AI startup Shift is offering free home cleaning services by having cleaners wear camera-equipped hats to record household tasks, using the footage to train future autonomous cleaning robots.
OpenAI's Head of Product Design Ian Silber reveals ChatGPT is rapidly evolving into a proactive, agentic system, requiring designers to treat AI models as core creative material while prioritizing human judgment, ethics, and adaptability in an entirely new design paradigm.
Nvidia unveils the Vera CPU at Computex 2026, claiming 1.8x faster performance than x86 chips for agentic AI, while launching a full AI stack including the DSX platform, DGX Station desktop supercomputer, and new robotics models — signaling a bold transformation from GPU maker to full-stack AI powerhouse with backing …
Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3 at GTC Taipei, a fully open-source omnimodal AI model trained on 20 trillion tokens, 1 billion images, and 400 million videos, designed to advance robotics and physical AI through a new mixture-of-transformers architecture capable of reasoning and generating across text, video, images, sound, and action.
MiniMax unveils its M3 AI model series featuring a groundbreaking 15.6x decoding speed boost and a self-developing agent that autonomously managed 30-50% of its own development workflow, rivaling Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro on key benchmarks.
A new standalone C++ engine called SAM3DBody-cpp now delivers real-time 3D full-body motion capture from a single camera with zero Python dependencies, supporting multi-person tracking, a 70-joint skeleton, and direct BVH export compatible with Blender.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8, a powerful AI upgrade that is 4x more transparent about its own errors, lets users control response effort levels to manage rate limits, and introduces dynamic workflows that can split complex tasks across hundreds of parallel AI subagents simultaneously.
AWS launches an AI-optimized OpenSearch Serverless platform built to handle explosive bot traffic bursts, as machine-generated requests already make up 31% of all HTTP traffic and are projected to surpass human traffic by 2027, sparking a cloud infrastructure arms race among Microsoft, Databricks, Snowflake, and Cloudflare.
Asana acquires no-code AI startup StackAI for $75 million, bringing on its founders and technology to supercharge its push toward becoming a fully AI-native workplace platform capable of automating complex business processes end-to-end.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shortens his AGI timeline to 2029-2030, citing rapid AI agent acceleration, as tech leaders race to predict when artificial general intelligence will reshape humanity.