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Two robotics stories this week capture the field’s widening gap between spectacle and substance: a viral video of a humanoid robot “attacking” coworkers in an Indonesian office was exposed as a choreographed stunt, while researchers at the University of Basel published work on a miniature dental robot small enough to fit inside a patient’s mouth. […]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has described the technology industry’s embrace of full remote work as “one of the tech industry’s worst mistakes in a long time,” reigniting the debate over whether pandemic-era work arrangements should survive into the post-pandemic era. Speaking at a Stripe conference in San Francisco, Altman argued that the belief that startups […]

Micron Technology has broken ground on a US$9.3 billion (approximately GBP 7.2 billion) expansion of its memory chip manufacturing facility in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, in the latest sign of the global race to meet surging AI-driven demand for high-bandwidth memory. The project will significantly increase production of advanced memory chips, including high-bandwidth memory (HBM) used […]

Samsung has begun teasing its next foldable lineup with a series of cryptic videos that point to the most significant design overhaul of the Galaxy Z Fold since the series launched. The teaser campaign, posted across Samsung’s social media channels, shows everyday objects — pizza slices, chocolate bars, paint strokes, puzzles, and photo strips — […]

Samsung is preparing to bring an Apple-style Center Stage feature to its next-generation flagship phones, according to a report from Dutch Samsung news site GalaxyClub. The Galaxy S27 Pro and S27 Ultra are rumored to feature a new 16-megapixel front camera sensor with a square format, replacing the 12-megapixel sensor that has been used across […]

An open-source tool is exploiting a quirk in how Anthropic prices image tokens to cut Claude Code and Fable 5 session costs by 59 to 70 percent — turning expensive text into cheap pixels. The tool, called pxpipe, was developed by Steven Chong and is available on GitHub. It functions as a local proxy that […]

DARPA is funding the development of batteries that could last 30 years on a single charge by harvesting energy from radioactive strontium-90 recovered from nuclear waste, with a minimum viable prototype targeted for early 2027. The program, called Project SYMPHONEE (Strontium-Yttrium Multi-junction PIN-based High-Density Output Nano-system for Extreme Environments), operates under DARPA’s broader Rads to […]

A team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen, the Technical University of Denmark, and Imperial College London has shown that contrastive deep learning can determine an individual’s age from skin biopsy images alone, and that the visual features learned by the model constitute a novel biomarker for aging that predicts mortality and chronic disease […]

A South Korean startup is deploying diamond-based quantum sensors to solve one of the data center industry’s most persistent problems: knowing exactly where, when, and why electricity is being wasted. xDots has developed xEnergy, an energy management platform that combines a diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) quantum sensor called xSee with an AI analysis engine and a […]

An automated safety testing framework for LLM agents has revealed severe vulnerabilities across four production agent systems, finding that multi-channel attacks succeed an average of 93.9 percent of the time. The framework, called Vera, instantiates software engineering testing principles for non-deterministic AI agents through a three-stage, self-reinforcing pipeline. It was evaluated on four production agent […]