Articles for category: AI News

March 12, 2025

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Here’s What to Expect & When

Image: John Gress Media Inc, Shutterstock / John Gress Media Inc The next generation of Apple operating systems is set to receive a serious overhaul. Apple’s iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16 will adopt a design more closely aligned with visionOS, featuring updates to icons, menus, apps, windows, and system buttons, according to sources familiar with the matter, cited by Bloomberg. Must-read Apple coverage Apple moves toward a unified OS experience Apple’s aim is to make all its operating systems more cohesive, enabling users to transition seamlessly between devices. Since visionOS is the newest of Apple’s main operating systems,

March 12, 2025

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Smart, energy-efficient robot grippers cut production costs

Energy remains a significant factor in industrial production processes. High levels of energy consumption make production more expensive and exacerbate the climate crisis. A new type of robot technology that needs 90% less electricity than conventional systems is currently being developed in Saarland. The technology uses lightweight, shape memory materials to construct novel, non-pneumatic, industrial gripper systems that function without the need for additional sensors. The research team led by Professors Stefan Seelecke and Paul Motzki from Saarland University will be showcasing the technology at this year’s Hannover Messe. Robot arms are in use in countless modern industrial production settings.

March 12, 2025

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Democrats Demand Answers on DOGE’s Use of AI

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee fired off two dozen requests Wednesday morning pressing federal agency leaders for information about plans to install AI software throughout federal agencies amid the ongoing cuts to the government’s workforce. The barrage of inquiries follow recent reporting by WIRED and The Washington Post concerning efforts by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to automate tasks with a variety of proprietary AI tools and access sensitive data. “The American people entrust the federal government with sensitive personal information related to their health, finances, and other biographical information on the basis that this information

March 12, 2025

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OpenAI Shares Image of Mysterious Black Orb

In a cryptic post, OpenAI appears to be pondering an orb. Over the weekend, the official X account for the company’s AI chatbot ChatGPT posted a black-and-white image showing a large blacked-out orb over what appears to be rolling hills filled in with smaller, grey balls underneath — and no context at all besides that. Given the complete lack of an explanation, we can’t say for sure how or why it was created. But that didn’t stop users on X to hazard a guess. From suggestions that it might be a “torment nexus” or related to “Roko’s Basilisk,” to folks pointing

March 12, 2025

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New play The Robot Dog reminds us there are some knowledges we hold that AI will never have

Set in 2042, new play The Robot Dog revolves around Janelle (Kristie Nguy), of Cantonese heritage, and her partner Harry (Ari Maza Long), a First Nations man. Janelle’s mother, Wing Lam (Jing-Xuan Chan as a ghostly apparition), has recently passed. Janelle and Harry have temporarily moved back to Wing Lam’s home to finalise her belongings and reckon with her tragic death. Part and parcel of the home is a robot dog called Dog (depicted by a real robot dog trundling around the stage), a therapy bot designed to be of service to humans, and an artificial intelligence (AI) smart house

March 12, 2025

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Vatican seeks to debunk fake news on health of Pope Francis | Pope Francis

While Pope Francis was being treated for double pneumonia, Italian TikToker Ottavo made his way unchallenged into a ward at Gemelli hospital in Rome, followed by a camera. His aim was to bolster a conspiracy theory circulating on social media for weeks: that the 88-year-old pontiff was dead “and the Vatican refuses to tell us”. “There’s no security at all – nothing whatsoever,” he told his 10,000 followers in the video. “I would never have been able to get this far if he were there. For that reason, in my opinion, Pope Francis passed away.” But Ottavo had overlooked one

March 12, 2025

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Texas Instruments Launches Ultra-Compact MCU for Wearables

Texas Instruments (TI) introduced a new microcontroller (MCU) on Wednesday to help engineers create smarter, smaller electronic devices. The new chip, the MSPM0C1104 MCU, part of TI’s expanding MSPM0 family, measures just 1.38mm²—roughly the size of a black pepper flake.  TI claims this new MCU, the ‘world’s smallest,’ is 38% smaller than any other microcontroller on the market today. According to the company, the tiny size makes it ideal for use in space-constrained products such as medical wearables, earbuds, stylus pens, and personal electronics, where saving board space without sacrificing performance is critical.  “In tiny systems such as earbuds and

March 11, 2025

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FAQ about the book and our writing process

The AI Snake Oil book was published last week. We’re grateful for the level of interest — it’s sold about 8,000 copies so far. We’ve received many questions about the book, both its substance and the writing process. Here are the most common ones. We do! The book is not an anti-technology screed. If our point was that all AI is useless, we wouldn’t need a whole book to say it. It’s precisely because of AI’s usefulness in many areas that hype and snake oil have been successful — it’s hard for people to tell these apart, and we hope

March 11, 2025

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DeepSeek didn’t deep-six AI startup funding after all

DeepSeek? Who’s that? The Chinese cheap artificial intelligence model maker was supposed to cool investor interest in money-burning AI startups, but that was hardly the case this week. If anything, the AI wars are heating up even more, with a hot new model from Elon Musk’s xAI, the launch of former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati’s new startup Thinking Machines Lab, Ilia Sutskever’s startup Safer Superintelligence raising $1 billion, and a whole lot of industry-focused AI startups raising rounds of up to $100 million each. Oh, and OpenAI reached 400 million active weekly users. Vultures are circling Intel, which looks