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Samsung created a robotics division called RX, and its first product could be a humanoid robot.

Sony, the only major music label that has yet to sign a deal with Udio, has sued the AI music generator again.

Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14° C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants

As of July 21, the Roborock Saros 10R robot vacuum and mop is discounted to $899.99 at Amazon. That's 44% off its full price of $1,599.99.

Siri AI in iOS 27 delivers a smarter, more useful experience that may win over even longtime skeptics.

Kanishka Narayan will attend cabinet - but no longer have the leadership of a technology secretary.

A federal judge has approved the $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and a group of authors who sued the company for using their work to train Claude.

YouTube clarified its AI slop rules and outlined three types of low-quality or risky videos that cannot earn money.

GitMind is a new AI mind mapping tool on sale for $50

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Rhoda AI is training robots with hundreds of millions of internet videos instead of lab data. Here's how its Direct Video Action model works.

Firms have to balance hi-tech and age-old skills when training up young workers.

There's a secret Siri AI interface in the new macOS beta. Here's how to turn it on.

A Harvard mathematician says he used Anthropic's Fable 5 to disprove a major open math problem. How impressed should we be?

Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged

Adobe's Project Indigo app will have new features like removing distractions and offering immediate photo feedback.

Apricorn's new 4TB Aegis Secure Key is the biggest-capacity hardware-encrypted flash drive on the market right now.

As of July 20, you can get the Eufy E25 robot vacuum-mop combo for $599.99, down from $999.99, at Amazon.

The Ecovacs Goat A2000 LiDAR Pro Robot Lawn Mower is on sale at Amazon for $1,498, down from the list price of $1,999.99. That's a 25$ discount.

An agentic AI infiltrated the production infrastructure of an AI project. Then an AI detected it. Is this the future of cyberattacks, and how will they be defended against?

SEO is not dead. Here's how to get cited more often and boost search visibility in AI tools today.

It may seem counterintuitive, but 113-degree water is still cool enough to cool NVIDA's latest hardware.

Chatbots and agents will have to come clean about who – or what – users are talking to

On this week's episode of The Kettle, we welcome a special guest to discuss how the AI datacenter buildout is setting the world on fire – literally

Most tech professionals wouldn't recommend their own role to someone entering the industry today.

The $230 Codex Micro sold out before I could buy one, so I turned my Stream Deck+ into a surprisingly capable alternative.

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Departments haven't worked out how the technology will reshape staffing, roles, and skills across the public sector

Yet by 2030, a quarter of the IT ops work you do now will be handled by an unsupervised clanker

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A class action lawsuit alleges an AI risk-assessment tool used in Ontario jails disproportionately places Black prisoners in maximum security.

A recent report claiming Google AI-powered Search is unsafe for children has led advocates to question the EdTech giant's place in schools.

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Researchers found confidence increased even as accuracy fell

Netflix acquired Affleck's AI startup InterPositive in March for $587 million, the streamer disclosed in an SEC filing.

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