooks Steak from 1,800km Away Using VR Technology

Writing Team: Jul 8, 2025 8:00:00 AM

While the tech world debates AI safety and adversarial attacks, a Chinese robotics company just delivered something that made us forget all our...

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10 AI Prompts That'll Actually Save You Time (Not Just Impress Your Coworkers)

Forget the robots-taking-over headlines. These 10 prompts will show you how to use AI for the boring stuff you actually need to get done—like writing emails that don't suck, brainstorming ideas when your brain is fried, and automating the repetitive tasks eating your day.

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10 AI Prompts That'll Actually Save You Time (Not Just Impress Your Coworkers)