Moravec‘s Paradox

Since the end of the World Humanoid Robot Games, Unix AI’s customer hotline has been ringing nonstop. “In the second week after the competition, more than a dozen hotel clients came to visit us,” said Yang Fengyu, founder and CEO of Unix AI. Earlier in August, Unix AI won two…

Founders’ takes is a new series featuring expert insights from tech leaders transforming industries with artificial intelligence. In this edition, Lucas Spreiter, founder of German startup Venta AI, shares his vision of AI employees. Artificial intelligence is about to enable the most dramatic shift of the century: the transition from human…

China Recap is a weekly roundup tracking Chinese companies expanding abroad, covering market entries, funding rounds, product launches, and global partnerships. China’s corporate globalization strategy is evolving fast. Industry giants are rewriting the global playbook, while a new generation of companies charts fresh paths overseas. China Recap tracks both—focusing on…

Boltrix Venark Review 2025: Legit Or Not? - Facts! | Image: Republic Initiative In the fast-moving world of crypto, where new tools emerge almost daily and few offer true innovation, Boltrix Venark is quickly turning heads. Claimed to be a next-gen trading platform, Boltrix Venark leverages artificial intelligence to automate…

Ant Group unveiled its first humanoid robot at a trade show in Shanghai on Thursday, heralding the Chinese fintech company’s entry into the increasingly competitive field of embodied artificial intelligence to take on rivals like Unitree Robotics. The wheeled, two-armed humanoid, named R1, was developed by Ant’s robotics unit Ant…

The work of creating artificial intelligence that holds to the guardrails of human values, known in the industry as alignment, has developed into its own (somewhat ambiguous) field of study rife with policy papers and benchmarks to rank models against each other. But who aligns the alignment researchers? Enter the…

Armed with a new permit from Nevada’s Department of Motor Vehicles, Tesla is preparing to begin testing its autonomous vehicle technology on public streets in the state. The testing permit, which was first noted by Tesla influencer Sawyer Merritt, comes two months after CEO Elon Musk outlined the company’s plans…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating change so rapidly that the relevance of skills, once measured in years, is now shrinking to mere months. According to Lynda Gratton, a Professor of Management Practice at the London Business School and a global authority on the future of work, these AI disruptions are…

AI for Writing MUST READ: Why Everyone Should Use AI for Writing, With Pride Without Shame By Abdulsalam Mahmud For years, the debate around artificial intelligence and writing has been framed with suspicion, sometimes even hostility. Many call it intellectual laziness. Others dismiss it as a fraud against originality. But…

The hyperscaler cloud providers plan to spend $1tn on hardware optimised for artificial intelligence (AI) by 2028, according to market researcher Dell’Oro. Meanwhile, enterprises are spending big on AI, with plans for AI projects fuelling record spending on datacentre hardware in 2024. In Asia, IDC found the region’s top 100…