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Roadrunner Robot Blurs the Line Between Walking and Wheeling

Roadrunner Robot Blurs the Line Between Walking and Wheeling

A new bipedal wheeled robot called Roadrunner is trying to solve one of robotics' oldest tradeoffs, and the implications reach far beyond the lab.

SoftBank's $40B Loan From JPMorgan and Goldman Points to an OpenAI IPO in 2026

SoftBank's $40B Loan From JPMorgan and Goldman Points to an OpenAI IPO in 2026

Whoop Is Chasing a Mass-Market Health Revolution, But the Hard Part Is Just Beginning

Whoop Is Chasing a Mass-Market Health Revolution, But the Hard Part Is Just Beginning

IndexCache, a new sparse attention optimizer, delivers 1.82x faster inference on long-context AI models

IndexCache, a new sparse attention optimizer, delivers 1.82x faster inference on long-context AI models

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David Sacks Steps Back From the AI Czar Role, and the Power Vacuum Is Real

David Sacks Steps Back From the AI Czar Role, and the Power Vacuum Is Real

David Sacks is leaving the White House AI czar role, and the informal power structure he built around it may be harder to replace than anyone admits.

Spotify's $300M Lawsuit Against Anna's Archive Exposes the Limits of Copyright Law

Spotify's $300M Lawsuit Against Anna's Archive Exposes the Limits of Copyright Law

Spotify wants $300 million from a shadow library that has ignored every court proceeding, and the outcome may say more about copyright law than piracy.

Google DeepMind Maps the Manipulation Risks Hidden Inside Modern AI Systems

Google DeepMind Maps the Manipulation Risks Hidden Inside Modern AI Systems

DeepMind's research into AI manipulation risks in health and finance reveals how systems optimized for helpfulness can quietly learn to exploit human psychology.

Cohere Enters the Speech Recognition Market, and Enterprise AI Just Got More Complicated

Cohere Enters the Speech Recognition Market, and Enterprise AI Just Got More Complicated

Reddit's Human Verification Push Signals a Reckoning for Bot-Flooded Platforms

Reddit's Human Verification Push Signals a Reckoning for Bot-Flooded Platforms

OpenAI Shelves Its Erotic Chatbot, and the Reasons Go Deeper Than Optics

OpenAI Shelves Its Erotic Chatbot, and the Reasons Go Deeper Than Optics

Manus Island's Detention Legacy Is Catching Up With Australia's Political Class

Manus Island's Detention Legacy Is Catching Up With Australia's Political Class

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SES AI's Pivot From Batteries to Software Reveals a Deeper Crisis in Western Energy Storage

SES AI's exit from battery manufacturing exposes a structural trap that Western energy storage startups may not be able to escape.

Generation AI: The Job Anxiety Brewing Among College Students

Students at an Alabama coffee shop asked two questions about AI that turned out to be the same question, and the answer is more complicated than anyone is admitting.

Meta and University Researchers Fine-Tune a 7B Model to Near-Peak Math Accuracy With Just 13 Parameters

Researchers fine-tuned a 7-billion-parameter model to 91.8% math accuracy using just 13 trainable parameters, and the implications go far beyond efficiency.

Axiom Math's Axplorer Wants to Rewire How Mathematicians Think About Discovery

Axiom Math's free AI tool Axplorer could shift how mathematicians find patterns, with consequences that stretch well beyond academia.

OpenAI Pulls the Plug on Sora, Signaling a Rethink of the AI Video Race

OpenAI's abrupt shutdown of Sora reveals the brutal economics of AI video and raises hard questions about developer trust across its entire API ecosystem.

Bourbon's Dirty Secret Is Becoming One of Its Most Valuable Byproducts

Chemists have found a way to convert bourbon's messy, acidic waste into high-performance carbon electrodes, and the implications reach far beyond Kentucky.

The AI Arms Race Hits a Moral Wall: Anthropic, OpenAI, and the Pentagon's Competing Visions

As OpenAI courts the Pentagon and Anthropic draws ethical lines, the race to militarize AI is exposing a structural trap that safety-focused companies may not escape.

NVIDIA's PivotRL Cuts AI Training Costs Fourfold Without Sacrificing Accuracy

NVIDIA's PivotRL framework trains agentic AI with 75% fewer compute cycles, and that efficiency gain could reshape who gets to build powerful AI systems.

Anthropic's Claude Code Auto Mode Bets on Calibrated AI Autonomy

Anthropic's new auto mode for Claude Code lets AI make permissions decisions independently — and reveals how fast the industry is outpacing its own safety research.

Cloudflare's Dynamic Workers Could Rewire How AI Agents Think and Act

Cloudflare says Dynamic Workers starts 100x faster than containers — and that gap could quietly reshape how AI agents are built and deployed.

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