Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas is now tossing tool bags around a (fake) construction site

US spy agencies are analyzing how Iran may respond if President Trump declared victory and pulled back from the conflict with the Islamic Republic, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The report said that Trump was aware of the political cost to himself and the Republican Party as a result of the war, which, according to polling, […]

Nvidia Unveils New AI Open Model, Sparking Rally In Quantum Stocks Nvidia unveiled the world's first open-source AI models to accelerate the development of quantum computing. The news sent shares of several Asian software and cybersecurity firms soaring and sparked a rally in U.S.-listed quantum stocks in premarket trading. Nvidia's Ising open-model family is designed to improve two critical areas: quantum processor calibration and quantum error correction. Nvidia claims the models deliver calibration capabilities it describes as industry-leading, while its decoding tools operate 2.5 times faster and achieve up to 3x...

China Abruptly Blocks Meta's $2 Billion Takeover Deal Of Manus AI With just weeks to go before the Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, China's National Development and Reform Commission unexpectedly blocked Meta Platforms' acquisition of the AI-agent startup Manus on Monday morning, signaling that Beijing has no problem with tightening control over high-value AI assets ahead of high-level talks. Bloomberg reports that China's NDRC has blocked Meta's $2 billion takeover of Manus, a Singapore-based AI-agent startup originally founded in China. Manus has been described as a general AI agent capable of automating...