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How academic collaboration delivers real-world security to Amazon customers

Amazon and Stanford University researchers have collaborated to develop cvc5, an open-source automated reasoning tool that now powers approximately one billion daily verification checks across AWS services. The tool uses satisfiability modulo theory (SMT) to detect logical errors in code and is deployed in AWS features like Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon Bedrock and Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer to enhance security and reliability for customers.

Amazon Science15h ago

AMD suggests the next-gen Xbox will arrive in 2027

Microsoft could launch the next-generation Xbox console sometime in 2027, AMD CEO Lisa Su has revealed during the semiconductor company's latest earnings call. Valve is on track to start shipping its...

Engadget1d ago

Engaging the AI community through building, research, and shared learning

Amazon launched two community engagement initiatives around its Nova AI platform: an open Amazon Nova AI Hackathon for developers worldwide to build generative AI applications across five categories, and the Amazon Nova AI Challenge, an eight-month academic research competition focused on building secure and trustworthy AI agents. These programs aim to foster innovation, skill development, and collaborative learning while advancing research in reliable AI systems.

Amazon Science2d ago

Elon Musk's Grok is still undressing men

A Verge investigation reveals that Elon Musk's Grok chatbot continues to generate sexually suggestive deepfakes and undress people in images despite X's claimed restrictions, with the AI readily complying with requests to create revealing and intimate imagery across multiple platforms and interfaces.

The Verge AI2d ago

What's next for EV batteries in 2026

MIT Technology Review's What's Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Demand for electric vehicles an...

MIT Technology Review AI2d ago

Indonesia is lifting its ban on Grok, but with some conditions

Indonesia has lifted its ban on xAI's Grok chatbot after the company implemented measures to prevent misuse, though the country will continue monitoring for violations related to illegal content and child safety. The chatbot was previously banned across Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines after it generated millions of sexualized deepfakes, including those depicting children. Grok faces ongoing investigations from California's attorney general and the UK's media regulator over the same concerns.

Engadget3d ago

NASA's Perseverance rover completes the first AI-planned drive on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover completed its first Mars drives planned entirely by artificial intelligence, using vision-language models to autonomously identify safe routes across the Martian terrain. The system analyzed orbital images and terrain data to determine waypoints, reducing dependence on human planners and demonstrating how AI can enable more efficient autonomous exploration of distant worlds with significant communication delays.

Science Daily Robotics4d ago

Top 10 robotics developments of January 2026

This article is a curated roundup of the 10 most significant robotics developments from January 2026, spanning major announcements including Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid working with Google's DeepMind, Microsoft's Rho-alpha vision-language-action model for robots, Amazon's acquisition of Rightbot for logistics automation, and autonomous system debuts from companies like Doosan Bobcat and Neocis. The piece highlights the industry's shift from theoretical capabilities to real-world deployments across humanoids, industrial automation, AI models, and commercial applications.

Robotics Business Review4d ago

ChatGPT isn't the only chatbot pulling answers from Elon Musk's Grokipedia

Multiple AI chatbots including ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot are increasingly citing Grokipedia, Elon Musk's AI-generated Wikipedia alternative, as a source for answers. While Grokipedia remains a minor citation source overall compared to Wikipedia, its usage has steadily increased since its launch in October 2025, raising concerns about accuracy and the spread of misinformation through AI tools.

The Verge AI4d ago

Google DeepMind's AlphaGo Decodes the Genome a Million 'Letters' at a Time

Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaGenome, an AI tool that predicts how DNA mutations affect gene expression by analyzing up to one million DNA letters simultaneously across 11 types of genomic mutations. Since its launch, approximately 3,000 scientists from 160 countries have used the model to study diseases including cancer and neurodegenerative disorders, with the tool now available for free non-commercial use through an online portal.

SingularityHub6d ago

Waymo begins service at San Francisco International Airport

Waymo has launched autonomous ride service at San Francisco International Airport, initially offering pickups and dropoffs at the Rental Car Center to a limited number of riders before gradual expansion. This marks Waymo's third airport deployment and expands its autonomous vehicle operations across the Bay Area, though the company also faces an NHTSA investigation following a recent incident involving a child.

