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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (WHDH) – A new robot created by a team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Notre Dame could save lives.The robot operates with a soft, air-inflated tube that unfolds into small spaces. It can maneuver around sharp corners in disaster zones. The researchers call it a “vine robot.”“It moves, not like a snake or a wire that you would push from the base, but it moves by extending from the tip,” said developer Margaret Coad. “Much like a natural vine plant.”The so-named “SPROUT” is an acronym for “Soft Pathfinding Robotic Observation Unit.”It’s…
Hyundai’s $7.6Belectric vehicle (EV) plant in Georgia cleared an environmental review concerning its water usage. In August, the U.S. regulator, The Army Corps of Engineers, agreed to revisit Hyundai Motor Group Megaplant America’s (HMGMA) permit standards regarding water usage after a conservation group threatened to sue. Last August, the Ogeechee Riverkeeper group pushed back against Hyundai’s permit, citing risks to the region’s drinking water from the plant’s 6.6 million daily gallons usage. After reviewing Hyundai’s water usage for months, the U.S. regulator concluded that HMGMA’s permit required no changes. The Corps’ memo stated: “The impacts on the environment as a…
Disney just released the first trailer for Tron: Ares, the long-planned Tron: Legacy sequel. The minute-and-a-half trailer doesn’t say much about the story but shows plenty of the movie’s visuals, which look dark, moody, and filled with the series’ signature light trails.The trailer opens in the physical world at night, as Jared Leto’s Ares, a Program made physical, flees from police on a light cycle, slicing one in half using his light trail as a weapon. The shots that follow show a massive airship hovering over the real-world city, visible only by the red light strips on its outside. The…
Traditional search engines such as Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Google all have generative AI tools, and plenty of AI search engines are now available. But, as a seasoned tester of search engines, Microsoft’s new Copilot Search feature in Bing stands out to me among the myriad options. Launched at Microsoft’s 50th Anniversary Event in Redmond, WA, Copilot Search displays its sources clearly, lets you refine your queries, and even shows you its reasoning process. The standard version of Copilot can also search web results, of course, but Copilot Search in Bing provides a richer set of options and a more useful…
Google DeepMind has introduced a new approach to securing frontier generative AI and released a paper on April 2. DeepMind focused on two of its four key risk areas: “misuse, misalignment, mistakes, and structural risks.” DeepMind is looking beyond current frontier AI to artificial general intelligence (AGI), human-level smarts, which could revolutionize healthcare and other industries or trigger technological chaos. There is some skepticism over whether AGI of that magnitude will ever exist. Asserting that human-like AGI is imminent and must be prepared for is a hype strategy as old as OpenAI, which started out with a similar mission statement…
In stark contrast to the global trend of surging AI funding, the Indian AI startup ecosystem is facing a significant downturn, raising concerns among investors, industry leaders, and the government. A recent Tracxn report, shared exclusively with AIM, reveals that total funding for AI startups plunged by 53% year-on-year. It decreased from $305.9 million in FY 2023-24 to $143.6 million in FY 2024-25, alongside a 44% drop in the number of funding rounds. Meanwhile, data from analytics firm Dealroom shows that global AI startups secured $110 billion in 2024, a 62% increase from the previous year, with US-based startups accounting…
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The vibe coding phenomenon—where developers increasingly rely on AI to generate and assist with code—has rapidly evolved from a niche concept to a mainstream development approach. With tools like GitHub Copilot normalizing AI-assisted coding, the next battleground has shifted from code generation to end-to-end development workflows. In this increasingly crowded landscape, players like Cursor, Lovable, Bolt and Windsurf (formerly codeium) have each staked their claim with various approaches to AI-assisted development. The term vibe coding itself represents a cultural shift in…
GitHub Copilot, Microsoft-owned GitHub’s AI coding assistant, could soon become costlier for some users. On Friday, GitHub announced “premium requests” for GitHub Copilot, a new system that imposes rate limits when users switch to AI models other than the base model for tasks such as “agentic” coding and multi-file edits. While GitHub Copilot subscribers can still take unlimited actions with the base model (OpenAI’s GPT-4o), tasks and actions with newer models, like Anthropic’s 3.7 Sonnet, will now be capped. Customers on the Copilot Pro ($20 per month) tier will receive 300 monthly premium requests beginning on May 5, GitHub said…
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TL;DR Microsoft has released a new AI-powered search feature in Bing to take on Google Search’s AI Mode. The new Copilot Search feature generates a summary based on the most relevant search results and offers users a conversational search experience. Copilot Search is available in Bing for desktop and mobile. Microsoft is taking on Google Search’s AI Mode with a similar AI-powered search feature in Bing. The company says its new Copilot Search feature combines traditional web search with generative search to deliver detailed responses to complex queries. It also offers a more conversational search experience, allowing users to easily…