If tired or wasted passengers fall asleep in a traditional taxi or rideshare, the driver can shout or shake them awake, not so in a robotaxi… Ditto Kasendar remembers soft music drifting from the robotaxi’s speakers as he rode home late at night from a friend’s birthday party in 2025. Read more…
A humanoid robot lost its head, during the world’s first free-combat tournament for full-sized humanoid robots. The Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend competition began Thursday in Shenzhen, China, according to the article, with local robotics company EngineAI providing $40,000 of their “T800” robots (yes, named after The Terminator) to 32 participating Read more…
A new study by researchers at the University of California at San Francisco adds to growing research linking increased social media use to detrimental effects on attention, memory and cognition. The study followed more than 11,000 U.S. adolescents over a period of five years, with participants first asked about their Read more…
France’s regulatory authority for licensed gambling/betting games announced this week that it ordered ISPs to block access to Polymarket. Anyone caught advertising an unauthorized betting site “could be fined up to 100,000 euros, or around $114,000.” (The article notes this follows a previous regulatory action from November placing a geoblock Read more…
“I need cold hard return facts,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Or, I, too, will grow more skeptical than I am now….” While Cramer said he remains optimistic about the long-term opportunity, he argued the market needs more evidence that those investments are translating into measurable financial returns for customers. Read more…
The automotive industry’s increasing use of over-the-air technology to update vehicle systems makes it more susceptible to cyberattacks, analysts say, urging more intervention in the sector… Its use represents “a unique national security concern,” Gabriel Lim, senior analyst at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, told CNBC. Read more…
Xi Jinping used his first appearance at China’s World AI Conference to promote a vision of low-cost, broadly accessible AI and call for international cooperation rather than technological rivalry. “AI development should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation,” he said. Bloomberg Read more…