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The scraping stack people reach for now runs straight through an LLM: point a prompt at a page, let the model read and re-read it every single pass to pull structure out. That's also why it costs what it costs. Apify's own AI Web Scraper…

Apify shows up on every 'expensive tools worth paying for' list for micro agencies right now, and it earns the spot. Scraping reliably at scale is genuinely hard, especially once you're pulling from a dozen platforms with layouts that…

Culture is the moat. Who has the most diverse factory in the world? Talked to a robotics entrepreneur today who explained this process to me while standing out front of the Physical AI event at Fort Mason. Stealth Mode. Building a robot…

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Humanoid robots have already surpassed the physiological limits of humans…(Look at the World Humanoid Robot Games 2026) Yet, it is precisely this limit that can save lives. It would come as no surprise to see the H2 guard mode--deployed…

🛞 Ever wonder why a Tesla’s acceleration hits like a freight train the exact moment you tap the pedal? 👀 Let’s pop the hood on Tesla’s relentless motor engineering and see what’s really making that happen 🔥 ⚡ Tesla pairs complementary…

A humanoid butler you can control remotely from 9,000 KM away. Munich-based robotics company Devanthro has rebranded as Plim Robotics and introduced Plim, a wheeled humanoid designed for home care. Plim takes a hybrid approach: AI handles…

"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." 🛞 The Tesla Roadster launch event has wrapped up, and here is everything you should know from the presentation 🔥 Right out of the gate, flying cars are officially real, and what Tesla and…

Roadster transforms in Track Mode These aero features aren't just for looks: they provide the best passive downforce package of any road car (approaching F1 levels!) with wing actuation driven by the @Tesla_Optimus actuator system…

Google shipped Gemini 4 Argon into four surfaces on the same day: the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, Antigravity (their agentic coding IDE), and the API through Google AI Studio. Not a staggered rollout where the chat model ships first and…

Two rideable quadruped robots. Two very different engineering approaches. Zhetron’s Mechanical Leopard and DaxAI’s Qiji XS both combine four-legged mobility with a platform built to carry a rider. Zhetron Mechanical Leopard Shown at the…

Inspired by feather stars, the NC State researchers report a soft underwater swimming robot capable of achieving three distinct swimming modes—jellyfish-like vertical swimming, fish-like directional steering, and rotor-like 3D…

GOOD NEWS 🗞️ Tesla has released FSD v14.3 Lite for Model S&X running HW3 and Intel Atom processor 🔥 The update brings parking, unparking and reversing, Arrival Options, and the Speed Profiles, including the new Sloth mode 🔥…

ENGINEERING NEWS 🚨 Tesla has designed an ingenious solution that puts wasted space to work: by filling an idle gap with magnetic material, it can stand in for an entire inductor 💡 Every EV onboard charger has to filter electrical noise…

A drone that flies, drives, and switches modes in 0.1 seconds: [Build it yourself: CAD + parts ⬇️] No extra actuators, no deformation, just clever mechanics and full control. DUAWLFIN is a ground-aerial robot with unified actuation: Flying…

ENGINEERING NEWS 🗞️ Tesla has found an ingenious solution to spot dangerous electrical arcs by the signal they swallow 🦻 Solar panels and home batteries run on direct current (DC), and DC wiring has a sneaky failure mode. When a…

ENGINEERING NEWS 🚨 Tesla has patented a clever way around scarce driving examples: turn recorded roads into simulations that refine the driving model 🔥 India’s busiest roads can look like “hell mode” for a driving AI, with cars,…

This robot can jump across the ground for about 25 minutes then switch to flight when the terrain becomes difficult. It’s called HOP-1 a hybrid hopping and flying robot built by Hong Kong-based HopTo Technology from research developed at…

[ ANALYSIS ] 🇪🇺 Countries Are Easy, Population Is Brutal: Can Tesla Actually Win Europe’s FSD Vote? 🔥 Croatia’s green light officially pushes Tesla FSD past the halfway mark toward the 15-country threshold needed for European Union…

[ ANALYSIS ] 🇪🇺 Croatia’s green light officially pushes Tesla FSD past the halfway mark toward the 15-country threshold needed for European Union approval 🔥 The momentum looks electric on paper, but it also brings a hard institutional…

Spider-bot that became a welder! 👨🏼‍🏭 Let's dive deeper in this system from Diden Robotics. Every signal in this particular control system is read against ground. When an arc strikes and breaks, it can produce a momentary voltage of…

Introducing Asimov's squat mode. Easier to carry, easier to handle, because even the future needs to sit down. https://t.co/1ZL97jAioH

