‘This is the robot I wanted to build forever’: former iRobot chief on his extraordinary ‘Familiar’ AI companion

Former Roomba maker Colin Angle returns to the robot game and talks to us about his new “Familiar”, a robot that looks like but is not a bear.

China says it is illegal for companies to fire humans if AI takes their jobs

Chinese court rules AI-induced productivity gains aren’t grounds enough to justify terminating a worker’s contract.

The biggest surprise of my recent San Francisco trip? Hearing how much Steve Wozniak loves his iPhone Air

‘I don’t believe we’ll hit AGI’ — Steve Wozniak has some major AI skepticism, and a love of the slimmest iPhone.

‘No single vendor can (or should) dictate the full solution’ — AMD positions itself as the open platform champion in the space race in a veiled dig at its arch-rivals and up-and-coming challengers

AMD promotes open platforms for space AI, arguing modular systems reduce vendor lock-in risks while improving flexibility across complex multi-supplier mission environments.

‘It took 9 seconds’: tech founder outlines how rogue Claude-powered AI tool wiped entire company database and backups

Cursor AI agent deleted a production database and backups in nine seconds, exposing serious flaws in API design and backup isolation

Apple is overhauling its Photos app with AI — because it has to

Apple’s upcoming AI photo tools are less about innovation for its own sake and more about catching up in a space where competitors have already reset expectations

Everyone’s switching from ChatGPT to Claude — but new tests say neither is the smartest free AI, and the real winner might surprise you

A new report challenges the idea that Claude has overtaken ChatGPT, showing that the smartest free AI depends on the task

‘This is a real risk, we all could die as a result of artificial intelligence’ — the OpenAI trial took a dramatic turn as Elon Musk and Sam Altman faced off over AI’s real-world danger

A dramatic courtroom clash between Elon Musk and Sam Altman briefly turned into a stark warning about AI extinction risk — before the judge shut it down.