China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies
…But by the time the bubble burst, they had already started paying for cloud servers and LLM tokens. The real driver of the OpenClaw mania in China isn’t everyday users, but…
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The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards
…mechanism for cryptographically verifying that a user really intended for a given agent-initiated transaction to take place. Mastercard's Verifiable Intent framework (codeveloped by Google to work with AP2) is a…
You Can Soon Buy a $4,370 Humanoid Robot on AliExpress
…Curious coders can program it using a software developer's kit. But the real calling card is the R1's physical performance. The robot can do cartwheels, lie down and stand up…
Time to Tackle Your Random Cable Box and Conquer Your Tech Mess
…If you’re sorting stuff into tubs or boxes, an inventory taped to the side or top, so it’s visible wherever you store it, can be a real time-saver when…
Chris Hayes Has Some Advice for Keeping Up With the News
…spend too much time ping-ponging between those two extreme views and maybe not enough time talking about the practical implications or the potential future scenarios that we really should be taking…
Here’s the Smart Lock for Every Door in Your Home
…I also really like the Level Keypad ($79), since I like to leave the house without my keys, and it's faster to just type in the code than to use my…
Hackers Hate AI Slop Even More Than You Do
…ever-more realistic AI face-swapping technology and social engineering messages translated using AI, a lot of attention has been on generative AI’s capabilities to write malicious code and discover vulnerabilities…
The Sony WF-1000XM6 Earbuds Offer Insane Levels of Silence
…The higher-end Bluetooth codec sucked an hour or two of total juice, with the total case-and-headphones time (advertised at 24 hours of charge) shortening to around 20 hours. To…
The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech
…So we don’t develop all the code,” Schaer says. There are public plans for new features, although code is published on Microsoft-owned Github. All data handled by the alternatives has…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Anthropic’s DOD Lawsuit, War Memes, and AI Coming for VC Jobs
…I think that's a really smart point that it's the evolution of propaganda. I would say, if I'm going to draw a distinction in real time, which is always…