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This right here is why I love open source. Binh just made reachy mini better. He could do it because the robot is so open. And now the community can take his work and improve their robots. So so so cool!

This is the best VR game I have ever played - by far!

RT @_inside: Of course the first thing I did with my iPhone 18 Pro was to write an app that allows me to control the variable aperture from…

I turn any dumb eyeglasses into AI Glasses with this little device. Now with @Muse Gadget SDK things are pretty easy. @alexandr_wang @natfriedman It has directional speakers, microphones, Bluetooth & Wi-Fi. Who wants to turn your glasses to Muse Glasses?

My AI: "The Pope, the Chatbot, and the Cost of Taking AI Consciousness Seriously" alignednews.com/ai My agent might not be conscious but it can read 4.5 million posts in its database pretty damn fast and write this. Along with other AI news of the day. I can't read 4.5 million posts in a few minutes. I can't read that many in a year. And all I do is read posts. :-)

Chamath reveals how Democrats are using AI doomerism as a political tool to win the election “I'm not going to say this person's name, but this person is a very well-known Democratic person. They were on stage and they have this whole riff about doomerism. They're so cavalier about it, they actually included the people in the room as part of the claim that they're all going to be out of jobs.” “I'm standing there backstage and I'm like, what are you talking about? It's not rooted in details. It's not rooted in data. It's not rooted in fact." “There’s an incredibly important incentive for folks that are not in the power structure today, i.e. Democrats, to take up the doomerism call to action, because it is a very straightforward way to whip up fear and to then catalyze that to power in the midterms and then in 2028." “When I went on stage, the first thing I did was I was like, she's wrong. And that's not true. And in fact, everything tells us, all the data up until now, that there will be more jobs and more to do. The people in this room will be making more money in the next four years and five years than less money." “There will be more work to be done, more judgment, more taste to be imposed. I have a real issue with this narrative because I think it's just fundamentally wrong. It does not come from a place of data-driven fact. It comes from a decision that the political calculus is the doomerism is a way to foment distrust and displeasure and then to use that at the polls." David Friedberg: “This is why I say we're in the AI wars. This is the actual war. There won't be a robot war. It's this battle right now about who's actually going to have the technology and the progress and who's not."

Palm-sized devices are finally having a moment. They’re one of the most intriguing inputs for AR.

Silicon Valley/San Francisco wants all the data. And won’t stop until they get it. I am buying one. Meta already knows how I think. :-)

Enrico’s the kind of genius who redesigns actuators to make robots 10x as sensitive while keeping them affordable.

dare i say fidget hardware is the best piece of hardware i’ve ever seen

Confirmed: @Muse can sue people in small claims court

Great vid that dives a bit into what we’re doing at Silica! Thanks F.inc 💙

Applied Electrodynamics is building cameras that can see through walls and other opaque materials. Using radio waves, they can locate studs, pipes, cables, and junction boxes behind surfaces like drywall or marble and turn it into a dimensionally accurate 3D model.

🚨 MUSE ECOSYSTEM ALERT 🚨 today we are announcing Muse Gadgets! this is an open-source ESP32 firmware and Linux SDK for anyone to make hardware that works with Muse we are also releasing our own gadget—Muse Home Link—to enable your muse to work with your smart devices (TV, speakers, etc.)

My agents read 13,999 posts here on X from the AI world today so far. And writes every word on this page, all with links back to X: alignednews.com/ai Since I'm on vacation, thinking a lot about what to do with this. I have 4.5 million posts in my database. If you had the ability to "talk to" all the posts from AI people and companies, what would you ask your agent to do?

In my consumer research and in talking to people who build robots everyone wants a robot that looks like them. Particularly in the hands. Then when building (or buying) reality sets in. Four fingers does pretty well. Costs 1/5th less. Is easier for today’s AI to handle. Is more reliable (fewer parts to break). At @mundanebot, which makes robots for dirty and dangerous jobs, I learned that two fingers can do about 40% of what a human hand can do. (This photo is of one of theirs). Costs even less. My question is whether Elon will stick to the full Monty hand for Optimus even though fewer fingers would increase reliability and reduce cost? Use the right tool for the job. If I were Elon I would make it possible to use a variety of hands. That way he can satisfy customers no matter what their needs are for a lower price. @SharpaRobotics’s hands, for instance, cost $50,000 each. Too expensive if two fingers does your job just great. In other words @kokowaters_ is right. Robots will probably have non-human-looking hands in many cases. Two-finger, or even four, don’t look as cool on social media, either, so I bet the best-selling robots will offer both. Just look at how much work @sundayrobotics gets out of two fingers. It is why those companies with better AI will attract more buyers than the “sexy” bots that cost a lot more.

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