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Samsung Research America’s Digital Health Team has presented two AI foundation models designed to learn from wearable biosignals. The work centres on data captured by smartwatches, including heart activity, sleep, and physical activity. The company discussed its Connected Care vision at the Health Forum during Galaxy Unpacked in July 2026. Samsung described a future of […] The post Samsung health AI models analyse wearable biosignal data appeared first on AI News.
Abbott and Google are linking continuous glucose monitoring data with Google’s AI-powered health coaching tools, giving the Gemini-powered service access to another source of personal health information. Under a multiyear agreement, data from Abbott’s Lingo continuous glucose monitor will be integrated into the Google Health app. Users will be able to view glucose trends alongside […] The post Google AI health coach to use Abbott glucose data appeared first on AI News.
Okta says identity-scoped Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool lists can reduce AI agent token costs. Each model call made by an AI agent can include schemas, names, descriptions and parameters for every tool exposed by a MCP server. Okta calls the resulting prompt overhead the “tool tax”: tokens consumed as a model considers tools, including […] The post Okta targets AI agent token costs with MCP scoping appeared first on AI News.
In this article, you will learn what latent spaces are and how they serve three distinct roles — descriptive, generative, and predictive — across a...
Learn how startups use GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API capabilities.
Preview Ultrafast, a new OpenAI API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster. Powered by Cerebras, it delivers up to 750 output tokens per second.
OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI.
Apple is splitting up its AI stack. Instead of rolling out the same system worldwide, the company reportedly built a The post Apple’s new AI split means your iOS app could behave differently in China appeared first on The New Stack.
Alibaba recently made the open weights of its 2.4 trillion parameter Qwen3.8 model available. That’s a massive model, and its The post Alibaba’s new model promises Opus 4.6-level performance on your laptop appeared first on The New Stack.
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on Friday, a coding and agent model built from the same base model as GLM-5.2. Developers can The post GLM-5.3 didn’t change the base model — where did its coding gains come from? appeared first on The New Stack.
Most organizations that know they should sign their images still don’t. Not because they disagree, but because the path to The post Your container images are unsigned. In the AI era, that’s a ticking time bomb. appeared first on The New Stack.
Google has a new Gemini model, and no, it is not Gemini 3.5 Pro. Gemini 3.7 Flash launched Thursday as The post The AI model that just scored 65% on DeepSWE isn’t the one Google promised. appeared first on The New Stack.
OpenAI is launching a new feature for ChatGPT Work and Codex on macOS that sounds quite useful but may also The post ChatGPT can now remember what you did on your Mac — without screenshots appeared first on The New Stack.
After it joined Project Glasswing and gained access to experiment with Mythos Preview, security and AI company Rubrik learned it The post Rubrik’s lessons from one month with Mythos Preview appeared first on The New Stack.
DeepSeek on Thursday open sourced the DeepSeek Harness, a new agent runtime for developers. The Node.js-based harness is now available The post DeepSeek open sources an agent harness where everything is a plugin appeared first on The New Stack.
Every token has a price. The problem is that most AI systems don’t reveal the bill until they reach production. The post Why your AI pipeline costs 10x more after the demo appeared first on The New Stack.
Code review is becoming the most important decision-making surface in software engineering, and it’s outgrowing the diff. The assumption was The post Code review is a taste problem appeared first on The New Stack.
In this No Dumb Questions, Phoebe asks Stack’s Engineering Manager Doug Whitley and Product Manager Ash Zade everything she wants to know about AI context architecture. What exactly is it? Why is it so important? What makes for good AI context architecture? Why buy one when you can build your own?
Ryan welcomes Meryll Blanchet, Director of Engineering for Adobe Brand Visibility, to chat about Adobe’s recent acquisition of Semrush, how Adobe Brand Visibility was born from Semrush’s AI visibility product and Adobe’s LLM Optimizer, and how Adobe used a three-day internal hackathon instead of a large-scale infrastructure integration to quickly deliver value to customers.
