10 h. ago Humanoid robots take center stage at Silicon Valley summit, but skepticism remains

The commercial boom in artificial intelligence has sparked interest in humanoid robots

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33 h. ago Get ready for a spectacular IPO boom from the big beasts of Silicon Valley

SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic will break new ground — potentially with the scale of their losses

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4 d. ago Humanoid robot built to help with chores learns to walk within 48 hours

It can walk along straight and curved paths, squat, run, hop, turn in place, manipulate objects with precision, and even coordinate with other humanoid and wheeled robots

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4 d. ago Trump jokes about renaming Kennedy Center after himself while taking center stage at honors show

Trump took center stage at gala honoring Sylvester Stallone, Gene Simmons, Gloria Gaynor, George Strait, and Michael Crawford

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7 d. ago Donald Trump puts his own medal on after winning FIFA Peace Prize as he takes center stage for World Cup draw

Donald Trump fired a warning to high-crime Democratic cities before receiving FIFA's inaugural Peace Prize during the 2026 World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC on Friday. 

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8 d. ago Art Basel Miami 2025: Latin American artists take center stage

The Florida-based art gathering is spearheaded this year by artists from Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and PanamaWhether it’s literally bringing Panamanian soil to Miami, or subverting the messages of Mexican religious cults by appropriating their iconography into tile murals dripping with sexual innuendo, Latin American artists at Art Basel Miami Beach this year are finding ways to reinvent their cultural heritage as surprising and fantastic pieces of art.The Mexican artist Renata Petersen, originally from Guadalajara, has outfitted her Art Basel booth with three collections that may at first appear disconnected – intricate murals made from tiles and covered slogans and iconography, 80 chrome-blown glass works that look slightly like chess pieces but are actually derived from sex toys, and ceramic vases sporting carefully arranged motifs. For Petersen, these works spring from a childhood lived with her anthropologist mother, where she learned to look at cults and other religious moveme...

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8 d. ago Noise around Donald Trump an unwanted distraction to World Cup draw of dreams

Amid all the hoopla circling its Washington backdrop, Friday’s event must be all about firing the starting gun on football’s biggest showWhen the sculptor Joel Shapiro created Blue, the piece that stands around the back of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, looking out over the Potomac River in Washington, he wanted to tap into a number of elements. The giant matchstick figure denotes movement and energy, risk and possibility. As Shapiro himself has said, it is supposed to “reconfigure depending on how you look at it”.It has the perfect home at the Kennedy Center, the vast cultural hub for ballet and opera, stage productions and concerts. And it resonates on a new level now as the venue prepares to host Friday’s World Cup draw, at which the competing nations at next summer’s extravaganza in the United States, Canada and Mexico will discover their group opponents and knockout round pathways. Because from one angle it is plain that Blue is executing a raking pass. From...

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8 d. ago Trump's immigration message is colliding with his welcome to World Cup fans

President Donald Trump will be taking center stage at the World Cup draw as he rolls out the welcome mat for teams and fans from around the globe

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9 d. ago Tom Brady leads stellar cast of sporting icons taking part in World Cup draw in front of Trump

A remarkable crossover of sporting icons will take to the stage at the Kennedy Center on Friday to assist with the draw, which will decide the groups for 48 nations for next year's blockbuster tournament.

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1 week ago ‘It’s going much too fast’: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI

In Silicon Valley, rival companies are spending trillions of dollars to reach a goal that could change humanity – or potentially destroy itOn the 8.49am train through Silicon Valley, the tables are packed with young people glued to laptops, earbuds in, rattling out code.As the northern California hills scroll past, instructions flash up on screens from bosses: fix this bug; add new script. There is no time to enjoy the view. These commuters are foot soldiers in the global race towards artificial general intelligence – when AI systems become as or more capable than highly qualified humans. Continue reading...

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1 week ago How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’

At a time when distrust of big tech is high, Silicon Valley is embracing an alternative ecosystem where every CEO is a starA montage of Palantir’s CEO, Alex Karp, and waving US flags set to a remix of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck blasts out as the intro for the tech billionaire’s interview with Sourcery, a YouTube show presented by the digital finance platform Brex. Over the course of a friendly walk through the company offices, Karp fields no questions about Palantir’s controversial ties to ICE but instead extolls the company’s virtues, brandishes a sword and discusses how he exhumed the remains of his childhood dog Rosita to rebury them near his current home.“That’s really sweet,” host Molly O’Shea tells Karp. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Meet the two stunning ring girls set to take center stage at Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua's shock fight in Miami

Anthony Joshua and YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul are set to clash in a controversial $185million clash in Miami next month - but the blockbuster pair won't be the sole attraction.

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3 w. ago Putin says he wants to live to 150 ‘but even that’s not enough’ as brute obsessed with eternal life meets eerie humanoid

LIVING to 150 isn't long enough, says tyrannical Russian leader Vladimir Putin, following a bizarre meeting with a dancing humanoid. Putin, 73, appeared bewitched by the boogying robot, named Green, at an exhibition is Moscow yesterday before telling audiences being 150 years old would be a let down. Wary Kremlin guards kept a close eye...

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3 w. ago Nvidia's earnings attest to its leadership in the AI race. By the numbers

Nvidia reported more eye-catching numbers for its fiscal third quarter Wednesday, with net income jumping 65% and revenue increasing 62% from a year earlier

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3 w. ago Trump can't stop laughing as he describes 'crazy' American concepts he claims Saudis do not comprehend

The president laughed boisterously from the stage at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday.

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3 w. ago Terrifying internet vulnerability EXPOSED by latest global blackout. Why this Cloudflare crash is now raising serious concerns...

The Silicon Valley firm that is the foundation of a fifth of all websites worldwide, was brought to its knees on Tuesday morning.

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3 w. ago The banality of evil: how Epstein’s powerful friends normalised him

Long after his conviction for sexual abuse, people in royalty, academia, business, journalism and politics sought his earHe got by with a little help from his friends. From British royalty to White House alumni, from a Silicon Valley investor to a leftwing academic, connections and influence were the ultimate currency for Jeffrey Epstein.Yet none appeared to challenge Epstein over his horrific crimes. If silence is complicity, the casual disdain of the elite circles he moved in spoke volumes. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Chilling moment humanoid Chinese robot ARMY marches for ‘first mass delivery’ of futuristic machines coming for our jobs

THIS is the chilling moment a humanoid robot army marches through a factory in China in perfect unison. Shenzhen-based UBTECH Robotics released a nightmarish video of hundreds of the industrial robots walking themselves into shipping containers, as the company announced the world's first "mass delivery" of the human-esque gadgets. The video, announcing the production of...

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4 w. ago Russia’s first humanoid robot collapses seconds after unveiling

Russia’s first humanoid AI robot stumbled and fell over just seconds after its official introduction.

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last month Russia unveils humanoid AI robot that immediately collapses on stage

The robot's debut in Moscow went awry on Tuesday when the robot - believed to be Russia's first powered by artificial intelligence - took a tumble.

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