Remember Pepper, the overhyped “emotional robot” that flopped hard a few years ago? Well, one of its makers, SoftBank, is getting back into the bot business with a $5.4 billion acquisition of ABB’s robotics division. The deal, which still needs the green light from regulators, bolsters the Japanese group’s hand in robotics, which includes stakes […]
With this launch, India becomes the second market after the U.S. to get Google’s Search Live.
When OpenAI released its new AI-generated video app Sora last week, it launched with an opt-out policy for copyright holders – media companies would need to expressly indicate they didn’t want their AI-generated characters running rampant on the app. But after days of Nazi SpongeBob, criminal Pikachu, and Sora-philosophizing Rick and Morty, OpenAI CEO Sam […]
Google is previewing a new Gemini AI model designed to navigate and interact with the web via a browser, letting AI agents do things inside interfaces designed for use by people and not robots. The model, called Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, uses “visual understanding and reasoning capabilities” to analyze a user’s request and carry out […]
On Tuesday, three physicists received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum mechanics in the 1980s. Researchers John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis created a circuit with no electrical resistance to demonstrate a phenomenon known as quantum tunneling, or how atoms and subatomic particles can move through a […]
The app, which lets you create mini web apps using text prompts, is now available in Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panamá, Honduras, Argentina and Pakistan.
Otter is launching a suite of enterprise tools to help companies use its tech to create a central knowledge base.
Though Tron: Legacy was not a sterling piece of cinema, its gorgeous visuals and a banging score from Daft Punk made it an enjoyable update to the original 1982 cult classic. The movie tried to strike a healthy balance between nostalgic fan service and novel riffs on the source material to make itself feel like […]
