The little pauses, “ums,” and moments when you struggle to find the right word may reveal far more about your brain than anyone realized. Researchers discovered that everyday speech patterns are closely tied to executive function — the mental system that powers memory, planning, focus, and flexible thinking. By using AI to analyze natural conversations, the team found they could predict cognitive performance with surprising accuracy, potentially opening the door to simple speech-based tools that could detect early signs of dementia long before traditional testing does.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE —Hello Robot, the team behind the Stretch mobile manipulation platform, today announced the release of Stretch 4. Available now for $29,950, Stretch 4 is an open-source robotics platform designed for researchers, developers, and application engineers building the next wave of Physical AI applications for general purpose robotics. Designing Stretch 4 to […]
OpenAI on just launched Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative that combines the company’s frontier AI models with Codex Security, its coding-focused agentic system, and a broad network of security partners. The program is aimed at developers, enterprise security teams, researchers, and government-linked defenders who need to find, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities earlier in the development […]
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Humanoid robots are crossing the gap from lab demos to real warehouses, kitchens, and factory floors — but most teams discover the hard part isn’t the model. It’s the data behind it. Foundation models can recognize a cup; deploying a humanoid that picks one up, hands it to an elderly person, and adapts when the […]
Researchers say generative AI is making it dramatically easier for people to file lawsuits, even as legal professionals are getting caught submitting hallucinated cases.
Insider Brief Robotera has raised more than $200 million in a new funding round led by SF Group as the Chinese humanoid robotics company expands deployments in logistics and industrial automation. According to Robotera, the financing follows a separate USD $143 million strategic round completed in March and included participation from investors such as HSG, […]