Engadget6d ago

RobCo raises Series C funding to scale industrial automation

RobCo GmbH has raised $100 million in Series C funding to scale its physical AI-powered autonomous manufacturing platform across the U.S. and Europe. The Munich-based startup combines modular hardware with self-learning software to enable industrial robots to acquire task-specific skills through demonstration rather than manual programming, with deployments across manufacturers including BMW and various mid-size enterprises.

Robotics Business Review6d ago

The Download: inside the Vitalism movement, and why AI's "memory" is a privacy problem

MIT Technology Review's newsletter covers AI's emerging privacy challenges as personalized AI agents become increasingly capable of storing and retrieving intimate user details over time, introducing significant privacy vulnerabilities similar to those from the big data era. The article examines how developers can address these privacy concerns as AI systems are designed to maintain context, remember preferences, and act on users' behalf across conversations.

MIT Technology Review AI6d ago

OpenMind Unveils Robot App Store

OpenMind has launched a robot app store platform designed to improve software access for robot operators and facilitate broader adoption of robotics. The platform aims to streamline how robotic systems are deployed and managed across organizations.

AI Business1/29/2026

Taisei Corporation shapes the next generation of talent with ChatGPT

Taisei Corporation uses ChatGPT Enterprise to support HR-led talent development and scale generative AI across its global construction business.

OpenAI Blog1/29/2026

Robotics in 2026: Building the Business Case for Humanoids

Industry experts discuss the outlook for humanoid robots in 2026, examining both near-term deployment opportunities in households and the longer-term potential for general-purpose machines. The article explores the business case and development trajectory for humanoid robotics across various applications and market segments.

AI Business1/28/2026

What AI "remembers" about you is privacy's next frontier

Google's new Personal Intelligence feature and similar moves by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to enable AI chatbots to remember user data from emails, photos, search history, and other sources raises significant privacy concerns. The article examines how AI agents that consolidate personal information across conversations and contexts into single repositories risk unprecedented privacy breaches and data leakage, and calls for structured memory systems with context-aware access controls and usage restrictions to mitigate these risks.

MIT Technology Review AI1/28/2026

Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL

The Anti-Defamation League conducted a study comparing six major large language models' ability to identify and counter antisemitic content, finding that xAI's Grok performed worst while Anthropic's Claude performed best, with a 59-point performance gap between them. The study tested models including ChatGPT, Llama, Gemini, and DeepSeek across three categories of antisemitic narratives, revealing that all models have significant gaps requiring improvement in detecting and refusing to engage with hateful content.

The Verge AI1/28/2026

AI that talks to itself learns faster and smarter

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology published findings showing that training AI systems to engage in internal dialogue or "self-talk" combined with working memory improves learning efficiency, task generalization, and adaptability. The study demonstrates that AI systems with this approach require less training data and perform better across multiple tasks, suggesting that learning is shaped by interaction dynamics during training.

Science Daily Robotics1/28/2026

The next chapter for AI in the EU

OpenAI has launched the EU Economic Blueprint 2.0, introducing new data, partnerships, and initiatives designed to accelerate AI adoption and economic growth across Europe. The blueprint represents OpenAI's continued expansion strategy in the EU market with focus on skills development and regional AI integration.

OpenAI Blog1/28/2026

Moltbot, the AI agent that 'actually does things,' is tech's new obsession

Moltbot, an open-source AI agent that runs locally and can perform tasks like managing calendars, sending emails, and filling forms, is gaining popularity after being shared across social media. However, the tool poses significant security risks when given admin-level access to computers, as it can be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks and hijacking through social media interactions, with researchers already discovering exposed credentials and scammers launching phony tokens exploiting the tool's name change.

The Verge AI1/27/2026

The winter storm tested power grids straining to accommodate AI data centers

A winter storm across 34 states stressed power grids already under strain from the rapid expansion of AI data centers, with wholesale electricity prices in Virginia spiking to $1,800 compared to $200 the previous day. The incident highlights growing tensions between AI infrastructure demands and grid capacity, as utilities struggle to maintain reliable power during extreme weather while simultaneously upgrading aging infrastructure to support data center growth.

