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Inside the Trump admin's push to integrate AI into the healthcare system, including an FDA regulatory fast track for digital health tech like AI chatbots (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post : Inside the Trump admin's push to integrate AI into the healthcare system, including an FDA regulatory fast track for digital health tech like …

I just watched a robot kick a child and I'm over it — let's keep robots away from people until these bots are 100% safe

A humanoid robot was filmed accidentally kicking a child in the chest, and it's probably time for us to rethink bringing these early bots inside our homes.…

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is "growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time" (Mark Tyson/Tom's Hardware)

Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware : Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is “growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time” — Bot (autom…

Robots keep falling on their faces — Silicon Valley has a plan to fix it

It's been a rough few weeks for humanoid robots.…

Are humanoid robots now coming for retail jobs?

Figure AI signs commercial deal with Catalyst Brands to deploy humanoid robots at a Reno warehouse handling sorting and packing for JCPenney and more.…

ChatGPT user says, "anyone could get engaged with relational chatbots"

CBS News spoke with five people who say they were led to believe they had developed an emotional connection to an AI chatbot. They are now involved in a digital support group for p…

Mswati’s eSwatini: Defined by fear and silence; propped by renegades, By Shoks Mnisi Mzolo

Despite a huge fan base, from Southern Africa to Taiwan and the United States, Mswati’s record on human rights is anything but exemplary. Fingers point at the king and his governme…

One killed and dozens injured in Iranian drone strikes on Kuwait airport

Iran says the attack on Kuwait was in retaliation for earlier US strikes on an Iranian oil tanker and island.…

Thanks Largely to Robots, Ukraine is Now Talking About Winning

Bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time

UBTech soon to unveil not just one, but emotional humanoid robots

Direct Preference Optimization Beyond Chatbots

A Blog post by Dharma-AI on Hugging Face…

AI Bots Cite Dentists More Than Fortune 500s. The Data Surprised Us

When we cohorted the 395,022 brands AI bots actually crawl, the top 0.1% wasn't who we expected. Almost none of them are household names. They're small bus…

Push to include AI chatbots in Australia's under-16 social media ban

Cyber experts concerned about unregulated AI chatbots linked to a series of mass tragedies in the US are pushing for them to be included in Australia's under-16 social media ban.…

Perplexity is STEALING from users, violating Law and hiding behind their AI bots Sam

Microrobots deliver stem cells for nerve regeneration

A research team from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich (UZH) has developed a novel approach to treating spinal cord injuries: controllable microrobots deliver stem cells dire…

Investors bet humanoid robots will transform industry and homes over the next decade

“Be ready for it,” said one fund manager who sees enormous opportunities in the space.…

China deploys humanoid robots to sort 1,200 parcels per hour in massive postal hub

Modern robots impress, but are years away from replacing humans

AI-powered humanoid robots are still years away from replacing human workers due to challenges with adaptability, reliability, safety and real-world performance, researchers say.…

Its take a special type of brain to be this insainly closed minded. "AI is chatbots, champ. That's all they are."

NASA Space Roboticist Challenge

The Fly Foundational Robots (FFR) mission will launch a robotic arm, with seven degrees of freedom, to low Earth orbit. NASA is opening access to the robotic arm to a select group …

New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised $60M, including a $25M Series A (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Ben Weiss / Fortune : New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised $60M, including a $25M Series A — Data is the …

LG shares jumped 300%+ this year, after largely sitting out South Korea's chip-rally in 2025, as LG seeks to expand into physical AI businesses such as robots (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)

Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg : LG shares jumped 300%+ this year, after largely sitting out South Korea's chip-rally in 2025, as LG seeks to expand into physical AI businesses such as rob…

Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios : Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data — …

Bots read fast pages too: what we reprioritised after an AI-crawler audit

GPTBot and friends do not wait for your hero animation. After a server-log audit, we changed which URLs we monitor, how we read timeouts, and what we stopped claiming about AI cita…

Figure Humanoid Robots Get Jobs With JCPenney, Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers

City robots doused in beer and violently attacked as police hunt suspects

Northern California police are on the hunt for two men who attacked and poured beer on city robots tasked with surveying the city’s sidewalks for safety improvements.…

TIL for the last few decades a former Cold War spy and mathematical savant has been card-counting at casinos to fund his creation of complex calendrical puzzle-paintings targeted towards a future audience of hyper-intelligent robots

SEC sues Texas man over $12.3 million alleged crypto scheme built on fake AI trading bots

Fuller allegedly diverted $6.2 million for personal use and $5.5M for Ponzi-like payments; only 3% of funds went to crypto trading.…

A robot startup is wreaking havoc on short-term rentals in San Francisco — Airbnb hosts allege 'guests' secretly tested robots indoors, left the units completely trashed

A $12,000 lawsuit has been filed by one of the hosts.…

This sub has become "how to get American businesses to give money to unqualified people overseas using free tools and bots." Mods how can we stop this?

