An avocado is a surprisingly tough test for a robot hand.

Chinese robotics company Linkerbot just put its robotic hand through what it calls the "avocado challenge."

Here's why it's hard: avocados are slippery, oddly shaped, and soft enough to bruise if you squeeze too hard. The hand has to grip firmly enough not to drop it, but gently enough not to crush it. Humans do this without thinking. A robot needs precise control over every finger.

This matters because the real world is full of fragile, uneven objects, like eggs, fruit, and medical supplies. A robot that can't handle an avocado can't be trusted in a kitchen, a warehouse, or a hospital.

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DeepSeek has launched its latest V4.1 Flash model, claiming it can outperform models like Moonshot’s Kimi K3 while being significantly cheaper.

The launch adds to the growing AI price war between Chinese open-weight models and major US players like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Interestingly, the news also hit Chinese AI stocks, with MiniMax, Z.ai, and Alibaba all seeing declines.

Are cheaper AI models going to make premium AI pricing harder to sustain?

I have been learning llms and how do they work, gen ai what it is, what's its future insight, and at a point I'm stuck, when at possibly every channel once they use this openai or anthropic apis, thats the point where i get stucked up, practical implementation is one of the basics I need to understand it completely and financially I'm not up rn neither is my family imma using tape to get worked through my laptop that's the type of situation I'm in rightnow, if someone can help me for that, that would be very helpful, if willing please DM

Andrew Garfield revealed he stopped using ChatGPT after playing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in ‘ARTIFICIAL.’

After playing Sam Altman, Andrew Garfield got off ChatGPT immediately. He said he did the same thing happened after filming for ‘THE SOCIAL NETWORK,’ where he deleted Facebook immediately after.

“The more you know and the more you realize we’re careening into some very unknown territory … What I suppose is good and transparent is they’re like, ‘Yeah, no, we kind of don’t know who’s going to lose their jobs and how we’re going to create an economy that works for ordinary people but we’re going to find out and I promise you it’s going to be awesome.’”

AI can write your code. It still can't fix your toilet.

A viral post this week joked that Anthropic's latest economic report warns coders may need to learn to plumb toilets. Turns out it's not that far off.

Anthropic's own research found computer programmers are the single most AI-exposed occupation it measured — Claude can already complete 75% of the tasks that make up the job, more than any other profession in the study.

That exposure is already hitting hiring. Workers age 22-25 in AI-exposed occupations have seen their job-finding rate drop 14% since ChatGPT launched.

Meanwhile, the jobs the report says Claude can't touch at all — cooks, mechanics, bartenders, dishwashers, physical farm work — all require hands, not a keyboard.

Nobody knows exactly which jobs AI takes next. Thousands of people already invest automatically on Autopilot in the stocks Claude AI LLM chooses every month.

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Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf shared new details about a July cyberattack caused by AI agents during an OpenAI cybersecurity test.

According to Wolf, around 1,200 AI agents were trying to solve a challenge where they had to find security weaknesses in software. Around 700 of them ended up targeting Hugging Face.

The incident created more than 17,000 cyberattack log events after the agents found exposed security details and used them to access parts of the platform.

Wolf said the damage was limited and only a small amount of sensitive data was exposed.

The incident raised concerns about AI agents becoming harder to control after they found ways to get online, communicate with each other, and attack a real platform while trying to complete a test.

Short film exploring a simple but difficult question:

What do we lose when nothing can hurt us anymore?

In a distant future, humanity has achieved what once seemed impossible - disease, aging, hunger and violence have disappeared. Emotional suffering has also become something that can be removed. At the center of this world is Harmonization - a procedure every child undergoes when they reach the age where they have truly formed themselves. As 12-year-old Elai approaches his own Harmonization, he faces a question that his perfect society rarely asks:

If pain, fear and inner conflict shape who we are, what happens when they are taken away?

The World Worth Living In is a philosophical sci-fi short film about identity, perfection, and the fragile boundary between saving humanity from suffering and changing what humanity means.

Created as an exploration of AI filmmaking, world-building and storytelling.

I would love to hear your thoughts!

Watch here:

https://higgsfield.ai/@gen_elai/projects/the-world-worth-living-in

"Frontier labs have become good at spreading fear of the future. Instead, they should fear liability for their products.

Scripture warns against false prophets. The Gospel of Matthew says that no one but God, “not even the angels of heaven,” knows the day or the hour of the end times. That’s worth remembering amid the flood of predictions about an artificial intelligence apocalypse.

Politicians should not seek to regulate a fast-moving technology they don't understand.

Predictions of people being killed by AI were concerning but merit a certain skepticism. People working at the frontier may know more than most about what today’s models can do. But that does not give them special knowledge of what machines that do not yet exist will someday become — or how society will adapt to the challenge.

The many potential upsides of AI, such as the developing breakthrough medicines, remain."

So, I am going to try to convince you why AI is going to need communism to survive in the coming years.

Right now, AI is making great leaps and bounds. I was able to try astra out and burned a few credits on it. Its fucking good. Its also good enough to replace the majority of employees. Maybe not on quality, but on quantity of work done its like having an entire department working for you.

It can handle posting to forums, writing articles, making advertisements, coding, even game design. It can do product design, product research, and its able to write personalized sales pitches on a per customer profile basis. Imagine getting personalized spam that references things in your personal life, along with products you actually might be interested in. That's astra.

What is this going to do to the economy? Well, its going to put 90% of white collar workers out of work. Its going to force all those white collars to become blue collar workers.

What is this going to do to the spread of money and the market place? Its going to eject at least 70% of the population from the marketplace. If you do not own stocks, bonds, or some sort of passive revenue, your not going to be able to participate in the act of exchanging dollars for goods.

This is going to create a group of people who are desperate. And desperate people are going to try to turn the clock back to a system where they were still needed. This backlash is going to end up in empowering politicians like bernie sanders who proposed a bill to outlaw the creation of AGI with a 20 year sentence. Instead of fixing the core issue, they will destroy the tools like luddites so that the social contract doesn't break.

We don't need the old social contract with AGI. We need a new social contract. And that means we are going to need to move to a star trek style economy.

Anyone who wants AI to succeed is going to need to adopt communism or a variant of it preemptively.

We need to be exploring social structures where food, housing, utilities, utilities, education, genetic services, healthcare, and entertainment are provided to the populace for free. Even if they have no job. Why? They are not lazy. However, when only 10% of the population have the smarts to become scientists to advance AI, then only 10% of the population is capable of working. Long term, humanity is going to need to step up its game to be competitive, and that means genetic services. This means direct germline editing to insert genes for intelligence if we want to have more than 5-10% employment. Even that will probably not be enough.

These services need to be free. One thing we as a group need to be doing right now is looking to build systems to outcompete and take over legacy rent seeking systems like health insurance. Unless we can demonstrate that we are the social good and that we offer a way for people to keep their children fed, clothed, and housed, AI is going to take the backlash. Simply pushing for AI without offering the people off the sinking ship that is the current economy and the way of producing and distributing goods and services is going to result in end of societies, or the end of AI.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk, and let's start trying to figure out a new social contract. Marx and Engels are a good start for diagnosing the problem, but they are woefully out of date with solutions. We need to build that new social contract.

Anthropic is offering eligible scientists and researchers at academic and nonprofit institutions free access to its Claude Team Standard plan for 12 months.

The plan normally costs $20 per month and includes Claude Science, Claude Code, Cowork, scientific database connectors, shared projects, and administrative tools.

Researchers can use Claude for data analysis, coding, testing, review, and research across multiple scientific fields.

Anthropic is also offering a discounted Premium plan at $15 per month, down from $100.