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Watching OpenClaw do its thing must be like watching the first plane take flight. It's a bit rickety and stuck together with a lot of sticky tape, but squint and you can see the potential for agentic AI to change the world as we know it. And I don't think that's hyperbolic. A lot of what people claim to have done with it is hyperbolic, and as with all new tech, the challenge is to cut through the noise and find the value. Stay tuned for more on that, as I've already found some really useful applications for it to…

Ali Farhadi speaks at the Tech Alliance State of Technology annual luncheon in Seattle, May 2024. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft is hiring a group of top AI researchers from the Seattle-based Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington, including former Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi, GeekWire has learned. Farhadi, Hanna Hajishirzi, and Ranjay Krishna are expected to join Mustafa Suleyman’s organization at Microsoft while retaining their faculty positions at the UW’s Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. Also joining is Sophie Lebrecht, the former Ai2 chief operating officer. The move follows Farhadi’s departure from Ai2,…

Most explainers on retail media describe what it is and call it a day. This one goes further: who’s actually in the room, what each player wants, and why the whole thing works when it works. Retail media is one of those terms that gets thrown around in planning meetings by people who have slightly different definitions of it in their heads and nobody stops to compare notes. So before the strategy conversation: what is it, who builds it, who buys it, and what does each party actually get out of it. The short version A retailer has customers. Those…

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The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign, also tracked as WaterPlum, have been attributed to a malware family tracked as StoatWaffle that’s distributed via malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects. The use of VS Code “tasks.json” to distribute malware is a relatively new tactic adopted by the threat actor since December 2025, with the attacks leveraging the “runOn: folderOpen” option to automatically trigger its execution every time any file in the project folder is opened in VS Code. “This task is configured so that it downloads data from a web application on Vercel regardless of…

When the Robotics and AI (RAI) Institute talks technology, it’s wise to take notice. The company was, after all, founded by Marc Raibert, who also launched robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics, the firm behind the astonishing Atlas robot and the dog-like Spot quadruped. Massachusetts-based RAI Institute has just unveiled Roadrunner, a 15 kg (33 lb) bipedal-wheeled robot prototype. The intriguing design features remarkable versatility, thanks in part to its symmetrical, knee-jointed legs that allow it to move efficiently and avoid obstacles with ease. A short video (below) released by the Roadrunner team shows the robot effortlessly launching from a resting position before wheeling…

For more than four decades, technological progress has been undermining expert authority, democratizing public debate, and steering individuals toward ever-more bespoke conceptions of reality.In the mid-20th century, the high costs of television production — and physical limitations of the broadcast spectrum — tightly capped the number of networks. ABC, NBC, and CBS collectively owned TV news. On any given evening in the 1960s, roughly 90 percent of viewers were watching one of the Big Three’s newscasts.Journalistic programs weren’t just limited in number, but also ideological content. The networks’ news divisions all sought the broadest possible audience, a business model that…

The sense of support and community was palpable when Sojun Park, a postdoc at the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), delivered a recent presentation on The Global Diffusion of AI Technologies and Its Political Drivers. The event, part of the CIS Global Research and Policy Seminar, filled the venue with audience members from across MIT. “My work is directly connected to what CIS faculty have previously done on international trade and security,” Park said afterwards. “If I hadn’t received a postdoctoral fellowship and come to MIT, I wouldn’t have been able to think through the security implications of my intellectual property research.…

As the Trump administration phases out the use of animal experimentation across the federal government, a biotech startup has a bold idea for an alternative to animal testing: nonsentient “organ sacks.”Bay Area-based R3 Bio has been quietly pitching the idea to investors and in industry publications as a way to replace lab animals without the ethical issues that come with living organisms. That’s because these structures would contain all of the typical organs—except a brain, rendering them unable to think or feel pain. The company’s long-term goal, cofounder Alice Gilman says, is to make human versions that could be used…

Apple is reportedly planning on inserting ads into the Maps app, . An announcement could come as soon as this month, with the ads themselves appearing on iPhones this summer.This will likely work similarly to ads in Google Maps and Yelp, which lets retailers and brands bid for coverage with particular search queries. I’ve personally never found the ads in Google Maps to be that annoying, so let’s hope Apple’s implementation is similar.This potential ad revenue could seriously bolster Apple’s services business, which currently generates for the company. This division accounts for around 25 percent of annual revenue but faces…