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The Download: NASA’s new space telescope and OpenAI’s autonomous hacker
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Shape-shifting mirrors on NASA’s new space telescope could unveil Jupiters like our own When NASA’s Nancy…
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Photonics Components – The Eyes and Ears of the Future Unmanned System and Connected Soldiers
Discover how optoelectronics plays a central role in sensing and data generation, including light-based distance measurement for UAVs and robotic platforms. The post Photonics Components – The Eyes and Ears of the Future Unmanned System and Connected Soldiers appeared first…
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“They’re dead if they don’t offer this”: DoorDash’s CLI for agents may be out of necessity
As AI agents evolve beyond writing code toward handling everyday tasks for people, the infrastructure required to keep them on The post “They’re dead if they don’t offer this”: DoorDash’s CLI for agents may be out of necessity appeared first…
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A Humanoid Company Backed by Eric Trump Is Preparing Its Robots for War
The CEO of Foundation Future Industries, which counts the president’s son as its chief strategy adviser, tells WIRED it’s exploring some “kinetic things.”
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The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials
Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a confirmed agent security incident or a near-miss; only about a…
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The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway
Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have already shipped an agent that passed their internal evaluations and then failed a customer in production; only one…
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Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents
Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step execution. But the ambition runs well ahead of…
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How Nidec Is Rethinking Gear Design for Humanoid and Mobile Robots
Nidec tackles the brutal gearbox tradeoffs behind humanoid robots, from zero backlash to lighter integrated actuators. The post How Nidec Is Rethinking Gear Design for Humanoid and Mobile Robots appeared first on EE Times.
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Solving Motion, Connectivity, and Efficiency Challenges in Factory Automation
Explore factory automation challenges from the designer’s perspective and discover how to tackle development while improving performance. The post Solving Motion, Connectivity, and Efficiency Challenges in Factory Automation appeared first on EE Times.