Thousands of gig workers in Nigeria, India, and Argentina are strapping iPhones to their foreheads to record household chores, feeding a booming data industry that trains humanoid robots for companies like Tesla — but experts and privacy advocates are sounding alarms over how this intimate footage is stored, shared, and …
AI is going deeply personal this week: Utah launches a pilot letting AI renew psychiatric prescriptions for just $19/month, OpenAI secures a record $122 billion funding round at an $852 billion valuation, and thousands of workers worldwide are filming their daily chores to train the next generation of humanoid robots.
A groundbreaking AI system called ACRA is now autonomously reading scientific literature and translating chemical synthesis procedures into robotic lab experiments, successfully completing six real-world synthesis examples across two robotic platforms and promising to revolutionize automated chemistry research.
Uber teams up with China's Pony AI and Croatia's Verne to launch Europe's first commercial robotaxi service in Zagreb, with testing already underway and plans to scale to thousands of autonomous vehicles across multiple European markets.
Charlotte robotics startup Lucid Bots raises $20M in Series B funding, bringing total investment to $34M, as its window-cleaning drones and robots surge from 100 to nearly 1,000 units sold while expanding into painting, waterproofing, and sealing markets.
Amazon's Zoox is expanding its robotaxi service to Austin and Miami, scaling its fleet to 100 vehicles, pursuing NHTSA approval for 2,500 self-driving cars, and partnering with Uber to offer commercial rides in Las Vegas this summer.
Google's Gemini 3 dominates AI benchmarks with 8 million enterprise seats while Anthropic's Claude Code rockets to $1 billion in annual revenue in just six months, as AI specialists like Abridge, World Labs, and Hume AI drive major breakthroughs across healthcare, robotics, and emotional intelligence.
Elon Musk launches Terafab, a $20 billion joint chip manufacturing venture between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI in Austin, Texas, targeting a terawatt of annual computing power to fuel self-driving, robotics, and space applications.
DoorDash is paying delivery workers to film their surroundings and record their voices for AI training through a new feature called Tasks, but security experts warn the biometric and spatial data collected can never be deleted once embedded in AI systems, raising serious privacy alarms for participants and bystanders alike.
Niantic Spatial is turning a decade of Pokémon Go player photos into a 30-billion-image map that now powers real-world robot navigation, with Coco Robotics already deploying the technology across 1,000 delivery robots in major cities worldwide.