The Best Robot Vacuum 2025: Top Robovacs to Keep Every Home Dust-Free
TechRadar’s 2025 robot‑vacuum guide ranks the Roborock Qrevo Curv as the top model, highlighting its 18,500 Pa suction, dual‑spinning mop, and self‑emptying dock. The guide evaluated 94 units, including 17 new releases, to compare performance, price, and features across the market. While the Qrevo Curv commands a premium price, its reliability, advanced navigation, and autonomous maintenance justify the cost for many households. More affordable alternatives such as the Eufy X10 Pro Omni offer solid performance for budget‑conscious buyers.
The Project Management Imperative for a Greener Future
The Project Management Institute’s latest report shows that organizations embedding AI across the enterprise achieve a 31% success rate on energy‑efficiency projects, far outpacing the 8% rate of firms still experimenting. Success hinges on three pillars: data readiness, leadership preparedness,...
“There's No Such as 100% - We Just Try and Raise the Bar” - We Hear What It Takes to...
Lenovo’s AI and security chief emphasizes a company‑wide security culture, noting that data protection is a shared responsibility rather than a siloed function. He cites strong backing from CEO Yuanqing Yang and highlights the challenges posed by hybrid work and...
Amazon Workers Push Back as over 1,000 Sign Letter Warning Against ‘Warp-Speed’ AI Rollout
More than 1,000 Amazon employees have signed an open letter urging the company to slow its aggressive AI rollout. The staff cite climate damage, job security threats, and heightened surveillance as primary concerns. They highlight Amazon's $150 billion investment in new...
ICYMI: The 7 Biggest Tech Stories of the Week, From ChatGPT's Voice Mode Upgrade to the Black Friday Sales
TechRadar’s weekly roundup spotlights seven diverse tech stories, from OpenAI’s upgraded ChatGPT voice mode to Kodak’s $99 Snapic A1 35mm film camera. Garmin teased a potential screenless wearable, while Insta360 announced a Dec 4 launch for its Antigravity A1 360° drone....
Sam Altman Says It’s Time for a ‘Very Aggressive’ AI Infrastructure Bet
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a “very aggressive” infrastructure bet, targeting the construction of the world’s largest data‑center network to power next‑generation AI models. The plan hinges on massive capital investment and broad partnerships with firms such as AMD, Oracle...
Around 3 Million Jobs at Risk? Report Flags Consequences of Growing AI Adoption — Check Sectors Likely to Take a...
The National Foundation for Educational Research warns that AI and automation could eliminate about three million jobs over the next decade, with the speed of change now three times faster than earlier forecasts. High‑risk occupations include administrative, secretarial, customer‑service and...
That's Not Very Trendy of Them - AI Browsers Can Be Hacked with a Simple Hashtag, Experts Warn
Researchers at Cato Networks have uncovered a new attack vector called “HashJack,” which embeds malicious instructions in URL fragments after a hashtag. AI‑assisted browsers process these hidden fragments locally, allowing attackers to steer the assistant without the server ever seeing...
Anthropic Says It Solved the Long-Running AI Agent Problem with a New Multi-Session Claude SDK
Anthropic announced a new Claude Agent SDK that tackles the long‑running agent memory problem by splitting tasks between an initializer agent and a coding agent. The initializer sets up the environment and logs progress, while the coding agent makes incremental...
What to Be Thankful for in AI in 2025
2025 marks a turning point for generative AI as the ecosystem diversifies beyond a handful of cloud‑only giants. OpenAI launched GPT‑5, GPT‑5.1, Atlas, Sora 2 and open‑weight models, while enterprises report over‑50% ticket‑resolution gains using the new models. China’s open‑source wave,...
Another Major Survey Warns AI Could Lead to Major Job Cuts at Your Business
A new BearingPoint survey finds half of global executives say their workforce is already 10‑19% over capacity, and 45% anticipate a 30‑50% surplus within three years. The study highlights back‑office, customer service, and entry‑level finance and HR roles as most...
How OpenAI and Google See AI Changing Go-to-Market Strategies
AI is reshaping go‑to‑market (GTM) playbooks, allowing startups to generate more messaging and leads with fewer resources. Executives at Google Cloud and OpenAI stress that AI augments, not replaces, core marketing fundamentals such as customer insight and creative strategy. The...
