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The AI investment story isn't slowing down, and The Guardian is putting some hard numbers to the hype. A new piece breaks down the gap between the billions flowing into artificial intelligence and the returns that remain, for now, largely theoretical. It's a useful reality check at a moment when enthusiasm often outruns evidence.
Staying with AI, but shifting to a very different kind of frustration — Apple's WWDC two thousand twenty six keynote is nearly here, and one writer decided to ask Siri what to expect. The answer was, by their account, exactly the kind of vague, unhelpful response that has defined Siri for years. Whether Apple is genuinely ready to close the gap with its competitors is the question the whole industry will be watching.
And in robotics, a writer is making the case that the field has a fundamental physical problem it doesn't talk about enough — stiffness. The argument is that rigid mechanical systems struggle to handle the unpredictable softness of the real world, and until that's solved, robots will keep falling short of their promise in practical environments.
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