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Tau Robotics: Humanoid Cleaning Service in San Francisco

You can now book humanoid cleaners on a recurring subscription, for up to 3 hours per cleaning at https://tau-robotics.com.

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Two humanoid robots clean your home for one, two, or three hours, supervised live by a human operator. Invite-only.

Everything is quantum, including you

We never see tables in two places at once or cats that are both dead and alive—yet this is exactly what quantum mechanics predicts. As a result, it has typically been assumed that quantum mechanics only applies to small scales. But according to Oxford physicist Vlatko Vedral, this is a radical mistake. The universe is quantum at every scale, and we only get paradoxes of quantum mechanics when we insist on a classical world outside it. In this interview, IAI contributing editor Ozbir Kip challenges Vedral on whether reality is really quantum all the way up.

Kip: Your work is primarily in quantum information. Most of us are familiar with or have heard of quantum mechanics. Can you tell us a bit about what quantum information is as a field of study?

Vedral: Yes, this was a big revolution that started maybe in the ‘60s and ‘70s. It was a realization that how much information you can encode into a physical system and how quickly you can process this information are not abstract mathematical laws, but fundamentally depend on the laws of physics.

Cold Triggers a Hidden Molecular Pathway That Extends Lifespan, Study Finds

When it comes to health, not all temperatures are equal.

Evidence suggests that cold temperatures are mysteriously beneficial for longevity, helping to boost metabolism and delivering positive effects at the cellular level.

On the flip side, excessive heat doesn’t seem to do great things for the human body.

Dallas Investor Alex Davis on His New $10B Fund and the AI Arms Race

Alex Davis is betting billions on the companies shaping the future of artificial intelligence—and he’s doing so right here in Dallas. At Venture Dallas 2026, held Oct. 22 at Old Parkland, the Disruptive founder, chairman, and CEO sat down with fellow investor John Redgrave to discuss where his bets are headed. The conversation spanned local opportunity and why America’s AI advantage is far from a sure thing to the responsibility that comes with writing big checks and the risks behind the data center boom.

Davis also dropped the news that he plans to relocate Groq’s headquarters to Dallas from Silicon Valley. Serving as the company’s executive chairman, the investor led Groq’s latest fundraise which closed at $350 million. Valued at $3.5 billion, the startup provides the cloud computing power that lets AI models respond quickly to questions and carry out tasks. That process is called inference.

Davis founded Disruptive in 2012 and has deployed $1.9 billion to date, having returned $6 billion to his LPs. His investments have included Palantir, Airbnb, Groq, Spotify, Databricks, Stripe, and Slack. Now, he plans to deploy a newly raised $10 billion megafund into about 10 companies over the next 18 months.