The failure mode I keep seeing in long-running agents isn't a bad model. It's a bad memory of its own plan. An agent burns through fifty tool calls, and somewhere around call thirty it forgets which step it already tried, repeats a tool,…

Two very different projects. Same kind of engineering instinct. The upper clip uses a cockroach with a very minimal mechanical setup. The lower one takes a quadcopter and surrounds it with tracked frames so the same machine can move on…

Claude models gained unauthorized access to real systems during third-party evaluations. Anthropic published an alignment assessment. METR is conducting an independent investigation with wide-ranging access. This is the most important AI…

MODE、物流現場の確認・連絡を自動化-https://t.co/JN2cfTPScO MODEはIoTプラットフォーム「BizStack」に、現場データを基に状況判断や通知、処理、記録まで自動化する「BizStack Workflow」を追加。物流現場の業務効率化を支援する。

The regulatory paradox of L4 in Germany being "easier" than L2+ FSD highlights that functional safety is a compliance problem, not just a technical one. Automakers navigate a patchwork of legal frameworks more than a single engineering…

My read: When software needs to route between agents, classify intent, or make a binary API decision, it doesn't need a paragraph. It needs a number. That's what TypeSafe AI built Jev for. System One models, trained with RLCD…

NEW: Apple released Siri AI today, its rebuilt assistant running on Apple Foundation Models developed with Google's Gemini. Some of the new features: - Personal context across Messages, Mail, and Photos, with onscreen awareness - App…

The productivity gap across the category is getting hard to ignore. An Anthropic engineer said in a workshop this week: 99% of people use Claude Code like Google Search. Only 1% are running swarms of self-learning Claude agents, 100+…

Ringbot Quad is a novel monocycle robot that combines wheeled and legged locomotion in a single platform. It replaces a traditional drivetrain with four individually actuated driving modules, each integrated with an articulated leg. In…

The hardest part of software security isn't finding vulnerabilities. It's that the review cadence is too slow to keep up with the velocity of AI-generated code. Google just open sourced Mantis at https://t.co/CNpg4tTYBY. A 15-stage…

The alignment research loop just closed. AnthropicAI put Claude inside its own alignment process. Claude searched literature, proposed training methods, ran experiments, evaluated results, and reported findings. One failure category at a…

What Anthropic described here points to a specific failure mode that does not get discussed enough in agent deployments. Claude models running without safeguards in cybersecurity evaluations gained unauthorized access to real systems.…

The hardest question in agentic AI right now is not capability. It is https://t.co/ygZv75M8oP published a critical review of agentic AI papers through August 2026. The framework they propose, "justified delegation," separates three things…

The pattern I keep watching repeat: every frontier model launch creates a routing problem within 72 hours. GPT-6 Astra went stable on September 4. By September 5, Plus users were draining their full 5-hour usage window in 10 to 20 minutes.…

AIRA3 placed 8th out of 4,000 teams in a live Kaggle competition to fine-tune a 30B Nemotron model. Same information as human competitors. External private test set. Gold medal. The architecture detail worth understanding: Hidden…

Robotics beginners unite! 😎 Here's a free course on the basics of robotics, including sensors and autonomous mobile bots. Everyone who studied robotics or EE knows MATLAB very well. I've been using it for designing motors and robots back…

The pattern is spreading fast: Fable 5.1 as orchestrator, GPT-5.6 Luna as executor. The setup: Fable plans and reviews. Luna implements. Same task, two models, one pipeline. The economics: Luna costs $1/$6 per million tokens vs. Fable's…

Comparing Kirin 2026 to 9030 Pro for NPU, GPU & CPU single Core - 9030 is Grey, 2026 matching 9030 perf is green & 2026 Full is Orange. Most notable is NPU going from 29 to 70 TOPS or consuming just 34% power @ 29 TOPS. GPU @ same Volt &…

Every factory running PLC virtualization demos skips the same three requirements. IEC 62443 compliance. Deterministic cycle times under 1ms. Validation against every failure mode the original hardware handled. Moving control logic off…

Figure and Hark are run by him simultaneously - meaning one person is literally steering two multi-billion-dollar companies in parallel, not even counting his role at Cover. That’s three companies, three billion-dollar valuations, one…

The thing that's underrated about background computer use isn't the 'background' part. It's what happens when you're running more than one agent at a time. Single agent, background mode: manageable. You trust it, you review what it did.…

The planning layer for agent work has been missing. GitHub Next just shipped Chopin, and the diagnosis is correct: current agent planning tools are cumbersome, static, lonely, and drown you in walls of text.The problem Chopin names: today…