Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Alibaba affiliate Ant Group, has announced the open-source release of LingBot-VLA, a vision-language-action (VLA) model designed to serve as a “universal brain” for real-world robotics, which “helps…
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Robbyant open-sources LingBot-VLA model as a ‘universal brain’ for robots
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10 of the largest strategic bombers ever built
Strategic bombers have long been among the largest and most powerful aircraft ever built, designed to carry heavy payloads across vast distances and deliver decisive airpower.
From propeller-driven giants of World War II to stealthy…
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The Download: how AI is used for military targeting, and the Pentagon’s war on Claude
“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
—OpenAI CEO Sam Altman makes a new pitch to investors at a BlackRock event, Gizmodo reports.
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This Giant Creature Really Existed 300 Million Years Ago Long Before Dinosaurs Ruled Earth
The fossil measured only 4 centimeters, nowhere near the giants that made Arthropleura famous. Yet this small specimen, found at Montceau-les-Mines in France, ended up yielding one of the missing pieces of the puzzle. For more than a century…
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HighRes and Opentrons showcase ‘industry’s first’ AI agent-to-agent lab automation workflow
HighRes, a laboratory automation and orchestration software provider, and Opentrons Labworks, a laboratory robotics company building the physical infrastructure for AI-driven autonomous science, have agreed a strategic partnership to co-develop…
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Atomic ratio tuning in catalysts controls carbon nanofiber production from CO2
The ratio of palladium to copper in a bimetallic electrocatalyst determines how hydrogen absorbs into the metal lattice, which governs whether an electrolyzer produces mostly carbon monoxide or hydrogen from CO2 and water. That syngas…
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It was a record hot winter for the U.S. despite chilly weather in the east
March 13, 2026
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No U.S. states had a record cold winter. Nine had a record hot one
Though it may surprise East Coasters, the story of this winter was not record cold but record heat
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11 wild photos show the Amazon River in its glory
It’s the longest river in the world, full of unique creatures, weaving and…
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Computing power is no longer the AI bottleneck — it’s energy production
For much of the 20th century, artificial intelligence (AI) struggled not because researchers lacked ambition, but because the hardware available to power it simply wasn’t powerful enough. Early AI systems hit hard limits on processing speed and…
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China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies
George Zhang thought OpenClaw could make him rich, even though he didn’t really understand how the viral AI agent software worked. But he saw a video of a Chinese social media influencer demonstrating how it could be deployed to manage stock…
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