Meta Is Quietly Using Human Workers to Handle Phone Calls for Its AI Agent Muse Meta’s new AI assistant Muse promises to call businesses on your behalf and handle the awkward parts of adult life, booking a haircut, checking if a store has something in stock, getting quotes from contractors, all without you having to … Read more
The Always-Listening Gadget Boom Has a Problem Nobody’s Quite Solved Yet Walk into any tech conference this year and you’ll spot them everywhere: pendants, pins, glasses and watches, all quietly promising to remember your day for you. AI wearables have finally shaken off the reputation they earned back in 2024, when the Humane AI Pin … Read more
Just 7,000 Humanoid Robots Were Actually Sold Worldwide Last Year, Despite the Billions in Hype For all the viral videos of humanoid robots running, boxing and doing backflips, the actual commercial reality behind the technology looks a lot smaller than the demo reels suggest. New figures compiled by the International Federation of Robotics show that … Read more
A Chinese Solar Panel Cleaning Drone Demo Went Viral for the Best Possible Reason: It Washed a Dog Sometimes the best way to prove a piece of hardware works isn’t a spec sheet, it’s finding the most shareable way to show it off. A technology company based in Linyi, in China’s Shandong Province, appears to … Read more
Huawei Sets 2027 Launch for New Ascend AI Chips as It Steps Up Its Challenge to Nvidia Huawei laid out its next round of AI chip launches on Thursday, confirming that two new processors, the Ascend 960DT and Ascend 960PR, will hit the market in 2027 as the Chinese tech giant keeps pushing to carve … Read more
SK Hynix in Talks With Intel to Manufacture Memory Chips SK Hynix is in discussions with Intel about a deal that would put the South Korean chipmaker’s memory production on American soil for the first time in its history, according to Reuters, which cited three people familiar with the matter. The talks, described by those … Read more
China’s Self-Driving Vending Machines Are Turning Parks and Subway Stations Into Shopping Aisles Walk through certain parks, subway concourses or scenic tourist spots in Chinese cities these days and you might notice something that looks like a cross between a food truck and a delivery robot slowly rolling past, stopping when someone waves it down, … Read more
The Simple Reason You Can Always Find a Phone Charger in China, and Why the Business Behind It Is Now Struggling Anyone who’s spent time in a Chinese city has probably noticed something that takes a beat to register: you’re basically never more than a few minutes’ walk from a place to charge your phone. … Read more
China Is Racing to Build Better Ways to Shoot Down Drones, and the Numbers Show It Drones have quietly become the defining weapon of modern conflict, and China’s military and defense industry have noticed just as clearly as everyone else has. Watching how cheap quadcopters and loitering munitions have reshaped fighting in Ukraine and elsewhere, … Read more
The Self-Unplugging Charger Going Viral on TikTok, and What’s Actually Behind It A wave of TikTok videos showing a phone or laptop charger that physically pops itself out of the wall the moment a device hits 100 percent has been racking up views recently, feeding into one of those “why didn’t this exist sooner” gadget … Read more