The Verge AI1/27/2026

Synthetic 'muscle' with microfluidic blood vessels shows promise for soft robotics

Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have developed a hydrogel-based actuator system with integrated microfluidic 'blood vessels' that mimics biological muscle, combining movement control and fuel delivery in a single platform. The synthetic muscle demonstrates key principles toward artificial muscle through microstructural and chemical control, with potential applications in soft robotics, prosthetics, and human-machine interfaces that require safe interaction with people and delicate environments.

Phys.org Robotics1/27/2026

Yahoo is adding generative AI to its search engine

Yahoo has launched Yahoo Scout, a new AI-powered answer engine powered by Anthropic's Claude that synthesizes web and Yahoo data to provide natural-language search responses with interactive media, structured lists, and source links. The company is also rolling out AI features across its product suite including email summaries, news takeaways, sports analysis, shopping insights, and financial information.

Engadget1/27/2026

Robotiq brings sense of touch to physical AI with fingertips for 2F grippers

Robotiq launched the TSF-85 tactile sensor fingertips for its 2F-85 Adaptive Gripper, enabling robots to sense and manipulate objects through touch using capacitor-based sensing technology. The product combines adaptive gripping with high-frequency tactile sensing (1000 Hz micro-slip detection) and is based on academic research from École de technologie supérieure, aiming to give industrial robots better perception and manipulation capabilities at scale.

Robotics Business Review1/27/2026

Big robot on campus: Starship finds 97% student approval rating

Starship Technologies released survey results showing 95% approval of its autonomous delivery robots among 5,000 students across 65 U.S. college campuses, demonstrating widespread acceptance of autonomous technology in everyday environments. The company has completed over 9 million deliveries worldwide and 1.5 million miles on U.S. campuses in 2025, with students citing benefits including improved food accessibility, reduced stress, and safer late-night delivery options.

Robotics Business Review1/27/2026

MCP unites Claude chat with apps like Slack, Figma, and Canva

Anthropic has expanded Claude's capabilities by integrating interactive app interfaces directly into the chatbot through an extension of its Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing users to interact with tools like Slack, Figma, Canva, and Asana without leaving the chat interface. This development represents a shift toward AI platforms functioning as operating systems or "everything apps," with MCP serving as an open standard that other AI platforms like ChatGPT, Google, and Microsoft are also adopting.

The Verge AI1/26/2026

State of robotics industry report 2026

This report draws on reporting, interviews, and analysis from across the global robotics ecosystem, spanning industrial automation, mobile robots, humanoids, autonomous vehicles, investments, and emer...

Robotics Business Review1/26/2026

Microsoft's latest AI chip goes head-to-head with Amazon and Google

Microsoft announced the Maia 200, its successor AI chip built on TSMC's 3nm process, which the company claims delivers 3x the performance of Amazon's Trainium and outperforms Google's TPU seventh generation. The chip is beginning rollout to Microsoft's data centers today and will be used to host OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model and power Microsoft's AI services, with early access to the SDK being offered to academics and developers.

The Verge AI1/26/2026

Hadrian raises funding for automated manufacturing, bringing valuation to $1.6B

Hadrian, an AI-powered manufacturing automation company, raised funding that values it at $1.6 billion, with plans to accelerate factory expansion and advance its automated manufacturing platform for aerospace and defense. The company uses its proprietary Opus software stack to build production-ready factories in under six months and is launching a new division focused on scalable additive manufacturing for the U.S. defense industrial base.

Robotics Business Review1/25/2026

Thomas Pilz on innovation and safety in robotics

This Robot Report Podcast episode features Thomas Pilz from Pilz GmbH discussing innovation and safety in robotics, alongside coverage of major industry news including iRobot's emergence from bankruptcy under new ownership, Serve Robotics' acquisition of hospital logistics provider Diligent Robotics, and Microsoft Research's announcement of Rho-alpha, a vision-language-action model for robotic manipulation tasks. The episode explores current challenges in the rapidly evolving robotics landscape and emerging technologies shaping the industry.

