Apple’s new research robot takes a page from Pixar’s playbook

Last month, Apple offered up more insight into its consumer robotics work via a research paper that argues that traits like expressive movements are key to optimizing human-robot interaction. “Like most animals,” starts the report, “humans are highly sensitive to motion and subtle changes in movement.” To illustrate its point, Apple pays homage to Pixar, … Read more

Partnr Launches to Connect Consumer Crypto With On-Chain AI Agents

SINGAPORE, Singapore, February 7th, 2025/Chainwire/–Partnr, a consumer crypto ecosystem of AI Agent “partners” and platforms, is launching a series of products created for use by both consumers and AI agents, unlocking broader crypto adoption and delivering greater utility for agentic companions. The ecosystem launches with Partnr Chat, an app that turns AI agents into active … Read more

Gold-Backed Tokens Set to Benefit as Wall Street Goes Even More Bullish After Record Rally

Major financial institutions have been raising their gold price forecasts as the precious metal’s price benefits from growing trade war fears and central banks’ accumulations. This week, strategists at both Citi and UBS issued increased gold price forecasts, anticipating the precious metal’s bull run will continue as markets are pressured by geopolitical tensions and economic … Read more

Ex-Meta employee sues for sexual harassment

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re diving into Google quietly removing its pledge to not build AI weapons for surveillance; how Elon Musk and DOGE are facilitating the biggest breach of U.S. government data; researchers who were able to re-create a premium “reasoning” model for $50; and more! Let’s get into it. … Read more

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li says AI policy must be based on ‘science, not science fiction’

Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford computer scientist and startup founder sometimes known as “the Godmother of AI,” has outlined “three fundamental principles for the future of AI policymaking” ahead of next week’s AI Action Summit in Paris. First, Li said policy must be based on “science, not science fiction.” In other words, policymakers should focus on … Read more