KAIST and chipmaker Nvidia signed a pact to build physical AI, meaning software that lets robots see, decide and move in the real world. Joint labs in Seoul will train models for factories, hospitals and homes.
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If our next nurse is Korean and made of steel, we saw it here first.
From August, India's Andhra Pradesh will roll out Sanjeevani, a phone based AI helper that screens symptoms, books tests and flags urgent cases. Fifty three million residents get access at no charge.
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A pocket second opinion beats a six hour bus ride to the clinic.
From 2 August, any business in the EU must clearly label AI written text, images, audio or video. Ignore the rule and fines reach fifteen million euros or three percent of global turnover.
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The little robot label is coming, whether marketing likes it or not.
Tokyo is signing AI cooperation deals with India, Malaysia and Global South partners. The aim is to sell Japanese tools abroad and stop depending on two rival superpowers for the software running its economy.
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Nothing brings a country together like fear of being someone else's customer.
Sony, NEC, Honda and forty one others joined Noetra, a SoftBank led group building a homegrown AI model for factories, cars and warehouses. Physical AI means software that controls machines rather than just chats.
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If it works, our next Toyota may think before it turns.
GEMA, the German royalties agency, launched PLAI, a fully licensed pool of music that AI firms can pay to learn from. Songwriters get credited and paid each time their work trains a model.
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Turns out asking politely still works, even in the age of scraping.
Researchers at India's top engineering school unveiled a walking, arm waving humanoid built for small factories. Costs stay low by using off the shelf parts, aiming to put one on shop floors that could never buy a Western model.
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The robot age arrives in economy class this time.
The US startup collects human motion data from everyday chores, then sells it to firms training household and warehouse robots. Better data means fewer robots that fall over trying to load a dishwasher.
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We are quietly becoming the training set for our own replacements.
Corgi, an AI web browser eight weeks old, tripled its worth to four billion dollars. Founders are spending part of the money on real world coffee shops where users can meet and try the tool.
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Nothing says software company like a queue for a flat white.
The new platform, backed by twenty million dollars, holds long voice interviews with shoppers on behalf of research teams. It asks follow up questions and writes up findings, replacing costly agencies for small brands.
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Our next focus group host will never need a coffee break.