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AIAt IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh, at least 17 dexterous hand companies exhibited, 11 of them Chinese, with WUJI reportedly shipping 800 to 900 units a month. Boston Dynamics skipped a booth but released a video on the final day of a new four-finger, 13-degree-of-freedom Atlas hand, down from 7 DOF on its previous gripper. Hand makers are also selling capture gloves and data services, since labs need far more demonstrations than the hardware alone provides.

AIEthan Mollick urges AI labs to confirm that the models they ship understand their own products and how to use them. He adds that this knowledge should be updated whenever new features are released, noting it is odd when an AI knows everything about using a computer except its own app.

AIAnthropic's Thariq says Claude will increasingly use cloud-based "brains" while operating on users' computers through "local hands." He points to a Latent Space podcast discussion on how this is being implemented in Claude Code.

AITibo (@thsottiaux) posted that there are four updates or a reset, or possibly both, and asked how day two went. The post gives no details on what the updates or reset involve.

AIGoogle describes new research intended to help researchers and public health officials complement existing health information and bridge reporting gaps. The stated goal is to address health challenges proactively. The post provides no further details on the specific research, methods, or results.

AIroon (@tszzl) posts a joke casting "lord Indra," labeled with pdoom above 50%, arriving at the river Ganga and greeting it with namaste. The post is a lighthearted meme about AI doomer probability estimates and contains no concrete figures beyond the stated pdoom threshold.

AISome U.S. energy companies are trying to generate more electricity from existing nuclear reactors rather than wait for new plants, which take a long time to build. The source does not provide specific figures, timelines, or company names.

AIHugging Face CEO Julien Chaumond posted "We are (finally) so back" without naming a specific product, model, or figure. The quoted post, by @beffjezos, jokes about texting European friends as if they had won a Super Bowl, suggesting a celebration tied to a European event.

AIA 9B model trained with SFT and prompt repetition at about $25 of compute reaches roughly 79% of Jev's Decision Index score. It ranks second among all models at 10B parameters or below and 14th of 70 overall.

AIGoogle Cloud Tech is hosting a live broadcast with the founders of Astrocade, a platform for building a video game from text alone. The post does not provide further details about the product or its features.

AIAmjad Masad shared a link to a full conversation, with no further details provided in the post itself. The linked video is YouTube content, and the post offers no further specifics about its subject or claims.

AIResearch by pzeroresearch estimates that frontier models' experimental research taste has doubled roughly every three months since December 2025, with Opus 5.5 now exceeding their expert human baseline. The author of the main post, Boris Power, calls the plot very interesting for recursive self-improvement implications, while noting that the details matter for doing useful work at frontier labs.

AIThe post observes that ambitious people are working longer hours than ever, while those on standard 9-to-5 schedules are happily coasting more than before. It frames this as a clear AI-related trend without offering further data or explanation.

AIGoogle researchers, working with Northwestern Medicine and Jacaranda Health, trained healthcare workers to perform "blind sweep" ultrasounds analyzed by machine learning models. The models estimated gestational age and fetal presentation as accurately as a trained sonographer in a study of 1,000 mothers each in Nairobi and Chicago. The AI processes results on the device, so it needs no electricity supply or Wi-Fi.

AIAllie K. Miller suggests giving an AI agent a separate email address, which Instinct does automatically, and using it for junk signups so the agent filters that mail away from your main inbox. She compares it to Google Voice for email and argues retail emails will get less attention unless they give people a reason to reach the human inbox.

AIAi2 student researcher Dylan Wootton says he is attending COLM this week to discuss personalization, user modeling, and steerable data agents. He also promotes an Ai2 event at the conference that evening.

AIChina's booming artificial intelligence sector has kept local researchers at home, but it has not yet attracted overseas scientists despite a government push to recruit them.

AIGoogle's Paige Bailey says the industry is rediscovering tiny, cheap, single- or few-purpose classification models like Jev, which she says the team was already pursuing. She frames it as vindication, with a lighthearted tone. The quoted post from Russ Salakhutdinov jokes that senior researchers often claim to have invented new AI ideas years earlier.

AIKevin Farhat, a research engineer at Ai2, says he is attending COLM all week and invites people to hang out. Ai2 is also hosting an event for attendees to meet the team, learn what it is building, and explore open roles.

AIAi2 research scientist Pao Siangliulue says she will attend COLM 2026 in San Francisco from Tuesday to Friday. She plans to discuss human-agent collaboration, long-horizon agents, AI for science, research idea generation, and opportunities at Ai2. She will be at the Ai2 booth on Tuesday from 10 to 11:30 am and at the Ai2 Open House that evening from 6 to 9 pm.

AIAfter a recent ride in Waymo's Ojai vehicle, NVIDIA's Bryan Catanzaro agreed that the driving was jerky. He said braking was rougher even in easy situations like pulling over at the end of the ride. The interior was roomy, but he judged the ride quality poor.

AIAt the Machine Earning AI Summit in San Francisco, Town co-founder Jean-Denis Greze said personal AI agent purchases will initially require human approval, with mistakes budgeted in like credit card fraud. Lead Bank CEO Jackie Reses raised liability questions, asking "If a model hallucinates, whose responsibility is that?" Chime co-founder Ryan King said AI agents will make switching banks easier, though regular people are not yet ready to let AI manage their money.

AIMeta AI leader Alexandr Wang reacted to The Daily Show's segment featuring Jon Stewart talking with Meta's Muse AI agent, asking which corporate figure booked the appearance. The show's background description portrays Muse as an AI agent Stewart chats with in a joking, suspicious tone.

AIAccording to Gergely Orosz, GitHub now records more AI-generated pull requests per month than human-written ones. He says the volume of AI-generated PRs is about three times what it was in December 2023.

AISebastian Raschka posted about a spontaneous morning conversation with Juergen Schmidhuber and Jake Newfield on AI and its philosophical implications. He said his microphone disconnected during the chat but that Schmidhuber made the more interesting points. The discussion was part of a broader conversation on humanity's future with AI, hosted by HermetiqAI.

AISimon Willison asked Opus 5.5 to write computer game music and found the results much better than he expected. He asks when models first became able to compose competent music, and links to a post about a scrimshaw jukebox.

AIGoogle has five products in a16z's top 50 consumer AI web apps, with the Gemini app at #2, NotebookLM at #9, Google AI Studio at #11, Google Labs at #18, and Antigravity at #44. Paige Bailey highlights Google AI Studio, a developer workbench, reaching the overall consumer top ten. Steven B. Johnson notes Google is the only company with two products in the top ten and four in the top twenty.