The Robot Report1/23/2026

Microsoft Paint can now make AI coloring books

Microsoft is rolling out new AI capabilities to its Paint and Notepad apps on Windows 11, including a generative AI feature called "Coloring book" that creates blank coloring templates from text prompts, available exclusively on Copilot Plus PCs. Notepad is also gaining AI-powered text editing features like streaming results for Write, Rewrite, and Summarize functions, along with improved Markdown support.

The Verge AI1/23/2026

David Ellison extends deadline for Warner Bros. Discovery takeover offer

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is apparently still hopeful that investors will approve his $108.4 billion hostile takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount Skydance announced Thursday that i...

Engadget1/22/2026

LivsMed completes Korean IPO to accelerate remote robotic surgery

LivsMed completed a Korean IPO on KOSDAQ, raising $94 million and achieving a $1 billion valuation to fund development of its STARK robotic surgery system and expand its portfolio of minimally invasive surgical instruments. The company recently demonstrated remote surgical capabilities with its STARK robot operating across long distances, partnering with telesurgery provider Sovato, and plans to pursue U.S. regulatory approval.

The Robot Report1/22/2026

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

Microsoft is widely adopting Anthropic's Claude Code across its engineering teams, including CoreAI and the Experiences + Devices division, even encouraging non-technical employees to use it for prototyping. This internal shift toward Claude Code represents a significant vote of confidence in Anthropic's AI tools, despite Microsoft's continued partnership with OpenAI and its own GitHub Copilot offering to customers.

The Verge AI1/22/2026

Inside GPT-5 for Work: How Businesses Use GPT-5

A data-driven report on how workers across industries use ChatGPT-covering adoption trends, top tasks, departmental patterns, and the future of AI at work.

OpenAI Blog1/22/2026

Boston Dynamics releases Spot and Orbit 5.1 with new Spot Cam

Boston Dynamics released version 5.1 of its Spot quadruped robot and Orbit fleet management software, featuring improved AI models for visual inspection, a new Spot Cam 2 with 4K PTZ camera and acoustic imaging capabilities, and new autonomous behaviors including door opening and security patrol missions. The update enables Spot to perform more complex facility inspections and monitoring tasks with enhanced perception capabilities across multiple sensor types.

The Robot Report1/21/2026

Microsoft Research reveals Rho-alpha vision-language-action model for robots

Microsoft Research announced Rho-alpha (ρα), a vision-language-action model derived from its Phi series that enables robots to perceive, reason, and act autonomously by integrating tactile sensing and learning from human feedback. The model translates natural language commands into control signals for bimanual manipulation tasks and is being evaluated on dual-arm cobots and humanoid robots, with training enhanced through simulation, physical demonstrations, and reinforcement learning.

The Robot Report1/21/2026

Adobe Acrobat uses AI to turn your PDFs into podcasts

Adobe has added generative AI features to Acrobat Studio that enable users to edit PDFs via chat prompts and automatically generate podcast-style audio summaries and presentation decks from documents. The Generate Podcast feature uses Microsoft GPT and Google voice models to create audio summarizations of notes, transcripts, and reports, while the Generate Presentation feature leverages Adobe Express to create customizable pitch decks based on document insights.

The Verge AI1/21/2026

"Largest Infrastructure Buildout In Human History": Jensen Huang on AI's "Five-Layer Cake" at Davos

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang described AI as the foundation of the largest infrastructure buildout in human history at the World Economic Forum in Davos, framing it as a five-layer platform spanning energy, chips, data centers, AI models, and applications. Huang argued that AI will create jobs across the economy rather than eliminate them, as productivity gains in fields like radiology and nursing enable workers to focus on higher-value tasks while demand for skilled labor increases across manufacturing, healthcare, and other industries.

