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Sam Altman and Elon Musk are racing to build an ‘everything app’
Sam Altman and Elon Musk aren’t just competing in the AI race; they both have ambitions to build Silicon Valley’s holy grail: an “everything” super app encompassing finance, social media, gaming, and more.
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In The News
Google Plans to Roll Out Its A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13
The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.
Visa wants to give AI ‘agents’ your credit card
Artificial intelligence “agents” are supposed to be more than chatbots. The tech industry has spent months pitching AI personal assistants that know what you want and can do real work on your behalf.
Trust, attitudes and use of AI: A global study 2025
AI has the immense potential to transform lives, boost industries and help tackle some of the most pressing global issues. Fully realizing this potential requires collaboration, a collective commitment to responsible innovation and appropriate regulation with education programs and skills development initiatives to help individuals better harness AI’s power.
Applied use cases
Google AMIE: AI doctor learns to ‘see’ medical images
Google is giving its diagnostic AI the ability to understand visual medical information with its latest research on AMIE (Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer).
Artificial sense of touch, improved
While exploring a digitally represented object through artificially created sense of touch, brain-computer interface users described the warm fur of a purring cat, the smooth rigid surface of a door key and cool roundness of an apple.
NASA Technology Enables Leaps in AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly, as intelligent software proves capable of various tasks.
Ethics
One of Google’s recent Gemini AI models scores worse on safety
In a technical report published this week, Google reveals that its Gemini 2.5 Flash model is more likely to generate text that violates its safety guidelines than Gemini 2.0 Flash. On two metrics, “text-to-text safety” and “image-to-text safety,” Gemini 2.5 Flash regresses 4.1% and 9.6%, respectively.
‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’
In an age of social media dominated by algorithms, Reddit took pride in being curated by a community that expressed its feelings in the form of upvotes and downvotes—in other words, being shaped by actual people.
Artificial superintelligence (ASI): Sci-fi nonsense or genuine threat to humanity?
Our current AI systems may one day evolve into a superintelligent entity, but scientists aren't yet certain what this might look like and what the implications are.
Robotics
Amazon-backed Glacier secures $16 million to expand robotic waste recycling business
San Francisco-based startup Glacier has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the deployment of its AI-powered recycling robots across the United States, as reported by TechCrunch.com.
Clever cargo robot uses legs and wheels to tote boxes without human help
Ground-going delivery robots are already streamlining operations in various industries, but they typically still have to be loaded and unloaded by humans. That's where the multi-terrain LEVA bot comes in, as it can autonomously lift and drop off cargo boxes weighing up to 85 kg.
Chang Robotics announces $50M fund, 2025 strategic roadmap
After accomplishments including doubling its workforce in 2024, Chang Robotics this week announced its strategic roadmap for 2025. The company launched a $50 million fund and said it plans to continue its U.S. expansion despite economic headwinds.
Research
A qualitative systematic review on AI empowered self-regulated learning in higher education
Our findings reveal a nuanced landscape where AI demonstrates potential in facilitating SRL’s forethought, performance, and reflection phases, yet also highlights whether the agency is human-centered or AI-centered leading to variations in the SRL model.
Science, Promise and Peril in the Age of AI
It started as a fantasy, then a promise — inspired by biology and animated by the ideas of physicists — and grew to become a powerful research tool. Now artificial intelligence has evolved into something else: a junior colleague, a partner in creativity, an impressive if unreliable wish-granting genie.
Prospective of graphic design in the age of AI
The methodology used for its development is diachronic, non- experimental, qualitative and documentary, allowing us to observe how Graphic Design has faced previous technological revolutions, and then to analyze specific AI technologies, platforms and software, in order to review their benefits and reflect on their prejudices.
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