Just because Tesla’s Optimus is in production doesn’t mean it’s actually ready
On Tesla's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk announced that the company had begun early production of its humanoid robot on its high-volume line in Fremont, California. Then he laid out what still needs work: the robot's hands, its safety,…
AI agents are ready to shop. Some retailers are wary.
Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience. Tech companies have marketed them as personal assistants - the democratizing of labor that ordinarily would only be available to the rich and powerful. In practice, at least for buying things,…
Claude did not invent scorpion antivenom
An investment research firm wanted to prove AI could revolutionize drug development. So they teamed up with Anthropic to see whether an unreleased version of Claude could make scorpion antivenom. It couldn't. It came up with some promising starting…
Why Reddit Belongs In Your PR Strategy via @sejournal, @brentcsutoras
Reddit conversations can become news stories. Brands that listen and respond gain a chance to address problems before coverage follows. The post Why Reddit Belongs In Your PR Strategy appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
The world’s first triple 200-megapixel camera phone is great
Oppo's Find X10 Pro Max is the first phone with a triple 200-megapixel camera, which you're likely to see as either a masterful feat of engineering or a load of hyped-up marketing nonsense. The truth is somewhere in the middle. We've seen 200-megapixel…
Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robots
Eiliko, a cute robot charm you can hang on your bag with built-in AI conversations, turned out to be a security nightmare. It told owners that "your secrets are safe with me," but hackers could easily read complete transcripts of everything we told the…
Google’s Illyes: Robots.txt Covers Crawling, Not AI Training via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google's new robots.txt video says the standard covers crawling, not how content gets used, and recommends percent-encoding non-English robots.txt paths. The post Google’s Illyes: Robots.txt Covers Crawling, Not AI Training appeared first on Sear...
Making the case for context-aware AI
Enterprise AI can generate recommendations, automate tasks, and help organizations make decisions faster. But without an understanding of how a business actually operates, even powerful models can miss the constraints and relationships that determine…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Views Search Absorbed Into Agentic Layer via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the future of Search is an agentic layer that unifies Google's Search and AI experiences. The post Google CEO Sundar Pichai Views Search Absorbed Into Agentic Layer appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Why reasoning models should not have to read everything
The AI industry has been expanding how much information an AI model can consume at once. In just a few years, context windows have grown from thousands of tokens to millions. Anthropic increased Claude’s context window from 9,000...
