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The greatest invention in pet tech in recent years is the litter robot. A machine that scoops your kitties’ poop so you don’t have to – what else could a cat owner possibly want? How about insights into your kitty’s litter box usage that could flag health issues? Sign me up. But I have two…

OpenRouter’s CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job? Source: www.wired.com Read Full Story

Mico is headed to Learn Live. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot’s voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it’s going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have “more to react to,” as reported earlier…

Is Anthropic’s new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I headed 30 miles south of San Francisco to a hotel in Mountain View, California, to join some of the most accomplished, and some of the most promising, AI…

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content. Source: www.wired.com Read Full Story

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