Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.5, an open-weight, 397-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that only wakes up 17 billion neurons per prompt. The payoff? You get 60% lower inference ...

This doesn’t bode well for humanity. Just in case bots weren’t already threatening to render their creators obsolete: An AI model redefined machine learning after devising shockingly deceitful ways to ...

Maybe we don’t need the Turing test, because there’s a mighty obstacle that’s proving far more challenging to AI models’ supposedly burgeoning intelligence: running a vending machine without going ...

Raphael Gomes eats everything served at a vending machine restaurant in Japan, experiencing futuristic dining.

When leading AI company Anthropic launched its latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, at the end of last week, it broke many measures of intelligence and effectiveness - including one crucial benchmark: ...

White Castle is introducing vending machines that serve hot sliders on demand. The first kiosks are located at airports in Boston and Fort Myers, Florida. There are currently no plans to install the ...

Hot food vending is no longer a novelty. It is a response to real market pressures and a sign that, once again, vending is ...

If there’s one bet that will always hit on one of the various “prediction markets” that are now apparently undergirding our economy, it’s that America will take the wrong lesson from a crisis. One of ...

Burger King is testing AI-powered headsets that can recite recipes, alert managers when inventories are low and even track ...

Burger King is testing AI-powered headsets that can recite recipes, alert managers when inventories are low and even track how friendly employees are to customers.

Valve has answered the most pressing questions about its new hardware… aside from launch timing and pricing (Valve) The ongoing RAM shortages are preventing Valve from committing to exact pricing for ...

The last time Singapore held its biennial airshow, China proudly showed off its Wing Loong long-range drone and Z-10 attack helicopter in a symbol of the nation’s technological prowess. This year, it ...