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Humanoid robots face a major test with Amazon’s Digit pilots

October 21, 2023

Announced amid a deluge of news at this week’s Delivering the Future event in Seattle was word that Amazon will begin testing Agility’s Digit in a move that could bring the bipedal robot to its nationwide fulfillment centers. It’s baby steps as these things go, and such early-stage deals don’t necessary mean something bigger down […]

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Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down as CEO of Web Summit

October 21, 2023

As first reported in Bloomberg, Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down as CEO of Web Summit, the now 14-year-old conference business that he cofounded and which has gone on to host one of Europe’s biggest annual tech events, along with four other events around the globe. The move comes on the heels of remarks Cosgrave made […]

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This week in AI: Can we trust DeepMind to be ethical?

October 21, 2023

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week in AI, DeepMind, the Google-owned AI R&D lab, […]

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The Worst Stock Market Ever?

October 21, 2023
Nobody is enjoying this stock market. Maybe not the worst ever…but definitely not a lot of fun. So let’s talk about what is making the S&P 500 (SPY) fall lower…