Category: robotics/AI – Page 20
This Retro LCD Game Will Have You Playing as a Robot and Its Tumor
It’s a bizarre and crazy adventure where you’ll have to travel 8 hours into the past to stop the leader of the cult from erasing humanity’s memory. Each hour, you’ll have to ruin whatever the lady has scheduled, from walking in the park to her meal at a buffet.
You’ll create a fighting strategy between the robot and its tumor, switching them constantly. The levels will alternate between horizontal and vertical environments, with chaotic physics and deadly elements.
The game is being developed by Aeternum Game Studios and Studio Koba; they explained it’s inspired by the Satoshi Kon films and it has an unsettling aesthetic that blends the adorable with the grotesque.
Predicted Noncrystalline Structures Have Bonus Properties
Simulations reveal disordered structures that are also surprisingly resistant to impacts and cracks.
Metamaterials derive their unique properties from their tailored, macroscale structures, not from their chemical compositions or atomic-scale structures. Although designers often rely on regular, repeating architectures, many of nature’s toughest materials—from bone to spider silk—owe their resilience to structural disorder. Now, inspired by those biological examples, researchers have used machine learning to find new designs for disordered metamaterials [1]. These structures not only have the properties for which they were optimized, but they also resist deformation and fracture. The researchers have built a prototype car bumper based on their designs, and they propose uses in ballistic shields, helmets, and other protective equipment.
The design of functional metamaterials has conventionally focused on ordered structures, where the repeating nature of the patterns allows predictions of macroscopic behavior. Amorphous structures lack that periodicity, leaving an enormous number of possible disordered arrangements that are difficult to explore systematically. Yet disorder can also be an asset, enabling mechanical behaviors that are otherwise difficult or impossible to achieve. The main challenge has been to search the large number of potential structures efficiently enough to identify the rare ones that combine useful functionality with physical stability.
Adobe Campaign Classic CVSS 10.0 Flaw Could Run Code Without User Interaction
Adobe has released security updates to address a maximum-severity security flaw in Campaign Classic (ACC), its enterprise-focused marketing automation platform, that could result in arbitrary code execution.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026–48449, carries a severity score of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system.
It has been described as a case of incorrect authorization that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user without requiring any user interaction.
Surviving AI: Are We Entering the Economic Singularity? | Calum Chace
Are AI layoffs and rapid automation signs of the Economic Singularity? Futurist Calum Chace explores AGI, jobs, investment, and the future of work.
Calum Chace Books (More Links Below):
https://calumchace.com/the-economic-s…
Futurist and author Calum Chace returns to examine how artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape employment, investment, infrastructure and the commercial economy. Calum is the author of The Economic Singularity and Surviving AI, a co-founder of the AI company Conscium, and co-host of the London Futurists podcast.
In this interview, we separate three very different stories that are often grouped together as “AI layoffs”: workers directly displaced by automation; employees cut or reallocated when companies restructure or abandon AI projects; and conventional layoffs that may be “AI-washed” to make ordinary cost reductions sound like technological transformation.
We also explore the growing AI backlash. Is today’s anxiety simply part of the normal adoption cycle surrounding a disruptive technology, similar to earlier resistance to the internet, e-commerce and electric vehicles? Or is AI fundamentally different because it can compete directly with human cognitive labor, creativity and professional expertise?
Calum shares his predictions for AI agents, artificial general intelligence and artificial superintelligence, along with the commercial AI applications most likely to generate real value. We examine whether the enormous investment in AI infrastructure represents a speculative bubble, a necessary technological overbuild, or some combination of the two.
World’s #1 Brain Surgeon: The Truth About Protecting Your Brain After 40
Ask most people what a brain chip does and they will tell you it reads your mind. Dr. Michael Lawton implants these devices, and he says that is not what comes off them. He is President and CEO of Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, the hospital where Neuralink’s first human implant was performed, and he has completed more than 10,000 brain operations and clipped around 5,500 aneurysms. Louisa sat down with him inside Barrow to find out what the electrodes actually pick up, how far the technology has come, and where it stops.
He walks through the surgery itself. The device goes into the hand knob, one small lobule of the motor cortex, where 64 electrodes have already become 108. The threads carrying them are about a tenth the thickness of a hair, so a robot inserts them while avoiding every arteriole on the surface. You’ll hear what Nolan Arbaugh, Neuralink’s first patient, can now do with a cursor at world record speed, and why Lawton can’t keep up with him in a head to head.
