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🤖 Start-up unveils most realistic robot yet
📉 Struggling Intel may consider selling divisions and slashing expenditures
🐛 Microsoft says option to uninstall Recall feature... is a bug
⚖️ 22 examples of Google employees trying to avoid creating evidence of antitrust violations
🍎 Apple's succession strategy: keep the old guard around as long as possible
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 2 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 Start-up unveils most realistic robot yetLINK
1X, a Norwegian robotics startup, has introduced NEO Beta, a humanoid robot designed for home use, showcasing its capabilities such as assisting with everyday tasks through two demonstration videos.
NEO stands out due to its silent and efficient operation, remarkable dexterity, and ability to intuitively respond to human gestures, body language, and voice commands without verbal communication.
Weighing 66 pounds, NEO features muscle-inspired anatomy and advanced AI, making it adapt to various tasks, and is backed by a $100 million Series B funding to advance from testing to widespread household deployment.
📉 Struggling Intel may consider selling divisions and slashing expendituresLINK
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger will present a plan to the board to reduce costs by selling off non-essential businesses and cutting capital expenditures.
The proposal includes potentially halting the $32 billion factory project in Germany and pausing Intel’s dividend payments due to weak financial performance.
Intel has hired Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to advise on which businesses to sell, but final decisions will be made after the mid-September board meeting.
🐛 Microsoft says option to uninstall Recall feature... is a bugLINK
Microsoft confirms that the option to uninstall the Recall feature in Windows 11 is a bug, clarifying that a fix will be implemented in a future update.
The Recall feature, which captures screenshots of users' activities, faced a delay due to security concerns and is now set to be previewed with Windows Insiders in October.
Microsoft is addressing security issues with Recall by encrypting its database, making it an opt-in feature, and potentially adding an uninstall option for compliance with European regulations.
⚖️ 22 examples of Google employees trying to avoid creating evidence of antitrust violationsLINK
The Federal Government's antitrust case against Google revealed 22 instances where employees urged one another to disable chat history to avoid creating a record of sensitive discussions.
Judge Leonie Brinkema criticized Google for allegedly destroying evidence, which could lead the court to assume intentional evidence destruction under an "adverse interference" finding.
This behavior, cited in multiple legal filings, indicates a longstanding Google practice of evading evidence creation by instructing employees to turn off chat history for legally sensitive conversations.
🍎 Apple's succession strategy: keep the old guard around as long as possibleLINK
Apple’s succession strategy involves retaining key executives even after they step down from major roles, as shown by Luca Maestri’s transition to overseeing Corporate Services while stepping down as CFO.
Tim Cook has used this approach since becoming CEO, keeping experienced leaders like Bob Mansfield and Jony Ive in smaller or symbolic roles to maintain stability and ease concerns among shareholders and employees.
This method helps Apple maintain consistency but may hinder innovation in the long term, as retiring key figures may prevent fresh thinking and adaptation to new market challenges.
Other news you might like
Palantir’s CTO, and 13th employee, has become a secret weapon for Valley defense tech startups.LINK
Elon Musk says Starlink will deliver 90 percent of all space-based internet traffic next year.LINK
OpenAI reportedly booked TSMC's A16 process for manufacturing AI chips.LINK
Boeing’s Starliner started making a repeating ‘pulsing’ sound yesterday.LINK
Lenovo leak shows cheaper Copilot Plus PCs coming this month.LINK
Apple may ditch those old familiar USB-A ports in the new Mac mini.LINK
NASA's solar sailor successfully deploys its sail for fuel-free control.LINK
Latest research and tools
Inductive or Deductive? Rethinking the Fundamental Reasoning Abilities of LLMs: the paper explores whether large language models excel more at inductive reasoning or deductive reasoning.LINK
DOjS: a programming environment for MS-DOS and similar systems, enabling JavaScript development with support for graphics, sound, and various inputs, including a compatibility mode for p5js scripts.LINK
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