Chinese AI company unveils $173K ‘biometric’ robot built for human companionship
Chinese robotics company DroidUp has created a ‘fully biometric’ robot named ‘Moya’ that’s blurring the lines between science…
Lidar-maker Ouster buys vision company StereoLabs as sensor consolidation continues
Lidar-maker Ouster has acquired StereoLabs, a company that makes vision-based perception systems for robotics and industrial applications, for…
Can a machine ever love you?
While the concept of romantic love may mean somewhat different things to different people, in recent decades scientists…
Discord puts everyone in teen mode by default • The Register
Don’t want Discord to start treating your account like it belongs to an underage kid? Then you’d better…
John Carmack muses using a long fiber line as as an L2 cache for streaming AI data — programmer imagines fiber as alternative to DRAM
Anybody can create an X account and speak their mind, but not all minds are worth listening to.…
Microsoft’s stock is cheaper than IBM’s for the first time in a decade. What that says about the AI trade.
Published: Feb. 9, 2026 at 5:20 p.m. ET As the market digests Big Tech’s ambitious artificial-intelligence spending plans for…
The Last ‘Person’ You Want Handling Your Surgery Is a Hallucinating Robot
Everyone’s favorite nightmare scenario when it comes to artificial intelligence is that it somehow gains sentience and starts…
Anthropic’s India expansion collides with a local company that already had the name
As Anthropic expands into India, a local software company has filed a court complaint saying it was already…
Micron’s AI Memory Story Reassessed After Losing Nvidia HBM4 Orders
Make better investment decisions with Simply Wall St’s easy, visual tools that give you a competitive edge. Samsung…
Microsoft boffins show LLM safety can be trained away • The Register
A single, unlabeled training prompt can break LLMs’ safety behavior, according to Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and…
Dueling AIs Reconstruct Rules of Mysterious Roman-Era Board Game
These days, artificial intelligence can take notes during doctor appointments, boost your confidence in school, and help detect…
Amazon plans to launch AI content marketplace, The Information reports
Feb 9 (Reuters) – Amazon (AMZN) has signaled to publishing industry executives that it is planning ​to launch…