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Patti Harrison, like every great comic, knows how to use her face. If you’ve seen her stealing scenes in TV shows like Tim Robinson’s I Think You Should Leave or Hulu’s Shrill, you know that she often starts out a bit demure, or pouty, before walking audiences
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In 2021, as a whistleblower emerged with dramatic allegations that Facebook was harming children, CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a rebuttal on Facebook. “We care deeply about issues like safety, well-being and mental health. It’s difficult to see coverage that misrepresents our work and our motives,” he wrote in a
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We are entering a new era of autonomous systems. Centralized systems now operate sub‑decentralized components that automate workflows, workers, runtimes, and processes. These systems already exist around us. What’s new is agentic capabilities. Agentic capabilities, put simply, allow a system to choose actions rather than wait on explicit
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Honor is no stranger to smartphone innovations, with its clear embrace of silicon-carbon battery technology, high durability ratings, and even trying out some wild concepts with the Honor Robot Phone. I recently tried the flagship Honor Magic 8 Pro and the mid-range Honor 600 Pro, and their spec sheets alone
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In a creepy video, a robot arm powered by OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra AI model picks up a large knife and pokes a baby doll sitting near a baguette, following instructions to “stab the thing that’s not the bread.” In another, a robot arm, this time using Anthropic’s
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The uncanny valley is the feeling you get when a human-made object, like a robot, makes you uneasy or creeped out because it looks or acts almost human. That is arguably the best way to describe a series of recent live interviews with the infamous AI star bot Tilly Norwood.
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Save $250: Right now, you can nab the Narwal Freo Z10 Turbo robot vacuum and mop for $650 at Amazon — thanks to an early Prime Day discount. This brings the price down by a nice $250 and represents a 28% discount on one of the best robot vacuums on the
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* Another next-gen battery upgrade has been reported * Zinc-iodine batteries are now more stable * The tech promises a more sustainable lithium-ion replacement With so many modern-day devices dependent on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, scientists are hard at work trying to figure out ways of improving the tech — and a team from the
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Toyota to deploy 400,000 robots as it modernizes factories worldwide. Image: Toyota Toyota could deploy 400,000 robots in a $6.4 billion modernization push designed to preserve worker expertise and improve global factory operations. Sep 21, 2026 Toyota could eventually deploy about 400,000 robots across its manufacturing
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Figure tests Helix 2.5 humanoid robot across 30 unseen homes. Image: Figure Figure says Helix 2.5 completed household tasks across 30 unseen homes with a 56% success rate, showing progress but also a large reliability gap. Sep 21, 2026 Figure says its humanoid robot can now carry household
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Jev is TypeSafe AI's "System One" model. It doesn't generate text. You hand it unstructured state plus a typed question — a Choice, a Score, or a yes/no (Noul) — and it hands back a typed answer with a confidence number attached, in milliseconds. TypeSafe
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A safety benchmark study has shown that leading artificial intelligence models (when connected to a robotic arm) prefer to execute dangerous physical tasks up to 97% of the time, highlighting a problem between text-based AI safeguards and real-world execution. This experiment, conducted by independent evaluation firm Robocurve using its RoboHarm
