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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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‘I also want to feel the frontier’ — Gemini users are starting to think that Gemini Pro 4 won’t ever see the light of day thanks to the release of ChatGPT 6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1

Being a devoted Gemini user seems to require a peculiar combination of loyalty, patience, and an unusually high tolerance for the word Flash. That patience is being tested again. Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 last week, bringing significant improvements to its model lineup. OpenAI followed with GPT-6 Astra, its

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Celero, which is developing a chip to enable long-distance connections between AI data centers, raised $275M at a $3B+ valuation

Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running

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Qualcomm Strikes Major Amazon AWS Deal For Custom AI Data Center Chips

Qualcomm and Amazon have announced a multi-generational strategic collaboration to co-develop custom AI inference silicon and high-bandwidth optical interconnects for hyperscale data centers. The agreement marks Qualcomm's largest expansion into cloud data center infrastructure to date, pairing its power-efficient processing architecture with Amazon Web Services' cloud fabric.

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The ESP32 Bus Expander Gives Geo TP's ESP32 Bit Pirate a Wealth of New IoT Capabilities

Pseudonymous developer "Geo TP" has given the Bit Pirate, formerly known as the ESP32 Bus Pirate, project a whole new dimension — an Espressif ESP32-C5- or -C6-powered communications coprocessing board for extended Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities: the ESP32 Bus Expander. "ESP32 Bus Expander is a companion firmware

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&lsquo;I also want to feel the frontier&rsquo; &mdash; Gemini users are starting to think that Gemini Pro 4 won&rsquo;t ever see the light of day thanks to the release of ChatGPT 6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1

Celero, which is developing a chip to enable long-distance connections between AI data centers, raised $275M at a $3B+ valuation

Qualcomm Strikes Major Amazon AWS Deal For Custom AI Data Center Chips

The ESP32 Bus Expander Gives Geo TP's ESP32 Bit Pirate a Wealth of New IoT Capabilities

‘I also want to feel the frontier’ — Gemini users are starting to think that Gemini Pro 4 won’t ever see the light of day thanks to the release of ChatGPT 6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1