#uncanny-valley

#uncanny-valley

OpenAI acquired the personal finance startup Hiro, aiming to create a product with more hooks than just a chatbot, potentially offering something worth paying for.

Coerte Voorhees stated, 'We are 100 per cent confident it's really the right move with this specific film, and we're really, really looking forward to everyone being able to judge it for themselves.'

The global Tinder expansion is one of the biggest tests yet for World, and the company's bet that everyday consumers will be willing to sign up for biometric verification services to use internet applications.

"Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks," Anthropic said in a blog post.

The researchers developed round fluffy robots with motorized ribcages that can simulate breathing by expanding and contracting. More than 100 participants held these robots, which breathed in a stable pattern, in an accelerated fearful manner, or not at all, while the participants watched a scary clip from The Shining. The team found that the heart rates of people holding hyperventilating robots increased the most, compared with those holding chilled-out or stationary robots.

"Claude has regressed to the point it cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering," an AMD senior director wrote in a widely shared post on GitHub.

Recently, an open-source project called OpenClaw surfaced on a maker community platform. Built on affordable edge-computing hardware, the project demonstrated a local AI agent controlling a physical robotic arm. It wasn't just predicting text; it was moving motors, reading sensors, and interacting with its physical environment in real-time. From a psychological and sociological perspective, this transition from abstract AI to embodied local AI forces us to re-evaluate trust, privacy, and the sanctity of our personal space.

He pulled out his phone, opened the app, and said, "Watch this." Then he asked Grock to imagine a gorgeous young man and "make it spicy." In seconds, an image appeared: a strikingly lifelike man taking off his shirt, looking straight into the camera - or maybe into my soul - from that 6.3-inch screen. He was beautiful, soft, confident, and completely artificial.