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Gaode's robot dog Tutu trades the lab for real errands

Embodied AI is the headline act at this week's World Robot Conference in Beijing — and the most grounded demo comes from a mapping company better known for getting you from A to B than for building hardware. Gaode pulled the wraps off Tutu, a quadruped robot dog it says is the first of its kind that can operate fully on its own in open, uncontrolled environments — and it showed up with five real-world jobs to do, not just a stage trick. The dog can already guide blind users along a safe route,

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AI data centers are turning to recycled wastewater to cool off

A joke about peeing on computers is accidentally pointing at one of the AI industry's most stubborn infrastructure problems — and at a real, unglamorous fix that's already underway. A Liquid Death marketing stunt featuring Jason Kelce has resurfaced a genuinely serious question about how AI infrastructure gets cooled. The former Eagles star quipped that people should donate their urine to cool data centers instead of draining potable water, and while no one is seriously collecting pee by the ga

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Meta opens Pocket, its AI game-making app, to US users

Meta is running its AI experiments like a fast-fashion pipeline — ship a dozen small apps, watch which ones stick. Pocket is the latest off the line. Meta's experimental app Pocket, which lets anyone build small interactive games by typing a prompt, is now rolling out to everyone in the US after a quiet test run in Brazil last month. The games — Meta calls them "gizmos" — aren't static: they respond to touches and the tilt of your phone, play sound effects, and can drop in clips of your favorit

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Amazon makes AI-powered Alexa+ free on all Fire TVs

Amazon is removing the paywall on its AI-powered assistant Alexa+, making it available for free on every compatible Fire TV device in the U.S. — no Prime subscription required. The automatic upgrade, which rolls out starting Wednesday, converts what was a $19.99-per-month add-on for non-Prime members into a default feature across Fire TV Sticks, the Fire TV Cube, Amazon Ember smart TVs, and third-party sets from Hisense and Panasonic. The move signals Amazon's intent to put conversational AI in

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Google AI trial will reroute Atlantic jets to cut contrails

Google and the UK government just moved contrail avoidance from airline-by-airline experiments to the people who actually own the sky. Google UK, NATS, and a UK-backed consortium launched Operation Blue Skies on Tuesday — a £5 million, 30-month trial that will use AI forecasts to nudge commercial jets around the cold, humid pockets of air that turn exhaust into lingering, heat-trapping contrails. The programme is billed as the first state-backed test at the scale of an entire oceanic airspace.

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Apple leaks camera AirPods built for Visual Intelligence

A demo video buried in Apple's latest macOS release candidate shows the next AirPods watching the room — not to shoot photos, but to give Siri eyes. Apple appears to have accidentally shipped a launch clip for camera-equipped AirPods inside the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, and the pitch is Visual Intelligence as something you wear, not something you point a phone at. MacRumors found the video. It shows a man in the new buds holding up a book so the camera can read the cover, over a Siri

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AI is deleting the first rung, not the senior job

This morning we ran the Bank of Korea's headline count. The note underneath it is the story: the same industries shedding juniors are still adding people in their 50s. A second print, not a first scare On Tuesday the central bank's employment team published Issue Note 2026-19. The raw count is the one we already flagged in Korea lost 285,000 youth jobs in AI-exposed sectors: 285,000 fewer jobs for people aged 15 to 29 between June 2022 and June 2026, and 268,000 of those — 94 percent — sat in

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Korea lost 285,000 youth jobs in AI-exposed sectors

South Korea's central bank just put a number on the career-ladder problem everyone has been arguing about: the jobs disappearing first are the ones young people used to learn on. The Bank of Korea says 285,000 youth jobs vanished in four years — and 94 percent of them sat in industries most exposed to AI. From June 2022 to June 2026, employment among 15-to-29-year-olds fell by 285,000, according to Issue Note 2026-19 from the bank's employment research team. Of that drop, 268,000 jobs — 94 perc

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The AirTag trail ends at Amazon's book-scanning warehouse

Yesterday the trade could only guess who was emptying secondhand shelves. Today there is a tracking ping, a Las Vegas warehouse code, and a company statement that does not deny the purchases. What the tracker actually proved 404 Media put an Apple AirTag in a rare title from a roughly 1,000-book Biblio order and followed it. The parcel left a California airport, sat for about two weeks at a Trifinity distribution warehouse outside Kenosha, Wisconsin, then rode a truck west — a night at a Gran

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AI is now a campaign issue in nearly 40% of US races

AI has crossed from the tech page into the voting booth. A Washington Post analysis of more than 1,200 active-candidate websites finds artificial intelligence is now a defining campaign topic across the country — coming up in nearly 40 percent of all races — and much of that conversation is really about data centers. AI now surfaces in nearly 40 percent of all House, Senate, and governor races, ranking ahead of long-standing issues like Israel, manufacturing, and racism as a candidate talking p

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Patients turn to AI to solve rare-disease mysteries

The Wall Street Journal this weekend documents how AI has quietly become a fixture of the rare-disease diagnostic hunt — driven as much by desperate families as by hospitals. Patients, families, doctors and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools like Face2Gene to identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases, according to a Wall Street Journal report. People with rare conditions often spend five years or more searching for a diagnosis; the Journal's piece walks through cases where AI compres

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Fei-Fei Li: AI is a magnifying glass, not a replacement

Two stories about the human side of AI today: the field's most prominent advocate makes the case for what machines can't do, and a Meta patent hints at what they might soon do to bystanders' faces. Fei-Fei Li has a message for the doom-and-hype crowd: AI doesn't replace people, it magnifies them. In a wide-ranging conversation on the Huberman Lab podcast, the Stanford professor and ImageNet creator argued that across medicine, film, and education, AI works as "a magnifying glass for individual

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