I've evaluated every open-source WhatsApp bot framework on GitHub. They all share the same fatal flaw. The Problem Nobody Talks About Most WhatsApp bot frameworks are glorified API wrappers. They handle message transport — receiving a text, routing it somewhere, sending a reply — and that's it. The "intelligence" layer is left entirely to you. You get a pipe. You get a webhook. You get some session management. And then you're on your own. The frameworks that do add AI make a different mistake: t...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdYKeAqWhY 题目：《Lean 创始人访谈全记录：当形式化验证遇上 AI，手写数学与软件验证将如何被重塑》 第（一）部分 开场与核心命题：从“测试只能证明有 bug”到“证明可确保无 bug” （0% - 8%） Dijkstra 名言引出形式化验证的根本价值：主持人以 Dijkstra 的名言“程序测试可用于揭示 bug 的存在，但永远无法证明 bug 的不存在”开场，指出 Lean 与形式化证明的意义恰恰在于“证明 bug 不可能发生”。 Lean 的基础定位：Lean 既是一门编程语言（可以写代码），也是一个证明系统（可以对代码写性质并用机器可检查的证明来验证）。它提供绝对正确的保证，并拥有多个独立的检查器。 Lean 应被视为平台：用户可以在 Lean 上写代码、写关于代码的性质命题、并给出证明；本期节目将围绕它如何工作、以及它如何改变数学和软件验证的未来展开，并提出“手写数学是否会终结”这一核心疑问。 第（二）部分 Lean 是什么：编程语言与证明助手的一体两面 （8% - 18%） Lean 的双重身...
Disclosure: This article was prepared as part of MonkeyCode's product outreach. Why this is worth reading: a free model endpoint with a large token allowance is a good place to validate a new CLI workflow, but it can burn through the allowance in a single retry loop before you notice. I built a small stateful budget guard that checks the projected cost before the call, records actual usage after the call, and refuses to touch the ledger when the endpoint sends an unexpected response. It works as...
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Plus: Big sales for Big Walk and some welcome preservation news.
'We believe we can operate more strategically and efficiently within our Games business, and as a result are eliminating some additional Games roles'
After almost two decades at EA, Aaron McHardy will act as vice president, executive producer, and head of Small Axe Studios.
The commerce company wants to give studios more ways to drive repeat purchases.
'Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI for Rideshare or any other game.'
As smaller teams see bigger success, how will the game industry protect professional standards of conduct?
The streaming platform has informed users their content will be used to train Amazon's generative AI models by default—and opting-out doesn't solve the problem entirely.
Nine people have been laid off across two locations, while another nine developers could be moved onto other projects.
'We can't trust Sony, we can't trust Microsoft to preserve things.'
After Saber Interactive unveiled its upcoming title Rideshare Stimulater, former lead writer Stella Sacco came forward and said that she had been replaced by ChatGPT during development. Saber CEO Matthew Karch denied Sacco's allegation that she had been replaced by AI, but the company has now shared previously undisclosed details about Rideshare Stimulator's AI usage. Rideshare Stimulator casts players as a driver who can pick up a seemingly infinite number of passengers and interact with them w...
Call of Duty players can expect a brand-new Warzone Resurgence map for Modern Warfare 4, and Infinity Ward has teased a first look at the upcoming location. Players will also be able to go hands-on with the Zodiac map ahead of launch. As shown in the image below, Zodiac is a map that appears to have an industrial setting. The teaser reveals a stretch of road with industrial buildings on both sides, and one rooftop that looks reminiscent of the Factory point-of-interest on Rebirth Island. Several...
Halo: Campaign Evolved is set to receive its first major patch next week, one that will give players more control over the game's visuals as well as make improvements to Jackals and Sgt. Johnson. As outlined by the Halo Support X account, a patch coming sometime next week will fix a few pain points for players of Halo Studios' remake. The update should make graphics purists happy, as it will add the ability to disable the game's very noticeable film grain and chromatic aberration. The patch will...
Despite first hitting storefronts a decade ago, Stardew Valley still remains king of the farming simulators. Solo developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone struck gold when he took the formula established by games like Harvest Moon and improved on just about every facet, weaving charming visuals and music with a rewarding gameplay loop that sees players restore a rundown farm--and town--to its former glory. Since then, many similar games have strived to achieve the same level of ubiquity to varying d...
Hot Toys has made plenty of video game figures over the years--from Batman: Arkham Knight to Marvel's Spider-Man--but it's finally venturing into the world of Fortnite. The collectible toys manufacturer has shown off its first-ever sixth-scale figure based on the popular battle royale game, with the dimension-hopping everyman Jonesy in the spotlight. Limited to 3,000 units, the Hot Toys Jonesy figure is designed to look just like the character's in-game model. Hot Toys has replicated the art dir...
Deborah Ann Woll plays Faye in the upcoming PS5 game God of War Laufey, and she had quite a memorable first day on set. At San Diego Comic-Con recently, she shared a story about how, on her very first day, she broke a famous prop from The Last of Us due to her strength and tenacity--only she didn't know the significance at the time. And now, footage of the event has arrived. "Unbeknownst to me, this was a very famous prop that they had used on The Last of Us," she said, going on to joke that it ...