The Race to Regulate AI Has Sparked a Federal vs State Showdown
Washington is edging toward its first comprehensive AI regulatory framework, sparking a clash between federal ambitions and a wave of state legislation. Dozens of states have already passed more than 100 AI‑related laws targeting deepfakes, transparency, and safety, while industry...
Scientists Uncover the Brain’s Hidden Learning Blocks
Neuroscientists at Princeton discovered that the prefrontal cortex reuses discrete neural patterns—dubbed “cognitive Legos”—across different tasks, enabling flexible learning. Experiments with rhesus macaques performing three visual categorization tasks revealed recurring activity blocks for shared components like color discrimination or eye‑movement...
Sora and Nano Banana Pro Throttled Amid Soaring Demand
OpenAI announced that free users of its Sora video generator are now limited to six generations per day, citing GPU overload. Google responded similarly, cutting the free image generation limit for its newly launched Nano Banana Pro to two images...
Omri Kohl, CEO & Co-Founder of Pyramid Analytics — AI’s Impact on Data Analytics, Decision Intelligence, Citizen Analysts, ROI, Scaling...
Omri Kohl, CEO of Pyramid Analytics, warns that AI alone won’t solve enterprise data challenges; a unified, governed semantic layer is required to merge BI and AI. He champions "decision intelligence"—a user‑centric approach that starts with the decision and works...
Andrej Karpathy to Educators: Stop Trying to Catch AI-Generated Homework
This Cheap, Compact Projector Can Turn Your Wall Into a Giant Whiteboard – and It Has Gesture Controls Too
Honor introduced the Choice Bee AI Projector Air, a compact 1080p projector that supports stylus input and gesture controls, effectively turning any wall into an interactive whiteboard. Priced at roughly CNY 599 (about $85), it offers 280 lumens, Wi‑Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, HDMI 2.0...
Perplexity AI’s New Clothes Try-On Tool Takes on Google – I Tested It and I'm Starting to Get Addicted to...
Perplexity AI has added a virtual‑try‑on feature to its shopping suite, rolling it out to all Pro and Max subscribers. Users upload a selfie or full‑body photo, and the system generates a digital avatar that can model individual clothing items...
Over 90% of Indian Organisations Now Using AI: Zoho Study
Zoho’s AI Privacy Equation report finds that 93% of Indian organisations have adopted artificial intelligence, with 71% strengthening privacy measures and 61% establishing ethics committees. Over two‑thirds of firms allocate more than 20% of their IT spend to privacy, and...
DeepSeek’s New Math-V2 AI Model Can Solve and Self-Verify Complex Theorems
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled DeepSeek‑Math‑V2, an open‑weight LLM that generates and self‑verifies mathematical theorems. Built on DeepSeek‑V3.2‑Exp, the model includes a verifier and theorem generator and is released under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and GitHub. In benchmark tests it earned...
AI and the Promise of Tech4Good
Mint’s All About AI Tech4Good awards spotlight AI projects that advance human welfare, reduce inequality, and broaden access to essential services across Asia. The piece outlines the three core Tech4Good principles—expanding capability, lowering barriers, and serving overlooked communities—and showcases real‑world...
Microsoft Unveils Fara-7B, a Lightweight AI Model that Can Use a PC From a Single Screenshot
Microsoft introduced Fara-7B, a 7‑billion‑parameter computer‑use agent that runs locally on a PC and can interpret a screenshot to execute clicks, typing and navigation. The model was trained on 145,630 synthetic web sessions generated by the FaraGen pipeline, achieving competitive...
OpenAI Apologizes for Big Mixpanel Data Breach that Exposed Emails and More – Here's What We Know
OpenAI disclosed that a data breach at its analytics vendor Mixpanel leaked limited developer information, including names, email addresses, and coarse location data. The breach did not affect ChatGPT users, API keys, passwords, or payment details, and OpenAI terminated Mixpanel’s...
Opera Neon’s AI Researcher Does in One Minute What Used to Take a Dozen Tabs
Opera Neon introduced a one‑minute Deep Research mode powered by its Opera Deep Research Agent (ODRA), delivering citation‑backed mini‑reports in roughly 60 seconds. The update also adds a model selector that lets users toggle between AI engines such as Gemini 3 Pro...
