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Razer updates the Blade 18 with an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus chip, starting at $4000 with an Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, up $500 from the comparable 2025 model

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Wirestock, which says it provides multi-modal data to six of the largest foundation AI labs, raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $26M

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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World’s first native color LiDAR gives machines human-like vision

For years, machines have navigated the world color-blind. LiDAR sensors – the laser-based eyes of self-driving cars, industrial robots, and inspection drones – build precise 3D maps of their surroundings, but everything is built of monochrome geometric shapes. Ouster's new Rev8 sensor family aims to change that, not by bolting

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Motorola Razr Fold review: Fits neatly in your pocket but not your budget

Razr grows up The Razr Fold has a lot going for it, but like all foldables, it’s wildly expensive. The Razr Fold is Moto's first big foldable with an 8.1-inch internal screen. Credit: Ryan Whitwam Motorola was early to foldable phones, announcing its first Razr-branded foldable

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I used Dale Carnegie’s people skills on ChatGPT — and the AI instantly became more helpful

As the furore over losing ChatGPT-4o has shown, people don’t like it when AI presents robotic outputs, overly generic answers, or starts to sound stiff and defensive. I’ve found that the solution to avoiding this with later ChatGPT models is to use the principles from Dale Carnegie'

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AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon sign an “agreement in principle” to form a joint venture aiming to end wireless dead zones in the US, without giving many details

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Motorola Razr Fold review: good performance and screen, great battery life, sharp camera, and native stylus support, but heavier than Z Fold 7 and lackluster AI

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Gallup: 70% of Americans oppose local data center construction, citing water and electricity issues, with opposition higher among Democrats than Republicans

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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The company that outsells Tesla on humanoid robots just unveiled a pilotable mecha. Unitree is filing for a $7 billion IPO.

TL;DR Unitree Robotics unveiled the GD01, a 2.8-metre transformable mecha priced from $650,000, but the real story is the company behind it: Unitree shipped more humanoid robots than Tesla in 2025, holds 70% of the quadruped market, grew revenue 335% to $235 million, has been profitable since

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Google is doing to factory robots what Android did to phones. Fanuc just became the Samsung of the equation.

TL;DR Fanuc, the world’s largest industrial robot manufacturer with 1.1 million robots installed globally, is integrating Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise and Google’s Intrinsic robotics platform into its systems, replicating Google’s Android strategy for factory robots and sending Fanuc shares to a record high. Fanuc

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Klarna reports Q1 revenue up 44% YoY to $1.01B, above est., GMV up 33% to $33.7B, active customers up 20% to 119M, and a $1M profit, up from a $99M loss YoY

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Spotify says it will adopt Apple's HTTP Live Streaming tech for video podcasts later in 2026, helping creators distribute podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.