‘It totally blew my mind’: Sony’s Project Ace robot plays ping pong better than the pros and could mark a major robotics turning point

This robot can play ping-pong at an elite level

This AI neck band lets you have ‘silent conversations’ without saying anything — South Korean researchers say camera-equipped wearable uses a ‘movement map’ on the neck to restore ‘lost voices’ with surprising accuracy

A rather ingenious use of AI has emerged from a research lab at the Pohang University of Science and Technology.

SpaceX is reportedly set to make its own GPUs — but don’t think it’ll be competing with Nvidia’s GeForce cards

Don’t think you’ll be putting a SpaceX Falcon GPU in your gaming PC rather than an Nvidia, AMD or Intel graphics card.
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‘The iPhone is actually not getting disrupted by AI at all’: Perplexity CEO dismisses talk that Apple losing out in the AI race

Perplexity’s CEO says that far from losing the AI race, Apple has plenty of advantages.

Google is turning AI into the layer over everything — and apps may never feel the same

Google plans to reshape how people use their devices at Google I/O by turning AI into the main interface that handles tasks across apps and devices
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‘We love you, and we want you to win’ — OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 for ChatGPT

OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, which makes ChatGPT more reliable and useful

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The dark side of AI —shocking report reveals 11 planned AI data centers connected to OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft could produce more greenhouse gases than Morocco

New AI data centers could emit more greenhouse gases than an entire nation.

If you think this Unitree G1 robot rollerblading is scary, wait until you see it iceskating — robot Winter Olympics can’t be far behind, and we should talk about robot mobility

Unitree drops a new video featuring a G1 with wheels instead of feet, and, in it, Unitree also equips its feet with skates.
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‘Just use the manual’: I followed ChatGPT’s PC-building instructions, and all I got was a huge headache and a schooling on prompting

Is AI the right companion when building a PC for the first time? Here’s what I found out when I tried it.

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‘The product wasn’t ready’: Tim Cook says the Apple Maps launch was his biggest mistake — even as Google confirms that the new Siri delays will stretch beyond two years

Tim Cook has revealed the biggest mistakes he made as Apple CEO, but there’s one thing I think he’s forgotten.

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