Everyone is buzzing about Instinct, an AI personal assistant still in private access, not only for its incredible capabilities, but also for its potential privacy concerns. The agent, a veritable taskmaster, has been praised as feeling “like magic” and being one of the “most exciting launches” since OpenClaw. However, some testers have also raised concerns…
How much control are you willing to give an LLM over your digital life? Getting the most value from a model means giving it the keys. For a control freak or the AI-hesitant, it seems like a lot. For Andrew Ambrosino, the lead engineer for OpenAI’s desktop app, it’s the only way to test the…
New York-based General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents to move through space and time, is in talks to raise funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six, according to sources familiar with the matter. Existing investors…
Generalist AI has released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that learns a new physical task from a single demonstration. Drop 3–12 seconds of sensorimotor data into its 30-second context window, and the robot performs the task. No gradient updates, no fine-tuning, no task-specific programming. Across 10 diverse manipulation tasks, this one-shot in-context prompting averaged 59%…
A team from Google Research and USC has released Mobility-Embedded POIs (ME-POIs), a framework that folds aggregate human movement into text-based place embeddings. The premise is that language models describe what a place is, but not how it is used. Two coffee shops can share a category, an address block, and a text vector, while…
For Luis DeSantiago, a substitute teacher in Los Banos, California, it started with a few text messages. On March 12, as he was working his other part-time job at a coffee shop, his phone lit up. A fellow barista said there was an AI photo circulating on social media. Her cousin wanted to know if…
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With back-to-school season approaching (or already here in some places), keeping track of everyone’s schedules can get pretty chaotic. Between work, school, appointments, sports, chores, and everything else going on, a regular paper calendar just doesn’t cut it. That’s where Linkdaze’s smart digital calendar comes in — a touchscreen tablet built specifically to organize a…
A mysterious new AI mannequin known as Ox Alpha has pushed sure corners of the web right into a frenzy of hypothesis about who truly constructed it. The free mannequin was released on OpenRouter on Thursday, the place it was described as “a reasoning mannequin designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and manufacturing workload.” On…
The Dutch Knowledge Safety Authority is fining Uber €825 million (round $966 million) — the second largest penalty issued to this point beneath Europe’s Common Knowledge Safety Regulation, according to Reuters. The Dutch regulator was investigating complaints that Uber had deactivated driver accounts by way of an automatic course of with out adequate warning or…
