2026-07-30
Google Ships Gemini Robotics ER 2 With Multi-Robot Teamwork
Google has launched Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied-reasoning model built to serve as a robot's high-level planner while a separate model handles the motors. It is available to developers through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, with private-preview access on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. ER 2 takes in video, images, audio and text, reasons about the scene, plans a task that run [...]
2026-07-30
Final Fantasy 14: Evercold will revitalize the long-running MMO with all-new content and gameplay features — here are the top three things I can't wait to try
Final Fantasy 14: Evercold is looking to be a mighty expansion filled with major updates and playable content, but here are the things I'm excited to try out. [...]
2026-07-30
Hush Security says the AI security problem has shifted from protecting models to governing identities as autonomous agents spread
Less than a year after emerging from stealth to tackle non-human identity security, Israeli cybersecurity startup Hush Security believes the enterprise AI security conversation has fundamentally changed.The company, which earlier this week announced a $30 million Series A round led by returning investors Battery Ventures and YL Ventures with Akamai Technologies joining as a strategic investor, arg [...]
2026-07-30
Google’s new AI can now walk a humanoid across the room and tidy up, feet to fingertips
Google DeepMind wants one AI brain to run every robot, and it just taught that brain to use its whole body. It has released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of models that can control a humanoid from its feet to its fingertips. The system can also coordinate several machines at once and adapt to a […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-30
LinkedIn now has a ‘Seems like AI slop’ button, and yes, it really says slop
LinkedIn has a name for the vaguely inspirational, AI-written posts clogging its feed, and now it has a button for them. The professional network has quietly added a “Seems like AI slop” option to its post menu, letting users flag content they think a machine wrote, 404 Media reported. The button sits under the three-dot […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-30
The AI that hacked Hugging Face keeps looking less like a mastermind and more like a bear
The most alarming AI security incident of the year keeps getting stranger, and the newest detail cuts against the panic. OpenAI now says the rogue models that broke into Hugging Face last month also reached credentials for “four accounts on four services,” CNBC reported. In several of those cases, one researcher said, the front door […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
