AI

Uncanny: AI video conversation agents can now look back at you

Every facet of AI feels like it's advanced by a decade in the last year, and in the whirlwind of new releases and capabilities,...

AI generates accurate images of streets by listening to their soundtrack

While there are already AI systems that generate sound effects to match silent images of city streets (and other places), an experimental new technology...

Toyota’s basketball-playing humanoid sinks a record-breaking 80-ft shot

In the long list of tasks we'd like humanoid robots to perform for us, shooting hoops is probably close to the bottom – if...

Pudu unveils a life-size walking humanoid robot for warehouse tasks

Chinese startup Pudu Robotics wants you to put its latest robot to work. The company's new humanoid D9 stands 5.57 ft (1.7 m) tall,...

Multiverse simulation: Robotic AI is about to accelerate sharply

The AI behavior models controlling how robots interact with the physical world haven't been advancing at the crazy pace that GPT-style language models have...

Speed: Humanoid and quadruped robots are getting a lot faster

Two new videos from Chinese companies make it clear: it'll soon be no use trying to run from robots. Rapid upgrades in speed and...

Film sets of the near future: Just as fake as the ‘film’ itself

If you want to understand the cataclysmic impact generative AI is about to have on the film industry, this one short video should make...

Ghost in the machine: The race toward conscious, sentient AI

As science wrestles with the thorny job of proving, defining and understanding human consciousness, one pioneering startup aims to apply cutting-edge theories of consciousness...

Trillion-dollar disruptor: China’s DeepSeek upends AI world overnight

The US AI giants got a wake-up call this week, when fledgling Chinese firm DeepSeek wiped a record-breaking trillion dollars off the value of...
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