Moravec‘s Paradox

Humanoid robot lifts a box on the first day of the 2025 World Robot Conference in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 8, 2025.   -   Copyright © africanews AP Photo Last updated: 18/08 - 09:59 China Robots that are not only able to run, dance and play football but can also sort…

Professional indemnity (PI) insurers have started quizzing construction firms as to whether they have sufficient oversight of artificial intelligence (AI) use in their businesses, a broker has said. Miller Insurance highlighted the emerging issue in a review of the London construction market. While there has been much talk of AI technology…

Saudi AI firm Humain Saudi Arabia’s artificial intelligence company Humain will release an Arabic-language version of ChatGPT by the end of August, CEO Tareq Amin announced. Amin noted that the model was developed entirely by a Saudi team, according to Gulf News. The CEO also stated that the Public Investment…

Donald Trump Jr. has once again shared a strange meme about his father, continuing a pattern of unusual online posts. In his latest Instagram post, he used an image originally from the “Grand Old Memes” account on X (formerly Twitter). The image appears to have been at least partially made…

(Reuters) -China wants the United States to ease export controls on chips critical for artificial intelligence as part of a trade deal before a possible summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Chinese officials have told experts in Washington that Beijing wants the…

When big business changes happen, no one wants long-winded press releases filled with jargon. Perfect. Our approach strips away the fluff. We tell it straight. Simple as that. A real person (usually someone up in leadership) shares their take on things, because let's face it, everyone's tired of robot speaking.…

DJI's obstacle avoidance system could be just as useful on land as it is in the air. DJI, known for its dominance in the drone market, has entered the smart home world with a range of robot vacuums called ROMO. Beyond its drones, gimbals and action cameras, the Chinese company…

Thanks to Ozempic and similar medications, losing weight has become easier for some — although it is expensive and has side effects such as nausea, stomach pain, vomiting and constipation. (Flickr) At the glamorous Golden Globe awards in Hollywood earlier this year, a presenter joked about how the event was…

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, is under scrutiny once again after its chatbot, Grok, reportedly created explicit deepfakes of Taylor Swift — without users requesting such content Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is in the news again, but for all the wrong reasons. The tech tool is under fire…

(Image credit: Tencent/Polaris Quest) Last week, Sony sued over Light of Motiram, a survival game which the PlayStation parent calls a "slavish clone" of the Horizon series. The results of that lawsuit remain to be seen, but for now it seems to have been enough to convince the devs to…