Casio has opened preorders for Moflin, a cuddly robotic pet that “looks like a cross between a hamster and Star Trek’s Tribbles,” reports The Verge. The robot is priced at around $400 and is expected to ship on November 7th. Unlike Sony’s robot dog Aibo that can follow you around, Read more…
In a David vs. Goliath legal battle, AI powerhouse OpenAI is squaring off against a little-known entrepreneur who claims he conceived the company’s name and mission months before its star-studded launch. Guy Ravine, a self-taught programmer with a history of near-misses in tech, registered the domain open.ai in March 2015. Read more…
Amazon is embedding pharmacies in same-day delivery facilities often clustered around major metro areas. This will enable a coming expansion of its same-day prescription delivery service, with 20 more cities and affiliated metro areas entering the program next year. This expansion will open up the feature to nearly half of Read more…
At Tesla’s “We, Robot” event at Warner Bros. Studios tonight, Elon Musk unveiled the Tesla Cybercab, Robovan, and an updated version of the Optimus robot. Slashdot is at the event capturing photos and getting demos of everything announced. You can follow along on X. Below is a summary of each Read more…
A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.” The group’s goal is to protect one of the world’s largest repositories of information from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued Google Read more…
Amazon might not have ChatGPT, but it has a roadmap that includes developing even more advanced forms of artificial intelligence — including AI agents that are hell-bent on helping you buy stuff. The ecommerce company is already sprinkling ChatGPT-like AI over its website and apps — today announcing, among other Read more…
The decline of journalism has been attributed to many factors, from slow adaptation to the internet to the dominance of tech giants in advertising. But a veteran journalist offers a new perspective: the death of the hyperlink could be changing the fundamental nature of the internet, with significant implications for Read more…