Meta’s AI chatbot plan includes a ‘sassy robot’ for younger users

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge

Meta is preparing to announce a generative AI chatbot, called “Gen AI Personas” internally, aimed at younger users, according

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AMD has just released a chip for robots –yes, you can buy it to try building your life-size Mech

AMD has bolstered its Kria portfolio of adaptive system-on-module (SOM) boards with the K24 and KD240 Drives Starter Kit, which are designed to control electric motors in robotics systems.With this

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Why NASA’s Mars rovers could inspire a more ethical future for AI

NASA’s Mars rovers partner with humans to complement human qualities. Along the way, they avoid ethical pitfalls and chart a humane path for working with AI.

Since ChatGPT’s release

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Bill requiring human drivers for self-driving trucks vetoed

Newsom feared the bill would push companies making self-driving technologies to move out-of-state. Read More

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ICYMI: the 9 biggest tech stories of the week, from iPhone reviews to new Amazon Alexa AI

The tech world moves fast at this time of year, with big launch events piling up across September and early October. This week alone we had two major product reveals

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Interview: UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt visits Amazon and Microsoft; talks AI, China, economy

UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. (Photo via X/Twitter.)

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, the United Kingdom’s chief financial minister, visited Seattle on Friday as part

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Where’s Astro? Amazon addresses home robot’s absence from annual devices event

Is it just us, or is Astro looking lonely? (Amazon Photo)

Amazon’s Astro home robot was introduced at the company’s fall Devices & Services event two years

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An AI built with Amazon software is monitoring cancer in Nigeria and Kenya

Hurone AI, a Seattle-based oncology software startup, has started testing the use of artificial intelligence in the remote monitoring of cancer patients in Nigeria and Kenya.Read more…

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These scientists live like astronauts without leaving Earth

This article was originally published on Undark. Read the original article.

In January 2023, Tara Sweeney’s plane landed on Thwaites Glacier, a 74,000-square-mile mass of frozen water

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Microsoft 365 is coming to your business soon – but you'll pay extra for AI features

After months of teasing us with snippets of what its generative AI-powered Copilot assistants can do, Microsoft has now confirmed its plans to bring a unified Copilot experience to its

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West needs dialogue with China over AI rules, UK’s Hunt says

UNITED KINGDOM Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt said the West must engage in talks with China over how best to regulate the growth of artificial intelligence (AI), after Britain

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The AI era of computing is still in the design phase

Chatbots. Context prompts. ‘Personal’ personal computers. What’s the future of design in the age of AI? Not even the experts could tell you.

Once upon a time we had

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