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China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends”

With reports of AI friends and lovers inducing psychosis, suicide, and murder in teenagers and adults, a number of social ...
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AI Models Are Watermarking Text—Will You Notice?

On 11 August, Anthropic announced that all future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark that identifies ...
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AI Slop Is Changing How Engineers Review Code

AI-written code is shifting the bottleneck from generating software to reviewing it. According to the Sonar study, 38 percent of developers said “more effort” is required to review AI-generated code ...
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The Growing Proof That Autonomous Cars Save Lives

Plenty of people remain spooked by autonomous vehicles, or AVs. Some experts and policymakers have cautioned that AVs won’t ...
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The Best Way to Explore Lunar Craters Is a Giant Robot Ball

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AI Helps Spot Wildfires from Space Before They Get Out of Control

Machine learning helps orbital sensors catch blazes earlier ...
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This Robot Will Draw Your Blood Now

Autonomous blood-drawing devices could help address phlebotomist shortages ...
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Cyborg Roaches Can Stab You With Needles

Australian giant burrowing cockroaches are transformed into cybernetic “Paraborgs,” which can be remote controlled while ...
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How Sound Could Make Sense of Big Data

In the art of transforming data into easily interpretable displays, visualization is usually the go-to option. But sight ...
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Protecting Dynamic Industrial Robot Cable Carriers

ROBOTRAX System Cable carrier for 3D movements. Tsubaki KabelSchlepp Steel cable for transferring extremely high tensile forces Tension piece for locking the chain links Type with toolless opening ...