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According to The Information, OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios to train computer agents. Anthropic also relies on Apple hardware. Demand is so high that the most powerful models have been sold out for…
The OpenClaw Foundation has released v2026.8.1, which the project calls OpenClaw 2.0: 933 contributors, 569 first-timers, and more than 16,000 pull requests, roughly half of every PR ever merged into the repo. Setup now reuses existing subscriptions, API keys and…
The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.
Voice agents fail on latency long before they fail on intelligence. Time to first token is the metric most teams use to choose an inference API, and it is the right starting point and the wrong stopping point. This benchmark…
Google Cloud AI Research, with Washington University in St. Louis and UNC Chapel Hill, has released EnvHarness, an Apache-2.0 layer that turns a static agent benchmark into one that adapts to the policy training on it. It wraps a frozen…
Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits…
As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over $30 million on…
Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.
An analysis of Glassdoor reviews shows that positive AI comments have dropped from 81 to 43 percent since 2019. Executives rate AI mostly positive, while insurance claims workers rate it almost entirely negative. Fear of job loss is just one…
The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.
GPT-4o boosted grades on a marketing assignment by nearly a full point on a five-point scale in an experiment with 1,053 Bocconi University students. Whether they actually learned anything wasn't tested. Other studies suggest that AI-assisted performance without independent thinking…
Anthropic is effectively cutting Claude Code's weekly usage limits by 17 percent. A temporary 50 percent boost expires on September 14 and will be replaced by a permanent 25 percent increase. Anthropic promises more control and transparency over usage in…
