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Alibaba is making a serious move in the race toward physical AI. Its Tongyi Lab has unveiled the Qwen Robot Suite, a set of embodied AI models designed to give robots the ability to navigate, understand their environment, and manipulate objects. The announcement comes directly on the heels of Nvidia's own Cosmos three robotics release, and signals that the next major AI battleground may not be chatbots — it may be the physical world.
Shifting to a story about accountability and spin, the private members group Dialog, co-founded by Peter Thiel, is claiming it was the victim of a criminal hack after personal details of its members were exposed online. Wired's investigation tells a different story — one where a misconfigured website left that data openly accessible, no break-in required. It's a reminder that "we were hacked" and "we left the door open" are very different things.
And if you've been eyeing a MacBook, Apple has signaled that prices are heading higher, which makes the current Prime Day window genuinely worth a look rather than the usual sales noise. Wired is pointing to several deals worth considering before costs climb further, particularly for buyers who've been sitting on the fence.
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