Microsoft has unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra, its most powerful laptop to date, built around Nvidia’s new RTX Spark superchip. The 15-inch machine targets creators, developers, and AI builders with a Blackwell GPU, 20 ARM CPU cores, and up to a petaflop of on-device AI compute. The laptop offers up to 128GB of unified memory […]
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A New York startup’s offer sounds simple: get your apartment cleaned for free. But the real exchange is not money — it is data, captured as cleaners wear cameras and record the work for AI training. This makes an ordinary household chore part of a much larger technology bargain. This is part of a larger
Figure AI has signed its first retail logistics deal with Catalyst Brands, the parent of JCPenney, Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers, and Eddie Bauer, to deploy Figure 03 humanoids at Catalyst’s upgraded Reno, Nevada, logistics hub. The robots will work with the Joey Pouch sorting and packing system, taking on repetitive, physically demanding tasks so human staff can shift into
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, in his recent Joe Rogan interview, challenged AI job-loss fears by stating AI will create more jobs than it eliminates. He explained that AI automates tasks, not entire jobs, allowing workers to focus on meaningful work and hire more people to handle increased demand. Huang proved his point with radiologists: after a
Anthropic just leapfrogged OpenAI with a new version of its model, Claude Opus 4.8. The update beats most major benchmarks, especially on coding, using computers, and financial analysis, and it’s better at admitting uncertainty instead of guessing. Alongside Opus 4.8, Anthropic announced a huge funding round — $65 billion — that values the company around $965 billion,
In 2020, Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold2 revolutionized science by predicting protein structures with near-experimental accuracy, solving a 50-year biology grand challenge. This breakthrough earned Demis Hassabis and John Jumper the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with AlphaFold2 now used by over 2 million researchers across 190 countries to map 200 million proteins. AlphaFold 3 followed in
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Demis Hassabis says AGI could arrive around 2030 ±1 year — a bolder timeline as DeepMind’s models move from prediction to purposeful action. The main technical gaps he names are clear: physical-world understanding, longer reliable memory, consistent cross-context reasoning, and continual learning without catastrophic forgetting. Closing them is what will turn agentic systems into truly
Ferrari unveiled the Luce, its first production EV and most expensive model, starting at $640,000. Co-designed with LoveFrom (Jony Ive and Marc Newson), the five-seat grand tourer uses four motors for 1,035 hp and features Ferrari’s lowest drag coefficient, aiming to preserve the marque’s performance and presence in an electric package. Interior choices — a
Last week marked a watershed moment in AI mathematics. OpenAI announced on May 20, 2026, that its AI had disproved an 80-year-old Erdős conjecture — the first time AI autonomously cracked a prominent unsolved problem. Days later, Google DeepMind delivered a stunning counterpunch: its AlphaProof Nexus system had solved nine open Erdős problems, including two
Linkerbot is emerging as a striking example of where the next wave of robotics money may go: not just into full humanoid robots, but into the delicate, high-value “hand” that makes those robots actually useful. The company says it has already shipped 10,000 dexterous hands, can produce more than 1,000 high-DoF hands a month, and
Google’s announcements at I/O 2026 show a clear shift: the company is no longer just adding AI to its products but rebuilding them around autonomous “agents” that act on your behalf. Sundar Pichai described this as a top‑to‑bottom redesign of how Google works, so that AI quietly handles routine tasks while users focus on ideas
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