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Robots doing the laundry: A multi-billion dollar market

Morgan Stanley reckons humanoid robots will form a $5trillion market by 2050. The bulk will be chained to the factory floor. But a…

October 2025

Analysis

Humanoid robots provide a pragmatic fix for manufacturers

In October, reports emerged of Western business leaders returning from China deeply unsettled. The spooked execs bore testimony of…

October 2025

Analysis

September Technology Review: Huzzah for good ol’ cloud

September has been challenging for most of the technologies we monitor, with builder conviction generally on the decline. Notably,…

October 2025

Futures

The Looming Threat of Cognitive Contagion

The agentic internet is being built for speed and precision. Autonomous AI agents will transact, negotiate, and make decisions fas…

October 2025

Analysis

LLMs Hit the Ceiling, World Models Break Through It

Language models are reaching the edges of their training diet. After years of feeding them the internet, performance gains now arr…

October 2025

Analysis

Microsoft Just Accidentally Armed Voice Cloners Everywhere

Microsoft recently released, and then abruptly retracted, an open-source text-to-speech model named VibeVoice. The model was capab…

September 2025

Analysis

OpenAI: Their own research reveals a troubling utility challenge

OpenAI’s latest research explores how people are using ChatGPT. Three big categories dominate the field. Writing (of which, thankf…

September 2025

Analysis

The improbable cost of AI Data Centers

Nobody can quite agree on how much we should be spending on data centres. The Economist points out that some analysts reckon by th…

September 2025

Analysis

Meta’s New App Lets Strangers Walk Through Your House

Meta just shipped something genuinely fresh: Hyperscape, a photorealistic scene capture for Quest 3/3S that lets you scan a real s…

September 2025

Analysis

Is Microsoft’s Anthropic gambit a sign of partnership panic?

Microsoft just announced it will integrate Anthropic s AI models into Office 365, marking a stunning departure from its exclusive …

September 2025

Analysis

Making Minority Report a Reality

When the police caught the Golden State Killer in 2018, it was remarkable for two reasons. First, many of the crimes committed too…

September 2025

Analysis

Trillions in AI infrastructure deals – if the bubble bursts we’re all going down

OpenAI just announced a $300bn cloud deal with Oracle to power it’s AI solution with advanced infrastructure. The announcement dou…

September 2025

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