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Keeping human answers separate from AI improved joint decisions
An analysis of ten datasets found better decisions when humans and AI answered independently, with another person resolving disagreements.
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Anthropic Moves AI Agents Into Laboratory Equipment
Anthropic has opened a research preview of a standard that lets AI agents coordinate microscopes, liquid handlers, robotic arms and other programmable equipment.
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AI Can Pass the Bar. Give It a Spreadsheet and It Loses to 50-Year-Old Methods
Claude Opus 4.6 faltered as benchmark tables widened, while classical classifiers stayed stable or improved. The preprint exposes a sharp limit in raw AI spreadsheet prediction, but it does not
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How AI Is Quietly Deciding When Your Traffic Light Turns Green
AI traffic lights are cutting delay and emissions in cities worldwide, but the technology raises real questions about equity, surveillance, and who gets to audit the system. Here is what
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AI Port Automation: How Container Terminals Are Being Rewired
AI port automation now decides berth schedules, crane sequencing and truck gate flow at the terminals moving 90 percent of world trade. Here is what is actually deployed in 2026,
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AI Translation Earbuds: How Close Are We to a Real Universal Translator?
AI translation earbuds from Apple, Google and independent testers now translate live speech in your ear. Here is what actually works in 2026, what still needs a human interpreter, and
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AI in Sports: How Data Models Are Changing the Game
AI in sports has moved from scouting notebooks to continuous predictive models. See how MLB, Formula 1 and Wimbledon are using AI, and what it means for players, staff and
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AI in Retail: How Agentic Shopping Is Rewiring the Store
AI in retail has moved past recommendations into autonomous checkout. See how Google, Walmart and Amazon are racing to build the agentic shopping layer, and what it means for shoppers
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AI in Architecture: How Algorithmic Design Is Producing Buildings That Human Imagination Did Not Conceive
AI in architecture has cut a 62-year research-to-practice gap down to 2.5 years. Here's what real projects, from TestFit's Austin development to Autodesk Forma in Singapore, actually show.
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Generative AI vs Predictive AI: The Distinction That Determines Which Businesses Win
Confusing generative AI with predictive AI is the single most expensive mistake in enterprise AI strategy. Here is how to tell which one your business actually needs.
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The Prompt Engineering Myth: Why Most People Are Using AI Wrong and What Actually Works
A 1,500-paper survey and Stanford's 2026 AI Index both point the same way: magic phrases don't move the needle, but how you frame a request can swing accuracy by 30+
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AI Robotic Hands: The Explosive $6bn Race
By Stuart Kerr, Technology Correspondent, LiveAIWire AI robotic hands have become the single most valuable component in China’s humanoid robotics industry, and one Beijing startup
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On-Device AI: Why the Next Phase of the Intelligence Revolution Is Happening Inside Your Phone
On-device AI hit sub-20ms inference on $400 phones in 2026, with the market set to hit $75.5B by 2033. Here's why processing is moving off the cloud and into your
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ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: Which AI Is Right for You in 2026?
ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude have converged on similar pricing and capability in 2026 — this guide breaks down which actually wins on writing, coding, research, multimodal work, and privacy, so
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AI Product Design: Trust Beats Hype
AI product design in 2026 has stopped being about flashy features and started being about earning trust after two years of users learning not to take AI outputs at face
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Home Robots Are at Your Door. Here Is What Is Real Right Now.
Figure, Tesla, Boston Dynamics, and 1X are all shipping humanoid robots in 2026 — but the gap between factory-floor demos and reliably loading your dishwasher is real. Here's an honest
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Entertainment Robots: Disney’s 2026 Leap
Disney's Stuntronics robots now perform aerial stunts too dangerous for human stunt performers, powered by Nvidia's new Newton physics engine. Here's how entertainment robots moved from novelty prop to genuine
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Ambient AI: What It Really Costs You
Ambient AI is growing 24.5% a year, faster than cloud computing or smartphones ever did, and it's already in your home. Here's what it actually does, what it costs in
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Self-Hosted AI Models: The 2026 Case
Self-hosted AI models now deliver 70-85% of frontier quality at zero marginal cost per query. Here's why running models locally is a substantially stronger case in 2026 than it was
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How to Prepare for the Extended Reality (XR) Revolution
Extended reality (XR) is moving from gaming into classrooms and workplaces. Here's how to prepare for XR properly, based on what worked and failed in earlier deployment waves.
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RL Environments Just Became AI’s Most Contested Infrastructure
RL environments have gone from research curiosity to the most fought-over infrastructure in AI, with Prime Intellect's $130 million raise the latest sign of how much money is chasing this
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Small AI Language Models: The 2026 Shift
Small Small AI language models are quietly powering a shift from cloud to edge, running directly on phones and wearables with as few as 94 million parameters. Here's why smaller
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Brick by Bot: How AI Construction Robots Are Reinventing Building Sites
AI construction robots can lay 1,000 bricks an hour and are cutting construction's worst-in-industry fatality rate. Here's how AI is reshaping design, safety, and the skills workers need to stay
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Cursed Code: The Rise and Risks of AI-Driven Programming
AI coding assistants have transformed software development productivity -- and introduced security vulnerabilities, comprehensibility gaps, and quality risks that the engineering community is only beginning to address systematically.
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Invisible Infrastructure: AI Critical Infrastructure Powers the Modern World
AI critical infrastructure quietly runs power grids, water systems, and traffic networks with 20% water leakage rates and blackout-scale stakes riding on it. Here's the invisible AI most people never
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Agentic AI and Edge Computing: The Quiet Revolution
Agentic AI running on edge computing hardware is already managing industrial equipment, monitoring patients, and controlling vehicles -- all without cloud connectivity or human approval.
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AI Revolution Unveiled: How Large Language Models Reshaped Everything
GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, Gemini 1.5, and Llama 3 all launched within months of each other. Here is how large language models reshaped 2025 -- capabilities, costs, adoption, and concerns.
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AI Agents Take Over: From Dinner Reservations to Flight Changes, What’s Next?
AI agents are booking flights, handling customer complaints, and managing business workflows without human approval at each step. Here is what they can do, where they fail, and what comes
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AI’s New Frontier: How Autonomous Drones Are Revolutionising Disaster Response
Autonomous drones guided by AI monitored the 2025 LA wildfires in real time. Here is how they work in disaster response, what they can detect, and where the regulatory framework
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ChatGPT vs Claude: Which AI Actually Writes Better Code?
GPT-5 and Claude 3.7 both write capable code. Here is where each performs better, what the benchmarks actually show, and why the choice depends on your specific use case.