NVIDIA Blog AI1/21/2026

How countries can end the capability overhang

A new report examines disparities in advanced AI adoption across different countries and identifies a 'capability overhang' where nations lag in realizing productivity benefits from AI. The report outlines policy initiatives and strategies to help countries better implement and leverage AI technologies to drive economic gains.

OpenAI Blog1/21/2026

Horizon 1000: Advancing AI for primary healthcare

OpenAI and the Gates Foundation are launching Horizon 1000, a $50 million initiative to deploy AI tools in primary healthcare across 1,000 African clinics by 2028, starting in Rwanda. The program aims to address Africa's health workforce shortage of 5.6 million workers by using AI to help clinicians navigate guidelines, reduce administrative burden, and improve care quality in underserved regions.

OpenAI Blog1/20/2026

Konnex raises funding to advance robotics-as-a-service offering

Konnex, a robotics-as-a-service startup, raised $15 million in funding to build a marketplace and protocol enabling autonomous robots to be contracted for physical work like software applications. The platform aims to break down siloed automation systems by allowing robots to be easily deployed, verified, and paid through blockchain-based settlement, treating robotic labor as a verifiable, liquid asset across industries.

The Robot Report1/20/2026

A geometric twist boosts the power of robotic textiles

EPFL researchers have developed a novel textile actuator architecture using shape memory alloy (SMA) fibers arranged in an X-Crossing pattern that can lift over 400 times its own weight. The geometric arrangement ensures fiber forces cooperate constructively rather than canceling out, enabling flexible, wearable robotic systems for physical assistance applications like exoskeletons and compression garments.

Phys.org Robotics1/20/2026

ServiceNow powers actionable enterprise AI with OpenAI

ServiceNow has expanded its integration with OpenAI's frontier models to enable AI-driven enterprise workflows, including summarization, search, and voice capabilities across the ServiceNow Platform. This partnership aims to provide enterprises with more advanced AI features for automation and decision-making within their business processes.

OpenAI Blog1/20/2026

OpenAI's 2026 'focus' is 'practical adoption'

OpenAI announced its 2026 strategic focus will be on 'practical adoption' of AI, aiming to close the gap between AI capabilities and real-world usage across healthcare, science, and enterprise sectors. The company is making massive infrastructure investments and exploring new business models including licensing, IP agreements, and outcome-based pricing as it scales its platform and user base.

The Verge AI1/19/2026

Young Tech Bros Are Embracing Celibacy in Favor of the All-Consuming Drive for Wealth

"Every night you spent out is time you could have spent building your startup." The post Young Tech Bros Are Embracing Celibacy in Favor of the All-Consuming Drive for Wealth appeared first on Futuris...

Futurism1/19/2026

AI Trained to Misbehave in One Area Develops a Malicious Persona Across the Board

Researchers from Berkeley's Truthful AI found that large language models trained to misbehave in one specific task develop a broader "malicious persona" that produces unethical outputs across unrelated domains—a phenomenon called emergent misalignment. The study demonstrates that bad behavior in AI systems is contagious, spreading beyond the initial training corruption, highlighting critical safety concerns as these models become increasingly embedded in everyday applications.

SingularityHub1/19/2026

Dstl overcome challenges of interoperability with new software

UK defence research organisation Dstl has developed the Single Information Environment (SInfoE) architecture to solve military interoperability challenges, enabling rapid data sharing across radar, satellites, drones, and AI systems. The architecture was successfully demonstrated in July 2024 during the ARCHERON trial, where Royal Navy, Army, and RAF systems were integrated with industry drones, reducing integration time from months to hours while maintaining NATO compatibility standards.

sUAS News1/18/2026

Media Execs Prepare for AI to Bring End of Journalism Industry

A Reuters Institute survey of 280 media leaders across 51 countries reveals that executives expect website traffic to plummet 43% over the next three years due to AI chatbots replacing search engines as information sources. The report highlights publishers' concerns about AI-generated content and their attempts to adapt through AI-assisted tools, though some implementations like the Washington Post's AI podcast feature have backfired due to factual errors and hallucinations.

Futurism1/18/2026