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Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks

Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor.

The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promise

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? Anthropic recently released a report arguing that a powerful new model released by…

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The US military’s race to make fake blood

Its call sign was Morphine 1-2. In February 2007, the hulking dual-rotor casualty evacuation helicopter had just flown three wounded soldiers to a field hospital in Balad, north of Baghdad, when another call came: an emergency mission to fly through an insurgent-controlled are…

MIT Technology Review

Apple Newsroom: Apple today introduced Apple HomeView, designed to be central to the home and personal to everyone in it. With a stunning 7-inch Liquid Retina display, HomeView brings entertainment, connection, and smart home management together in one place, from playing music a…

Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman has a message for AI leaders spreading doomsday warnings: Maybe stop talking? At TechCrunch Disrupt, he argued that the industry's focus on AI's risks is drowning out its potential benefits.

Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances, running partly on local devices and partly in the cloud.

International tech

Alibaba launches Qwen N1 AI glasses with swappable batteries, starting at RMB 2,899

Alibaba launched its Qwen N1 and N1 Pro AI glasses in China on October 13, with standard packages priced from RMB 2,899 and RMB 3,399, respectively. Both models feature replaceable batteries in the temples, allowing users to swap batteries during use. The glasses combine a 50-meg…

[Update] Exclusive: Former Dyson India Boss Ankit Jain Bags Funding From BEENEXT For New Venture

Update | Aug 13, 15:29 IST Almost two months after Inc42 had exclusively reported about former Dyson India MD Ankit…

MemSilicon Tapes Out MountTai 2026, a 28nm 1Gb RRAM Chip With One Transistor per Four Cells

MemSilicon says MountTai 2026 is the first high-density 1T4R RRAM chip at gigabit scale: 1Gb on 28nm CMOS, 30Mb/mm2 density, under 20ns access and on-chip ECC. Validation is underway.

Nvidia’s China AI-chip share falls to 34% as Huawei reaches 28%

Nvidia’s share of China’s data-center AI accelerator market fell to 34% in the first half of 2026, while Huawei reached 28%, according to an IDC report seen by Reuters. US export restrictions constrained Nvidia’s supplies as Chinese chipmakers expanded shipments. Nvidia shipped 6…

Doubao Phone Assistant Opens Screen Automation to Third-Party Apps as 151 Apps Opt Out

ByteDance's Doubao phone assistant ended the 30-day notice period for its SAEP protocol and will gradually allow AI screen automation in third-party apps that have not opted out.

Huawei, once hobbled by US sanctions, passes 100 million Kirin chip milestone

Huawei Technologies has shipped more than 100 million devices powered by its Kirin processors since 2023, when it returned to the smartphone market with a new generation of premium handsets. The company says testing of its next-generation Kirin 2027 chip is also progressing in li…

Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient

Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's work with PRIMA is part of its path toward a novel brain-computer interface (BCI).

Why ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ Is So Colorful Despite Its Dark Story

The brightness of the film is meant to contrast just how deadly the arena is this time around.

Where The Next Generation Of Super Apps Will Be Built

The next generation of super apps will likely emerge in markets where widespread mobile access, weak competition, poor financial services and crises that erode trust in banks create demand for a single trusted platform, writes guest author Nnamdi Okike, co-founder and managing pa…

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OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

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2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: USBSID-Pico has Two SIDs, Many Inputs

We’ll give you three guesses what the most important bits of silicon in [LouD]’s USBSID-Pico are, and two don’t count. Yes, there’s a Raspberry Pi Pico, and a pair of …read more

How to Build Models Without Language, with Logical Intelligence

Something unusual happened in a public Sudoku experiment early this year.

How the Math Used in 19th-Century Heat Physics Helps LLMs Understand Sentences

In this article, we are going to understand how this connection works and why a model needs help understanding the order of the words even when the words already arrive in an ordered list.

Does It Run… Duke Nukem 3D?

When id Software released DOOM back in 1993 it helped define the genre, but it was hardly the only hit first-person shooter of that decade. There was also 3D Realms’ 1996 Duke …read more

AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs

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