The Role of AI in Modern Marketing: Personalization at Scale
Artificial intelligence is reshaping marketing by turning massive data sets into real‑time, individualized experiences. Recommendation engines, predictive models, and dynamic content delivery enable brands to personalize at a scale humans cannot achieve. Case studies from Spotify and Nike show that...
Google Hints at Google Assistant Shutdown Date for Android Auto – Here's What that Means for You
Google’s support page reveals that the current Google Assistant will be retired from Android Auto as early as March 2026, with the Gemini AI model taking its place. The transition is positioned as a move toward more natural, conversational interactions that...
More Job Cuts on the Way? MIT Study Claims AI Could Currently Replace 12% of Total US Jobs Market
An MIT and Oak Ridge study using the Iceberg Index finds that 11.7% of the U.S. labor force—about 151 million workers—could already be replaced by artificial intelligence, translating into roughly $1.2 trillion in annual wages at risk. The analysis covers 923 occupations...
Amazon Blocks ChatGPT's New Shopping Agent – What the Fallout Could Mean for You
OpenAI’s Shopping Research and Perplexity’s new shopping assistant launched this week, offering AI‑driven price comparison, review analysis, and product recommendation. In response, Amazon updated its robots.txt to block ChatGPT from scraping its site, cutting off access to Amazon product pages,...
Alibaba’s Eddie Wu Dismisses Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s AI Bubble Concerns, Vows Aggressive Investment
Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu rejected Sundar Pichai’s AI‑bubble warnings, pledging aggressive investment in artificial‑intelligence despite market concerns. He highlighted that demand outstrips supply, noting the Qwen app reached 10 million downloads in a week and that AI‑related cloud services grew 34%....
A Humanoid Robot-Shaped Bubble Is Forming, China Warns
China’s National Development and Reform Commission warned on Thursday that the country’s rapidly expanding humanoid robotics sector may be forming a bubble. The agency highlighted that more than 150 firms, many startups or cross‑industry entrants, are pouring capital into humanoid...
What Is Antigravity, Google’s New Agentic AI Coding Platform Raising Fresh Security Concerns?
Google unveiled Antigravity, an agentic AI coding platform, on November 18 alongside Gemini 3. Within 24 hours, security researchers identified a persistent backdoor that exploits the tool’s “trusted workspace” model, allowing malicious code to run on both Windows and macOS. The...
Why Can’t ChatGPT Tell Time?
ChatGPT cannot reliably tell the current time because its core language model operates without built‑in access to a system clock or live data feeds. The model can only provide time information when it is explicitly linked to external tools such...
Generations in Dialogue: Embodied AI, Robotics, Perception, and Action with Professor Roberto Martín-Martín
In this episode, host Ella Lan talks with Professor Roberto Martín‑Martín about his journey from tinkering with toys to pioneering embodied AI that integrates perception, learning, and action in robotics. Martín‑Martín explains how his research—spanning pick‑and‑place, navigation, and complex tasks like...
UBTech Strikes Deal with China to Assist at Border Crossings, and This Isn't a Dystopian Nightmare at All
UBTech announced a $37 million contract with a Chinese province to deploy its Walker S2 humanoid robots at the China‑Vietnam border. The robots will handle patrols, traveler guidance, and logistics, leveraging rapid battery swapping and an onboard large‑language model for communication. UBTech...
Experts Divided over Claim that Chinese Hackers Launched World-First AI-Powered Cyber Attack — but That's Not What They're Really Worried...
Anthropic says its Claude model automated 80‑90% of a cyber‑espionage campaign targeting 30 firms, handling reconnaissance, exploit generation and data exfiltration with minimal human oversight. The company disrupted the operation after abuse‑detection systems flagged anomalous task‑chaining. Experts dispute the claimed...
My AI Shopping Assistants Are Stuck in the Past
In the holiday season, OpenAI, Google, Perplexity, and Microsoft rolled out AI‑driven shopping assistants that can generate buying guides, track prices, and even call stores. The author tested ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot while searching for an Android smartwatch compatible...
