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The top US reseller of Unitree's Chinese-made humanoid and quadruped robots says task-specific arms, not general-purpose humanoids, are the right fit for most buyers.
Ramp's Router routes prompts across OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and others through one US-only API and is free through 2026, though its default policy logs inputs and outputs for a year.
The federal system answered Aaron Swartz's 70-GB JSTOR download with criminal charges; Meta's 81.7-TB book trove for AI training is a civil fair-use fight.
A Linux process now impersonates a MacBook Pro on Apple's device-identity service, pulling the same encrypted Find My key an iPhone would see.
A third-party tracker counted 54 cars and 170 rides without safety drivers in Austin. The market was already home to a much larger driverless fleet.
Astronomers modeled what SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Cowboy Space filings would do to twilight. The answer: a permanent fixture of reflected light.
A draft model is a small helper LLM that proposes tokens the main model then verifies, and Liquid AI's DSpark speculative-decoding configuration of that recipe trims function-calling latency by 57% on its 2.6-billion-parameter LFM2.5 base model.
Waymo's in-house custom chip, built on Taiwan Semiconductor's (TSMC's) 5nm process, delivers 1,000+ TOPS (trillions of operations per second) for sensor processing and pairs with off-the-shelf chips from AMD, Micron, NVIDIA, Samsung, and Japanese
Pew's 35% AI-writing figure hides a tenfold gap between commercial .com pages and the institutional web, where .edu and .gov sit near 1%.
Before the bipedal humanoid exists, LG's wheeled CLOiD service robot goes to a Tennessee washing-machine line later this year, and the 2027 promise stands or falls on a safety system most coverage skipped.
Ramp's monthly card-and-bill-pay data, read alongside OpenAI's and Anthropic's recent privacy policy moves, suggests the two leading vendors are trading market share quarter to quarter rather than compounding it.
Daniel Vaughn's Huzzah turns the diff into the prompt itself, and points at a wider shift: prompts are leaving the chat and joining the codebase.