🤝 Sponsor The Neuro Experience:
https://neuroathletics.substack.com/p… your risk of Alzheimer’s with my science-backed protocol for women 30+: https://go.neuroathletics.com.au/yout… Subscribe to The Neuro Experience for evidence-based conversations at the intersection of brain science, longevity, and performance. _____ TOPICS DISCUSSED 00:00 Intro: The Brain Surgeon at Neuralink’s First Hospital 00:39 The Guy Who Does the Cases Nobody Else Wants 02:17 A Day in the Life: 5:30am Starts and Three Surgeries 03:20 “Game Tape”: Reviewing Every Operation Like an Athlete 04:24 The Surgeon Athlete and Why Surgery Is a Physical Skill 05:32 Fifty Years From Now: What Happens to Neurosurgery 06:11 The ROSA Robot and Mapping a Seizure Focus 08:16 Deep Brain Stimulation and Hitting an Exact Target 08:52 Will We All Be Operated On by Robots? 10:02 The Brain AVM: The One Case a Robot Can’t Take 11:18 Why Bleeding Breaks a Robot: The Waymo Problem 13:15 What a Brain-Computer Interface Actually Does 14:49 The Hand Knob: 108 Electrodes in One Small Spot 15:50 Cursor Control at World Record Speed 16:31 Inside the Implant: Threads a Tenth the Width of a Hair 17:27 “No, the Chip Cannot Read Your Thoughts” 17:58 What the Device Really Reads: A Train of Spikes 19:18 From Movement to Sensation: What Comes Next 19:48 Why Restoring Sight Is So Much Harder 20:58 The 1943 Paper That Predicted All of This 22:37 Elon, Telepathy, and What’s Actually Possible 23:00 Boosting Creativity and Intelligence in 50 Years 25:10 “When I Retire, We’ll Be Treating Depression and Addiction” 26:04 Alzheimer’s: Light Therapy and the Blood-Brain Barrier 27:11 Treating the Disease vs Preventing It 28:25 10,000 Operations: How He Feels About Robots Taking Over 29:54 Neuroplasticity: How Nolan’s Brain Learned the Device 31:34 What Actually Changes at the Neuron Level 32:04 Patient Two and the Robotic Arm 32:42 5,500 Aneurysms: The Cases That Stay With Him 33:16 Cardiac Standstill: Cooling a Brain to 15 Degrees 35:46 What Separates a Great Surgeon From an Average One 36:17 Traits of Greatness: The Formula Nobody Has Cracked 37:21 The Phone Call in the Middle of a 16-Hour Surgery 39:35 “I Must Have Been Born for This” 41:26 Can You Tell How Old a Brain Is Just by Looking? 43:12 Why Alzheimer’s Is Invisible in a Living Brain 44:14 What a Neurosurgeon Does to Protect His Own Brain 44:40 “Alcohol Will Be Viewed Like Cigarettes in the 60s” 45:13 Peptides, Injectables, and Zero Supplements 46:52 The Last Generation to Operate With Open Hands 48:10 How Louisa Found Him on Twitter in 2021 48:53 The Six Mysteries of the Mind 49:14 Which One Gets Solved First, and Which May Never 50:03 Is Consciousness in the Tissue? 51:39 Memory: The Circuitry We Still Can’t Explain 53:18 Why Consciousness Is Harder Than Memory 55:12 Louisa’s Father’s Stroke 56:02 Advice for Anyone Watching a Parent Decline 56:21 His Sister’s Brain Tumor and How He Carries It 57:38 A World Where Stroke Is an Outpatient Repair 58:40 Forty Years On, Finally at the Dawn _______ Thank you to our sponsors Timeline (Mitopure): https://timeline.com/neuro Mitopure now starts at $79 Ogee: https://ogee.com Use code NEURO for a discount on the Crystal Contour Collection Kion (Kion Aminos): https://getkion.com/neuro for a 20% discount Function Health: https://functionhealth.com/LouisaNicola Use code NEURO25 for a $25 credit _______ I’m Louisa Nicola — clinical neurophysiologist — Alzheimer’s prevention specialist Stay sharp. Stay informed. Join thousands who subscribe to the Neuro Athletics Newsletter → https://bit.ly/3ewI5P0 Instagram: / louisanicola_ Twitter :
/ louisanicola_
Reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s with my science-backed protocol for women 30+: https://go.neuroathletics.com.au/yout…
TOPICS DISCUSSED
00:00 Intro: The Brain Surgeon at Neuralink’s First Hospital.
00:39 The Guy Who Does the Cases Nobody Else Wants.
02:17 A Day in the Life: 5:30am Starts and Three Surgeries.
03:20 \
Voice AI Platform & Voice Agents
The end of artificial latency in enterprise voice.
Smallest.ai just secured $13 million in Series A funding to kill conversational lag in artificial intelligence.
As reported by TechCrunch, the late-2024 startup is abandoning massive, sluggish language models in favor of specialized, real-time voice architecture. The singular goal is absolute zero latency.
The round was led by Seligman Ventures. Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital participated, pushing total funding past $21 million. The model itself processes listening, thinking, and speaking simultaneously. When queried beyond its local knowledge base, the system places callers on a brief hold to ping an offline foundational model.
Existing clients already include Truecaller and RingCentral. strictly targets enterprise customer support platforms, actively competing against ElevenLabs, Cartesia, and regional players like Sarvam.
The Architectural Shift.
Massive models create massive delays. Text chat tolerates latency. Voice requires immediate biological pacing.
