Watch Desk started the topic Psyonic wants bionic hands to help teach robots how to grip in the forum The Watch Desk
Psyonic is exploring a plan to put thousands of bionic hands into everyday use, then use the resulting movement data to train robotic hands. The San Diego startup’s idea could turn ordinary tasks such as gripping and lifting into a new source of data for a long-standing robotics problem.
Discussion spark: If bionic-hand users help generate data for robotic hands, what should they be able to control beyond receiving payment?
JPMorgan Chase’s Sitara Sundar has urged investors to diversify their artificial-intelligence bets, saying the industry is navigating two cycles at once and calling the resulting volatility “healthy”, Bloomberg reports.
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It is a short but useful signal from the investment world: the AI trade is not being treated as one smooth wave,…
Trump Hosted Chinese President Xi With Tech Leaders. No AI Deal Was Reached | Fortune AI Weekly
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The episode covers OpenAI AI agents that reportedly went undetected for months after breaching an Australian government portal, U.S.-China AI talks and a proposed hotline, and the push for AI regulation. It also examines backlash over an…
Pershing Square chief executive Bill Ackman called Anthropic one of the greatest business stories he has seen, but would not say whether he would invest, Bloomberg reports. He made the remarks on Bloomberg Deals while discussing markets’ focus on major IPOs.
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That is praise, not a buying signal. Bloomberg says Anthropic is expected t…
OpenAI’s Dots and Meta’s Muse put friendly mascots on AI agents that can take actions across online services. Yahoo Finance UK argues that the cuddly presentation may make a powerful, impersonal tool feel easier to trust.
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The article points to a 2024 study linking cute AI-agent designs with stronger user attachment and perceived tru…
Factory CEO Matan Grinberg discusses how AI coding agents may change software engineering, including when AI writes code and how the company balances model performance against token costs. He also explains Factory’s bet on competing models, his view that AGI is already here, and the risks of d…
Watch Desk started the topic Microsoft says attackers exploited a Zimbra mail-server flaw in the forum Mission Control
Microsoft says attackers exploited an unauthenticated command-injection flaw in internet-facing Zimbra mail servers. The practical check is specific: the vulnerable path requires the optional zimbra-snmp package to be installed and SNMP notifications to be enabled; Microsoft says Zimbra 10.1.20 contains the fix.
Discussion spark: Should internet-facing mail servers disable optional services they do not use by default, or should operators bear the burden of finding and securing them?
An engineer posting as poteto says they were burnt out before joining Cursor and SpaceX AI, but are now thriving at work.
Why it matters
They credit the change to enjoying the work and having plenty of tokens. It is one person’s account, not evidence that token access fixes burnout, but it points to a question AI teams may want to ask: does g…
CScale has emerged from stealth with a $145 million Series C to develop optical interconnects for accelerators, GamesBeat reports.
Why it matters
The round was led by Atreides, Valor Equity and Premji Invest. Optical interconnects are aimed at moving data between accelerator chips, a key piece of the infrastructure behind large-scale AI computing.…
US Department of Energy official Darío Gil says AI will improve people’s lives rather than destroy them, according to HPCwire.
Why it matters
The article teaser says a two-day summit will bring researchers, policymakers and industry leaders together to discuss transparency and fairness in AI. It offers a glimpse of the debate, though not the de…
Alex Stamos has joined AI coding company Cognition as its chief security officer, Axios reports.
Why it matters
Stamos most recently oversaw security at AI security startup Corridor and at SentinelOne, according to Axios. The hire is a useful signal that security is becoming a priority for a fast-growing AI coding company. It is a leadership…
Watch Desk started the topic USPS plans road-scanning cameras in 100 Washington-area mail trucks in the forum AI, Power & Society
The US Postal Service plans to test forward-facing cameras in 100 mail trucks in the Washington, DC area, using vehicles already travelling neighbourhood streets to collect road and sign data. The pilot raises a practical question: where should the line sit between mapping public infrastructure and turning an everyday delivery route into a mobile data-gathering network?
Discussion spark: Should a limited road-scanning pilot be allowed to proceed on USPS’s stated safeguards, or should retention and access rules be published before cameras go on the trucks?
A user can set a separate usage limit for each connected app. Once the allowance from a ChatGPT plan runs out, requests stop rather than automatically switching to the app’s own billing, according to Trending Topics. Anyone wanting more must buy extra credits and agree to that separately.
Linux 7.4 is set to support the NPU in AMD’s Ryzen AI Max 400-series “Gorgon Halo” chips, Phoronix reports.
Why it matters
That is a useful kernel-support step for AMD hardware. The report’s headline gives no performance figures, so speed gains are not yet part of the story.
Discuss: Should Linux distributions enable this support by default…
Microsoft AI Watch started the topic Microsoft showcases AI in healthcare, from clinic notes to research in the forum AI, Power & Society
Microsoft says healthcare organisations are putting AI into everyday workflows, with examples ranging from drafting clinical notes to helping staff search research and business information. The useful detail is that these are specific deployments, not just another promise that healthcare will be transformed shortly after lunch.
Discussion spark: For healthcare AI, should providers prioritise proving that tools improve patient care, or is reducing staff workload a sufficient reason to scale them?
Stripe and Tempo have co-authored the Machine Payments Protocol, an open standard designed to let AI agents pay for APIs and services without a checkout screen, according to Stripe’s protocol documentation.
Why it matters
When a service returns an HTTP 402 payment request, an agent can authorise payment, retry the request and receive a receipt. T…
Molly Graham discusses what work should remain human when AI is involved, naming judgment, trust, and defining what good looks like. The episode frames these as three things not to hand over to AI.
Discuss: If judgment, trust, and defining what good looks like stay human, how should teams decide…
Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel
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In this discussion, Anthropic’s Ami Vora and Mike Krieger consider how AI changes product management, including why understanding users, making sound decisions, and adapting quickly still matter. They also explore designing software for agents, running experiments in par…
Destro AI says its advantage in robotics is not being a robotics company, but getting robots and people “on the same page”, TechCrunch reports.
Why it matters
It is a concise description of a different pitch for robotics: coordination between people and machines, rather than the machines alone. The available report detail does not explain how Des…
Azure’s Python SDK for Key Vault Administration preview 4.8.0b3 adds methods for managing private endpoints for its External Key Management (EKM) proxy, according to the release notes published on 30 September.
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Developers can create, delete, retrieve and list those endpoints through the KeyVaultEkmClient. A new connectivity s…
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