U.S. lawmakers have concerns about Apple-Alibaba deal
The Trump administration and congressional officials are scrutinizing a deal between Apple and Alibaba that would bring Alibaba-powered AI features to iPhones sold in China,…
Category: Ai/Robotics
NVIDIA accepts Ekso Bionics into its Connect program
Ekso’s exoskeletons range from systems that help people with limited mobility to those reducing worker injuries in industrial settings. | Source: Ekso Bionics Ekso Bionics…
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is choosing chatbots over podcasts
While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he likes podcasts, he might not actually be listening to them anymore. That tidbit comes towards the end of…
MIT disavows doctoral student paper on AI’s productivity benefits
MIT says that due to concerns about the “integrity” of a high-profile paper on the effects of artificial intelligence on the productivity of a materials…
RealMan displays embodied robotics at Automate 2025
RealMan Robotics offers a variety of mobile manipulators. Source: RealMan DETROIT — RealMan Intelligent Technology Co. this week showed off at Automate 2025 its latest…
Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees
Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees. As we reported back in February, its first attempt didn’t yield an…
Persona AI raises $27M to develop humanoid robots for shipyards
Concept renders showing different jobs for Persona AI’s humanoids. | Source: Persona AI Persona AI Inc., a humanoid robot and embodied artificial intelligence developer, this…
OpenAI’s planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco
OpenAI is poised to help develop a staggering 5-gigawatt data center campus in Abu Dhabi, positioning the company as a primary anchor tenant in what…
Google I/O 2025: What to expect, including updates to Gemini and Android 16
Google I/O, Google’s biggest developer conference of the year, is nearly upon us. Scheduled for May 20 to 21 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View,…
ABB deploys PixelPaint at Mercedes-Benz plant in Germany
PixelPaint is initially being used for the Mercedes-Maybach SL 680 Monogram Series. The obsidian black hood of thisexclusive model is available with a Maybach pattern…