I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different
…Agrawal and Haarnoja also say they have developed a new kind of AI algorithm called a vision-force-action model. This model learns from a simulation that incorporates not just realistic joints…
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
…New York Times in February showed the company had planned to roll out the feature during a “dynamic political environment,” when Meta believed its biggest critics would be preoccupied. Three AI models…
Musk v. Altman Kicks Off, DOJ Guts Voting Rights Unit, and Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?
…At the same time, he is running an AI company, xAI, that puts very few guardrails on what people can do with those models. They famously have launched AI girlfriends that talk…
AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics
…Immediate Backlash The new rule drew swift backlash from AI researchers around the world, particularly in China, which produces a large quantity of cutting-edge machine learning papers and is home to…
Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal
…But it relies on open source generative AI models combined with some retail-specific ones trained on decades of Walmart data. “We're able to route certain questions to one model and…
Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI
…OpenAI is nowhere near turning a profit—it has continued spending heavily to improve and operate its AI models. But annualized revenue from subscriptions, licensing, and ads surpassed $20 billion in 2025…
Some Asexuals Are Using AI Companions for Intimacy Without the Sex
…Model Yasmin Benoit, an asexual activist and researcher, was critical of Eva AI’s giveaway. “Considering that we're fully capable of having relationships with actual human beings, and often desire to…
Apple's Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product
…While AI is clearly the future and millions of people use it, even more are suspicious of it. Powerful new AI agent technologies such as Claude Code and OpenClaw are still too…
At 'AI Coachella,' Stanford Students Line Up to Learn From Silicon Valley Royalty
…Midha spent the first lecture of the year discussing the computing infrastructure that supports AI models. He argued that AI chips are not commoditizing, meaning their price is not decreasing over time…
Trump Pivots on AI Regulation, Worker Ousted by DOGE Runs for Office, and Hantavirus Explained
…Today on the show, we're diving into recent reports that the Trump administration is considering an executive order that would establish some sort of federal oversight over new AI models. And…