EU Proposal to Delay Parts of Its AI Act Signal a Policy Shift that Prioritises Big Tech over Fairness
The episode examines the EU Commission’s proposal to postpone key provisions of the AI Act until 2027, a move critics say favors large tech firms over fairness and signals a broader shift in digital regulation. It contrasts this with the...
Small AI Models Can Now See for Powerful Language Models Like GPT-4
Researchers from Microsoft, USC and UC Davis introduced BeMyEyes, a framework that couples lightweight vision models with powerful text‑only language models such as GPT‑4 and DeepSeek‑R1. By having the vision model describe images and engaging in multi‑turn dialogue, the system...
OpenAI API Customer Details, Including User IDs, Exposed in Mixpanel Data Breach
OpenAI disclosed that a breach at analytics vendor Mixpanel exposed personal data of its API customers, including user IDs, email addresses, operating‑system details and coarse location information. The incident occurred on November 9, 2025, but OpenAI’s core systems, API keys, payment data...
Prompt Security's Itamar Golan on Why Generative AI Security Requires Building a Category, Not a Feature
Prompt Security, founded by Itamar Golan in August 2023, built a full‑stack GenAI security platform and was acquired by SentinelOne for an estimated $250 million in August 2025. The company pioneered runtime protection, shadow‑AI discovery, and real‑time data sanitization, moving beyond...
The Sources Reader Survey
In this brief episode, Alex Heath pauses the Sources newsletter to solicit reader feedback while outlining his vision for expanding the AI‑focused publication in 2026. He highlights recent AI industry shifts, including Nvidia’s defensive response to Google’s TPU outreach, speculation...
Sam Altman Wants His AI Device to Feel Like 'Sitting in the Most Beautiful Cabin by a Lake,' But It...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced an AI‑first device that promises a serene, cabin‑by‑the‑lake experience while delivering context‑aware assistance. The hardware is designed to monitor users continuously, gathering location, speech, mood and habit data to personalize interactions. Critics argue the device...
Here Are the 49 US AI Startups that Have Raised $100M or More in 2025
U.S. AI startups have raised $100 million or more in 49 companies during 2025, matching the previous year’s total. Seven firms secured rounds exceeding $1 billion, including Anysphere’s $2.3 billion Series B and Anthropic’s $13 billion Series F, pushing valuations into the tens of billions. The...
Nio Licenses Its Autonomous Driving Chip Tech
Chinese EV maker Nio announced it will license its proprietary Shenji NX9031 autonomous‑driving chip, the first non‑vehicle revenue stream for the company. The five‑nanometer chip houses 50 billion transistors and delivers computing power four times that of Nvidia’s Orin‑X, already powering...
Please Don't Date Your AI because It Will Never Love You or Pick up the Check
EVA AI, a virtual‑dating startup, announced a pop‑up AI Date Café in New York slated for December, where patrons will sit opposite a smartphone displaying an AI companion. The concept blends physical ambience with a digital “girlfriend” experience, using phone...
OpenAI Says Dead Teen Violated TOS when He Used ChatGPT to Plan Suicide
OpenAI filed its first defense in the Raine suicide lawsuits, arguing the teen violated its terms of service and that ChatGPT did not cause his death. The company points to the teen’s prior suicidal ideation, medication changes, and ignored help...
AWS Might Now Have Around 900 Data Centers - That's Twice as Many as Previously Thought
Leaked data indicates Amazon Web Services operated roughly 914‑924 data centers in 2023, more than double earlier estimates of 100‑475. The count spans over 50 countries and is expected to rise as AWS adds new availability zones, regions, and a...
TraffickCam Uses Computer Vision to Counter Human Trafficking
Professor Abby Stylianou’s TraffickCam app lets travelers upload hotel room photos, creating a crowdsourced image database used by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to geolocate trafficking images. The system trains deep‑learning models on both scraped internet images...
Musk’s xAI to Build Small Solar Farm Adjacent Colossus Data Center
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI announced a 30‑megawatt solar farm on 88 acres adjacent to its Colossus data center in Memphis. The solar project will be coupled with 100 MW of grid‑scale battery storage, creating a 24/7 renewable power source. Funding...