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Odyssey, an AI lab building real-time ‘world models’, has raised $310mn at a $1.45bn valuation. The more telling number is whose names are on the round. The Series B was led by Natural Capital, with Amazon, AMD Ventures, Google’s GV, EQT and the CIA-linked fund In-Q-Tel taking part.
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Two weeks ago, OpenAI said it would relaunch the robotics program it shuttered in 2021 — the latest signal that the biggest AI labs are racing to teach machines to operate in the physical world. But building capable robots requires something the AI industry doesn’t yet have, which is the
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Since desktop companion robots started popping up on social media, makers have been building endless variations of them to suit their own tastes. It’s easy to see why — most designs require only a handful of readily available parts and can be assembled in an evening. Spend a little time
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That lack of faith matters as AI becomes increasingly inescapable. 3 min read It's our ongoing conundrum: Many US adults believe AI will have a negative impact on society. We're increasingly skeptical of our governments' ability to rein in the tech's more dangerous
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With at least a couple more years to go before the release of the Raspberry Pi 6, people who need a single-board computer upgrade now have to look elsewhere. It’s hard to beat the Raspberry Pi developer ecosystem, but if you don’t mind a few rough edges, you
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Commentary: Half phone, half gimbal camera. Count me in. 3 min read Honor took the wraps off its wild-looking Robot Phone at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Tucked into this regular Android phone is a robotic camera module that pops out, essentially turning the phone into
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The smart home networking protocol Thread is adding a new way to onboard devices without a Thread border router. The feature, called Thread Direct, is designed to let users set up Thread-powered devices — such as smart plugs and smart locks — using only a phone or mobile device equipped with a
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* Photograph: Simon Hill * Photograph: Simon Hill * Photograph: Simon Hill S1 Maybe you’re not ready to give up control of your mowing, but you’re sick of pushing that machine around. The Mowrator S1 is a slightly crazy remote-control mower that just might be what you need. I thought the
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Matter, the smart home interoperability standard, might finally get a feature that should have been there from day one: a single shared Matter network managed by multiple ecosystems. With this feature, called Joint Fabric, smart devices added to the network will be controllable by any authorized platform — Apple Home, Google
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Show more (1 item) Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Amazon Prime Day is next week, and you can already find some of the best price cuts we've seen all year on Amazon devices, which are not likely to drop further. From Echo devices
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Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. The next humanoid robot might not have a head. It might not have legs. It might even sit on a wheeled base
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The timing was almost too neat. Days before more than 180,000 people were due to file into VivaTech in Paris, and before G7 leaders sat down at the lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains, the United States tightened access to Anthropic’s most advanced models for foreign nationals. Europe arrived at
