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In today's Techpresso:

🤖 Humanoid robots arrive in homes

👀 Perplexity AI's plan for TikTok

🔍 Claude can now search the web

🌀 Cloudflare creates an AI trap

🤷‍♀️ Google finds news is worthless to its ad business

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🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools

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🤖 Humanoid robots arrive in homes LINK
  • Norwegian startup 1X plans to begin in-home testing of its humanoid robot, Neo Gamma, in hundreds to thousands of homes by the end of 2025, according to CEO Bernt Børnich.
  • Neo Gamma, which relies on human teleoperators for control, uses AI to perform basic home tasks like vacuuming and watering plants, though it is not yet fully autonomous.
  • The company gathers data from these tests to improve Neo Gamma's capabilities and addresses privacy concerns by allowing users to control when staff can access the robot's cameras and microphones.
👀 Perplexity AI's plan for TikTok LINK
  • Perplexity AI has proposed a merger with TikTok to create a transparent algorithm and enhance the app with its artificial intelligence and search technologies.
  • The company aims to develop an open-source recommendation system in the U.S. and believes it can rebuild TikTok's algorithm without monopolizing the market.
  • Perplexity plans to integrate its citation and search functionalities with TikTok, allowing users to switch seamlessly between TikTok's experience and Perplexity's research tools.
🔍 Claude can now search the web LINK
  • Claude now includes a web search feature that provides more current answers, showing sources and turning search results into conversational responses instead of listing links like traditional search engines.
  • The web search function is available only to paid users in the U.S. with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, but Anthropic plans to expand access to other regions and free users soon.
  • As AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini become more similar in features, concerns arise over reduced website traffic since users are less likely to visit sites when using chatbots for information.
🌀 Cloudflare creates an AI trap LINK
  • Cloudflare has developed an AI tool called the "AI Labyrinth" to combat unauthorized AI crawler bots by generating misleading content that wastes the bots' time and resources.
  • The system uses Cloudflare's serverless Workers to create realistic yet irrelevant pages, which do not affect the actual content of protected sites, to deter and identify bot activities.
  • Website operators can activate this feature in their management consoles, and Cloudflare plans to enhance the tool to make it more effective against evolving crawler tactics.
🤷‍♀️ Google finds news is worthless to its ad business LINK
  • Google conducted an experiment removing news from search results for a small group of users in Europe, concluding that news has little to no value for its advertising revenue.
  • The test was prompted by European copyright laws that require Google to compensate publishers for content snippets, but the company claims the financial impact of news is negligible.
  • Following the experiment, Google aims to use the findings in negotiations with European publishers, although it faces regulatory challenges, especially in France and Germany, due to past antitrust issues.

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Other news & articles you might like

  • Google is improving Gmail’s search with AI LINK
  • Nvidia to open quantum computing lab, CEO says LINK
  • OpenAI upgrades its transcription and voice-generating AI models LINK
  • Meet Aardvark, the AI that can forecast weather in minutes on a PC LINK
  • Yahoo is still here—and it has big plans for AI LINK
  • Europe is finally getting serious about commercial rockets LINK
  • Perplexity AI in talks to raise funds at $18 billion valuation, source says LINK
  • Inside Google’s two-year frenzy to catch up with OpenAI LINK
  • Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon LINK
  • Google sues alleged scammers over 10,000 fake Maps listings LINK
  • iPhone fold report resurrects decade-old liquid metal component rumor LINK
  • Larry Page on the improbable dream that became Waymo LINK

Latest research and tools

Retro Boy: a simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust that can be played on the web. LINK
Minimalytics: a lightweight analytics tool using SQLite, designed for resource-constrained environments to track and visualize event data efficiently without unnecessary bloat, supporting over a billion events per month with minimal resource usage. LINK
Chibi: a PNG-tuber application that allows users to place images, customize microphone thresholds, and hide the interface for seamless streaming. LINK
SmolDocling: an ultra-compact vision-language model that efficiently handles end-to-end multi-modal document conversion tasks. LINK
TruffleRuby: a high-performance implementation of the Ruby programming language, aiming for full compatibility with the standard Ruby (MRI) and offering enhanced features and fixes like OpenSSL support and faster C extensions. LINK

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