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Slashdot- China Just Held the First-Ever Humanoid Robot Fight Night May 31, 2025"We've officially entered the age of watching robots clobber each other in fighting rings," writes Vice.com. A kick-boxing competition was staged Sunday in Hangzhou, China using four robots from Unitree Robotics, reports Futurism. (The robots were named "AI Strategist", "Silk Artisan", "Armored Mulan", and "Energy Guardian".) "However, the robots weren't acting autonomously just yet, as […]
- CNN Challenges Claim AI Will Eliminate Half of White-Collar Jobs, Calls It 'Part of the AI Hype Machine' May 31, 2025Thursday Anthropic's CEO/cofounder Dario Amodei again warned unemployed could spike 10 to 20% within the next five years as AI potentially eliminated half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. But CNN's senior business writer dismisses that as "all part of the AI hype machine," pointing out that Amodei "didn't cite any research or evidence for that […]
- Why 200 US Climate Scientists are Hosting a 100-Hour YouTube Livestream May 31, 2025"More than 200 climate and weather scientists from across the U.S. are taking part in a marathon livestream on YouTube," according to this report from Space.com. For 100 hours (that started Wednesday) they're sharing their scientific work and answering questions from viewers, "to prove the value of climate science," according to the article. The event […]
- Hugging Face Introduces Two Open-Source Robot Designs May 31, 2025An anonymous reader quotes a report from SiliconANGLE: Hugging Face has open-sourced the blueprints of two internally developed robots called HopeJR and Reachy Mini. The company debuted the machines on Thursday. Hugging Face is backed by more than $390 million in funding from Nvidia Corp., IBM Corp. and other investors. It operates a GitHub-like platform […]
- Five-Year Study Suggests Chimpanzees Strike Stones Against Trees As Form of Communication May 31, 2025A five-year study by Wageningen University and the German Primate Research Center found that wild chimpanzees in Guinea-Bissau repeatedly strike stones against trees, presumably as a form of communication. Phys.Org reports: Over the course of a five-year field study, the research team collected video footage at five distinct locations within a nature reserve in Guinea-Bissau. […]
- China Just Held the First-Ever Humanoid Robot Fight Night May 31, 2025
- Ars Technica
- Ransomware kingpin “Stern” apparently IDed by German law enforcement May 31, 2025BSA names Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev is "Stern," the leader of Trickbot.
- Real TikTokers are pretending to be Veo 3 AI creations for fun, attention May 31, 2025From music videos to "Are you a prompt?" stunts, "real" videos are presenting as AI
- Google and DOJ tussle over how AI will remake the web in antitrust closing arguments May 30, 2025Google and the DOJ get one last chance to make their cases.
- Amazon Fire Sticks enable “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy May 30, 2025Research firm blames outdated DRM tech, Facebook ads, Amazon hardware, and more.
- CDC updates COVID vaccine recommendations, but not how RFK Jr. wanted May 30, 2025Mixed messages only add to uncertainty about vaccine access for kids, pregnant individuals.
- Ransomware kingpin “Stern” apparently IDed by German law enforcement May 31, 2025
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