Apple Reportedly Developing Screen-Free Fitness Tracker to Rival Whoop

Apple is reportedly testing a screen-free fitness tracker to rival Whoop, although the experimental wearable may not arrive before 2028 at the earliest.
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Apple Changes Texture and Grain Support, Leaving iPhone 16 and 17 Out

Apple has narrowed support for its new Texture and Grain photo controls, leaving iPhone 16, iPhone 17, and iPhone Air users without native capture support.
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Simbe Surpasses 3,000 Contracted Robots for Retail Stores

Simbe says more than 3,000 Tally retail robots are under contract as it expands shelf-scanning technology into a broader store intelligence platform.
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SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.7: Low Prices, Heavy Token Use

SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.7 improves coding benchmarks and keeps API prices low, but heavy token consumption could raise the cost of completing real-world tasks.
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Anthropic Builds Biology Lab to Test What Claude Can Do in the Real World

Anthropic has opened a biology lab to test Claude with real experiments and lab equipment, expanding its AI life sciences work beyond computer simulations.
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Trump Proposes ‘AI Force’ as US, China Discuss AI Safety Channel

Trump proposes an AI Force as the US and China discuss a safety channel for serious AI incidents. Here’s what IT leaders should watch closely.
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Google Wants Android Apps to Look Beyond the Security Patch Date

Google’s new Android security libraries let apps and administrators inspect patch status by component instead of relying on a single security patch date.
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Figure’s Robot Entered 30 Unseen Homes — and Succeeded 56% of the Time

Figure says Helix 2.5 completed household tasks across 30 unseen homes with a 56% success rate, showing progress but also a large reliability gap.
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Toyota Eyes 400,000 Factory Robots in $6.4B Modernization Push

Toyota could deploy 400,000 robots in a $6.4 billion modernization push designed to preserve worker expertise and improve global factory operations.
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Humanoid Robots May Get Their ‘ChatGPT Moment’ by Mid-2027

Spirit AI predicts humanoid robots could handle natural-language, multi-step physical tasks by mid-2027, with factories likely to adopt them first.
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