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Why iRobot’s founder won’t go within 10 feet of today’s walking robots https://arstechni.ca/RzKe #AIdevelopmenttools #AgilityRobotics #machinelearning #RethinkRobotics #bostondynamics #humanoidrobots #walkingrobots #manipulation #rodneybrooks #AIresearch #dexterity #ElonMusk #Robotics #optimus #robotAI #Biz&IT #Figure #iRobot #openai #robots #safety #Tesla #Tech #MIT #AI
Why iRobot’s founder won’t go within 10 feet of today’s walking robots

Rodney Brooks says humanoid robots pose hidden safety challenges and won’t learn dexterity from video alone.

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Ars Technica News2d ago
OpenAI’s Sora 2 lets users insert themselves into AI videos with sound https://arstechni.ca/g2EH #AIdevelopmenttools #Aivideogenerator #machinelearning #imagesynthesis #videosynthesis #AIassistants #generativeai #multimodalAI #socialmedia #samaltman #Biz&IT #openai #Sora #AI
OpenAI’s Sora 2 lets users insert themselves into AI videos with sound

Sora social app launches with deepfake-style “cameos” and feed controls.

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Ars Technica News3d ago
DeepSeek tests “sparse attention” to slash AI processing costs https://arstechni.ca/ezL6 #computationalefficiency #transformerarchitecture #long-contextprocessing #AIdevelopmenttools #AIinfrastructure #machinelearning #sparseattention #AIefficiency #AIresearch #opensource #ChineseAI #deepseek #Biz&IT #AI
DeepSeek tests “sparse attention” to slash AI processing costs

Chinese lab’s v3.2 release explores a technique that could make running AI far less costly.

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Ars Technica News3d ago
California’s newly signed AI law just gave Big Tech exactly what it wanted https://arstechni.ca/bhhZ #AIdevelopmenttools #AndreessenHorowitz #machinelearning #AIregulation #GavinNewsom #ScottWiener #California #Anthropic #Fei-FeiLi #JackClark #AIethics #AIsafety #Biz&IT #Policy #google #openai #AIlaw #meta #AI
California’s newly signed AI law just gave Big Tech exactly what it wanted

After the failure of S.B. 1047, new AI disclosure law drops kill switch for disclosure mandate.

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Ars Technica News3d ago
Anthropic says its new AI model “maintained focus” for 30 hours on multistep tasks https://arstechni.ca/8P3R #Computer-UsingAgent #largelanguagemodels #AIdevelopmenttools #computerusemodel #machinelearning #AIcomputeruse #SimonWillison #AIassistants #AIbenchmarks #generativeai #Programming #codeagents #opensource #Anthropic #AIagents #AIcoding #Biz&IT #AI
Anthropic says its new AI model “maintained focus” for 30 hours on multistep tasks

Latest Claude model beats OpenAI and Google on coding tests.

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Ars Technica NewsSep 25
ChatGPT Pulse delivers morning updates based on your chat history https://arstechni.ca/QoXA #AIdevelopmenttools #machinelearning #personalization #googlecalendar #AIassistants #agenticAI #samaltman #AIagents #ChatGPT #Biz&IT #google #mobile #openai #gmail #AI
ChatGPT Pulse delivers morning updates based on your chat history

New mobile chatbot feature analyzes conversations overnight.

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Ars Technica NewsSep 24
Why does OpenAI need six giant data centers? https://arstechni.ca/VuhX #AIdevelopmenttools #AIinfrastructure #machinelearning #ClayMagouyrk #MasayoshiSon #datacenters #CoreWeave #samaltman #SBEnergy #SoftBank #AIchips #ChatGPT #Biz&IT #NVIDIA #openai #oracle #AI
Why does OpenAI need six giant data centers?

OpenAI’s new $400 billion announcement reveals both growing AI demand and circular investments.

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Ars Technica NewsSep 22
OpenAI and Nvidia’s $100B AI plan will require power equal to 10 nuclear reactors https://arstechni.ca/2WCY #AIdevelopmenttools #AIinfrastructure #machinelearning #datacenters #microsoft #samaltman #SoftBank #AIchips #NVIDIA #openai #oracle #Intel #AI
OpenAI and Nvidia’s $100B AI plan will require power equal to 10 nuclear reactors

“This is a giant project,” Nvidia CEO said of new 10-gigawatt AI infrastructure deal.

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Ars Technica NewsSep 10
Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage https://arstechni.ca/zbHc #cloudinfrastructure #softwaredevelopment #AIdevelopmenttools #servicereliability #AIinfrastructure #machinelearning #DeveloperTools #AIprogramming #terminaltools #AIassistants #AIbehavior #ClaudeCode #agenticAI #Anthropic #AIagents #AIcoding #outages #Biz&IT #AIwork #API #AI
Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage

Anthropic outage takes down AI tools some developers rely on to create software.

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Ars Technica NewsSep 10
Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic https://arstechni.ca/LaMp #largelanguagemodels #AIdevelopmenttools #AmazonWebServices #MicrosoftCopilot #machinelearning #AIassistants #multimodalAI #DarioAmodei #Anthropic #microsoft #Office365 #copilot #Biz&IT #Amazon #Claude #openai #azure #GPT-5 #AWS #AI
Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic

Microsoft will end OpenAI’s exclusive hold on its productivity suite, adding second AI supplier.

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