Google DeepMind has hired the former chief technology officer of Boston Dynamics as the company pushes deeper into robotics. Aaron Saunders, who is partly responsible…
Author: Will Knight
The US Needs an Open Source AI Intervention to Beat China
Since 2022, America has had a solid lead in artificial intelligence thanks to advanced models from high-flying companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI.…
This Home Robot Clears Tables and Loads the Dishwasher All by Itself
Memo may not be the world’s fastest barista, but it is impressive—for a robot. I recently watched as Memo, a new home robot from a…
Gemini 3 Is Here—and Google Says It Will Make Search Smarter
Google has introduced Gemini 3, its smartest artificial intelligence model to date, with cutting-edge reasoning, multimedia, and coding skills. As talk of an AI bubble…
Anthropic’s Claude Takes Control of a Robot Dog
As more robots start showing up in warehouses, offices, and even people’s homes, the idea of large language models hacking into complex systems sounds like…
Meet the Chinese Startup Using AI—and a Small Army of Workers—to Train Robots
The real question is how effectively AgiBot’s algorithms can teach its robots new tricks. Using reinforcement learning to teach a robot tasks that require improvisation…
OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Deal With Amazon
OpenAI has signed a multi-year deal with Amazon to buy $38 billion worth of AWS cloud infrastructure to train its models and serve its users.…