Tag: AI Platforms & Assistants

‘They’re building each other’: new X1 Neo robot video shows the humanoids assisting in the robot production process, just as all science fiction foretold

1X robot production facility is now building the Neo robot One factory worker will look especially familiar The company says it’s on track to deliver the humanoid into homes this year It’s still hard to buy your own home robot. Humanoids like Tesla Optimus and Figure AI have yet to…

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Google says it is ‘proud’ to serve the Pentagon – new DoD contract expansion says Gemini will only be used for ‘any lawful purpose’, but what happened to ‘Don’t Be Evil’?

Google is edging into the military/government market New Pentagon contract allows Gemini use for ‘any lawful purpose’ Google employees are not happy with the new contract Google recently expanded its contract with the US Department of Defense (DoD) to provide Gemini for use in classified operations, or for “any lawful…

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‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia continues to stress importance of human workers – but how long can we all hang on?

Nvidia exec says compute cost outweighs human workers – for now Fears over AI taking jobs continue to prevail, especially among younger workers Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has taken a key role in trying to play down fears Despite a barrage of recent reports that the AI workplace revolution is…

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‘The connective tissue between your data, your people, and your goals’: Google Cloud positions Gemini Enterprise as the one-stop shop for all your agentic affairs

The new Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is an end-to-end building and deployment tool Google’s clearly committed to interoperability with third-party model and tool support Even non-technical workers should be able to build their own AI agents Google Cloud has unveiled Gemini Enterprise, which has evolved into a single interface where…

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‘Human lives are already being lost’: Open letter signed by hundreds of Google employees requests CEO reject ‘unethical and dangerous’ US military AI use

Google employees sign open letter to CEO over concerns of military AI use AI developers do not want their technology used for ‘classified purposes’ Google is currently negotiating a contract with the Pengaton Over 600 Google employees have signed a letter calling on CEO Sundar Pichai to reject any uses…

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‘10,000 times faster than a human scientist’ — New AI tool designed ultra-efficient heat-to-electricity generators at lightning speed, a breakthrough that could slash the cost of energy harvesters and help enable cheaper, high-performance home heat pumps

AI tool speeds thermoelectric generator design while matching leading prototype performance TEGNet cuts simulation time from thousands of seconds to fractions of one Cheaper waste-heat harvesters could follow, although manufacturing still has to prove itself Researchers in Japan have built an AI tool that can design thermoelectric generators far faster…

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