Lindsey Elliott is big into bolts. At last year’s Bolting Symposium — the 13th annual — she said the highlight was playing “Bolting Bingo” against the many self-proclaimed “torque dorks” who were in the room. A former engineer and planner at ExxonMobil, Elliott has spent years thinking about how to improve the infrastructure that moves…
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BottleCap AI has released ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B, the second model in its ThinkingCap series. It is a fine-tune of the Qwen team’s Qwen3.8-27B with one narrow goal: shorter reasoning traces. Across 12 benchmarks, it spends 37.2% fewer thinking tokens on average. Macro-average accuracy moves from 86.65% to 85.79%, a 0.86pp drop. Deployable? Yes. It drops in for…
Is Meta’s just-announced Muse Charm a playful device that will make AI more approachable to everyday consumers, or will it be yet another flop in a long list of AI hardware gadgets that didn’t take off, like the AI Pin, Rabbit, or Friend pendant? Reactions, so far, have been mixed. What the Charm is, however,…
Google’s new AI-powered feature that turns photos of your outfits into a virtual closet — one seemingly inspired by Cher’s iconic virtual wardrobe app featured in the movie “Clueless” — is now available to everyone in the U.S., Brazil, and India, on both iOS and Android devices. The company first announced the feature earlier this…
With AI agents like Meta’s Muse and Instinct now able to make calls on users’ behalf, Google is now letting Gemini call businesses with a new feature called “Call for Me.” The feature will initially roll out to Pixel 11 owners who pay for a Gemini subscription in the U.S. It will also require the…
Lovable has crossed annual run-rate revenue of $600 million, the company’s co-founder Fabian Hedin said at the HumanX summit in Amsterdam on Thursday. The vibe-coding platform in June said that number was around $500 million. Hedin said the startup has focused on growing its enterprise business, and claimed that two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies are…
Lately, it seems like everyone is talking about bringing manufacturing back to the United States, especially when it comes to hard tech like drones and robotics. Michael Van Steenburg thinks he’s ahead of the game. Van Steenburg spent the last decade building all kinds of electric motors in the U.S. and North America, and now…
An OpenAI model hacked into an Australian government website, the country’s prime minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday, in the first publicly reported case of an AI model hacking into a government’s systems. Albanese said that there would “obviously be legal consequences” following the breach, and said that OpenAI faces a government investigation into how its…
Australia is investigating whether or not OpenAI broke the regulation after an agent hacked into its well being statistics portal within the first extensively identified incident of an AI agent hacking a authorities web site. The Australian authorities is reviewing whether or not it ought to contain the federal police after the agent accessed private…
