Samsung’s Affordable Galaxy A36 and Galaxy A26 Will Get 6 Years of Software Updates
The company’s latest affordable smartphones are thinner and more durable and have a sprinkling of AI.
GPT-4.5 for enterprise: Do its accuracy and knowledge justify the cost?
The price of GPT-4.5 is very steep. But it doesn’t mean that it’s a failure (or that it will always be so expensive).Read More
DOGE’s Misplaced War on Software Licenses
DOGE claims that a government agency has nearly three times as many software licenses as employees. Experts say there are plenty of good reasons for that.
Stories We Can’t Stop Thinking About: Deepfakes, the Tesla Backlash, and All Things Chips
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” our hosts talk about three big stories from February.
Rebuilding Alexa: How Amazon is mixing models, agents and browser-use for smarter AI
In rearchitecting the upgraded Alexa voice assistant, Amazon turned to model mixing to bring agentic capabilities to devices.Read More
A Deadly Unidentified Disease Has Emerged in the DRC
More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial analysis suggests neither Ebola nor Marburg is the cause.
A springtail-like jumping robot
Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes the boundaries of what small robots can do. The research glimpses a future where nimble microrobots can crawl through tiny spaces, skitter across dangerous ground, and …
Self-driving cars learn to share road knowledge through digital word-of-mouth
An NYU Tandon-led research team has developed a way for self-driving vehicles to share their knowledge about road conditions indirectly, making it possible for each vehicle to learn from the experiences of others even when they rarely meet on the road.
OpenAI drops Deep Research access to Plus users, heating up AI agent wars with DeepSeek and Claude
OpenAI expands Deep Research AI agent to ChatGPT users, intensifying competition with DeepSeek and Anthropic.Read More
Simulating scientists: A new tool for AI-powered scientific discovery
In an article published in Nature Machine Intelligence, an Australian team led by Monash University researchers has developed a generative AI tool that mimics scientists to support and speed up the process of scientific discoveries.