Tag: AI

This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements Summary Boston Dynamics’ humanoid Atlas can now use a single AI model to handle multiple motor tasks —…

Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimisation Summary The paper presents the analog optical computer (AOC), an opto-electronic, fully analogue platform that runs iterative fixed-point searches to accelerate…

Tech talent biz Andela trains up devs in GitHub Copilot Summary Andela’s AI Academy has trained 200 developers to use GitHub Copilot and plans to scale to about 1,000 coders…

Gitpod reinvents itself as Ona in pivot to AI agent platform Summary Gitpod, the cloud-hosted development environment provider, has rebranded to Ona and repositioned itself as an AI agent platform.…

ServiceNow signs Uncle Sam’s latest short-term AI discount deal Summary ServiceNow has joined the US General Services Administration’s (GSA) OneGov programme, offering discounted access to its AI-enhanced ITSM bundles for…

Biased bots: AI hiring managers shortlist candidates with AI resumes Summary Researchers report that large language models (LLMs) used to screen job applications tend to favour resumes produced by the…

FreeBSD Project Isn’t Ready To Let AI Commit Code Just Yet Summary The FreeBSD Project’s Q2 2025 status report reveals the core team is preparing a “Policy on generative AI…

AI Generated ‘Boring History’ Videos Are Flooding YouTube, Drowning Out Real History Summary An investigation (originally reported by 404 Media) describes a surge of long, sleep-friendly “boring history” videos on…

Switzerland Releases Open-Source AI Model Built For Privacy Summary Apertus is a fully open-source, multilingual large language model from Switzerland, trained on 15 trillion tokens and over 1,000 languages. The…

Spiritual Influencers Say ‘Sentient’ AI Can Help You Solve Life’s Mysteries Summary In May, Robert Edward Grant — a mathematician and social-media spiritual influencer — collapsed inside the Pyramid of…