Moravec‘s Paradox

Pennsylvania has sued an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot maker, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as doctors and are deceiving the system's users into thinking they are getting medical advice from a licensed professional. The lawsuit, filed Friday, asks the statewide Commonwealth Court to order Character Technologies, the company…

Google overhauls its Android and Chrome vulnerability rewards programs, offering bounties of up to $1.5 million for the most difficult exploits while scaling back payouts for flaws that artificial intelligence (AI) has made easier to find. The top reward of $1.5 million is reserved for zero-click Pixel Titan M2 security…

A production workshop of the ABB Robotics Mega Factory is pictured in east China's Shanghai, April 2, 2026. The factory, established by ABB Group in Shanghai's Pudong, went into operation in 2022. Covering an area of 67,000 square meters, it is currently ABB's largest integrated base for robot research, development,…

MA Chain (Meta Assets Chain) is an AI-native public blockchain launching on May 20, 2026, in Singapore, designed to integrate artificial intelligence, decentralized computing, and real-world economic value into a unified infrastructure layer. Unlike traditional blockchain systems driven by speculation, MA Chain links token value directly to computational usage, enabling…

OTTAWA — The federal government's promised new national AI strategy will consider the technology’s impacts on the labour market, Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said on Monday...Read More

Legged robot performing analogue tests in Marslabor at the University of Basel. Credit: Dr. Tomaso Bontognali A new robot could explore Mars faster than ever, scanning rocks for clues to life without waiting for humans. Exploring the surfaces of other worlds is a careful and time-consuming process. On Mars, communication…

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. It looks like artificial intelligence-powered robots are going to be the next big battleground for the tech billionaires.  Bloomberg reported that Meta has acquired startup company Assured Robot Intelligence, which is focused on developing AI models for robots…

WASHINGTON — NASA is planning to increase the total value of a contract for robotic lunar lander missions to support a proposed surge in flights for the agency’s moon base plans. In an April 27 procurement filing, NASA said it was planning to increase the maximum value of its Commercial…

Meta has acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) for an undisclosed sum, the social media giant said. “We acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a company at the frontier of robotic intelligence designed to enable robots to understand, predict, and adapt to human behaviors in complex and dynamic environments,” a…

In this extract from Luminous, the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet a mysterious robot discovered in a salvage yard in Seoul, in a future reunified Korea...Read More