US Senators Josh Hawley and Dick Durbin have announced that Roblox will be the subject of a congressional investigation amid claims that the gaming platform is a threat to child safety. "You trumpet Roblox as a safe digital playground for children as young as five," the pair wrote in an open letter. "But the public record raises serious questions about this promise of safety. Over the past decade, police have arrested numerous individuals for committing serious acts of violence and harm against ...
Activision has announced that the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta will have more than just multiplayer content. The MW4 beta will also include access to the campaign mission, Entrenched, along with the upcoming Warzone mode, Resurgence Zodiac. Activision will show off some of this content during the Call of Duty: Next event on August 21. As announced previously, the beta begins with an early access period August 21-25 for people who preorder, before opening up to everyone to try Aug...
Liberty City, Liberty City: so big they reviewed it twice. This time: multiplayer.
Sora can finally afford normal person shoes.
Elsweyr the Deserts of Anequina stands the test of time.
A double-stuffed beta.
Who's playing when the player isn't?
For once, the "wealthy benefactor on the internet wants to give you money" story is actually real.
OSRS is a resounding MMO success story.
Protolabs CTO Marc Kermisch explains how AI, simulation, and design for manufacturing turn CAD files into production parts faster. The post How Protolabs turns CAD files into parts in under 24 hours appeared first on The Robot Report.
Neros is developing its Archer AI and Bandit platform with the hardware and compute required for multi-asset control. The post Neros Technologies raises $250M to deploy its defense drones by the end of 2026 appeared first on The Robot Report.
Agility’s SPAC deal shows there is no one route to a robotics public listing, with SPAC mergers, reverse mergers, and traditional IPOs offering different advantages. The post Robots on Wall Street: Non-traditional paths to public markets for robotics companies appeared first on The Robot Report.
A free download looks at the state of humanoids, including a rundown of current robotics developers and interviews with industry experts. The post Mobile manipulators and humanoids: The future of robotics appeared first on The Robot Report.
The ARM Institute and the U.S. Department of War are seeking technology project submissions to help rapid U.S. production. The post ARM Institute calls for defense manufacturing technology projects appeared first on The Robot Report.
The RoboBusiness panel will include insights on humanoid robots from Agility, Apptronik, Persona AI, and PSYONIC experts. The post Experts to discuss the state of humanoid robots at RoboBusiness appeared first on The Robot Report.
Researchers created the BioflexBot, a novel robot that mimics and even exceeds core motions of the hand with a simple design. The post BioflexBot robot hand aims to replicate key human hand motions appeared first on The Robot Report.
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.Actuate 2026: 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCOIROS 2026: 27 September–1 October 2026, PITTSBURGHHumanoids Summit Seoul: 22–23 September 2026, SEOULEnjoy today’s videos! Speaking from experience, I can tell you that the best part of any DARPA challenge is w...
PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm's new CEO attempts to turn the company around.
Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
The AI opportunity is huge, but "it would also be a grave error in our minds to let excitement weaken our investment discipline," Kushner warns in his first-ever investment letter.
Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Here’s what we know and don’t know about this wave of attacks allegedly carried out by the Iranian government.
Pocket users have until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and other items, including lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights.
Unforgetful, the latest app from longtime indie developer Marco Arment, is designed to make reminders harder to ignore — or accidentally dismiss.
Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]
Apple is asking a federal judge to allow it to charge commissions of up to 15% on purchases made through external links in iOS apps.
The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.
Strings of code in Samsung's Galaxy Wearable app hint at an upcoming pair of over-ear headphones that could compete with the AirPods Max, SamMobile reports. Samsung's reportedly referring to the headphones as the "Galaxy H1," and SamMobile says they could launch sometime in 2027. That would make these the company's first pair of over-ear headphones […]
If you’re a student looking for an affordable laptop, I have bad news and I have good news. The bad news is that computer prices are out of whack due to the ongoing RAM and storage crunch, making some a little pricier than they used to be and others wildly more expensive. The good news? […]
A lot of automakers talk about wanting to minimize or eliminate driver distractions so as to make the experience of driving more rewarding and safer overall. Lamborghini has a different strategy; it wants the driver to become one with their vehicle. This helps explain the storied super car maker's tagline for the new Revuelto SV: […]
The version of The X-Files: I Want to Believe that premiered in 2008 was not exactly the movie co-writer / director Chris Carter intended to make. Carter wanted to bring agents Mulder and Scully back to the big screen with a grisly story about faith and the supernatural. But executives at 20th Century Fox felt […]
Arguably the coolest new photo feature for the Pixel 11 lineup is Google's new Camera Looks, which process image data differently at the sensor level to produce photos that don't have that "smartphone" look. The result is new styles like "Digi," which mimics the style of photos taken by older digital cameras. But to use […]