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Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop

Jibo is dead. Long live Jibo.

Jibo was a cute, social robot that sat in one place in your home. Built in 2014, Jibo was meant to be a robot people brought into their lives before the smart-home industry had even really taken off. (It preceded Amazon’s popular Echo speakers.) It could not interact with objects or move from its spot, but it could wiggle and talk in a way that felt endearing. It was adorable, but not competent or in demand enough to last—it was ahead of its time and died too soon.

Now, Jibo is being reborn, sort of, in a different form. The focus seems far less on the friendly robot and more about making a camera that can turn real-life moments into AI-generated images. A company called Lingverse (formerly known as Ling AI) says it raised $29 million in funding to build a...

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Sources: Apple has pitched Trump on using Chinese memory chips in its products sold outside the US; Micron warned such a plan could destroy the US chip industry

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After a backlash, Meta pauses its plan to “rate limit” Conversation Focus, an accessibility feature for its glasses that runs on-device

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Cybersecurity in the age of hyperconnected enterprises: Risks & remedies

By Anant Agrawal, CEO & Managing Director, Skillmine Technology Consulting The contemporary enterprise operates in a state of perpetual connectivity. Distributed cloud architectures, internet-of-things deployments, remote workforces, and interwoven supply chains have rendered the traditional notion of a defended network perimeter largely redundant. What has emerged in its place is

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HR tech is evolving faster than HR, are we keeping up?

By Surajit Bit, Senior Director – Operations & People Engagement, SHRM India, APAC & MENA There’s a particular kind of discomfort that comes with watching technology move faster than the people meant to use it. In HR, that discomfort has quietly become routine. Over the last three years, the HR

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Sources: Apple has pitched Trump on using Chinese memory chips in its products sold outside the US; Micron warned such a plan could destroy the US chip industry

After a backlash, Meta pauses its plan to “rate limit” Conversation Focus, an accessibility feature for its glasses that runs on-device

Cybersecurity in the age of hyperconnected enterprises: Risks & remedies

HR tech is evolving faster than HR, are we keeping up?