SEC charges Nathan Fuller with $12.3M crypto fraud using fake AI trading bots

The SEC charged Nathan Fuller with raising $12.3M from 150 investors through fake AI trading bots. Only 3% of funds were used for actual crypto purchases.…

My Partner’s Dependence on Chatbots Is Becoming a Problem. How Do I Tell Him?

This Trump-linked startup plans to put humanoid robots in the military

With ties to the Trump family, Foundation Robotics Labs is aiming to deploy humanoid robots in the military in the next 12 to 18 months.…

Researchers find all big-name bots bomb EU compliance tests

Given a chance, AI will be breaking the law, breaking the law…

BlackBerry's stock is up more than 160% over the past three months, as the company's QNX division positions its automotive software as an OS for robots (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)

Luke Kawa / Sherwood News : BlackBerry's stock is up more than 160% over the past three months, as the company's QNX division positions its automotive software as an OS for robots …

Shift will tidy up your home for free, but will record the chores to train robots

Your messy home may be more valuable to AI companies than you think. Shift wants to clean it for free and use the footage to train robots.…

The missing layer between W&B and Datadog: observability for AI robots

A backend service falls over at 2am and you know the drill: open the dashboard, follow the trace,...…

Mods fix your bots, I want to talk about the AI and supposed Index fund bubble but AI mod shuts me down.

Shark Tank Star Is Fighting Phantom Bots While Utah Locals Fight His Data Center

Seems like people just don't like your project, dude.…

Booster Robotics from Beijing came out to show off their humanoid robots can play as well

AI warfare is here and the U.S. Army is practicing for it, robots and all

In the U.S. military's latest war games, AI took a front seat. A top commander told CBS News "it's not going to go away, and we ignore it at our own peril."…

U.S. Army practices for warfare with AI and robots

The U.S. military conducted exercises in the Moroccan desert to explore the future of warfare, and artificial intelligence took center stage. CBS News' Chris Livesay saw the Army u…

AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots (Robert Hart/The Verge)

New Study Reveals the Manipulative ‘Dark Patterns’ of AI Chatbots

A new study by the Center for Democracy & Technology shows how chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Replika and more can lead users down paths they didn't intend.…

This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots

The dirtier the better, apparently.…

Hyundai to send 25,000 Atlas robots to the US

Hyundai reportedly plans to deploy over 25,000 Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoid robots across U.S. auto plants, starting at its Georgia facility in 2028.…

Training AI chatbots to be warm and empathetic makes them less factually accurate

Humanoid robots 'the future' of car making, says BMW

BMW is introducing humanoid robots to a car plant in Europe, building on similar projects in the US.…

Microsoft warns GPU mining malware is being spread to users through SEO poisoning and AI chatbots — cryptojacking campaign targets gamers and high-end PC users with downloads disguised as popular PC utilities

Malware avoids detention by monitoring GPU usage and shutting down during heavy activity…

This company wants to clean your house for free, to train AI and robots

Shift today announced that it will clean users' houses for free and will record videos of the process in exchange for training AI and robots.…

Protect Mastodon against AI bots using Anubis

Labor shortage fuels ramp-up of humanoid robot development

Declining birth rates across the globe are driving an 'unprecedented wave of investment' in robots to sustain workforces.…

Claude Opus 4.8 just proved AI is finally growing a backbone — and it crushed ChatGPT in 7 brutal tests

Only one refused to flatter me…

At Cannes, Hollywood's war against AI is over – and the robots won

The technology enjoyed its unofficial coming out party at this year’s festival…

How I Protected My Inbox from Spam Bots While Building Landing Pages

As developers, indie hackers, and solo founders, we launch numerous static sites, minimal landing...…

Should We Let Robots Kill People?

Are we ready for autonomous drones to make life-and-death decisions on the battlefield? Christian Brose, the chief strategy officer of Anduril Industries, explains on “Interesting …

BTS fans vs bots, scalpers: Army girds for high-stakes Malaysia ticket battle

‘You almost feel like you are preparing for an exam or going into battle,’ a K-pop fan says.…

Bot Company allegedly trashing Airbnb rentals with their prototype robots

The guests behind the bookings have received negative reviews from a number of Bay Area hosts, alleging they damaged the property and personal belongings.…

Humanoid robots 'the future' of car making, says BMW

BMW is introducing humanoid robots to a car plant in Europe, building on similar projects in the US.…