Robot Memory Is The Next Big Robotics Frontier

MIT’s DAAAM research gives robots a memory of what it seen, letting it build a detailed map of a space with descriptions that it ca attach descriptions to objects in that map, and answer plain English questions later.

Google Photos Prepares 8 ‘Adaptive’ Filters To Replace Your Editing Apps

Google Photos code uncovers eight new adaptive ‘Moods’ filters and a revamped Video Remix tool.

Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election
Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election

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Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time

Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows.

In The AI Age, A Tech Rout Affects The U.S. Stock Market A Lot

U.S. and global tech stocks fell, led by AI giants amid valuation and bubble concerns.

Something’s off with Midjourney’s pivot to body scanners
Something’s off with Midjourney’s pivot to body scanners

Last week, Midjourney, an AI startup best known for its image generator, made an unusual pivot: medical imaging. The company announced a futuristic ultrasound scanner that would dunk users into a vat of water and, hopefully, produce “something as powerful as MRI” yet “as casual as a trip to the spa.” Midjourney says the goal […]

The Fitbit Air takes a smarter approach to the AI health dumpster fire
The Fitbit Air takes a smarter approach to the AI health dumpster fire

Google Health Coach seems to think I’m on the verge of physical collapse. My sleep is not where it needs to be, hence my unimpressive readiness score. My heart rate variability, a measure of how recovered I am, is below baseline. I’m spending too much time in a hot, humid environment, it says, reminding me […]

This sneaky photo trick gets AI chatbots to ignore their safety rules

A new exploit out of Florida International University shows how invisible pixel-level changes in a photo can trick AI chatbots into generating responses they would normally block.

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Meta was sneakily tracking its employees, but soon shut it down after an internal leak

Meta halted its employee tracking program, which collected keystrokes, screen content, and mouse movements, after sensitive data was leaked internally.